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With intelligent Material flow to success.
The SmartFlow Team of experts accompanies you on the way to the optimal production environment.
Problems
With these Problems in the flow of materials, our companies are struggling:
Working in and on production environments brings a variety of challenges. It is important that everyone from the project planner to the general manager knows how production is set up and what to do in the event of complications or spontaneous changes in the material flow.
It is therefore important to reduce manufacturing costs - by reducing inventories as well as using resources effectively. Applying the SmartFlow effect results in shorter lead times, which in turn increases your delivery reliability and automatically reduces the stress of your employees.
Most processes within a manufacturing system can be automated, but the material flow often receives little attention in the process. In order to make the entire production environment sustainable and smart, more attention must also be paid to the transport of parts within the interaction between the processes. With the help of the SmartFlow effect, all capacities of the individual processes are taken into account, which means that even short-term machine failures and production losses can be absorbed. In this way, the overall system naturally acts semi-autonomously, without the additional addition of further communication technologies.
A simple and straightforward tip in this regard is:
Start Small - Grow Fast.
Due to the initially lower production volumes, it may be difficult to serve them in the short term if they increase later. Starting with the right concept is essential and will make you faster than your competitors.
Furthermore, you are able to run additional products in parallel on the production line. In this way, you build a simple, flexible and fast expandability of your production environment. How does this work?
By understanding and using the SmartFlow effect.
If a solid basis for material flow logistics has not been created in the manufacturing system, the smartest communication technology is of no use, because even poorly tuned systems can be networked. Nevertheless, the overall performance remains unsatisfactory. Only by using proven concepts, all of which can be found within the SmartFlow Effect, can an effective environment be created with Industrie 4.0 systems.
By combining Kanban and ConWIP for material flow control, small and flexible batch sizes are possible while increasing throughput rates and minimizing inventories. This makes it feasible to meet today's requirements without great complexity and complicated control.
It often happens in production cycles that, due to incorrect or outdated lead times in the planning system, new orders are continuously issued to be processed. However, this leads to disproportionate inventory on the shop floor. The result: stressed workers and stalled production. Our suggestion: Reduce inventory, and throughput times will automatically decrease.
Our services
Further development brings Success.
Working in and on production environments brings a variety of challenges. It is important that everyone from the project planner to the general manager knows how production is set up and what to do in the event of complications or spontaneous changes in the material flow.
- Theory of Constraints
- Material Flow Theories
- Comparison of material flow concepts
- Kanban / ConWIP
- Supply chain and MRP
- Aspects of the material flow
- (cycle time, output, buffer / warehouse, OEE)
Would you like individual advice regarding your production environment?