DIGITALIZATION IN WOODWORKING FACTORY – FACTORY AUTOMATION

Wood Factory Digitalization has been a priority for many businesses to implement into their operational processes. In the context of the explosive development of technology, in order to expand the market and improve efficiency, the wood industry must switch to an automation model with digital solutions to transform business models and optimize mode of production.

WOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY PROSPECTS

Vietnam has risen to the top of ASEAN, ranked 2nd in Asia and 5th in the world in wood export. As of the first 7 months of 2018, Vietnamese wooden furniture and forest products export has reached a turnover of 5.3 billion USD, an increase of 13.6% over the same period in 2017.

In 2018, Vietnam has about 4,500 businesses trading and processing wood and forest products. In these businesses, there are 3,900 domestic and 600 FDI enterprises with more than 500,000 employees. Nowadays, Vietnamese wood and forest products have been present in over 120 countries and regions. Vietnam’s largest markets have been the United States, China, Japan, EU and Korea for many years.

DIFFICULTIES & CURRENT SITUATION OF THE WOOD FACTORY

Having mentioned development potential, Vietnamese wood processing enterprises are facing many difficulties in management such as:

• There is no specific method to estimate production costs and raw material import prices, and incurred costs during the production process.
• Lack of determining basic for publishing cost structure.
• Difficult to control inventory, exported raw materials, and location of inventory items.
• The production process is unprofessional, prolonging production time.
• Manual management, inconsistent information.
• The machinery system is at an average level, the production line has not been automated.
• Lack of workers and capital, especially still applying traditional management methods, have affected business strategy and production activities.

DIGITALIZATION IN WOODWORKING FACTORY 

As above difficulties, apart from investing in machinery and equipment, improving worker skills, businesses expect to maintain growth need to prioritize automated transformation in the wood industry in general business management and in particular production management by ERP solutions in order to bring competitive advantage and reach the world.

The factory digitalization system assits businesses standardize the entire production and management process on the system. At the same time, calculate and monitor the raw materials plan so that it is timely and optimal with the production plan.

Digital solutions for the wood industry

With the purpose of bringing effective management solutions and improving business productivity, ATSCADA has researched and developed the software features as follows:

• Manage factory structure
• Manage detailed supplier and customer information.
• Manager orders
• Manage production orders
• Control production progress
• Manage the product consumption process.
• Mange financial
• Take stock
• Export reports in diverse formats, support bussiness owners have an objective view and give appropriate business orientation.

Standardize the entire process

Thus, the production management system supports for not only factory areas but also office areas. Especially the financial – accounting department, the system has the ability to display data optimally, supports synthesis, statistics, and analysis of financial and accounting situations at businesses, and provides in-depth financial management reports to serve business decision-making.

In addition, the software also deploys human resource management, customer relationship management, etc. modules to help businesses coordinate and develop as well as effectively manage relationships inside and outside the organization. This is Effective solution to help businesses manage and effectively allocate costs, labor, and human resources. And make the best use of related resources in the wood industry production process.

The application of digital software in management is the foundation that starts the automation trend in the wood industry and assists businesses improve productivity and profits in innovation stage.

BENEFITS FROM DIGITIZING THE FACTORY.

• Consolidate all information and working data. Digitizing the factory will completely, logically, safely improve storing relevant information and data such as input materials, output products, excess products, shortage products, machine parameters… on technology platforms.
• Information storage in the technology space will be limited to the maximum. For example, data entry errors due to human factors during manual data entry. At the same time, the amount of data that can be stored is also very large. This is one of the most easily seen benefits when digitizing a factory
• Reduce unnecessary costs for businesses and factories. In the traditional working style, information, data, figures or even machine parameters are stored on papers and Excel files. This puts a lot of pressure on businesses in terms of stationery costs, storage space as well as salaries for data entry staff.
• Shorten production time and improve product quality. This saves your business time and money.
• Increase competitive advantage over competitors. Rapidly receiving and applying technology shows that businesses’ ability to explore and learn is huge.
• The speed of technology is much faster than we imagine. If your factory and business suitably utilize them, you will be able to show their progressive spirit to their partners.

FACTORY DIGITIZATION PROJECTS OF ATSCADA

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ATSCADA – THE LEADING EXPERT IN DIGITIZATION IN WOOD INDUSTRY FACTORY

A reputable brand in the field of industrial automation. With unremitting efforts, ATSCADA has implemented many FACTORY DIGITALIZATION projects in a variety of fields: Garment, Steel Production, Assembly Factory, Wood Factory,…

With the core force being the  ATSCADA Lab software department . A group of highly qualified software engineers with many years of experience. With strengths in operations, research and development of industrial production monitoring software. Committed to bringing the most comprehensive monitoring software packages and digital solutions to the market. For further information, please contact us via hotline.

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