To get started, we hired one of Hong Kong’s leading Internet-of-Things consulting firms, to use their extensive experience in the injection molding industry to identify those areas most ripe for a major productivity boost.  For three months, we collected all relevant information so that we could assess the status quo.  We then selected the following two focus areas:

1. improve monitoring of injection molding machine activity, and,
2. better the planning and (pre)ordering raw material process.

With +200 injection molding machines running in parallel and non-stop, it’s difficult to be everywhere at the same time. That’s why we installed simple “reading monitors” on a selection of machines, that now trigger a “notification” on our all-factory dashboard once any abnormal ‘behavior’ is recorded.

As our factory in Heyuan/Guangdong spreads over 20,000 square meters in 6x buildings, we chose one of the buildings to setup the system for a trial run.  After some initial fine-tuning, we saw following first results:

• the monitoring makes complex information ‘simple’,
• it gives the right info to the right person at the right time,
• is helping us to gain complete visibility of all process lines.

Once those IoT initiatives and the system run smoothly and efficiently, we plan to replicate and roll out the system to other buildings in the future.  Real-time line visibility is most important here. It allows us to improve our budgeting, scheduling, operational performance, and logistics.  The data we collect gets put into an integrated cloud repository, allowing us to not only monitor the performance of a single factor, but to compare factors and monitor how their relationships affect each other over time.

We can now generate trend analysis that provides us with the ability to monitor the flow-on effects between different production lines, and significantly decreases the time spent gathering and aggregating different data sources.

In a separate article, we’ll talk more about how we use the recently integrated IoT initiatives to advance our current warehousing management to ‘smart warehousing’. Stay tuned.

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Benjamin Wong, a managing director of hogan Industries, an Asia-based injection molding contract manufacturer (www.hogan.com.hk), producing products and providing repack services for global confectionery, consumer goods, infant and healthcare brands, said “we at hogan industries are committed to finding sustainable energy solutions which improve the quality of our environment for our future generations. We started looking into possible options in 2018, and are happy to start using a renewable energy solution as another source of electricity.” The solar system was installed by and in cooperation with Total-Envision, a subsidiary of Total Solar, with the mission to deliver decarbonated, decentralized and digitalized energy solutions to B2B clients in China.

Kevin Ma, Director and Head of Production, explains, “With this investment, renewable energy will now replace 10% of conventional energy use at the factory, reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by approximately 2,000 metric tons per year, equivalent to power more than 700 apartments for an entire year, or 255 million of charged smartphones.” hogan Industries is excited to be able to contribute to the world’s transition to sustainable energy, and is committed to look for additional renewable energy solutions in the future.

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hogan Industries Limited
1408 Lippo Sun Plaza, 28 Canton Rd.
T.S.T., Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2735-4009
Benjamin Wong
www.hogan.com.hk

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