7 ideas for improving production processes at NOORI Electronic factories

In order to achieve the purpose of continuous improvement in the production process of NOORI Electronic, each independent improvement project has been given new meaning, making employees very clear about the significance of implementing the project. There are seven main methods of continuous improvement of the production process:

1. Eliminate quality inspection and rework

If product quality can be 100% guaranteed from the design of the product to the entire product being manufactured on the assembly line, then the phenomenon of quality inspection and rework will naturally become superfluous. .

Therefore, the idea of “error protection” must be implemented throughout the entire production process to ensure that each product can only be processed and installed in strict accordance with the correct method, thereby avoiding errors that may occur in the production process. To eliminate the phenomenon of rework, we mainly need to reduce the generation of waste products, pay close attention to the various phenomena that produce waste products (such as equipment, staff, materials, operating methods, etc.), find out the root causes, and then solve them completely.

2. Eliminate unnecessary movement of materials

In workshops organized according to process specialization, materials are often moved among several workshops, resulting in long production lines, long production cycles, and high production costs.

By changing this unreasonable layout and arranging the equipment required to produce products according to the processing sequence and making them as compact as possible, this will help shorten the transportation route and eliminate unnecessary and unreasonable material movement. Save production time.

3. Eliminate inventory

In the NOORI Electronic factory, inefficient inventory is considered the biggest waste, because inventory can cover up many problems in production, breed inertia among workers, and even worse, tie up a lot of capital.

4. Arrange production plan reasonably

From the perspective of production management, a balanced production plan can best maximize the efficiency of the production system. NOORI Electronic will rationally arrange work plans and staff to avoid the workload of a process being too high for one moment and too low for the next.

5. Reduce production preparation time

NOORI Electronic’s approach to reducing production preparation time is to carefully and meticulously carry out all preparatory activities before starting up, and to eliminate various hidden dangers that may occur during the production process.

① Distinguish which factors are internal and which are external factors;

②Change internal factors into external factors as much as possible;

③ Use industrial engineering methods to improve technology and streamline all internal and external factors that affect production preparation to improve efficiency.

6. Eliminate downtime

Eliminating downtime is of great significance to NOORI Electronic in maintaining continuous production, because in the continuous production process, there is little inventory between the two processes. If the machine breaks down, the entire production line will be paralyzed. The most powerful measure to eliminate downtime is comprehensive production maintenance, which includes four basic maintenance methods: routine maintenance, predictive maintenance, preventive maintenance and immediate maintenance.

7. Improve labor utilization

Improving labor utilization includes two aspects, one is to increase direct labor utilization, and the other is to increase indirect labor utilization.

The key to improving direct labor utilization is to cross-train operators so that one person can be responsible for the operation of multiple machines, so that operators on the production line can adapt to any type of work on the production line. Cross-training gives workers great flexibility to coordinate and deal with abnormal problems in the production process.

Indirect labor utilization mainly eliminates indirect labor. From the perspective of the product value chain, the human and material resources consumed in inventory, inspection, rework and other links cannot increase the value of the product. Therefore, these labors are usually considered indirect labor. If the indirect labor that cannot add value is eliminated in the product value chain, activities, then the indirect costs caused by these indirect activities will be significantly reduced, and the labor utilization rate will be increased accordingly. Measures that are conducive to improving the direct labor utilization rate can also increase the indirect labor rate.

While NOORI Electronic pays attention to the continuous improvement of the production process, it also pays attention to the improvement of the treatment of production workers. One of the purposes of improving production efficiency is to allow the profits generated to be reported to the production workers. We regard this as one of the value goals we have always pursued.