Barcode information management to ensure the effective implementation of Canon production line quality control
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Preface
Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. was established on January 15, 1990. Its products mainly include lenses, digital cameras, color laser printers, scanners, contact image sensors, and fax machines. The products are sold all over the world and enjoy a high reputation for their excellent performance, trustworthy quality and perfect shape design.
Behind many achievements, Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. is still actively promoting production innovation activities, using advanced production methods and equipment to improve production efficiency, thereby achieving considerable economic and social benefits.
In Canon’s automated production lines and various processing links, barcode management is used on the main components of its products. Before the product leaves the factory, Canon staff collects the barcode information on each main component through the barcode reader and uploads it to the computer database, so that no matter where the product is sold, once there is a quality problem, just read the barcode information on the warranty card. , you can find the relevant information of the product in the database, which greatly facilitates the management of product quality traceability and after-sales service.
application background
The garden-like factory area, strict management and innovative production methods have left a deep impression on people. Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. was established in 1990, mainly producing cameras, laser printers, fax machines and scanners. After 16 years of development, the annual sales have reached 1 billion US dollars. 16 years ago, Canon Zhuhai was built on a wasteland. Today, Canon Zhuhai has produced a total of 20 million laser printers and an annual output of about 4 million digital cameras. The development of Canon Zhuhai benefits from strict management, bold innovation and corporate philosophy.
As an excellent representative of foreign-funded enterprises in China, Canon Zhuhai brings not only well-known brands and high-quality products to the Chinese market, but also the business philosophy, management methods and entrepreneurial spirit of a successful enterprise that are worth learning and learning.
Canon Zhuhai puts the most emphasis on “quality first”. Through a series of barcode and information management, Canon-style TQC (Total Quality Control) method is transplanted and adapted to the Chinese market to establish a complete quality assurance system. Promote “quality greening”, emphasize “preventive prevention” and “recurrence prevention”, make quality problems clear and visualized, and promote countermeasures for problem points. The specific measures are as follows:
1. Product line quality tracking
By recording and tracking the production date of the whole machine or main parts, production line information, serial numbers of main parts and other materials, a quality traceability database system is established, which can be traced back to production line information and raw materials from finished products.
2. Raw material cost control
Establish a unique number for all raw materials and attach barcode labels to establish a strict picking control process. Secondly, through the material list of each type of product, the product production plan is decomposed into the material plan, which helps the purchasing department to reasonably settle the material balance, and at the same time allows the relevant person in charge to understand and control the deviation of the product material consumption and the standard finished product.
3. Production statistics
By reading the cost machine number or the barcode label of the main components, the finished product quantity statistics and raw material consumption statistics can be automatically completed.
4. Finished product archive
By reading the barcode labels of finished products and main components, collecting relevant data and uploading them to the computer, a complete product file including product manufacturing process, component configuration, quality inspection data and other information can be established.
By implementing the above barcode and information-based quality assurance system, emphasizing “prevention prevention” and “recurrence prevention”, quality problems can be made clear, visualized, and solved in a timely manner. At present, Canon Zhuhai has the lowest market complaint rate and product failure rate in the entire Canon Group.
It is precisely because of the strict requirements for product quality that all production management nodes in Canon Zhuhai Factory have adopted barcode and information management. As a Japanese manufacturer, in the early stage of management, the most used barcode label printers in the factory were Japanese brands.
Secondly, due to the industrial barcode printer used on the production line, the metal structure of the body is relatively heavy. Therefore, once the printer fails, in order to reduce the downtime, the staff must immediately replace the faulty machine on the production line. Most of the employees on the production line in the Canon Zhuhai factory are women, and they have to use tools such as hand trailers to assist when replacing the printer. Finish. Such a replacement form greatly wastes the manpower and time of the production line, which directly affects the reduction of production efficiency.
solution
For foreign-funded manufacturing enterprises, it is common practice to use hardware equipment of foreign brands on the production line. However, in the process of operation, due to cost budgets and higher and higher requirements for after-sales service, many factories began to focus on domestic well-known brand products when upgrading and updating equipment, on the premise of ensuring quality. The national brand POSTEK barcode label printer, with the advantages of “easy to use and durable” product quality, “professional and efficient” technical support, and high cost performance, has won the Canon Zhuhai factory.
Facing the problem of the barcode printer in the production line of Canon Zhuhai factory, after many times of in-depth and effective communication between the technical personnel of both sides, system upgrade debugging, access, testing and other links, at present, all production lines of Canon Zhuhai factory have selected the printer with cutter. POSTEK G series barcode printers replace the printers on the original production line. Canon Zhuhai factory engineer feedback, “POSTEK G series printers are fully capable of printing labels on the assembly line, ensuring the efficient and smooth production of the production line. At the same time, in the cooperation with Postek manufacturers, the manufacturers actively and effectively feedback, professional and thoughtful technical support , giving them great convenience at work.”
G series barcode label printers, although compact and lightweight, have powerful functions. Its unique patented design of “convection heat dissipation structure” ensures that this compact product has fast heat dissipation and stable performance during long-term operation, ensuring production Online uninterrupted label printing, the efficient completion of the operator’s work with quality and quantity. At the same time, the “left and right structure design” of the national patent of the G series, the main board, the motor and the user operation area are separated from the left and right, even if the machine fails, disassembly and maintenance are quite time-saving and labor-saving.
The plastic structure of the body and the high-quality hardware and software configuration of industrial machines make the G series lighter and smaller than traditional industrial machines with metal bodies. They are placed on the production line of Canon’s Zhuhai factory, which greatly saves production line space. The lightweight body is very convenient to move, which makes the Canon Zhuhai factory, where most of the production lines are female, very satisfied.
Implementation Effect
As an excellent representative of foreign-funded enterprises in China, Canon Zhuhai brings not only well-known brands and high-quality products to the Chinese market, but also the business philosophy, management methods and entrepreneurial spirit of a successful enterprise that are worth learning and learning.
Emphasizing “Quality First”, Canon Zhuhai Factory, which has established a complete quality assurance system through a series of barcode and information management, has been used for a year to achieve stable performance, convenient operation, and durable characteristics of POSTEK G series printers. etc., expressing full trust and recognition. In subsequent purchases, POSTEK G series printers became the first choice for Canon Zhuhai factory to expand its production line and upgrade its barcode printing equipment.
About Canon (Zhuhai)
Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. was established on January 15, 1990. Its products mainly include lenses, digital cameras, color laser printers, multifunction machines, photo printers, digital cameras, and contact image sensors. The company has more than 10,000 registered employees, and the garden-like factory area provides a beautiful working environment for every employee.
Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. actively promotes production innovation activities, adopts advanced production methods, and improves production efficiency, thereby achieving considerable economic and social benefits.
Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. has always taken “promoting the prosperity of the world and the happiness of mankind” as its own goal, and has made great strides along the road of continuous growth and further realization of the concept of symbiosis.
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