New products into production on time
On its way to production, a new product passes through a series of activities across departments, and one stalled activity is enough to delay delivery. NPEC Production shows the status of every prototype or sampling, who is responsible for which activity and what remains before handover to series production.
Main features
- Providing clear information on the current state of development of the prototype or sampling
- Providing an overview of activities incl. their description, responsibility, sequence and time frame
- Using the repeatability of activities within the process and other orders
- Assigning tools to activities for the realization of prototypes and samples
- Ability to import previously created data from other applications and systems
- Enabling engineering change management for serial products
- Eliminating errors due to the unavailability of valid production documentation
Main benefits
- Clarity of individual processes
- Clarity in the history of orders and activities
- Efficiency and optimization of production
- Reduction in the amount of e-mail communication and meetings within the company
Application description
You set up how each product passes through production in product templates — for each activity you define responsibility, order, dependencies and time frame, and a new product or a transfer to production gets its plan by assigning a template. The application also records new parts and tools and their inspection within the manufactured product, and complies with ISO 9001:2015.
Object schema
To manufacture the product, you first need to enter an order. Certain activities and activity plans are subsequently assigned to the order based on the type of product or service. These orders may contain specific tools for the implementation/production of the order.
Brief overview of the prototype manufacturing process
The first step is that an office worker creates an order in the application and, using pre-prepared activity templates, determines the processes and actions necessary to complete it.
Tools and their activities can then be assigned to the order, again from the pre-prepared activity templates.
How NPEC Production fits your processes
APQP
The system adapts to the requirements of a specific company, activities can be set according to specific individual needs. As part of the introduction of the NPEC Production system, an APQP analysis is being carried out. It is a qualitative tool for planning the production process of new or transferred products. The result of the analysis is the breakdown of the company's activities within individual gates, where the gates include a description of individual activities, inputs and expected outputs of activities, responsibility of individual departments or workers for these activities, locations of activities and used tools for processing these activities.
ERP
The NPEC Production system forms a link between activities within individual departments, activities for the introduction of new products and product transfers to production, and the ERP system with the recording of "hard" data. Interconnection of both systems can be solved automatically or manually in the form of an import bridge.
Kanban board
The NPEC Production system uses the status of activities, assignment of responsibilities, time frames, sequences and connections with respect to other activities for the product to provide information on the product's development. In this way, activities are simply allocated for processing, on which workers can focus within their competences, for their completion. This will significantly reduce the frequency of inquiries about the progress of product production in the company.
PDCA
The NPEC Production system uses the PDCA (plan – do – check – act) approach and is implemented in phases
- Planning (plan) – setting goals in the field of OTD delivery of products on time and in the required quality, elimination of extra transport costs, reduction of overtime hours of workers, improvement of communication between departments while reducing downtime and errors
- Implementation (do) – introduction of the NPEC system, training of workers
- Evaluation of benefits (check) – evaluation of OTD in the area of product deliveries on time and in the required quality, savings in transport, reduction of overtime hours, improvement of communication between departments, reduction of downtime and errors
- Standardization (act) – stabilization of the production flow process and associated activities to complete the product, setting a new standard
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