Customer situation automotive supplier: call-off orders from OEM with order processing at 3 locations. The who, what, when, how and where were processed with paper lists and manual records. Feedback on production progress was only possible via telephone and intensive internal communication. The unplanned absence of an employee confronts the shift supervisors with ad hoc planning “from the gut”.
Problem: Coverage of all production processes in the workflow (no differentiation of plastics, metal, or assembly)
Implementation: Recording of all downtimes and all rejects on all machines
Feedback of order data to Navision after release of shifts
Real-time reporting of machines and plant areas
Shift reports for the management
Bottleneck analysis of personnel, material and tools
Solution: Use of GRP complete system
Master data import
Process workshops for commissioning
Implementation of customer-specific process requirements
Training for operation, administration and reporting
Result: Running system
Easy administration of the respective processes by customers
BOM resolution of orders to production orders
Daily planning of all orders in the GRP system
Feedback of all relevant order data to Navision
Daily automated reporting to management
Workshops for the elaboration of process improvements with the use of GRP’s many years of experience