Increase overall equipment performance at Son Hai Phong Joint Stock Company No. 2

The improvement team members reduce the number of color correction times at Hai Phong Paint Joint Stock Company No. 2

Compared to many other businesses in the industry, the powder coating industry has a low overall equipment performance index due to a number of reasons such as: It takes a long time to clean, switch products, take a long time the calibration time between production colors, small orders leads to large product conversions. Aware of this, Son Hai Phong No. 2 Joint Stock Company has made efforts to apply many solutions to improve the company’s performance.

Son Hai Phong No. 2 Joint Stock Company specializes in producing powder coating products under the Selax brand name, which has become popular in the market. In recent years, the Company is increasingly interested in the application of quality productivity tools in production. From the beginning of 2019, the Company applies the 5S tool, until the second half of the year applies the TPM tool. This is a favorable roadmap because the application of 5S helps greatly support quality and productivity management tools.

The pilot program of applying TPM supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade at Hai Phong Paint Joint Stock Company No. 2 taking place within 4 months from August to December 2019 has brought certain effects. 2 product codes calibration time has been shortened. Each time converting from one product to another, it takes about 2-3 times to convert to the correct color, now it has been reduced to 1-2 times, equipment cleaning time is standard. chemical, eliminating redundant operations, eliminating unnecessary color correction transport distances, adding tools and tools convenient for workers’ manipulation. With those efforts, the Company’s OEE increased from 36% in August to 40% in November.

The Company’s electromechanical division also recorded positive changes when collecting incident data to calculate average repair time (MTTR) and time between failures ( MTBF) has started to be applied, the electromechanical department staff has been more open to recording and storing data for better machine management instead of always having to passively troubleshoot problems.

Improvement activities at Son Hai Phong No. 2 received the attention of the company’s leaders. The company organizes monthly 5S reviews and improvement reviews after the end of the pilot TPM program. The improvement evaluation board consists of the following members: General Manager, Production Manager, Technical Director and Head of M&E department to score and reward improvement topics.

In addition to timely commendation and rewards, the Company also regularly dispatches its employees to participate in training courses and study visits to factories in the same field at home and abroad. The TPM Board of the Company consists of young, knowledgeable and enthusiastic members of innovation activities, promising to help the Company make more progress in improving productivity and product quality in the future.

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