Mold production management software MES system solution

Mold production management software MES system solution

(Zheng of WeSoftware)

Most of China's mold enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises, which have grown up from workshop-type enterprises, and even there are still many mold enterprises that are workshop-style management, which leads to endless problems in production such as mold delivery time and manufacturing cycle. In the face of fierce market competition, backward production management methods and levels, so that the management and technical personnel in the mold enterprises are only exhausted.

Pain points of informatization in the mold industry

The factory management can not grasp the production situation of each mold in the mold room in time, and the workshop supervisor cannot reflect the situation of the mold room in time, which often causes customers to temporarily go to the workshop to understand the progress when they ask questions.

A mold has dozens of parts, more than hundreds, and each part has several processes, and it is difficult to arrange thousands or thousands of processes for processing. When the workshop starts production, it is difficult to know the progress of the mold? There are many on-site processing conditions, and it is difficult to adjust the production plan that has been made.

The personnel performance management of the mold workshop is almost blank, and the operation performance of the mold master and each process is difficult to manage. Because the mold industry is generally similar to the "contract foreman" system of operation, only the delivery date, completion time, regardless of the intermediate work distribution, so there are often "good molds, molds with high unit price are always those people to do, or work without work, the same can get a high salary.

When the workshop starts production, it is difficult to control the processing progress of each set of molds, which processing units each part is distributed in, which ones have been completed, and which delays are difficult to control. Workshop processors need to spend a lot of time sorting out and filling out paper production reports, etc., wasting a lot of manpower and material resources.

After the inspection, the handling of abnormal situations, the general lack of strong supervision between the various links of the factory, which leads to the incomplete implementation of the standards formulated by the enterprise, resulting in the impact on the delivery time of the mold, can not timely reflect the poor quality is caused by which process, machine or personnel and other information, poor quality caused by how much cost waste, etc.

Overview of MES system solutions for the mold industry

At present, the workshop production of most mold enterprises mainly relies on manual management, and the planning layer and the control layer are disconnected from each other, and cannot adapt to the dynamic changes of the production process, which greatly restricts the further progress of the production governance level. The manufacturing execution system emerged as an enterprise information management system, filling the gap in the governance of the workshop level.

The MES system of the mold industry takes operation scheduling as the core, with the goal of reducing production costs and improving production efficiency, collects real-time information in the production process, and processes the real-time potential parts in a timely manner, and maintains two-way communication capabilities with the planning layer and the control layer, receives relevant information from the upper and lower layers and feeds back the processing results and production instructions, so as to realize the optimization of the entire production process.

MES system solutions for the mold industry

Mold industry MES system function

1. Plan and schedule

Through the Internet of Things, it can be seamlessly connected with the mold intelligent 3D printer, through the control of injection molding machines, stamping machines and other equipment, according to the work order reasonable allocation of machine resources, the use of finite element scheduling, only the work order and the machine participate in the calculation, due consideration of some finished products to be produced, materials only according to the scheduling results to list the demand list, do pulling.

2. Equipment Internet of Things

We use advanced data acquisition and communication hardware network, and then through the supporting system software to form a real-time communication software layer application, to achieve 3D printers, injection molding machines, stamping machines, electroplating line of real-time knowledge networking, and with the large screen LED TV as the display of the PC as the carrier to achieve the workshop of each machine operation status monitoring, the system provides the following capabilities: operation, standby, shutdown, alarm, whether in the repair state, the number and proportion of each state of the machine, the life progress of the mold, Preventive maintenance interval progress, work order completion progress, OEE calculation, TEEP report for molds.

3. Equipment management

The workshop equipment maintenance department takes the operation kanban as the pull, combined with the fault declaration, maintenance plan, maintenance plan to be maintained, and equipment spot inspection system, to build a guarantee system for on-site equipment. For spare parts, carry out inbound and outbound quantity management, safety stock management, price change alarm, and supplier change alarm. Make the status of inventory spare parts timely and transparent to the relevant responsible personnel.

4. Mold management

Starting from mold design and production, it covers new mold testing, production site and inventory transfer tracking, mold life expiration and life extension management combined with the Internet of Things and machine automatic counting, mold preventive maintenance interval management, life extension approval process, life expiration alarm, preventive maintenance interval expiration alarm and other meticulous mold on-site management system. The mold management system, driven by on-site kanban and SMS email reminders, realizes the transparency of the whole process, the seamless connection of each node, the responsibility to the person, the timely transmission of information, and the efficient and fast task processing.

5. Quality management

The quality inspection module runs through the first inspection of the production process, the timing of the inspection, the final inspection of the mold, the finished product warehousing inspection and other workflow nodes, it can: establish multiple sets of parallel inspection standards for the finished product material number, within the same inspection standard, a number of inspection items can be established, and each inspection item can establish the tolerance range of the inspection. By scanning the batch number, it automatically displays data such as related machines, molds, inspection items, and inspection standards. Based on the entered inspection data, the system automatically determines the inspection results based on the previously maintained basic data and distinguishes them by the colors shown in the figure.

6. Quantity tool management

As an important part of quality, we pay great attention to the management of measuring tools. We have established in MES: measuring tool ledger, measuring tool receiving record, measuring tool spot inspection system, qualified testing agency management, and measuring tool regular inspection system. The multi-dimensional measurement is specifically sliced and managed, and the data acquisition of some measuring tools is automatically automated, and the MSA measurement reliability analysis tool is also established to improve the accuracy and reliability of the measurement results.

7. Station electronic kanban module

Electronic kanban is a kind of visual kanban for workshop operation station based on computer network. The station electronic kanban module presents the production task list and related process information on the kanban of the control station in a timely manner through the workshop computer network, and issues production instructions to the operation staff, so as to realize the network dispatch, and provides operation procedures, equipment, tools, materials, auxiliary materials and other work instruction information to it.

The value of MES system solutions in the mold industry

The MES system solution for the mold industry can mainly achieve the following system benefits:

1. Rapid evaluation of delivery time before receiving orders to ensure production balance;

2. Set the mold project plan, ensure the delivery time through macro and micro monitoring, delay early warning, etc.;

3. Optimize scheduling and scheduling to achieve production predictability;

4. Realize the transparency of the production process through data collection;

5. Visual display of the production process to improve work efficiency.

MES system solutions for the mold industry

The MES system for the mold industry is an integrated production management system that integrates the basic business, such as sales, logistics, and manufacturing management, as well as production planning and on-site monitoring and management, which are necessary for factories and enterprises. By combining the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution, all important production equipment is correlated to realize the digital and visual management of the factory. Through the system terminal, the operation status of each equipment in the production business and the manufacturing site can be controlled, and the problem can be detected in advance and traced back to the cause of the problem, which greatly improves the efficiency of the comprehensive operation and management of the enterprise.

Based on years of service experience, the MES system in the mold industry has carried out functional modularization and integration on the basis of the MES system function, combined with the actual operation and production management of the factory enterprise, and can meet the personalized functional application needs of enterprises in different industries under the condition of providing standard and mature system functions.

The MES system of the mold industry will provide enterprises with management modules including manufacturing data management, planning and scheduling management, production scheduling management, inventory management, quality management, human resource management, work center/equipment management, tool and tooling management, procurement management, cost management, project kanban management, production process control, underlying data integration analysis, and upper data integration and decomposition.

Each component module of the MES system in the mold industry can create a solid, reliable, comprehensive and feasible lean and intelligent manufacturing collaborative management platform for enterprises, which can realize comprehensive management of manufacturing data, intelligent management of production plan, balance analysis of production capacity, intelligent task dispatch management, intelligent management of warehousing inventory, traceability management of production quality, remote maintenance management of equipment, and visual management of production system.

The MES system for the mold industry provides detailed role definition, authority definition, personnel department definition, and flexible process management. It can not only provide users with a complete set of optimized business use and management processes, but also carry out customized application configuration and secondary development according to the user's business characteristics or needs, so as to help users achieve the on-site production goals and management goals of the enterprise.

The systematic industrial Internet of Things technology of the MES system solution in the mold industry is applied to the full line traceability, manufacturing engineering configuration, production and quality process control of the internal logistics of the enterprise, providing a reliable decision-making basis for the readjustment of the planning system. By building a highly integrated and intelligent information management platform, the transparency of the manufacturing process can be effectively improved, and the "information gap" between the production site and the planning system can be filled. Help enterprises comprehensively improve the manufacturing execution ability of the factory, thoroughly improve the synchronous management of enterprise operation, sales and production site, and truly help enterprises achieve the strategic goal of intelligent manufacturing.