Andon

Sharp tool for quick handling production line events and good tool for shopfloor lean management.
Based on Andon's concept, a platform of collaborative lean management of abnormal events assists enterprises in implementing lean management, reduce value leakage, improve efficiency, achieve digital transformation and excellent operations.

Application Background

Nowadays, as all companies are transforming towards digitalization. Many factories are still relying on shouting for help, running around in the shopfloor to solve problems, and using paper or Excel for management during production, wasting a lot of costs and time. Delayed and inaccurate information transmission. Wasting caused by abnormal events handling delays. Loss of production information and lack of records. Historical data is difficult to use, continuous improvements are lack of goals and bases. Cannot form preventive interventions

Shouting for help, running around for help. Inefficient

Information transmission is not timely and accurate, making it difficult to judge

Delayed problem handling resulting in wasting time

No visualization, on-site management is not intuitive and transparent

Lost production events information and lack of effective records

Historical data is difficult to use and there is no basis for continuous improvement

Application Solution

ITENCloud provide three solutions, Software Andon, workplace Andon, equipment Andon, which can meet the lean management needs of shopfloor events for many different types of equipment and manual workstations, the three can be used independently or in combination. Realizing information transmission and comprehensive analysis of the entire production process, making everything clear at a glance

Function Introduction

Andon System (Abnormal management) is a sharp tool for quick handling production line events. Transparent visualization of abnormal events, standardization of processing procedures, ensuring quick and effective handling of problems, by using data analysis, helping clients discover deep-seated problems, providing support for improvement

Andon Report

  • Wireless shopfloor Andon, report with one click
  • Equipment Andon, automatically triggered by abnormal events
  • Software Andon, rich graphic and textual information

Events Notifications

  • Immediately notifying information of abnormal events
  • Supports multiple notification methods such as mobile phones, industrial bracelets, notification lights, emails, and dashboard

Events handling

  • QRQC mechanism, quick events handling.
  • Response, check-in, processing, closure, process can be configured, and record fields can be configured.

Events recording

  • Automatically recording information about the location, area, abnormal types, personnel when evens happening.
  • Recording the entire process of response closure and processing details.

Events escalating

  • Escalation mechanism for response and handling events timeout
  • Configurable multi-level escalation warning. (Notify the shopfloor team leader after 5 minutes and the supervisor after 30 minutes)

Andon Dashboard

  • Configurable multi-level visual Andon dashboard.
  • Andon dashboard, Abnormal events dashboard, Shopfloor dashboard.
  • Can be visually presented by event, status, and types.

Statistics analysis

  • Response time, processing time, performance analysis
  • Analysis of abnormal events duration that affect production
  • Automatic data statistics and multidimensional data analysis

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  • Can interface with business systems such as MES/ERP
  • Can define buttons, abnormal classification, and responders
 

Quick handling of abnormal events

Abnormal events reporting with just one click, quick response to events

Shutdown, material shortage, quality and other abnormal events only require a single press, and information can be sent in time, visualizing the problem. Relevant personnel can respond quickly and handle it in time, saving time and improving efficiency.

  • Quick response to events, reducing waiting time
  • Handling in time, efficiently preventing shutdown.
  • Quickly troubleshooting to achieve higher production efficiency.
  • Intelligent report generation helps with continuous improvement.
 

Efficiency improvement of manual workplaces

Optimize the work process, respond quickly to workplace events, and use warning lights to visualize events. At the same time, it can also expand the collection of data on workplace status (work, departure time), takt time, and other data.

  • Quick response to workplaces production events.
  • Monitoring of worker processing, departure status, and duration collecting.
  • Can achieve extended functions such as takt time collection and simple event requests.
 

Intelligent management of production equipment

Minimalist and low-cost physical level signal acquisition, suitable for all equipment

Adopting a simple and low-cost device for collecting tri-color light signals, data can be quickly and easily collected to optimize manufacturing processes, shorten response time, and improve production efficiency.

  • Automatic reporting equipment shutdown, timely response, shortening response time, and reducing shutdown time
  • Real time online monitoring of equipment operation status, production progress, and abnormal events status, clear at a glance.
  • Automatically collecting statistics data of equipment utilization rate and Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
  • Automatically counting operation, faults, and waiting frequencies, analyzing waste of working hours, and provide support for improvement

Application Value

Quick response to production events, timely handling, long-term handling, and real-time response to all production events, shorten response time, optimize production processes, and never miss any emergency situations. Intelligent generation of analysis reports to achieve continuous improvement. Fully and quickly control the entire production process. Automatic statistics collecting of performance indicators, achieving rapid response to on-site events, efficient collaboration, and efficiency improvement.

Improve event processing efficiency Reduce management costs
On site visual management   Qucik , intuitive, and transparent
Production event data mining and underlying problems detection.
Power tool for lean management