Ningbo Certain Tool Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer introduction:

The company is China's largest and most influential manufacturer of utility knives and utility knives. After 20 years of hard work, the company has become a well-known enterprise in the Chinese tool industry.

Founded in September 1995, the company is located in the beautiful coast of the East China Sea - Ningbo Xishang Binhai Industrial Zone, 60 kilometers away from Beilun Port and 45 kilometers away from Ningbo Airport. The traffic is convenient and the environment is beautiful. The company is equipped with modern automatic spraying line, automatic assembly packaging line, direct reading spectrometer and other cutting tool production and testing equipment 236 sets. The China Art Knife Industry R&D Center was established, and now has 11 invention patents, 38 utility models, and 143 designs. At present, it produces 45 million plastic tools and 12 million alloy tools annually. And in the second phase of Xidian Binhai, it has invested in the construction of an annual production project of 80 million sets of multifunctional utility knives and parts production lines. Xingwei provides about 680 cutting tools to 356 domestic and 453 overseas customers.

The company's technology company is the main drafting unit of the "art knife" industry standard. In 2007, Xingwei Engineering Technology R&D Center and Quality Assurance Department participated in the preparation of the “Art Knife” industry standard. In 2008, it was officially released and implemented nationwide with the approval of the National Development and Reform Commission. Today, the standard has become the broad and authoritative manufacturing and sales standard for the Chinese tool industry.

The company has a long-standing reputation in the market. As a Chinese tool declaration type, the brand tool passed the GS certification of the German quality management organization TUV/SUD in 2005. The company became a tool manufacturer in China that holds the GS certificate and is currently holding the GS certificate. In China, the company's products have become "Zhejiang famous brand products", "China's top ten stationery brands", Xingwei trademarks are "Zhejiang famous trademarks"; and won the "Zhejiang export brand", "Chinese tool brand enterprises" and "China's student stationery manufacturing industry professional varieties of demonstration production enterprises" and other honorary titles.

It is the responsibility of Xingwei to think more about employees, think more about customers, and contribute more to society. On the road of future development, we will continue to adhere to the policy of “continuous development with strategic focus, tactical adherence, management innovation as the guarantee, technology innovation as the foundation, and brand innovation as the driving force”.

What problems did the customer encounter:

1. The material carrying method is varied; the tooling return line is too long and the flexibility is poor; the production line is more traditional; the space utilization rate is not high;

2. The flow of people, logistics, and detours lead to a large number of incidental operations without added value. The 5S on-site is poor, and there are too many WIP products on site;

3. Information transmission depends on information, information records are written, and information is lagging;

4. The material distribution method is a typical one-time large-volume delivery method. Once an abnormality occurs in a material, it will cause batch errors.

5. There are a large number of incidental work with no added value during the operation.

Lean production line analysis:

1. Designing the layout and quantity of lean production lines according to TT;

2. The line body meets the requirements of flexibility and expandability, and can be continuously upgraded to meet the production needs of different products and different processes;

3. The lean production line equipment is modularized, and the lean production line can be assembled freely to improve the efficiency and longevity of the equipment;

4. According to PQPQ (order quantity, process path), classify the line body.

Lean production line benefits:

The production balance rate has been greatly improved;

The space utilization rate of the site is saved and the floor space is reduced;

Optimize the 5S site for easy management and the overall look of the company;

The first mention is flexible, can be quickly switched, and quickly respond to the market;

Reduce personnel and achieve provincialization.

After improvement


Before improvement