Canifa: Productivity increased 11% thanks to improved solutions

After 12 months of implementing the program “The project of applying the overall model of productivity and quality improvement” of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Hoang Duong Co., Ltd. (Canifa) has achieved many good results such as labor productivity increased by 30%, reduced production costs by 15%, revenue in 2019 increased by 25% over the previous year.

Hoang Duong Co., Ltd operates in the field of exporting woolen products, until 2001, the company launched the Canifa brand and conquered the domestic market. With the support of consultants, the Company also established an improvement group to embark on the implementation of the improvement program. Accordingly, after analyzing the company, the company has focused on improving with three main contents: human resource training, equipment performance management, product quality control.

First, the company has organized training courses to improve the capacity of officials and employees. As a result, after the training sessions, workers were able to receive jobs faster, the design productivity decreased from 6 days to 3 days to complete, while ensuring product quality. In addition, the company standardizes skills and skills training materials and detailed instructions for each important stage such as: checking sub-stages, automatic weaving inspection, operating socks machines and weaving, sewing, steaming, checking after linking.

Next, after analyzing the downtime at the weaving team and realized that it was spending a lot of time, the consultant and the improvement team also focused on analyzing and setting up the production preparation process to reduce time. The results showed that a lot of time was saved, particularly the time to change the product code only took 30-60 minutes compared to 2-3 hours as before, the total conversion time decreased from 8 hours to 4 hours. Thanks to faster code changes, the company has rearranged and relocated the automatic textile machine heads to increase the textile machine head to ensure the operating capacity of the equipment. Therefore, the company can now arrange 65 looms instead of 61 looms before reorganizing.

Realizing that the Company’s control of defective products was ineffective, many defective products were consulted by the consulting team, which analyzed common mistakes and standardized errors to apply when checking errors. Quality control department is also improved skills to ensure product quality. As a result, after standardizing errors, the error rate has dropped to below 10% and increased the efficiency of the quality control department.

Identify the right problem, give appropriate solutions and are determined to make improvements, after 12 months the Company has obtained sweet fruits. These results are the motivation for the company to replicate improved solutions throughout the factory, maintain and perform better in the future.

Productivity and Quality Office