The year 2021 seems to be more difficult for middle and small-sized enterprises, especially manufacturing companies. The upstream is facing increasing material costs, the midstream is experiencing a downturn in related industries and the downstream is experiencing a decline in consumer enthusiasm. In addition, the lack of liquidity in the manufacturing sector has brought the plight of middle and small-sized enterprises to the fore. It is urgent to develop the core competencies of middle and small-sized enterprises and to reduce costs and increase efficiency through digital transformation.
● Tackling difficult situations and surviving winter is the only way to spring ●
Wuxi Haoda Crafts Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Haoda) was established in 1997 and is one of the representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises. Haoda is a manufacturing company specializing in casting, machining and assembly. Its products are mainly used in the electric vehicle and other automotive parts industry. It has nearly 100 machine tools, CNC machining centers and cold die casting machines. Under the conditions of market economy, consumers' hobbies tend to diversify. New products are appearing all the time and there is an increasing demand for multi-product and small batch production. Haoda has a die casting workshop and a machine shop. The large variety of equipment, the non-transparent production process, the disconnect between planning and execution, etc. all contribute to a certain increase in costs. It is particularly important to manage production on the shop floor.
Haoda takes customer needs as its strategic market orientation, follows the market trend and optimizes workshop management through digital transformation. While there are many digital transformation solutions on the market, and they are always drawing blueprints and talking about strategic planning, it is particularly important for middle and small-sized enterprises to choose a solution that suits the current situation of their company's development, meets the characteristics of the industry and effectively solves the pain points and passes the blockages. Masterlink focuses on the precision processing market, with 30,000+ equipment data collection experience, 200+ production line system delivery experience, and 200+ discrete system delivery experience. The core team members have more than 10 years of work experience in metal processing, automation industry. Through on-site communication, Haoda finally chose Masterlink intelligent collaborative manufacturing system (public cloud) to provide industry-standardized software functions, on-demand rental, more economical costs and faster product delivery.
● 10% improvement in workshop efficiency, transformation beginning to show results ●
"After the Masterlink intelligent collaborative manufacturing system (public cloud) went live, it achieved a 20% increase in departmental collaboration efficiency, a 10% increase in shop floor capacity and a 5% increase in product order delivery. " Mr. Chen, the relevant person in charge of Haoda, said, "Most of us who do processing are outdated and do not know much about many new technologies. The people from Masterlink combed through it with us and it was still very effective, which is equivalent to giving us a big cotton jacket to protect us from the cold in winter. At the same time, after the system went online, we at Haoda also successfully passed the two integration management system and the three-star intelligent workshop rating."
Haoda's workshop
Haoda workshop
Today's Haoda workshop is paperless, you will see operators filling in data directly from the terminal on site, inspectors just need to check the data periodically, and corporate production reports can be exported directly through the system. At the same time, the system makes the production process data transparent, which helps the front-end business staff to understand the ability to deliver orders, thus controlling the taking on of new orders and improving the overall competitiveness of the company. The main highlight features are as follows.
Equipment analysis, production process transparency for real-time monitoring of the working status of all processing equipment, production quantities, operating parameters, statistics on the efficiency of production equipment between the high and low, especially for the morning and evening shift production differences problem solving, as well as data analysis.
Workstation yield analysis
Process parameters
With planned work orders, order progress is controlled at all times and staff can finely control the progress of each order through the production execution system, corresponding to the flow of processes in the workstation. Site operators can report work on production orders in real time and analyse the estimated completion time of the orders statistically. When deliveries are delayed, specific problem processes can be analyzed.
Production planning
Visual board
In the process of accelerating the development of China's digital economy and building a digital China, the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises is the main battlefield of industrial digitization. By continuously improving the core competitiveness of enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises can not only get out of the predicament, but also walk out a path of development with Chinese characteristics. Masterlink Smart focuses on solving the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, so that they can "have the momentum to take advantage of, and the power to borrow". Together with our partners, we hope to accelerate the digital transformation and create a new future for the Industrial Internet!
