MES (Production Execution System) In the discrete manufacturing, especially the aviation industry, which has high production management complexity, there are shortcomings of software customization, long configuration period, and poor functional extension, which affect the customer experience. Manufacturing makes it easy to put more than 400 production business scenarios into the software, covering more than 80% of the customer’s business needs, and can quickly complete deployment through configuration.
The discrete manufacturing industry has always faced the problem of unitized production, low automation, and difficulty in manufacturing synergies. Among them, the aviation military industry is based on single production, production and research, and is a typical multi-variety small batch discrete manufacturing mode. Due to strict requirements on product quality, process and delivery, and strong supervision by the state, its production management is more complicated and more difficult.
Traditional MES (Production Execution System), because it needs to be customized for customer business needs before delivery, the program reuse rate is low, the deployment cycle is generally calculated on an annual basis, and subsequent maintenance The development is difficult and the cycle is long, which affects the customer experience.
At present, China’s aviation and military equipment is in the process of upgrading and upgrading, coupled with the trend of core technology autonomy, the industry as a whole is in a period of rapid growth. This has made the aviation military industry further improve the information management requirements. Based on the current market background and industry difficulties, National (Suzhou) Industrial Technology Co., Ltd. has launched an intelligent dispatching command system with more efficient application deployment, richer business scenarios and better cost performance – manufacturing easy, for aviation military and Discrete manufacturing industry.
The research institute (Suzhou) Industrial Technology Co., Ltd. was established in January 2019, and the intelligent dispatching command system developed by the company (Manufacturing Easy, with planning simulation, intelligent scheduling, manufacturing collaboration as the core application scenario, using algorithms and data to help discrete The manufacturing industry realizes intelligent planning and scheduling, to improve equipment capacity utilization and increase the on-time delivery rate of orders. At the same time, it compresses non-value-added time in production planning, production preparation, production execution, etc., and improves personnel work efficiency. At present, the company’s customers come from main aircraft factory in the military industry, supporting factory and upstream and downstream equipment manufacturing enterprises (tools, bearings, machine parts, etc.).
Compared with traditional MES software, the advantages of manufacturing ease are reflected in the three aspects of easy deployment, low cost, and product-incorporated industry solutions.
In terms of deployment, traditional MES generally needs to be customized. The technicians need to repeatedly confirm the business logic with the user and then convert it into code. Therefore, the first deployment time needs to be calculated on a long-term basis. Due to the low code reuse rate and the new requirements in the later stage, developers need to rewrite the code, which has large manpower investment, high time cost and high system risk. Easy to use low code platform, loosely coupled architecture, business process, form processing, business logic can be parameterized configuration, modular construction, making deployment and post-operation and maintenance more efficient.
Cost aspect, due to the low code development method adopted in the technology implementation, the deployment efficiency is improved, and the manpower and time cost required for development are reduced. Company CEO Zhang Jinwei told that the total cost of ownership of customers who manufacture easy products can be reduced by 30%-50% compared with traditional MES.
The prototype of manufacturing easy products comes from large military industrial enterprises. The core team of the company has many years of experience in the discrete manufacturing industry of aviation industry. For industry customers, software has a lot of business practice scenarios built in, and there is no need to customize development according to customer business needs like traditional MES. CEO Zhang Jinwei said that manufacturing easy products can provide users with mature industry templates and rich business scenarios to help customers quickly sort out business logic.
Intelligent Production Scheduling Command System
The current company products are divided into two categories, one is the intelligent dispatching command system delivered by the project system and the complete intelligent manufacturing management platform (MOM), which covers the complete production. Manufacturing management process, taking a single workshop/factory as an example, the on-line cycle averages 1-2 months; the other is software delivered by standardized products for specific business scenarios in production management. . For example, the tooling tool management system, project management system, and time management system can be delivered in 2-3 days.
In terms of profitability, the company’s main customers are mainframe factories and supporting cooperative enterprises in the aviation industry. The unit price ranges from 100,000 to over one million. It is estimated that the contract revenue will reach several million yuan this year. The cost is mainly placed on sales and manpower. In terms of future growth expectations, CEO Zhang Jinwei said that the current popularity of intelligent manufacturing management software in aviation military and related discrete manufacturing industries is still very low, the coverage of OEMs is less than 20%, and the supporting enterprises are less than 5%. If we estimate from the market demand, there are about 100 aviation main engine factories and more than one thousand workshops in China, the customer price ranges from 100 to 3 million yuan; the supporting enterprises are about 10,000, and the customer price is more than 100,000 yuan; There are more than 50,000 upstream and downstream discrete manufacturing companiesIt is conservatively estimated that the overall market space will reach nearly 10 billion yuan.
There are currently more competitive products on the market, as well as Siemens’ Opcenter (MOM platform). The software meets both discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing, with a relatively complete functional architecture and management process, and the products have entered the domestic market. .