Tien Dat Dai Thanh: Small improvement – Big productivity

Continuous improvement in production is the top target of enterprises aim to promote optimal production, improve productivity and product quality assurance. The improvement ideas may be is replacing, investing new technology, modern machinery in production or just is small changes in the process.

Tien Dat Dai Thanh JSC.,Co is typical creativity in improvement. Mr. Ngoc Anh is an accounting for wood company but with passion, in 2006, he and his partner founded Tien Dat Dai Thanh Company. Starting a business with lack of experience in production but with passion, Mr. Ngoc Anh thinking, studying to have a foothold in a province where have more wood enterprises such as Dong Nai Province.

Opportunity came to the Company when signing processing orders for Ikea (Sweden), is a big player in the world furniture industry.  Cooperating with foreign customers is an opportunity for the Company but also challenges the ability to meet large quantity orders and ensure quality, timely delivery.

 To overcome the difficulties, Mr. Ngoc Anh came up with the idea of combining two types of chisel machines and cutting wooden planks to produce the right sample on time.  The idea was to create an automatic programmed machine according to the available program, so it takes only one worker to operate the control operation, reduce the labor force compared to the old type machine, increase production productivity. For small businesses, which do not have a lot of money to invest in new technologies, small improvements can sometimes bring about great benefits.

Anh Nghia ANCL Co.,Ltd specializes in manufacturing components for cars, motorbikes and precision mechanical products for other industries invested in product testing automatic CMM equipment with expense supported by local industrial promotion fund. The application of automatic CMM equipment helps the Company manage the quality of mechanical components products to meet the requirements of synchronous testing at a high level of accuracy, especially in case of doesn’t measuring dimensions according to spatial coordinates as well as determine the material properties after heat treatment, optimally exploit the features and capacity of existing machinery. Product quality is focused so that the Company meets the requirements of product quality and affirms its reputation with customers. With new production machines, the productivity has increased from 1.2 to 1.5 times, production costs have decreased by 10%.

It can be said that investment or improvement of technology in production plays an important role for businesses in promoting production productivity and product quality. Proactive production will help businesses quickly keep up with the current pace of production, reach more difficult customers in the market.

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