Zhejiang Yaming Wei Printing and Packaging Co., Ltd. was founded in 2010, the main business for drug packaging color box research and development, design and production, in the road of digital exploration. In the current fierce market competition, as a practitioner of digital factories, the author has been thinking about whether the printing and packaging industry can keep up with the trend of The Times and turn passivity into initiative on the road of digitalization after reading the advanced innovation abroad. In this paper, the author will share with you the digital management of printing and packaging enterprises.
Management objectives
The management objectives of printing and packaging enterprises can be represented by the inverted pyramid as shown in Figure 1. The bottom layer is cost control ability, and the next step is efficiency and quality, which are the basis for enterprises to participate in the competition. With these foundations, the enterprise may lead the industry further, such as good organizational atmosphere and corporate culture, professional staff quality and staff promotion evaluation system, and good customer relationship handling at higher levels. It is the management objectives of these enterprises that require enterprises to think more and go further.
FIG. 1 Management objectives of printing and packaging enterprises
Manage gaps between goals and reality
In reality, there is still a big gap between the ideal of printing and packaging enterprises and the reality of skinny! The current production situation is no data without evaluation, data without evaluation, data is not objective and evaluation is not fair.
For example, how to evaluate the efficiency, before people often say that the workshop is very good, according to the impression that the efficiency of a captain is particularly high, because they work overtime every day; We delivered the product to the customer, the job was done, and the customer didn't complain. The current situation is not that, the most heard concept is to have online quality traceability, product in the production process, to know the yield, the acceptance rate and cost assessment. Printing enterprises in the past to the end of the year, to know is profit or loss. But now to participate in bidding, it is necessary to dynamically reflect the profitability and cost advantage of the enterprise every month or even every day, so as to calmly face the competitive target.
Data management
It is precisely because of the above pain points that enterprises need to use data. Before the arrival of intelligence, the most practical way to improve management performance and enhance enterprise competitiveness is to build digitization. There are many ways and methods for digital construction in the factory. First of all, we should start from the workshop, open the black box of the workshop, and use the data of productivity and efficiency in the workshop to improve production and evaluate personnel.
Applied to printing and packaging enterprises, if there is a complete digital factory module, it is ERP(production and manufacturing management system). ERP is the first of all digital modules, followed by MES(Manufacturing execution System), then APS(Advanced Planning and Scheduling System), and finally WMS(Intelligent Warehouse Management system). If the enterprise has the ability, it can spend 3 ~ 5 years to do the digital factory module, now the first step is to do the ERP and MES module.
1. The difference between ERP and MES
It is well known that ERP is supply chain management, from warehouse, order, purchasing, see some data is always financial caliber, and production process of some data cannot be reflected from the system, the MES system has played a role, it can work for equipment in factory workshop efficiency, running track, equipment, structure parameters, such as description, analysis and improvement, Provide plan execution tracking and current status of all resources (people, equipment, materials, customer requirements, etc.) for operators and managers, ultimately solve the black box problem of the factory production process, and realize the visualization and control of the production process.
2. Make a choice based on the actual situation
MES is indeed available, and is being used well abroad. However, we should be rational and do it module by module. We should solve the standards and processes with ERP first, and then try to implement MES. Of course, it also depends on the situation of the enterprise itself. If it is a workshop that can be seen at a glance, it is not recommended to use MES; If there are more than 10 sets of equipment and there are day shifts and night shifts, it is suggested to try MES, starting from the most basic data to solve the running track and working efficiency of the production workshop.
3. Practical application
In the process of production practice, we should first solve the problems of equipment efficiency, processing time, processing speed, and transfer efficiency of workshop management. For example, our company has installed production kanban in the production workshop, which can display the processing effect, processing speed, yield of each equipment on the day, as well as the descriptive data accumulated to the current month, etc. After a period of analysis and problem solving, the core parts of the workshop, namely efficiency and yield, are improved.
Production management is a process management, no process, no results. Whether it's production management or supply chain management, let the data speak for themselves when tracking the production process. Only with data can there be the possibility of improvement, and only with improvement can there be the possibility of lean, all in order to make the enterprise better survive.
Intelligent thinking
1. Process, standardization, automation first
If printing and packaging enterprises are ready to do digital factories, they must first do a good job in standardization, process and automation.
2. Base on customer orientation
In the pharmaceutical packaging industry, the changes in recent years have been earth-shaking, the industry competition is very fierce, customers' requirements for low cost and high quality are gradually emerging, so enterprises need to have a good cost advantage, this cost advantage must require efficient support.
3. Address management pain points
To solve the management pain points of enterprises is of great benefit to the future development of enterprises and the improvement of customer satisfaction.
4. The differentiation
The equipment and staff quality of different enterprises vary greatly, so it is best not to choose a very standardized management system, according to the characteristics of their own enterprises to choose the "standard + customized" system.
