Andon system

ANDON SYSTEM

INTRIDUCTION

Andon is the Japanese term for a signaling system within a

production process or plant. The Japanese use Andon systems as a
communication tool to communicate the status of a production line
or process to all production employees on the production floor.
Andon systems are usually found in many forms, from simple status
lights or traffic light systems to complete display boards in visible
locations around the production plant.

The term "Andon" is used to refer to a visual system designed to

notify management, maintenance, or other workers of a quality or
process problem.
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In essence an effective Andon System will quickly identify to the
necessary stakeholders the location and nature of the problem.
Leading companies around the world have successfully
implemented Andon Systems as part of their Lean Manufacturing
philosophies.

At it's core, an Andon System consists of a group of visual

products and systems that interact in order to communicate
information to stakeholders on status and problems within a
facility.

By quickly delivering information through visual and audible cues,

resource loss in the forms of equipment downtime and personal
hours is minimized.

Ultimately, a successful Andon System Implementation carries a

return on investment of a year or less and leads to greater overall
profitability and morale.

Andon system is able to share the information of your production

line among the operators & supervisors work in the lines at real
time by various display boards.

Manufacturing systems which notify the management,

maintenance & other areas of quality or process problems.

Our andon systems collect transform data into valuable

information & knowledge.
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For decision makers: Reports, graphs & analysis will be available
with the help of this system.

For plant floor personnel: it will help immediate notifications

allow them to react quickly & solve problems faster.

Functions:

Trouble alarm (where and whats happened etc)

Inform actual production status.

Advance notice of tool change, facility, maintenance etc.

Automatic schedule managing.

Master data setting.

Benefits

Lean manufacturing strategy

Immediate problem notification

Quick answer for problems

Down time reduction.

Events and time recording

Graphs to analyze the information

Historical data base

Quick and easy installation

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Easy operation and maintenance

Ability to adapt the design to specific customer needs.

Historical Data Query

Valuable information for analysis and decision making.
Query by date, duration and station.
The results are shown in bar graphs and tables.
Event and time totals.
Optional Excel export.
Optional screen "printing" in PDF.

Event and Time Summary

Actual events and daily accumulated.
Support, stop, total times and number of events.

Protocols used in system for communication

Control net

Device net

Ethernet

Modbus plus

Modbus ASCII or TCP or RTU

Profibus
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Andon signals and Andon board components

Andon signals and Andon board components
can vary from process to process and
applications for Andon systems are countless,
but generally will be used to communicate
information to the production plant similar to
the following:

Production line status: producing, stopped,

overload or idled
- Workstation status
- Production settings such as temperatures,
pressures, weights, speeds, electricity or gas
consumption etc
- Different times: current time, downtime,
running period time
- Production volumes, WIP and products
produced
- Call signs for supervisors and managers to a
certain area
- Different production KPI's or goals such as
planned production.
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