TY - GEN
T1 - Auto-id enabled real-time manufacturing shop-floor management: A case study in a fastener manufacturer
AU - Pan, Y.
AU - Huang, G. Q.
AU - Zhong, R. Y.
AU - Qu, T.
AU - Pang, L. Y.
AU - Zhang, Y. F.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This research is motivated by a practical fastener company which is a supplier for most major automobile factories in China. Each month it receives more than 150 new orders, including 4000+ kinds of fasteners, and the production volume usually keeps in billion-level. As the managers suffer from the bottleneck of collecting the real-time shop-floor information, it is difficult to evaluate the available machine capacity, estimate the latest start time, and release appropriate amount of production orders. This paper presents a reallife case study to describe how to implement Auto-ID technology on a manufacturing shop-floor and use the collected real-time information to support decision-making processes. Meanwhile, the lessons like how to institutionalize a project team, how to defuse the resistance from the personnel will be discussed. We hope the experiences and insights learned from this project can be shared with other fastener manufacturers which are contemplating to adopt Auto-ID technology in their shop-floor management.
AB - This research is motivated by a practical fastener company which is a supplier for most major automobile factories in China. Each month it receives more than 150 new orders, including 4000+ kinds of fasteners, and the production volume usually keeps in billion-level. As the managers suffer from the bottleneck of collecting the real-time shop-floor information, it is difficult to evaluate the available machine capacity, estimate the latest start time, and release appropriate amount of production orders. This paper presents a reallife case study to describe how to implement Auto-ID technology on a manufacturing shop-floor and use the collected real-time information to support decision-making processes. Meanwhile, the lessons like how to institutionalize a project team, how to defuse the resistance from the personnel will be discussed. We hope the experiences and insights learned from this project can be shared with other fastener manufacturers which are contemplating to adopt Auto-ID technology in their shop-floor management.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84892977379
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:84892977379
SN - 9781627486842
T3 - Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE
SP - 714
EP - 727
BT - 42nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2012, CIE 2012
T2 - 42nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2012, CIE 2012
Y2 - 15 July 2012 through 18 July 2012
ER -