After dinner, I suddenly had a strong thought about the advancement of automation in manufacturing enterprises. In today's Chinese manufacturing industry, due to the rising cost of human resources and the difficulty in recruiting workers, many companies are introducing automated production with great fanfare. Equipment and automated production processes have even reached a feverish level. The author's company is also vigorously introducing and promoting automation. There are completed cases and painful lessons. The author just makes a summary based on his own experience.
Goals and directions are the key to the success of an enterprise's promotion of automation projects. Automation projects are used to solve problems existing in production, not for single storage to demonstrate the company's manufacturing capabilities. The automation promotion process can also use The idea of lean and automated lean improvement can coexist. The introduction of automation generally solves the pain points of production-quality-speed-inventory-efficiency. Automation without output will only become a show.
Automation introduction ideas
First of all, at the enterprise level when promoting automation, the company should have clear directions and goals and be targeted. The implementation of automation must have a 3-5 year blueprint, which is an action plan, and have to transform the action plan. For the ability to plan actions, there are many automation companies on the market. It can be said that there are various plans and no direction or action plan. Relying on other people's promotion to introduce automation projects will ultimately lead to more losses than gains.
Manufacturing enterprise automation introduction line
Secondly, the core role of the automation team. If a company wants to succeed in automation introduction, it cannot rely on the suppliers of automation solutions. Without an automation core team, sometimes money may buy a A pile of junk, worthless things. There is currently no automation company on the market that has the ability to implement 100% of the design requirements. Even if the project is delivered and introduced into production, it needs to be continuously improved due to efficiency, quality, stability and other issues. Your own team can participate in this process. Maximize automatic efficiency. In addition, the automation team can also become the initiator and leader of the company's process flow and equipment standardization design. Each engineer has different abilities, and with the core team's control, the company's automation can be maintained at a high level. At the same time, the automation team can also play a leading role in improving culture.
Again, the key to the success of automation is the cultivation of automation talents. To promote the plan of automation talents, you can refer to the PDCA cycle method to achieve continuous promotion, step by step, and not build castles in the air.
Automation talent development model
Finally, it is best to stick to what suits you. The focus of automation introduction is to help the business development and operation of enterprises, so whether it is automation introduction or lean improvement promotion, the purpose should be It is beneficial to the development of enterprises, and small investment and quick results should always be encouraged. The more advanced the automation solution, the better. The formulation of automation solutions must fully analyze the characteristics of products and production process flows, and try to use simple solutions to solve real-life problems. There is an unspoken rule in formulating an automation plan, which is also shared here for your reference.
The introduction of automation in enterprises cannot be done in one step. It requires more support and perseverance from the enterprise management, and it also requires the strong participation and active contribution of the enterprise's employees.
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