Customer Voice:

Since partnering with Alps Intelligent Manufacturing, the most profound impression has been their on-site capability. Every function of the system aligns perfectly with our real on-site needs. Particularly, the inspection timeliness settings have effectively helped us solidify and implement standardized inspection procedures, also providing a handle for quality traceability.

—— General Manager, Ningbo Dahe Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Regarding the digital transformation of manufacturing, equipment, as the core productive force, has always been an unavoidable focal point. However, how to transform and implement it has lacked relatively successful practical cases within the industry.

The digital transformation of manufacturing is a crucial trend in the development of today's smart factories. It involves changes across production processes, management models, business models, and more. In this process, equipment, as the core productive force of manufacturing, remains an unavoidable focal point. How to leverage new-generation information technologies to enhance the intelligence, connectivity, and flexibility of equipment, achieving efficient collaboration between equipment and people, equipment and equipment, and equipment and systems, is a key issue in the digital transformation of manufacturing. However, achieving this goal requires not only technological innovation but also adaptation and coordination in manufacturing culture, organization, processes, talent, and other aspects. The industry has long lacked relatively successful practical cases. Many enterprises are groping their way forward on the path of digital transformation, facing numerous difficulties and challenges. Therefore, the digital transformation of manufacturing requires a clear goal, a scientific method, a reasonable process, and a continuous evaluation and improvement mechanism to achieve tangible results and breakthroughs.

Currently, Ningbo Dahe Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dahe Industrial"), a member company of the OGA Group, has provided a practical, implementable path for the full lifecycle management of equipment maintenance and repair based on the Alps Intelligent Manufacturing TPM Smart Maintenance System. This comprehensively empowers workshop capacity enhancement, production quality monitoring, scientific equipment maintenance, and more efficient utilization.

Full Closed-Loop Management: Comprehensive Coverage of People, Machines, and Materials, Traceable Work Orders, Checkable Spare Parts, and Assessable Personnel

Business Pain Point: Difficulty in managing equipment repairs has long been an industry consensus. The traditional offline management model, with paper work orders passed through multiple layers, is inefficient. It's also challenging to establish proper equipment failure records, and there's no effective way to supervise or scientifically evaluate maintenance personnel's work. Furthermore, spare parts and repairs are often managed independently, making it hard to avoid situations like lacking or losing spare parts during repairs.

Solution: Dahe Industrial is a company specializing in automotive parts manufacturing. To improve production efficiency and quality, they chose the Alps Intelligent Manufacturing TPM Smart Maintenance System, an intelligent equipment management platform based on technologies like IoT, big data, and AI. Through this system, Dahe Industrial has achieved triple control over "equipment, spare parts, and personnel."

Visual Management: Production Dashboard with Clear Visibility into Work Orders, Spare Parts, and Progress

Business Pain Point: As the primary "workforce" in current workshop production, equipment utilization directly impacts workshop capacity and efficiency. However, due to a lack of information technology support, managers lack effective management tools. Information such as the number of faulty or idle equipment in the workshop or the specific handling progress of faulty equipment heavily relies on staff conducting manual checks one by one.

Solution: Dahe Industrial collaborated with Alps Intelligent Manufacturing to set up an on-site large screen. On one hand, the system can monitor equipment operating status in real-time. Once a fault or shutdown occurs, details like the fault type, responsible personnel, handling progress, and related work order count are immediately displayed clearly on the large screen. This comprehensive visual management allows managers to quickly grasp the overall picture of maintenance work, make timely decisions, and effectively avoid production delays or losses caused by information lag. On the other hand, the system also features intelligent spare parts inventory management. By displaying spare parts inventory in real-time, the system can warn of low stock and automatically trigger procurement processes, ensuring an adequate supply of spare parts. This refined inventory management approach significantly improves equipment repair efficiency and quality, reduces equipment downtime and maintenance costs, all without increasing inventory costs.

Strict Quality Control: Anti-Cheating Mechanism Ensures Zero Omissions in Startup Inspections

Business Pain Point: Skipping inspections, missing inspections, performing fewer inspections... For a long time, effectively implementing inspection tasks has been a challenge. Even with full paper-based records, it's difficult to prevent situations like employees delaying inspections or making retroactive entries, leading to risks such as batch production of defective products.

Solution: The Alps Intelligent Manufacturing TPM Smart Maintenance System supports inspection timeliness settings and on-site photo check-ins, effectively enabling anti-cheating management of inspection tasks.

First, Strictly Prevent Cheating: Through automatic generation of inspection work orders and a 1-hour timeliness setting, employees are ensured to handle inspections immediately upon starting work.

Second, Strictly Enforce Quality: By recording relevant process parameters and taking photos for documentation during inspections, the quality of inspection work is ensured, allowing for earlier detection of abnormalities.

Third, Strictly Control Quality: By opening inspection and repair process data to manufacturer clients, it facilitates remote supervision by suppliers, fully meeting the quality requirements of upstream manufacturers.

Dahe Industrial:

Ningbo Dahe Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a member company of the OGA Group. It possesses a series of high-end production equipment including Sumitomo precision injection molding machines, Hitachi stamping presses, Hexagon high-precision measuring instruments, carrier tape machines, and automatic slitting machines. Starting in 2020, it began manufacturing automotive tactile switch components and electronic product packaging materials. In the same year, it established Hermosh (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., aiming to provide leading clients across various industries with efficient integration services for the hardware and software essential for Industry 4.0 transformation. It strives to contribute to the transformation of Chinese enterprises from a "manufacturing giant" to a "smart manufacturing powerhouse."