Customer concerns

• Since it is a large variety of small quantity production, there are many setup changes, and the operation rate continues to be low.
• There is a lot of urgent interrupt production and production switching is taking longer.
• Estimation is desired because production finish times are not known.
• Place and fix frequently used component together.

Customer feedback after introduction

• Even when production item is changed, it is possible to respond by simply changing the program. Therefore, the line balancing is easy and the largest performance can be obtained.

• Production is improved by reducing the number of setup changes or creating a grouping with no setup changes.

• The random feeder setup enabled feeder to be set to a vacant place and immediately started production.
• Production can be switched and production can be started in a short time.

• The simulated function now allows you to estimate production endtimes.

• Since Feeder arrangement was registered and fixed in the database, production was enabled with the minimum set-up change. For example…