Alps Smart Manufacturing and Xiamen Minhe Join Forces

To Build a New Height of Lean Management and Accelerate Efficiency Upgrades

1. Disconnect Between MES System Production Data and Reality

The current MES system relies on manual entry of work order completion after the fact, causing key information such as work order execution status, equipment operation status, and production output to not be synchronized to the system in real time. This makes it difficult to precisely control the production floor. At the same time, senior management is also in the dark, unable to monitor production progress at any time, affecting decision-making efficiency and production flexibility.

2. Lack of Transparency in Automated Equipment Effective Utilization

Xiamen Minhe's product manufacturing process covers multiple stages such as stamping, injection molding, and bending. Due to the lack of first-hand equipment production data, key indicators such as actual equipment utilization rate, downtime reasons, and time losses are difficult to capture. To carry out production improvement, it is even more difficult to know where to start.

3. Prominent Production Bottleneck in the Assembly Workshop

As a core process in Xiamen Minhe's production chain, the efficient operation of the assembly workshop is directly related to the release and improvement of overall production capacity. However, the current assembly workshop is inefficient and lags behind other production links, becoming a key bottleneck restricting overall production progress. Management urgently needs to locate and improve the key factors affecting production efficiency.

1. Strengthen the Connection Between MES System and Workshop Data: By deploying TS30 equipment status collectors, equipment status is collected in real time, successfully building a seamless connection bridge between equipment and the MES system, and between the production floor and the digital ecosystem. Core data such as equipment operation status and output are accurately and timely synchronized, like installing a "perspective mirror" for the workshop, making every detail of the production floor clearly visible.

2. Transparentize Automated Equipment Efficiency and Unearth Production Potential: Alps uses the lean digital Equipment OEE System (Overall Equipment Effectiveness OEE System) to achieve comprehensive capture and visual analysis of key indicators such as equipment operation efficiency, downtime reasons, and time losses, and provides intuitive efficiency evaluation reports. Based on this data, enterprises can accurately locate equipment efficiency bottlenecks, formulate targeted optimization strategies, thereby fully tapping production potential, shortening product delivery cycles, and reducing operating costs.

3. Andon System Optimizes Assembly Workshop Production Process: For the labor-intensive assembly workshop, Alps introduced the Andon system and accompanying call wristbands for the customer. The Andon system acts like an "intelligent sentry" in the workshop. When preset abnormal events such as material shortages or quality issues occur on the production line, the operator only needs to press the call button (Agile Button) to send an Andon signal, and quickly notify relevant personnel via the wristband to handle the situation. This instant response mechanism not only greatly reduces downtime waiting time, but also helps enterprises discover high-frequency, long-duration abnormal downtime issues through big data analysis, facilitating lean improvement and improving the continuity and stability of the production line.