Hardware Industry
Industry Characteristics- The main features of production are basing on discrete manufacturing, affiliating with process, and focusing on assembly;
- The primary issue of production mode is make-to-order, the secondary issues are design-to-order, configure-to-order, assembly-to-order and stock production;
- Raw materials management is simple, but the semi-products, in-process products, and finished products have a mass of specifications and complex product codes, so the stages management is difficult;
- General production process is cutting or shaping raw materials to roughs, fine cutting, semi-products assembling, and assembling to finished products;
- Frequently perform outsource processing, such as electroplating and heat treatment process;
- Purchase prices and sales prices management are complicated because raw materials purchase prices fluctuation is in wide scale;
- The recyclable scrap management is difficult, a lot of scraps are generated during the production process, some of the scraps can be recycled;
- In-process products management is complex because the part's routing process is long;
- The diverse routings cause the required equipments and tools frequently switch during production process;
- The routing process bases on equipment, the equipment capacity determine the production line capacity;
- Because of a great variety of finished product specifications, part material categories, and complex routings, the real time information from shop floor directly impact the accuracy of scheduling;
- Exists a lot of uncertain elements, so that the information feedback become slow;
- Requires multi-UOM management;
- The multi-category and small batch requirements harden production lines management and shop floor operating;
- Requires serial number management for tracking product warranty and maintenance records.
Chang Hang Solutions
1. Sales Management
- Reasonable reconciliation process
- Order Tracking
- Report scheduling system
2. Engineering
- Powerful coding system
- Product architecture and design management
- Materials substitution
3. Procurement Management
- Safety stock management
- Intelligent replenishment
- Purchasing reconciliation management
4. Warehouse Management
- Batch management
- Inventory management
- Material storage locations management
5. Production Management
- Graphical production scheduling
- Dynamic inventory analysis
- Flexible way of material issuing
- Material over-issuing management
- Outsource processing management
- Inspection management
- Shop floor management
- Real-time production information inquiry
6. Financial Management
- Automatic accounting
- Production cost management