With the rapid development of the paper packaging industry, customers are imposing increasingly stringent requirements on the on-time delivery performance of packaging enterprises. Consequently, how packaging enterprises manage their production processes has become particularly crucial. For this reason, a large number of packaging enterprises deploy the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) as an effective tool to strengthen production process management. Over the years, Suzhou Ewaysun Computer Technology Co., Ltd. has been designing production planning management systems, machine reporting systems and piece-rate wage calculation systems for packaging enterprises. Now we would like to share the relevant software management experience in the production management segment as follows:
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2.机台数据报工的方式及相关需考虑的功能
| Unction | Reporting Method |
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Mobile Terminal (Mobile Phone, PDA) | PC Terminal |
| 1. View Plan | Small screen with limited content available | Can view work instructions with comprehensive display |
| 2. View Drawings | Small screen, inconvenient to view | Large screen, easy to view |
| 3. Connect to Equipment | × | Direct connection available (direct data collection supported) |
3.Types of PC-to-Machine Connection
| Type | Notes |
| 1. Manual Input | - |
| 2. Reading the Completion Interface of the Equipment Production Management System | A host computer production management system must be configured. |
| 3. Connection with Equipment PLC | The PLC manufacturer of the equipment must provide a PLC address table. |
| 4. Adding an Independent Data Acquisition Device | - |
4.Hierarchies of PC-to-Machine Connection
| Hierarchy | Function |
| 1. Finished Quantity | Can read the finished quantity of the machine, and assign the quantity to the specific work order number. |
| 2. Finished Time | In addition to reading the finished quantity of the machine, it can also capture the finished time, which can be further divided into setup time and mass production time. |
| 3. Process Parameters During Production | Can read the specific process parameters for each work order during production, facilitating subsequent traceability and process optimization. |
| 4. Sending Setup Parameters to Equipment | Can receive the process parameters issued by the planning system to achieve rapid machine setup. |
Connection of Digital Printing Machines
Reminder: As a management tool, management software must be fully integrated into the daily management processes of an enterprise.
In the process of enterprise operation and management, the focus is usually placed on product processing quality while the role of software is relatively overlooked. However, in reality, every link of product processing is closely associated with human involvement. The transmission of information between people, as well as between people and machines, both depends on the accuracy and efficiency of information delivery. Incomplete information, low accuracy, and inefficiency will directly or indirectly affect product delivery and weaken the enterprise's competitiveness. Therefore, enterprises must continuously improve software functions to enhance their core competitiveness.
It is recommended that enterprises regularly standardize their internal management processes, and systematically embed these standardized processes into software systems on an ongoing basis. When anomalies occur in daily management, enterprises should diagnose which specific link of which process the anomaly belongs to, then optimize the operational standards of the problematic link and improve the corresponding software functions. In this way, the recurrence of such anomalies can be fundamentally prevented, and enterprises can avoid falling into the management dilemma where "the same problem recurs repeatedly with the same person, or crops up again and again among different people in the same position".