Background
At the beginning of 2023, as the company's order volume continued to grow, Dongguan Olive Trees Arts Co., Ltd. faced an urgent need to improve production efficiency. In particular, a customer placed an order for 8,000 decorative paintings, requiring production and delivery in just 45 days. This posed a great challenge to our production management, team coordination and quality control.
Challenges
1. Tight production cycle: The order volume is large and involves more than 100 different designs, and the production cycle requires a very short time.
2. Complex manual craftsmanship: Each painting requires a combination of hand-painting and spray-painting processes, and the process is complicated, and it is impossible to rely entirely on mechanized production.
3. Balance between quality and efficiency: It is necessary to ensure high efficiency while ensuring that each work meets international quality standards.
Solution
I. Optimize the production process:
1. Divide production into four modules: design, drawing, quality inspection and packaging, and implement seamless connection between modules.
2. Introduce the "parallel process" strategy, and carry out the design and drawing stages at the same time to save time.
II. Team division of labor and training:
1. Set up a special production team and assign core personnel and auxiliary personnel according to the difficulty of the process.
2. Conduct rapid skill enhancement training for new team members to ensure that all process standards are consistent.
III. Improve quality inspection efficiency:
1. Increase quality inspection points and implement the "triple quality inspection" model (initial inspection after the process is completed, intermediate inspection after assembly, and final inspection before packaging).
2. Develop an internal quality inspection standard flow chart to clarify the acceptance criteria and responsible persons at each stage.
IV. Intelligent support:
1. Introduce the latest Epson high-definition inkjet 8-color printer in the inkjet printing process to reduce manual operation time and improve detail expression.
2. Use the ERP system to track the progress of orders in real time to ensure that each link is completed on time.
Results
● Delivery completed ahead of schedule: The order was completed and delivered smoothly 3 days ahead of schedule, which was highly recognized by customers.
● Improved production efficiency: The overall production efficiency increased by 25%, and the rework rate was reduced to less than 1%.
● Long-term application optimization plan: The production process optimization plan was standardized within the company and then used in the production tasks of multiple large orders, which significantly improved production capacity.
Summary
By optimizing internal production processes, strengthening team collaboration and intelligent support, we have successfully coped with the challenges of high-intensity order production, not only meeting customer needs, but also greatly improving production efficiency. This case proves our team's execution and innovation capabilities under high-pressure environments, and at the same time lays a solid foundation for future development.