Abstract
This paper investigates digital traceability technologies taking careful consideration of the company’s needs to improve the traceability of products at the production of GPV Group as well as the efficiency and added value in their production cycles. GPV is primarily an electronics manufacturing service company (EMS) that manufactures electronic circuit boards, in addition to big metal products at their mechanics manufacturing sites. The company aims to embrace the next generation IoT technologies such as digital traceability in their internal supply chain at manufacturing sites in order to stay compatible with the Industry 4.0 requirements. In this paper, the capabilities of suitable digital traceability technologies are screened together with the actual GPV needs to determine if deployment of such technologies would benefit GPV shop floor operations and can solve the issues they face due to a lack of traceability. The traceability term refers to tracking the geolocation of products throughout the manufacturing steps and how that functionality can foster further optimization of the manufacturing processes. The paper focuses on comparing different IoT technologies and analyze their positive and negative attributes to identify a suitable technological solution for product traceability in the metal manufacturing industry. Finally, the paper proposes a suitable implementation road map for GPV, which can also be adopted from other metal manufacturing industries to deploy Industry 4.0 traceability at shop floor level.
Highlights
Continuous improvement of everything is a core principle of the Lean philosophy in manufacturing companies
Newcomers and enterprises who what to undergo the digital transformation should have a good overview of the different perspectives, challenges, and taxonomies that next-generation information and communications technology (ICT) [1,2] technologies and Industry 4.0 offers [3] in order to be able to progress successfully
We focus on digitalization of internal supply chain and workflow at GPV metal shop floor as a technological paradigm
Summary
Continuous improvement of everything is a core principle of the Lean philosophy in manufacturing companies. The routing cards follow the assets throughout the production line, and the responsible department manager at each involved department ensures to follow the steps stated in the job cart. This provides the correct planning, which is crucial and essential for the concerned department, as well as the overall production. GPV departments are facing challenges between the individual manufacturing processes and the digital visualization of the production stages and Work in Progress (WIP) during the manufacturing cycle These challenges arise from changes that occur in planning, resulting in batches being stored between processes awaiting to be handled. A case study is undertaken to investigate, how GPV can benefit from digital traceability technologies in manufacturing as a first step in moving towards a smart manufacturing transformation
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