When an urgent order from a food group in Lyon, France encountered the Chinese Qingming Festival holiday, the foreign trade team of Ply-Pack Packaging Machinery Factory did not choose the conventional operation of "choose one of two", but used a set of self-developed flexible production systems to reconstruct the production chain within 48 hours, ensuring that the customized packaging machinery solutions were implemented on time and retaining a complete Qingming Festival holiday for employees. Customer needs: dual pressures of precision and timeliness
"The customer's new plant is scheduled to be put into use on April 15, which means that our automated packaging production line must be shipped by sea before April 8." Lucia, foreign trade director of Ply-Pack, showed the red mark in the customer's email. This order of 12 special-shaped canning equipment requires the welding accuracy of key parts to reach ±0.25mm. The French side was initially skeptical about the delivery date, as the traditional Qingming Festival holiday overlapped with the European Easter.
Solution: Three-axis linkage production revolution Dynamic scheduling engine The numbers jumping on the large screen in the workshop are not ordinary production schedules, but intelligent scheduling systems developed by the Ply-Pack technical team. The system breaks down the French customer order into 237 process nodes, and automatically generates three sets of flexible production scheduling plans based on data such as the employee's registered residence and technical level. Wang Zhiqiang, the welding team leader from Henan, was deeply touched by this: "The system arranges the precision welding modules I am responsible for three days before the holiday, which not only ensures continuous operation without interruption, but also reserves high-speed rail tickets for returning home on April 3." Cloud Collaborative Quality Closed Loop The foreign trade team implanted the IoT module in the customized solution for packaging machinery, and French engineers can view the torque parameters of the equipment in real time through the encrypted port. At the quality acceptance meeting late at night on April 2, the Chinese and French teams used AR glasses to simultaneously detect the internal structure of the equipment, and the confirmation process that originally required 3 days of round-trip was compressed to 4 hours. Li Ming, technical consultant of Ply-Pack, recalled: "The French customer pointed to the 3D model on the screen and said that this system was at least two years ahead of the digital level of their local suppliers."
Humanistic Care Production Chain
Facing 35% of the out-of-province employees in the workshop, the administrative department launched a "reverse welfare" policy: the core technical backbones who stayed in the factory to participate in the Qingming Festival production guarantee, in addition to enjoying triple wages, can also exchange for paid family leave in May; employees who choose to return home will receive a customized travel package, including epidemic prevention materials, vacuum Qingtuan and electronic tomb sweeping guidance manual. Xiao Zhang from the packaging machine assembly section showed the shuttle bus reservation system on his mobile phone: "After I filled in my hometown address, the system automatically matched 4 direct buses, which saved half an hour compared to the route I checked myself."
Implementation results: delivery error is less than 0.4%
When the last batch of packaging machinery parts were loaded into the container on April 7, Ply-Pack's efficient delivery record for cross-border orders hit a new high - from raw material procurement to finished product shipment, only one non-critical process was delayed by 4 hours, and the overall error rate was controlled at 0.38%. The French customer specially marked in the acceptance report: "This flexible production system should become a training case for our global suppliers."
When the Qingming rain fell on the factory area, the quality inspection supervisor Lao Zhou led the duty team to conduct the final inspection. Touching the equipment that was about to travel far away, he spoke the voice of Ply-Pack people to the live camera: "We can keep the tradition of the twenty-four solar terms, and we can also play with the time difference on the other side of the earth - this is the temperature and speed of China's smart manufacturing."
