Fasteners have a wide variety of specifications, different performance and uses, and are widely used as the basic parts of machinery industry, and the market demand is large. The quality of fasteners in the assembly product affects the overall quality of the product to a certain extent. Therefore, the higher the degree of standardization of fasteners, the higher the product quality bearing responsibility requirements.
2024 is a key year to achieve the goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and promoting the construction of enterprise smart factories and the popularization of digitalization of small and medium-sized enterprises has become an important part. As far as fasteners in smart factories are concerned, the development of digital intelligence is closely related to the transformation and upgrading of industrial manufacturing enterprises.
Accelerate the intelligent development of fastener industry
Data is the "result" of digitalization and intelligence, and it is also the "element" that drives digitalization and intelligence. The type, specification and size of fasteners, production process, etc., each process needs to be accurately checked. At present, only standard fasteners have national standards, German standards, American standards, Japanese standards, etc., in addition to non-standard parts, special-shaped parts, these different standard parts have accumulated hundreds of millions of data. Through the digital system to integrate the required production processes, production standards, testing standards, improve the speed and accuracy of production, but also reduce labor costs, breaking through the traditional manufacturing production technology "human-to-human" situation.
The person in charge of Zhejiang Shengshi Ruijin Fastener Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "Shengshi Ruijin") is deeply touched by the "human-to-human" situation of fastener production technology.
The digital practice of Shengshi Ruijin has strengthened the determination of Yan Yanjun, CEO of Hangzhou Huiqi Technology Co., Ltd. to develop a digital fastener system.
"Fastener small and medium-sized enterprises in the face of high product precision and quality requirements of the order, there will be want to do not dare to do the situation, it is difficult to achieve a breakthrough in product quality and industrial scale; The fundamental problem is to help smes solve the problems of difficult data retention, high management costs, and difficult quality control, standardize and visualize the production and inspection process, use native data to speak, automatically flow, reduce data handling, thereby reducing human error and improving product quality." After visiting many fastener smes such as Shengshi Ruijin, Yan Yanjun realized that digitalization is the key to the transformation of fastener enterprises.
In 2014, Yan Yanjun conceived the idea of developing a digital system for the fastener industry to help small and medium-sized enterprises solve the problem of digital management in the fastener industry.
Most of the early standard parts data were collected and registered manually, which was inefficient and prone to errors, and there was a risk of loss during use. Non-standard parts and special-shaped parts are in many cases "one-time" sales, the production cycle is relatively long, the relevant data is difficult to effectively retain, and the next time it may need to be re-customized, consuming effort.
In terms of quality control, large enterprises rely on perfect management, screws in the production and testing process have layers of employees to check, quality is guaranteed, the defective rate can be greatly reduced, but the labor cost is relatively high.
"The use of digital systems in the fastener industry is not rare, large enterprises contact new technologies early, but also willing to work hard in learning digital systems, so the benefit is relatively early; However, small and medium-sized enterprises are often afraid to try new things because of the cost problem and the lack of management experience. Yan Yanjun said.
Manufacturing enterprises need to be 'grounded'
In view of the difficulties and key points of fastener enterprises in production, sales, digital transformation and other aspects, Yan Yanjun plans to use a system to solve all the processes that enterprises need.
"When the digital system first began to be implemented in the fastener industry, there were some general software on the market with relatively single functions. Purchase, sales and inventory, financial use a system, warehousing and use another system, multiple software can not interoperate, inventory a lot of data can not achieve closed loop, resulting in the actual output value and the system gap." Yan Yanjun said that through continuous exploration, it has gradually opened up the software including MES, ERP, WMS, SCM, etc., to meet a series of whole-process management of fastener enterprises from product digital documentation, order requirements, production process visualization to product whole-process inspection traceability and warehousing operations.
In the digital promotion of industrial and manufacturing enterprises, employees are a key part. In the development of the system, we should not only consider the use of managers, but also consider the difficulty of grass-roots employees and learning. "Fastener enterprises from management, sales to production, adapt to the use of different groups of people, reduce the learning difficulty and operation difficulty of the applicable group, the popularization of digital is more easily accepted, in order to further reflect the value." According to Yan Yanjun, the digital system it has developed has reached cooperation with hundreds of fastener enterprises, and has opened service points in Yongnian, Hebei Province, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province and Dongguan, Guangdong Province.
The first step is the hardest. Industry insiders said that in the early days of fastener companies using digital systems, they will go into the factory to track teaching, help companies solve problems encountered in the use process, and make digitalization more "grounded."
Through the professional huge fastener database, through the quality digital management, the whole process can be online monitoring product quality, systematic diagnosis, reduce the production of defective products, reduce costs, improve production efficiency. Let the production standards can be relied on, the quality is evidence-based and controllable, and further accelerate the pace of smes' products from low-end to high-end, so that digital service for product quality has become the base of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Some people in the industry said that digital promotion is a gradual process, not only in the hardware intelligent equipment, software systems, improve the industrial chain and other aspects of continuous optimization and upgrading, but also in the enterprise digital cognition, digital transformation support.
