Mapa: Tool Management Reduces Costs

The world's leading expert in high-precision and economical independent solutions - MAPA concentrates on the hole processing total solution and the challenging PCD and PcBN car, milling. From the innovative manufacturing process to the wide range of services and targeted application experience, MAPAL and its customers have formed a complete interactive relationship, which is derived from Octavia's market sense of smell and leading manufacturing quality, resulting in engineering capabilities.

With the fierce market competition, how can we quickly optimize the tool, greatly improve the performance and life of the tool, improve production efficiency and processing quality, help companies to reduce manufacturing costs, so that enterprises in an intense position in the fierce competition, Become a problem for each company to think about. Especially in the process of machining the main parts of engine blocks, cylinder heads, frames, crankshafts, camshafts, and connecting rods, the effective tool management plays an important role in helping companies improve efficiency and reduce costs. Concerned by more and more companies. In response to this, Mapai timely sensed market demand and developed its own unique tool management business. At present, its tool management business is well received by global automotive manufacturers.

Typical case of Mapa tool management business:

In 2008, Marpa was a well-known company producing engine cylinder heads for single-cylinder to six-cylinder engines in Zafra, Spain, managing tool management for four- and six-cylinder heads. A team of five MAPAL employees began inventorying and analysis. Based on these tasks, a series of measures were determined, such as optimizing all tool life spans, optimizing cycle times, optimizing tool structure, and upgrading technology. With these optimizations, each piece can be reduced by approximately 30% in cost per year and tool inventory can be reduced by approximately 28%. The introduction of the MAPAL tool data calculation and analysis system has made a significant contribution to the reduction of inventory values.

Determine the minimum inventory, maximum inventory, and reuse levels of the tool based on the actual delivery date, and eliminate excess inventory by managing software to eliminate excess tooling to achieve optimal inventory management, the most important of which is the challenge It is to ensure the smooth and steady delivery of information and the implementation of established plans and processes.

In 2010, the company started production of the second cylinder head. Based on its high recognition of the company's tool management business, in early 2011 the company renewed a three-year tool management contract, which allows it to manage the first 3 cylinder heads with a total output of 15,000. In spite of the significant increase in production volume, due to the optimization of tool inventory, the amount of prepared tool stocks decreased by 44% from 2008 to 2011, and the cost per piece also decreased by 43%. In addition to tool and tool-related optimizations, tool management also reduces the overhead costs, tool management costs, shipping costs, storage costs, and inventory interest for approximately 25% of tool purchases.

In addition, in order to better complete its own tool management, MAPA has developed the MAPAL Re-tooling service, which is to transform the fixtures and machining programs of existing machine tools to meet the requirements of new product production. With rich project experience, Re-tooling has Become a suitable supplement to tool management.