It is urgent to standardize the information management of mold manufacturing

"Our country's mold enterprises, most of the current is some workshop-style management, because the management of the backward, leading to mold delivery and quality can not meet the requirements of the customer, but also led to the cost control problems. Said luo baihui, general secretary of the international association of mold and metal plastic industry suppliers. Mold production has always been a key part of the manufacturing industry, according to statistics, automobile, electronics, electrical machinery, electrical appliances, instrumentation, household appliances and communication products, 60% to 85% of the parts need to be molded through the mold. As the "factory of the world", China's mold production occupies an important position in the industry: at present, the world's total mold output value is about 80 billion us dollars, China's mold sales in 2010 has reached 112 billion yuan, ranked in the forefront of the world. However, on the other hand, China is also a big importer of molds. The annual import amount is equivalent to 25% ~ 30% of the production value of domestic molds, and this part of high imported molds is exactly the large, sophisticated, complex and long-life high-grade molds that China is short of at present.

Locksmith contract system model gradually eliminated

Association secretary general luo has pointed out that when the fai mold base inspection in ningbo, high-grade mold production in addition to have the advanced technology and equipment, more need to strengthen the management and control of mold production process, which is restricting the crux of the mould delivery time, affect the quality of mould processing, mold production information management is imminent.

Ninghai first injection mold co, LTD, as a leading local mold enterprises, mainly focus on home appliances and automotive injection mold design and manufacturing. The company in the mold design used on the production management of the traditional pattern of fitter contract system, the management mode in the early stages of the enterprise development has a simple management, strong interest drive mechanism, the advantages of high efficiency, but in the enterprise scale, and increasingly improve customer requirements, market competition situation, the comprehensive efficiency of its management gradually reduce, the extensive management mode has been difficult to adapt to the mold industry competition of quality, cost and delivery time requirements.

The so-called locksmith, is a kind of cutting processing, mechanical assembly and repair processing of the manual operation, because often in the locksmith table with vise to fix the workpiece operation named. For mold maker, fitter is a very important work, even though at the end of the machining process, but a set of mold assembly completed entirely in the bench, under the command of the group leader who will be responsible for mold production plan arrangement, tracking the progress of processing and final assembly test, therefore tend to control the whole mold machining process.

In fact, many small and medium-sized mold manufacturing enterprises are using the management pattern, let the fitter to manage a whole set of mold production, the set of mold for enterprise management burden eased, but at the same time also lost to the factory production resources reasonable scheduling and coordination of all the mold production schedule initiative, this also means that enterprises of production cost and production quality control. With the intensification of the competition of mould enterprises, the management of ninghai first injection mould co. The company's chief engineer gu chuqing said: "the locksmith contract system has both advantages and disadvantages, depending on the development stage of the enterprise, our factory has to change the production management mode of the time.

Foshan keer technology development co, ltd. also encountered another locksmith management suffering. Company is mainly engaged in household appliances, audio-visual, communication, office supplies, car inner decoration, such as plastic mold manufacturing producers, adopt the way of the branch to avoid fitter contract system problems, but with no special technical design department, all the mould is still mainly by the fitter master arrangement of technology and is responsible for production management cadres. Therefore, within kohl's, the fitter master and production management cadre are the most important "current assets" of the company, because they have accumulated several years of technological process in their minds, which is the key to determine whether all mold production arrangements of the company can be carried out normally. Manager zhang yongfan recalled: "once there were important production management cadres and locksmith masters recruited, the production management would be in a period of chaos and the company would become very passive until new production management cadres and locksmith masters were hired.

Although the "locksmith" often appears in the small and medium-sized mold manufacturers, but large mold manufacturers have their own concerns, China faw mold manufacturing co, ltd. is one of them.

As China's mold industry leading enterprises as well as China's earliest automobile body stamping plant, faw mould manufacturing co, LTD, was for faw and national dozens of manufacturers to provide the parts or the whole die, master model, test fixture, welding fixture and so on mould and technical services, such a large mold manufacturing enterprises have certain experience in production management, but its technological design department Li Gong still worried, because like faw mould companies, often at the same time in the system were nearly thousands of sets of molds, and in this the similar processes often contains a lot of process knowledge, If all rely on artificial statistics, it is difficult to achieve effective accumulation. "This waste of knowledge is worse than a waste of resources." Li gong sighed that if he encountered the same process again, he still needed to spend a lot of time to redesign the process, which greatly delayed the production delivery date. In addition, when customers put forward new requirements to make product changes, some of the workpieces need to modify the process, but often the workpiece is still in accordance with the original process for processing, because can not be suspended in a timely manner, not only caused waste, and again affected the mold delivery date.

Standardization is the key to the informatization of mold production

Both small and medium-sized mold manufacturers of "locksmith" management difficulties, or large mold manufacturers of the delivery date problem, ultimately boils down to the "people" factor: ninghai first injection mold co, LTD. By the locksmith team leader to rely on personal experience and accumulation to control the whole set of mold production process and scheduling; The fitter master and production management cadre of foshan keer technology development co, ltd. have become the real "core" competitiveness of the enterprise. Faw mould manufacturing co, ltd. can not rely on the manual statistical accumulation of a large number of process knowledge, and after the process changes, can not do artificial timely control.