依必安派特公司工厂物流改善研究.pdfVIP

THE RESEARCH OF PLANT LOGISTICS IMPROVEMENTS OF EBMPAPST COMPANY ABSTRACT Ebmpapst is a traditional manufacturer mainly focusing on design, production and sale of industrial fans. With more intense competition from the market in recent years, the profit of Ebmpast company breaks low record. It becomes company strategy to reduce operational cost and enhance competitiveness. The thesis studies how to achieve the company strategy through plant logistics improvements. AC40 production line is chosen as the subject of study in this thesis. There are two main issues in terms of plant logistics on this production line: 1) material delivery to production line was not well organized. All materials were prepared and picked through production order, which caused too much material stock on line and too high cost of material delivery. 2) Machines with similar functions were placed together to maximize output. The result of such arrangement is batch flow, too big space needed and long production lead time. Logistics improvement study between raw material warehouse and workshop is to classify all AC40 raw materials into 7 different types. The classification is based on pickup frequency and yearly consumption cost. Different logistics methods are applied for different material types. The methods include: pull with Kanban, trigger by safety stock and deliver by production orders. After improvements, the important materials are allocated 万方数据 with more management res