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On November 17th, MPDV was invited to participate in the "Facing the Future: VDMA Industry Conference" as a keynote speaker to share the best practices of "Smart Factory for Manufacturing Excellence".
The future is unpredictable, and only by summarizing past experiences can we better face the future. As a global leading supplier of intelligent manufacturing information systems, MPDV has been deeply cultivating in the field of manufacturing information technology for nearly 50 years and has accumulated rich practical experience. In view of this, VDMA invited MPDV to introduce the best practices of manufacturing enterprises in building smart factories step by step, and help enterprises clarify "what is smart factory, how to build smart factory, and how to apply smart factory to realize manufacturing excellence".
In this keynote speech, MPDV experts used the example of a manufacturing enterprise's informationization construction history for more than 10 years to elaborate the real goal of smart factory for manufacturing enterprises: to achieve manufacturing excellence. The degree of achieving manufacturing excellence can be measured and evaluated by complying with the manufacturing management performance indicator "VDMA66412-1". MPDV experts said that it is impossible to achieve manufacturing excellence overnight, and it is roughly necessary to go through the process of "systematization of the system, rapid scheduling of resources, in-depth integration of information technology and automation, and optimization of the external supply chain based on the internal supply chain".
In addition, MPDV experts introduced the smart factory implementation methodology of "value stream analysis to identify pain points, system planning based on the 4 phases of manufacturing excellence and building a management system for continuous improvement".
The actual case of this manufacturing company graphically describes the 5-step method of implementing manufacturing information system, which is summarized as: order transparency to discover non-value-added time, elimination of unplanned downtime based on equipment status analysis, advanced shop floor scheduling considering the whole plant and production resources, motivating employees to eliminate non-value-added working time with indicators, and synchronized production and quality control to improve process stability. Finally, MPDV experts also elaborated on the system application methodology using equipment maintenance as an example, emphasizing that the application of IT systems is not only to expose production management problems, but also to establish and optimize the management system through the IT system, and to modularize and standardize complex business processes for continuous improvement.
More than 200 guests attended the conference. Mr. Pit Heltmann, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai, and the leaders of the city of Kunshan delivered welcoming speeches. Experts from various industries, such as VDMA Machine Information Interoperability Division and NIO Automobiles, also made wonderful keynote.
During the conference, MPDV's booth attracted many guests to stop and visit, discussing the application of MES system with MPDV's sales staff, and expressing a strong interest in further contact and understanding.