4M tracking rules in production management
MES System - Smart Factory Management
Managing 4M in the production process is important, but it takes a lot of time and resources to manage it. Currently, the statistics and recording of changes related to 4M are only for records, but the impact of the above factors is not really assessed, and alternative preventive measures are not prepared in advance, and when problems arise, businesses find solutions that can delay progress and waste resources. To understand the factors that affect production efficiency and product quality, businesses need to clearly understand what information each factor needs to monitor and control.
1. Material - Impact of changes in production materials
List of supplies and raw materials needed for each production stage, standards and quality requirements related to important raw materials.
3. Machine - Impact of changes in production machines
Set up and install the machine according to the manufacturer's design, maintain and warranty according to the schedule to ensure prevention of damage and problems during operation.
2. Method - Impact of changing production methods
Issues related to production processes, procedures or schedules at each stage of production.
4. Man - The impact of human change in production
Competent personnel, know how to organize, have skills with operating machinery and communicate with the team in the operating team.
How to effectively apply 4M in production management
Any changes related to 4M are carefully recorded and evaluated. This recording will evaluate how the changes will affect production capacity and output quality during production operations.
- Monitoring and control of main production materials includes:
- Type of raw materials, suppliers, quality criteria and alternative raw materials if any or alternative suppliers if any. This will help managers to master the main source of raw materials without unexpected situations such as suppliers running out of goods, or goods being changed or needing to improve and upgrade the main raw materials according to R&D reports, etc.
- Raw material quality reports need to be monitored and fully recorded according to the list of requirements, ensuring that there are no errors in the process of using poor quality raw materials in production. For example, inventory that is too long will also affect the quality of raw materials.
- Monitor and adjust standards if necessary for each product after inspection reports and product quality assessment. Save each standard version to compare and contrast output results, as a basis for choosing the best standard for the product.
- Monitor and control production methods:
- Improving and optimizing production processes is an important and necessary factor for production and business activities. Sometimes a small change can significantly improve work efficiency, such as arranging or rearranging the material import and export area, or ways to record semi-finished and finished products so that the production line reduces the time spent moving back and forth between work stages, the stages are arranged more reasonably, etc.
- Check and monitor the norms at each stage of production to ensure that resources such as materials, labor or production machines are not wasted. For example, these materials are exported to stage A, while the main use is at stage D, this will cause loss and waste of materials.
- Monitoring and control of production machinery and equipment:
- Plan to regularly check and monitor machinery and equipment used in production. Ensure to minimize damage or incidents during the production process that seriously affect production progress and costs.
- Regularly report on the condition of machinery and equipment to have plans for maintenance and replacement. Always plan ahead to avoid exceeding the operating budget.
- Statistics and reports on the production capacity of machinery and equipment to evaluate working performance as well as calculate the value that machinery and equipment have created during its life cycle to improve, upgrade or replace machinery and equipment when necessary.
- Monitor and control production human resources:
- Human resources play an important role in the success of the production system. Small mistakes of the operator sometimes cause very serious consequences. Therefore, regular training and checklists of tasks to be performed are needed to always remind the operator to follow the correct procedures and instructions.
- Monitoring and evaluating the skills and work attitudes of human resources will help production operations to be highly disciplined and compliant.
- The operating team needs to be arranged according to the expertise and skills of each position in the production line. A well-coordinated team will improve production efficiency as well as reduce the NG rate for output products.
In addition to the above main factors (4M), production efficiency and quality also depend on other factors such as production budget or market demand, which will put pressure on production progress and quality. Your business needs to manage a smart factory with an MES system - please contact us for free consultation, with the MES system your factory will monitor detailed information related to 4M and effectively manage the warehouse, instant reporting data is taken from production machines, machine performance evaluation reports or defective product quality reports are recorded immediately at work shifts to help factory managers operate production as optimally as possible.
