What benefits can the ANDON system bring to enterprises?

The ANDON system, as a core tool of lean manufacturing management, detects production defects/abnormalities during the manufacturing process; through the system, information can be transmitted in a short time to quickly resolve issues; ensuring smooth production and improving work efficiency.

What benefits can the ANDON system bring to enterprises? Let's analyze below.

1. Improve on-site planning, enhance on-site management level, and reduce on-site management costs; 2. Establish visual management, open the black box of on-site management, and improve management efficiency; 3. Promote "production automation" to enhance process quality control capabilities; 4. Macro dynamic display of equipment operation; 5. Dynamic display of online product varieties; 6. Sequential scheduling of plan issuance; 7. On-site fault alarm monitoring; 8. Equipment fault stop time and fault description; 9. Reasons for quality issue pauses; 10. Reasons for production line stoppage due to parts supply shortage;

What is the process of the ANDON system? Let's analyze below.

1. When an operator needs help or discovers quality or other issues related to product manufacturing and quality, they can directly press the light setting button to activate the ANDON system. This information will be transmitted through the operator station signal light, ANDON display board, and broadcast to alert everyone;

2. The team leader responds to quality requirements and works with the operator to identify the problem. If the team leader can solve the problem, they press the light button again to restore the system to normal. If the identified problem requires other departments to resolve, the team leader calls through a centralized call station in the area, publishes the information type and call content on the ANDON system display board, and broadcasts again, calling materials, quality, painting, maintenance, etc., to handle the issue;

3. If there is a display board used for process control, the board will highlight the following signal statuses;

4. Diversity in abnormal information sending methods: instant messaging software, SMS, email;

5. Adopt a tiered alarm mechanism to ensure that abnormal situations are handled quickly and effectively.

A comprehensive information management and control system specially designed for automotive assembly lines, The ANDON system originated from Toyota and has now become the standard in the automotive industry. Practice shows that the system can improve output and product quality, automate system design, planning, and project management, as well as system debugging, startup, testing, and personnel training.

To reduce project costs, hardware integration and installation are outsourced locally at very low prices, The ANDON system is a component of the automotive production line. The system can collect equipment, production, and management information on the production line. After processing this information, the ANDON system controls indicator lights and sound alarm systems distributed throughout the workshop. The core part of the ANDON system is the Antong on-site control cabinet. The ANDON system PLC communicates via network with Allen-Bradley PLC-5s in body assembly, painting, and general assembly workshops.

At the same time, the ANDON system is also connected to the raw material handling center for more effective control of raw material delivery across the entire production line. Additionally, there are many quality monitoring stations along the production line. When inspectors encounter quality issues, they can activate the switch on the Andon HMI to immediately alert the relevant personnel to respond to the problem.