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| The installation
of 14 Hänel Rotomat vertical carousels with Hänel software has
had the following effect: |
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Processing
times in the pc board assembly plant were slashed by 80%! |
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Stocks
of finished goods were cut by more than 60%! |
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In-process
hours were reduced from 5000 to 1000! |
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| All expectations fulfilled |
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| The changes made to its materials flow
system and associated information technology had a tremendous impact on
MARQUETTE HELLIGE - manufacturers of electro-medical equipment based in
Freiburg with a workforce of 800: |
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| Within only a few months, job processing
times in the pc board assembly plant were slashed from an average of 55
working days to below 10! |
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| The in-process hours booked to the cost
center were reduced from 5000 to 1000! |
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| A high degree of flexibility was attained
in the assembly process. The stocks of finished goods have been cut by more
than 60%; problems with delivery times are now unheard of! |
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| MARQUETTE HELLIGE has reached these
objectives by installing a Hänel Rotomat system. |
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| An approach that meets market demands |
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| This means reducing idle times, integrating
small-scale work processes, abolishing 'unnecessary' work processes, synchronizing
organization more effectively, minimizing setup times. |
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| A comprehensive process analysis revealed
two problem areas: |
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Linking up a production-oriented
PC environment to the host |
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Establishing an efficient,
segment-integrated materials management system. |
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| Lack of space dictated that materials
needed to be stored in vertical carousels. The market analysis directed
MARQUETTE HELLIGE to Hänel who took on general contractor status for installing
a system of this kind. |
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| The practical approach in
final assembly: |
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| The manufacturing process
is organized in group work, and the materials are assigned to
the workstations in such a way that the assembly workers each
have their materials close at hand. They take the materials
from their storage units as they are needed. |
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| Each group has Hänel's inventory
management software, of which the most important functions are: |
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Online
transfer of production orders from the host! |
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Inventory
management for each storage location! |
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Combining
small jobs to form a current work order covering several
variants that are assembled together! |
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Issuing
replenishment requests to the parts store according to
the Kanban principle when the materials for a position
are not all carried in the segment store for reasons of
volume! |
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Processing
of individual retrievals! |
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Inventory
update! |
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Support
for the modification service, etc.! |
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Compiling
statistics! |
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| Hänel's inventory management software
controls the Rotomat carousel system. The carousel control unit guides the
operating personnel through the store with route optimization. |
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| The conventional warehousing system
was replaced by a paperless order picking system ideally suited to the production
process. The organization of stock outages, which used to be on a job-related
basis, was also abolished. The finished-goods store now contains only small
quantities of variants for which there is a continuous demand on the market. |
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| The assets tied up in inventory have
been reduced by several million Euros, the rate of turnover has tripled. |
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| The example of MARQUETTE HELLIGE shows
that using Hänel's storage and inventory control systems contributes positively
to the economic success of a company. |
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