Haofang Controls helps enterprises upgrade their "intelligent manufacturing"

The 2019 China (Chengdu) Electronic Information Expo will be held at the Chengdu Century City New International Convention and Exhibition Center from July 11 to July 13, 2019. As a leading domestic provider of industrial automation and industrial intelligent products and system solutions, Haofang Control will present its latest industry achievements at this expo.

Founded in 2010, Haofang Control is a leading provider of industrial automation and industrial intelligent products and system solutions in China, dedicated to helping manufacturing companies improve product quality, production efficiency and sustainable development competitiveness for the future. The company owns brands such as ARiS material collaborative management system and QRONZ industrial intelligent equipment, providing more than 3,500 products and system services to more than 500 customers worldwide.

In 2017, Haofang Controls cooperated with a core factory of a Fortune 500 company in the electronics industry, located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China. The factory still used the traditional manual recording of material picking, lane marking, and location marking for SMT picking. This manual traditional picking method and efficiency could not meet the company's high-quality and high-efficiency production requirements.

Haofang Control Expert Team designed the SMT intelligent electronic material rack project for the factory. Through the successful implementation of the project, the factory's line-side warehouse material collection was effectively managed, achieving timeliness of material collection, error prevention, and traceability of information sources.

Traditional SMT material warehouse material management requires high operator skills and is prone to errors, and the large variety of materials requires more and larger storage locations. Finding materials, picking materials, and checking materials all require a lot of manual operations, and the efficiency of material delivery is low. When the material is disassembled and returned during the production delivery process, a large number of tail trays will be generated. The warehousing operation requires a lot of counting, platter assembly and other operations, which are difficult to manage during the in and out of the warehouse.

The SMT intelligent electronic rack system stands out in material warehouse management with its compatibility, scalability, safety and reliability, easy operation and maintainability.

1) Compatibility: Support common automatic control equipment, communication interfaces and communication protocols

2) Scalability: The ability to expand and upgrade to adapt to future developments in the system

3) Safety and reliability: Have safe and reliable protection measures, fully consider the efficiency matching and buffering between the system and the equipment, and adopt necessary measures to ensure the normal operation of the system, data communication security and real-time control.

4) Easy operation and maintainability: Operators can quickly get started and reduce system management, maintenance and operating costs. Based on the demand for maintenance-free equipment, the universality of equipment accessories specifications is fully considered.

In this SMT intelligent electronic rack system project, the main functional modules include basic data, silo management, material preparation management, production line distribution, and data query.

Newly added material management software effectively connects ERP data and warehousing operations. The goods receiving and warehousing management module realizes the functions of goods receiving management and warehousing and shelving. The system uses barcodes as the information basis and uses handheld PDA devices, operation stations, barcode printers, etc. to realize the entire goods receiving and warehousing management.

Through the light guidance of the SMT smart shelf, material preparation and material retrieval can be completed quickly, and material preparation management can be carried out effectively. At the same time, business personnel can carry out material preparation business according to the material preparation list in the material preparation dashboard and start material preparation based on the material preparation list.

For the materials that have been prepared, they are sent to the production line. The business personnel select the material preparation list of the completed materials, use the handheld device PDA to scan the barcode of the material roll, and verify the relevant information of the barcode through the system.

At the same time, for material returns from the production line, the business personnel scan the barcode of the empty storage location on the material rack, and the system will automatically determine the binding status of the empty storage location with the material rack number in the system data, and the verification result will instruct the business personnel to perform the material return operation.

By installing intelligent lighting equipment, accurate and clear instructions can be provided to picking and sorting personnel to prevent mistakes and improve operational accuracy.

The industrial Ethernet controller communicates with the SMT and lights up for guidance. The information display screen provides information prompts and interactive control capabilities. The signal indicator column lights indicate the working status of the rack.

ARiS is aimed at the assembly and manufacturing field, integrating indoor real-time positioning, automatic identification of materials and finished products, light-guided operations, automatic perception and error prevention, production exception handling and other solutions. It can be applied to material picking in the production and manufacturing batching area, flexible and intelligent production and assembly, production line work-in-progress tracking, third-party logistics sorting operations, material warehousing management, personnel and material positioning management and other application scenarios.

SMT intelligent light-guided material rack is developed by Haofang Control ARiS brand, which is an intelligent material storage equipment designed for the electronics manufacturing industry. By installing intelligent light-guided equipment on modular structural shelves, it provides accurate, fast and clear instructions for picking and sorting personnel, effectively improving work efficiency and reducing error rates.

At the same time, Haofang Control also equipped the factory's production assembly line with an intelligent grating guidance system. In order to avoid employees' erroneous operations, such as missing or wrong installation, a visual intelligent grating guidance assembly system is required to achieve visual light-guided assembly in the assembly process. Light guidance can also reduce the time for operators to think, judge and search, thereby improving the production and assembly efficiency of the production line. It also solves the problem of relying on manual experience memory for assembly on the assembly line, avoiding problems such as manual assembly errors caused by changes in assembly work-in-progress.

In the design of this project, Haofang control solution experts combined system software with light-guided label hardware, so that assembly operations can be started by scanning a code (or selecting an industrial flat panel). Operators can work according to the guidance of intelligent gratings and electronic signboards, which can not only effectively prevent missing or wrong installations and improve assembly production efficiency, but also reduce the dependence of this work on skilled employees and the training of new employees. At the same time, the project cooperates with the light-guided batching system to carry out line-side feeding and replenishment, line-side material storage management, ensure sufficient line-side logistics, and achieve flexible production.

The development of new technologies and market changes will bring new opportunities and challenges to the electronic information industry. As a grand event for the electronic information industry, the 2019 China (Chengdu) Electronic Information Expo, which brings together famous companies and big names, plays an important role in helping companies absorb advanced technologies, expand corporate visibility, and promote corporate cooperation. Haofang Controls said that in a highly competitive industry, to occupy the "most valuable" position, companies must provide the best quality and the best customer service, and provide superior solutions with high service, high quality, high efficiency, and low cost as their purpose. At the same time, Haofang Controls will continue to pursue excellence in the products and services it provides to help companies upgrade their "smart manufacturing".