It's time to get back to work. As factories and enterprises around the resumption of production, the real test "manufacturer" moment has just arrived, shortage of personnel, logistics constraints, raw material supply problems and so on. And after the outbreak, facing customers 'more urgent, more important' order demand, I believe it will bring more uncertainty to production, enterprise managers how to plan to achieve flexible response?
It's the present. It's the long-term
Employee problems. The most immediate impact of the outbreak on manufacturing companies is that many workers are unable to return to work on time, and some factories are shutting down even after they have been reviewed for work resumption. No output, no income, inestimable economic loss, and the loss of customers caused by the delay in supply have greatly affected the normal operation and development of enterprises, especially small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. For labor-intensive manufacturing enterprises, the risk of cross-infection due to close contact with employees is particularly acute, once the occurrence of infection causing large numbers of employees isolation, will no doubt be a fatal blow.
Supply chain risk. The tight control measures brought about by the outbreak have also put manufacturing enterprises in a difficult position from the supply chain: On the one hand, due to the shortage of logistics, the entire raw material supply side is not free; on the other hand, the upstream suppliers have not yet fully resumed work, it is difficult to determine the time of delivery in the short term, coupled with the changing market and customer demand, as well as the production plan changes, production process confusion, machinery and equipment can not function properly due to the above reasons, it's even worse for business.
Flexibility is our coping strategy
Build unmanned factories, reduce manual intervention. During the period of epidemic prevention and control, the life of refusing human contact was filled with "unmanned technology" in many industries and fields, from unmanned retail and robot distribution to express delivery cabinets and sideboards, the growing popularity of "unmanned" seems to be the norm in this particular part of our lives. And switching to manufacturing, the concept of unmanned factories, machine replacement has long emerged, and in this new era of intelligent manufacturing industry is increasingly heated and respected. In addition to the most direct response to the epidemic during the gathering of infection, staff can not be on time to delay production and other challenges, "unmanned technology" enterprises to achieve high efficiency, high flexibility in production of a powerful weapon.
30 days, 12 months, 24 hours, 8,760 hours a year. For traditional manufacturing plants, however, when the day is over and the machines are closed and the workers are gone, production capacity is left idle, and over the course of a year, less than a third of the time the machines are actually used for production. Coupled with the epidemic, bad weather and other external uncertainties of the impact of events, equipment utilization has been pulled down, a large number of wasted productivity is inevitable. Flexible Manufacturing System (fms) is a reliable solution to quickly lay out automated production lines and build unmanned factories.
Fastems flexible manufacturing system FMS, according to the actual processing needs of manufacturing enterprises, can be used to manufacture multiple machine tools with different brands and different functions, as well as auxiliary equipment such as cleaning machines, measuring instruments, etc. , using the modular architecture of three-dimensional warehouse, processing pallets, material pallets, loading stations and so on, integrating the material management and automatic material handling system perfectly with loading and unloading stations, plus leading production planning and execution management software, truly for the user to achieve a high degree of automation of intelligent production.
Intelligent production management system, flexible scheduling. In order to realize unmanned factory, an efficient and intelligent production management system is very important. Whether in the special period of production demand change, production planning confusion, or to deal with the "multi-variety, small batch" production trend, the traditional mode of "Marketing buzz" management has been unable to adapt, more and more enterprises began to seek for more intelligent, flexible mode of production management. The MMS software for Fastems FMS is the advanced production planning, simulation and execution management software in the industrial field.
