USING ANDON SYSTEM – AN IMPROVED SOLUTION FOR MANUFACTURERS

Improving production - Kaizen is considered a continuous and continuous mission of factories, manufacturing enterprises. The purpose of improvement is to find many solutions to improve product quality, minimize waste, save costs, increase profits. Using Andon system promises to be one of the effective improvement solutions in the current 4.0 technology revolution.

Depending on manufacturing domain with management purposes and management views, the Andon system allows managers to monitor overall of manufacturing activities, minimize waste time, measure the production efficiency of machinery continuously and accurately. From there, help bring out the appropriate plan to reduce costs and optimize production. Can list some advantages of Andon system as below:

Improve maintenance efficiency:

At the factory, there are problems related to failure, stop for abnormal maintenance or unplanned production, leading to a stop to fix errors, repair and reinstall information for products. A maintenance guy who performs a slow operation can increase the maintenance time, increasingly affecting the performance of machinery. To improve this, first must improve the timely for response and effective maintenance factor. With the support of the Andon system, the information gathered from sensors or monitoring devices can help to detect the exact location and condition of the device in trouble, supporting quick maintenance. and effective.

Just-in-time:

If materials are provided not timely will reduce working capacity, generating waste waiting times, resulting in low efficiency. The Andon system helps to warn the supply of materials, make sure parts are coordinated and fully supplied in the right place – at the right time, cut off waiting times, shorten the completion time to improve production performance.

Quality improvement:

With traditional production methods, the summary reports about performance and quality index is usually only the end of each production shift. When this report to manager, if the quality index is low, it will have to make corrections, corrections and additions later, so cycle time are increased, and reduced production effective. If the Andon system is used, it will immediately monitor and show the quality status, if the safety threshold is exceeded, the system will immediately notify and alert for the relevant departments to review and handle immediately, thereby updating the process promptly to avoid wrong manipulations, making the next products quality assurance. This helps the quality of products produced is always monitored within the allowed safety limits without affecting the completion time.

Thus, it can be seen that using the Andon system is using an active production plan, the system consists of connected sensor systems for the purpose of collecting information for instant notification and processing, helping users form data warehouses to analyze in order to gradually optimize production stages, form a data warehouse for production planning management software … to help factories have information systems synchronous, immediate management and save the downtime, reduce waste, improve production efficiency.