Lean production benefits in the Andon system

Lean manufacturing is the concept of eliminating redundancy in a production line - be it a waste of time, materials or production capacity. The Andon System is a software tool that allows a company to better manage its resources for higher productivity.

When using innovative tools, lean production eliminates 7 redundant sources:

1. The process of transporting: Waste is in the process of transporting equipment and information.
2. Inventory: Wasting warehouse space, storage space.
3. Move: Excess during product movement or machine operator.
4. Timeout: Decide or end machine cycle.
5. Processing: Too complicated.
6. Quantity: Excess / shortage of output.
7. Quality: Poor quality product and necessary actions for recycling

Lean production benefits in the Andon system

       Andon system is an intuitive management tool that can display all production cycle irregularities. Tables are established based on the actual production situation on the production lines. When the production staff encounters an abnormality, the system will send an alarm about the abnormality on the screen and emit a sound to alert everyone. From there, users and managers promptly have quick and effective processing responses that do not affect the operation of the machine.

Lean manufacturing benefits in the Andon system:

• Save time: Visually display through the system of lights or bells for material supply problems, machine failures, help operators understand more quickly and clearly about every situation rather than wasting time. to look for problems that arise.
• Reduce production and operating costs: Reducing time, reducing downtime can reduce production costs.
• Increasing communication between departments: The industry of the future is characterized by interconnections of different actors. Hence, the monitor displays an image or sound, establishing a better internal communication flow between different stakeholders in the factory.
• Better control: By detecting problems, andon allows the maintenance and management team to have greater control over production organization and work efficiency.
• Information collection: In order to develop an effective management system, information must be collected synchronously and promptly. Managers based on that information to make plans for progress in accordance with production capacity.

   The Andon system is at the heart of the innovation method – it opens opportunities for different methods of continuous improvement to optimize production efficiency, increase competitiveness for businesses.