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Apart from designing and using our own standard components to build our molds, we count on standardized design, You need standard elements that are always designed exactly the same. That is one key aspect of it, but you must also standardize the process itself. Reduction is key here. Take, for example, reducing the number of tools. When you have 500 tools, it is unrealistic to think you could operate an automated line. Fifty would be a good number, because your tool library remains manageable, and you can reduce potential sources for error. And these 50 tools will have to do, no matter what.” Hofmann explains that you must also standardize programming through libraries, configurations and attributes to execute the process in a secure and uniform manner. An automated workflow from design to NC code helps reduce programming time and eliminates errors. Since we never manufacture the same workpieces, standardization and process reliability are crucial for us.
Newer auto makers are learning what their established counterparts have known for decades: Standardization can deliver significant business benefits.
Standardizing components, for instance, can help reduce the number of suppliers that automakers work with and help lower their acquisition costs. Longer term, it can also help them streamline inventories, reduce support costs and simplify workforce training.
And by standardizing everything from machine control specifications, to process tooling and data naming conventions, automakers can synchronize all aspects of vehicle launches. They can also reduce the likelihood of unexpected change orders or costly delays.
Standardization goes hand-in-hand with globalization. Automakers that want to consistently build the same vehicles are better equipped to do so when they have standardized machines, networks, processes and software in place at every production facility.
known as unmanned automation, currently it has been quite popular in foreign countries, especially in the automotive, home appliances, mold manufacturing and other fields. These production lines are almost operated by robots, workers just stand beside to do some support operations. Some plastic parts production factories are in complete automation process.
At present, mold manufacturing is turn towards to less humanism, unmanned machining direction. In a full-automation plant, one side, the production order and raw materials input, through products design, process design, manufacturing, processing, testing and packaging, and final products output in the other side of the plant. All worksare done by computer-controlled robots, CNC machine, unmanned transport trolley and automated warehouse.
In the implementation of automation, it also brings another major value is to promote the standardization process. Customer requirements shorter lead time, increasingly shorter production process, increasing products accuracy, prices continue to drop, competition becomes global. To meet all these requirements, we must have greater flexibility, higher quality and higher productivity. In the long run, the suitable solution is automation; it would be a future development direction of mold manufacturing
The more standardized the work of a given job, the more readily automation can take over for the human laborers. So while America bemoaned the export of its manufacturing sector to China, the Chinese labor market is experiencing sympathy pains as robots preclude the need for any further outsourcing.
Thanks to more than a century of obsession with standardization of just about everything, we are quickly facing the reality of automation spilling over from the places in which it is expected or even tolerated, to areas where we are challenged to defend why certain functions must be performed by humans.
If a lack of standardization means more ambiguity, one unavoidable consequence of this is going to be less reliability, and less consistent quality.
This is because not all approaches to any given task or procedure are created equal: there are better and worse ways to answer the phone, take down important information from a customer, and send status updates to your team.
One of the most important ways in which standardization can help to guarantee quality is by minimizing the chances that crucial details will be overlooked. For example, if you have a template for policy and procedure documents, you can use that to reduce the chances that someone will omit crucial information.
By standardizing the processes your organization depends on — and enforcing those standards — you will be guaranteeing the quality of the finished result.
Siemens has a virtual library of case studies regarding laboratory automation, and all of them point toward better outcomes, more efficiency, better use of staff time, and cost savings. Each example turns one or two standardized procedures into the busywork of robots, and eliminates previously tolerated or ignored variables into hyper-precise diagnostics (and by extension, clinical) outcomes. It also means less need for lab technicians on site, as previously time-consuming tasks can be offloaded to tireless machines.
Fundamentally, standardization means your employees have an established, time-tested process to use.
If done well, standardization can reduce ambiguity and guesswork, ensure quality, increase productivity, and increase employee morale.
Some of the benefits of standardization are as follows:
Improve clarity – because a standard process will eliminate the need for guessing or extra search
Quality assurance – because work is done in a pre-defined, optimized way
Increase productivity – because your employees don’t need to ask questions or sort through documents to get answers
Improve employee morale – because employees can be proud of their own processes and skills
Improve customer service – because every ticket is handled in the best way
All of our robots share the same pattern; they are made of modules responsible for different aspects around business processes (build the same way for all robots) and main module responsible for realization of the client’s business process. We also maintain the naming standards for elements of both the robot and the platform itself.
we were laying the foundation for industrial robots to take over the bulk of construction and assembly from humans. It doesn’t matter that such advanced robots didn’t exist when the assembly line revolutionized manufacturing; the important thing is that it standardized the functions of the laborers.
It is worth remembering that the word “robot” derives from a Czech word for “slave” or “servant.” Robots aren’t meant to take our jobs, per se–they are designed to do our work. It just happens to be that our jobs are comprised mostly of work.
The more standardized the work of a given job, the more readily automation can take over for the human laborers. So while America bemoaned the export of its manufacturing sector to China, the Chinese labor market is experiencing sympathy pains as robots preclude the need for any further outsourcing.
With the popularization of any new technology, standardization is essential