An aerospace manufacturing company adopts RFID asset management in production

chrispeng December 10, 2021 Airport Management

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1. Customer background:

This client is an aerospace manufacturing company in Shanghai, which is an aerospace peripheral contractor that integrates R&D, manufacturing, and assembly of satellite brackets and auxiliary equipment. The company has 8 branch factories and produces products that support various types of satellites produced in my country. It is one of the best aerospace R&D and manufacturing enterprises in China.

2. Challenges faced by customers:

As my country’s aerospace industry advances in large steps and the trend of production and manufacturing is becoming more and more clear, the aerospace manufacturing industry has higher and higher requirements for the level of informatization of asset management in the production process. This has the following challenges:

Management efficiency is not high. The number and types of materials are increasing, and management is neither convenient nor efficient;

Organizational production efficiency is not high. Since the manufacturing process organizes materials, tools, and personnel for production according to products, it takes a lot of time and effort to find various resources during the production preparation period (it is estimated that 30-50% of the total time spent in a typical product production process is used for Find organizational resources);

It is difficult to monitor and manage the workshop. Although the closed-circuit television system has been installed in the workshop, it is a time-consuming and labor-intensive challenge to determine when the problem occurs due to the large video span;

The workshop condition monitoring efficiency is not high. Temperature and humidity management still stays at regular manual copy reports, and the speed of information transmission is extremely slow.

Three, the solution:

Use RFID technology (915MHz) to label and collect information, install the RFID tag of the material on the material, and register the material information through the Prodog-EAM system. When a material with an RFID tag is moved, its moving location information is automatically updated in the system. When the material is needed, the location of the material can be retrieved directly from the system to improve retrieval efficiency. The system also provides the RFID inventory function, that is, the manager can use the handheld RFID reader to perform rapid digital inventory of the on-site materials, and report the inventory results to the Prodog-EAM system. In summary, the Prodog-EAM system has the following functions:

Carry out a full range of digital management of materials such as work-in-process, tools, equipment, office furniture, and archives in the precision manufacturing department;

On-site monitoring of key materials, automatic recording of their movement routes, and recording of illegal movements and alarming;

Integrate video surveillance with the Prodog-EAM system, and retrieve the video content at that time through the material movement time as evidence to trace the rights and responsibilities of materials;

Monitor the on-site temperature and humidity of the precision manufacturing department and integrate it with the Prodog-EAM system;

Connect with the existing (OA/P6) system of the Precision Manufacturing Department to complete the interconnection of materials and personnel information.

Asset management has the following processes:

4. Application effect:

The Prodog-EAM system has been successfully applied in the aerospace manufacturing workshop and has the following benefits:

1. Management income: improve the production scheduling ability of enterprises and groups, optimize the management mode and management level of equipment and accessories, and improve and reform the enterprise asset management process.

2. Economic benefits: By realizing the optimal allocation of enterprise assets and guaranteeing production through utilization, lower production costs and obtain better economic benefits:

(1) Reduce equipment downtime and increase production efficiency by 10 to 30%;

(2) Reduce maintenance costs and achieve cost reductions of 10% to 20%;

(3) Reduce inventory costs, and achieve a reduction rate of 10% to 30% of inventory funds;

(4) Extend the life of the equipment and increase the return on investment, which can increase the income by 10% to 20%;

(5) Reduce emergency procurement and reduce procurement costs, which can achieve a reduction rate of 10% to 30%;

(6) Increasing working hours can increase work efficiency by 10% to 30%.

3. Knowledge management: effective accumulation of knowledge management in production, maintenance, materials, equipment, and procurement can be achieved, and a huge knowledge base can be formed to guide related work in reverse.