Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd., a leading electronics manufacturing services provider in China, faced challenges that with no unified standards, their traditional dedicated equipment is incompatible with the production of different products, disabling equipment to be shared, and it’s difficult to trace product data. Below is our solution to this problem:
Processes
The process flow of this project includes cutting, assembly, spot welding, and inspection.
Challenges
Dedicated equipment often lacks unified standards, leading to single-product production and incompatibility with the production of different products. This prevents equipment sharing and leads to inefficient changeover, which seriously limits production flexibility. Engineers have to rearrange and redesign from scratch every time, prolonging design time; After-sales maintenance also requires starting from scratch, leading to long maintenance cycles.
Evaluation
The lack of standards in traditional dedicated equipment makes the production line unable to adapt to market changes and results in inefficient changeover. This exposes enterprises to risks including delayed order delivery, redundant equipment investment, and difficulty in undertaking high-value-added orders.
Solutions
Upon receiving the customer’s order, MIJOINT engineers first assessed risks and conducted targeted troubleshooting. Following the process from confirmation via 3D design report, 2D annotation, subcontracting, machining, assembly, debugging, to final equipment acceptance, the customer’s problems were resolved. Below are the steps our engineering team followed:
1. This equipment innovatively replaces traditional lead screw and cylinder structures with mechanical cam and electronic cam structures and substitutes multi-piece assembly technique with a single-piece assembly process.
2. This equipment unifies equipment frameworks, process modules, and electrical controls into a standardized configuration to enable rapid changeover, ensure consistency, and significantly reduce operational and maintenance costs.
3. Through material strip welding or automatic switching between dual modules, material replenishment can be achieved with no need for equipment shutdown, thereby improving efficiency.
4. This equipment integrates with the MES system to record critical production and quality data in real time, promoting product traceability.
Results
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Performance Indicator
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Before Improvement
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After Improvement
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Improvement Range/Effect
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Cycle Time (CT)
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1.5 s/pcs
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0.8 s/pcs
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Cycle shortened by 46.7%, hourly capacity increased by 87.5%
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Project Development Cycle
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90 days
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60 days
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Cycle shortened by 33.3%, facilitating the rapid launch of the product
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Labor Configuration per Shift
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10 HC/shift
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2 HC/shift
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8 people saved per shift, reducing labor cost by 80%
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Assembly Precision
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0.05 mm
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0.02 mm
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Accuracy improved by 60%, and the defect rate decreased significantly
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