With the further development of smart city construction in China, the concept of smart factory has been introduced into various production enterprises, which have purchased automation equipment and equipped with online management system. The production and manufacturing situation, personnel allocation, warehouse hoarding, order processing and other situations are reflected to the offices of leaders at all levels in real time. In the case of serious homogenization of the industry, manufacturers to intelligent management means to improve efficiency and quality as a magic weapon. So what are the smart management methods in the factory? And how to improve production efficiency? Let’s take a look at the current stage of most of the factory manufacturing wisdom management means.
1. Integrated management of manufacturing process with ERP system
ERP means enterprise resource planning. Through the information system, information can be fully sorted and effectively transmitted, so that the resources of the enterprise can be reasonably allocated and utilized in all aspects such as purchasing, storage, production, marketing, human, financial and material, so as to improve the operation efficiency of the enterprise. The biggest feature of ERP system is the integration of the entire enterprise information system, including personnel, enterprise, sales, RESEARCH and development, production, documentation and other information management systems, mainly reflects the management of the entire supply chain resources.
In the factory application of wisdom, ERP management specialization provides tools for production, through the ERP system of each plan level and control tools, such as the production planning, resource planning, the main marketing plans, crude production planning, material requirements planning, capacity requirements planning, input/output control, dispatching list, etc., not only improve the production management level and quality of work, It also leads to improved product quality.
2. MES system is oriented to production informatization
MES System, called Manufacturing Execution System, is a set of production information management System for the workshop executive level of Manufacturing enterprises. It can provide enterprises with including manufacturing data management, planning, production scheduling management, production scheduling, inventory management, quality management, human resource management, work center, equipment, tools, equipment management, procurement management, cost management, kanban management, process control, the underlying data integration analysis and decomposition of the upper data integration management module, To build a solid, reliable, comprehensive and feasible manufacturing collaborative management platform for enterprises.
MES can optimize and manage the whole production process from order to product completion through information transmission. When real time events occur at the plant, MES can respond to them, report them in a timely manner, and guide and process them with current accurate data. This rapid response to state changes enables MES to reduce the activities without added value inside the enterprise and effectively guide the factory’s production and operation process, so that it can not only improve the factory’s timely delivery capacity, improve the material circulation performance, but also improve the rate of return on production.
3. Low code platform aggregation system, enabling production and manufacturing management
Low code refers to the rapid establishment of a development platform for various application systems by means of visualization without or a small amount of code, and the rapid establishment of a customized information system covering sales, RESEARCH and development, design, manufacturing, debugging and other links by means of self-configuration, so as to realize the intelligent management of the factory. The low-code platform enables the production management of smart factories in two main ways.
Low-code platform supports integration and docking with existing enterprise OA, ERP, MES and other systems. At the same time, it also supports the connection with collaborative office platforms such as Dingding and enterprise wechat. Various systems and platforms can be aggregated through API to serve the overall management of smart factories.
In addition, Low Code has rich IoT development experience to support the expansion of various production management equipment, equipment and system information communication. The factory can upload the terminal sensor data synchronously to realize real-time monitoring and mastering of production management status.
At the same time, the factory can summarize and process all kinds of production information through 17 kinds of dashboard cards provided by the platform, so as to realize the fine, digital and intelligent control of the whole production process of the factory.
The main function of ERP is to prepare production plan and collect production data. MES focuses on manufacturing, which is to product quality, on-time delivery, equipment use, process control and other management objectives; The focus of low code is aggregation. Through API interface, the management system and platform are connected, so that the real-time situation of smart factory management can be fully controlled and various facts can be provided for production decisions.
Wexin low code platform can build the enterprise production management system without code, the system can be independently built by the staff of each link, accurately cut the pain points of each link process; Moreover, the terminal is easy to operate, and the data can be uploaded synchronously, effectively improving the accuracy of data transmission, enabling the production management of enterprises to the greatest extent, and realizing the digital transformation of the manufacturing production management system.