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Huizhong Instrument: Technology Leads Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Wisdom Accompanied

 

Customer Overview

 

Huizhong Instrument Co., Ltd. is located in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. It is the first listed company in the field of ultrasonic flow measurement in China (stock code: 300371). Founded in 1998, the company has been committed to the research of ultrasonic flow measurement technology and the research and development and production of ultrasonic flow measurement products. It has a provincial engineering laboratory and is a provincial high-tech enterprise and software enterprise. The company's testing and calibration laboratory has passed the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS). It is a large-scale R & D and manufacturer of ultrasonic flow measurement products (caliber covers DN15-DN15000) and supporting systems in the world, covering many production and living fields from industry to civil use, from flow to heat, from China to the world. Enterprises were selected for the second batch of national-level specialized new "little giants" list in 2020.

As a technology-based technological innovation enterprise, Huizhong shares chose a technology-led development strategy at the beginning of its establishment, based on the local area and looking internationally, Huizhong shares will actively play its own advantages to create a professional, efficient and intelligent global enterprise.

As the project-based market needs more and more customization, there are about tens of thousands of products for users to flexibly customize. The product manufacturing process involves machining, SMT and assembly of intelligent manufacturing product lines, using a large number of electronic components and structural parts, and requiring high sets of materials. Frequent changes at the design end and material substitution; In addition, the goal of turning the intelligent manufacturing workshop into an unmanned factory has higher requirements for information coordination of the whole business chain.

 

Business challenges

 

As a research and development manufacturer of ultrasonic flow measurement products covering DN15 ~ DN15000 and supporting systems, Huizhong Instrument covers many production and living fields from industry to civil use, from flow to heat, from China to the world. The flexible customization of the market, frequent design changes and material substitution, and the automation efficiency of the intelligent manufacturing workshop to adjust the meter in a few seconds make the information platform more challenging.

Since the use of Kingdee K/3wise system, Huizhong has introduced or developed a number of information system systems and established a relatively complete IT information system. However, with the progress of information technology and the development of business, the existing IT system is facing new challenges:

 

The system is scattered and the basic data is not unified.

 

Huizhong currently has Kingdee K/3wise, PDM system, sales easy CRM system, Beisen HR system, self-research MES system, self-research verification system, self-research after-sales return factory maintenance system, operation management and other systems. Basic data and business flows are intertwined in a grid. Some are interfaces, some are exported and imported by Excel, and some are recorded by Excel for quality traceability.

 

Organizational expansion, inefficient internal transactions

 

The exchange has evolved from a single organization to a group organization with centralized management, which requires the ERP system to unify the group's basic data, financial policies, business processes and facilitate inter-organizational transaction processing. However, limited by the K/3 system, inter-organizational business collaboration and other businesses can only be processed by repeated entry between multiple account sets, which is inefficient and prone to errors.

 

Research, production, supply and marketing isolation, business synergy efficiency to be improved

 

The research and development center before Huizhong is only responsible for product research and development, and BOM is sorted and imported into ERP by the production department. The market-end product customization accounts for a high proportion, the R & D end design changes frequently, the production end has the old and new versions of materials/BOM/documents in parallel, and the back-end intelligent manufacturing line operates at a high speed with MES system, highlighting the lack of coordination capability of the entire research, production, supply and marketing.

 

The cost is extensive and the ability of profit analysis is weak.

 

In cost accounting, there are only two cost centers in the original K/3Wise system, and do not account for the cost of semi-finished products, the allocation of manufacturing costs is all based on the quantity of finished products, and the cost accounting dimension is extensive, which is not conducive to reflecting the real cost and profit of the enterprise.

 

Fight alone, lack of upstream and downstream links

 

Huizhong has a large number of overall outsourcing businesses, but it is difficult to grasp the production progress and inventory of suppliers. The procurement cycle of a large number of components and other materials is as long as 3-6 months, requiring advance stock preparation, making it difficult to control inventory and price. The monthly reconciliation of accounts payable is heavy, the frequency of supplier invoicing and receiving does not match, and the invoice check is heavy.

 

Data precipitation, but insufficient decision support

 

In the information construction of Huizhong for more than 10 years, the company has accumulated a large amount of historical business data, but has not formed a complete set of data analysis system; it can not provide accurate, fast and clear data support for enterprise management decision-making.

 

Solution

 

The original K/3Wise system can no longer meet the needs of Huizhong's development. After many rounds of repeated selection and demonstration, on the basis of comprehensive evaluation of many ERP and PLM systems at home and abroad, it was finally moved by the integrated and open Kingdee cloud platform and selected Kingdee cloud starry sky. It is hoped that through the implementation of Kingdee cloud starry sky, the following upgrade goals will be achieved:

 

 

Group management: unified data, organization and coordination, integration of industry and finance

 

The multi-organization business scenario of Huizhong is: Huizhong Technology signs an external sales contract, entrusts Huizhong shares to produce, Huizhong Technology provides raw materials, and after the completion of production, it is deposited into Huizhong Technology, and the business scenario of settling the entrusted processing fee with Huizhong shares. Through inter-organization subcontracting, internal transaction documents of production receipt documents and step-by-step transfer-out documents are automatically generated, and then through inter-organization settlement, internal transactions between two legal entities are formed; efficient business collaboration between enterprises within the group is realized.

With the help of Kingdee Cloud Star, Huizhong has set up a unified group data center to implement unified establishment and distribution of data such as materials, customers, suppliers, organizational structure, bill of materials, etc. Financial policies such as accounting subjects, accounting system, asset policies, cost policies and report styles shall be set up in a unified way and shared by the group. "This financial upgrade seems to be the functions of K3, but accountants no longer need to generate vouchers and modify them themselves. Cost calculation is faster and more real, and expenses and invoice business have also reduced a lot of workload. In the future, the financial department will also need to transform to better serve customers, employees, bosses and shareholders." Information project finance director Liu Shiyan said.

 

Technology Leading: R & D Lifecycle Management Helps Intelligent Manufacturing

 

Through integration with design software, combined with functions such as material standardization, material optimization, super BOM, etc., automatic generation of materials and BOM from drawings is realized, thus realizing efficient design, standardized control, rigorous process and research and development according to project management. Drawings and related process documents can be directly viewed at ERP end or transmitted to MES system to break through enterprise data barriers and provide more accurate and efficient data sources for intelligent manufacturing.

Fu Shou, director of product research and development, said: "Previously, PDM issued notices, followed the process, transmitted drawings and technical documents, and now the integration of tool chains has been realized, and material standardization and life cycle management have been done. However, the market demand is becoming more and more customized. We need to make intelligent orders and unmanned factories. In the future, the focus of research and development engineers is on product innovation and parameter configuration rules, the construction of BOM should be completed automatically by the system, and we look forward to the in-depth cooperation in the second phase".

 

Upstream and downstream connectivity: Transparency of supply and distribution data flows

 

In order to solve the problems of supplier production progress, stock inventory, supply cycle, etc., more than 100 suppliers are linked to realize the whole process coordination of price comparison, order, receipt, stock, inventory and transaction. Guo Lizhi, director of the intelligent manufacturing center and minister of the supply department, gave feedback: "now buyers can better grasp the supply cycle online. After the goods arrive, they can use PDA to scan the code to pick up the goods. After receiving the invoice, they only need to hand the ticket to the finance department, saving at least half of the workload. I am very looking forward to the day when the electronic files are popularized, and I will no longer have to look at the invoice full table every month for ten days."

Through CRM integration, the whole process of order, delivery, logistics, A/R, collection, invoice information and salesman customers is linked. It has laid a good business environment for enterprises to cooperate efficiently with upstream and downstream and create a win-win situation.

 

Intelligent forecasting: accurate production forecasting

 

As a prototype customer of Star's intelligent forecasting model in the manufacturing industry, Huizhong Instrument first puts the actual sales data including the current forecast year and the last two years into the data matrix by building a model algorithm as a module to execute the forecasting logic. The horizontal is arranged by year, the vertical is arranged by month, and then the weighted average is calculated as the final forecast value based on the nearest neighbor data domain of the forecast point, with the inverse of the Manhattan distance as the weight. Liu Dong, Minister of Planning Department, said: "Huizhong originally had a set of prediction models implemented by Excel, with an accuracy of more than 80%, but the large amount of data and complex algorithm could not realize the prediction of detailed materials. However, it is now possible to make predictions from the three dimensions of sales grouping, material grouping and material details, and the deviation rate is 17%, 38% and 35.5 respectively lower than before, which is an unimaginable improvement, thanks to Kingdee for taking Huizhong as a prototype customer to discuss intelligent predictive model algorithms".

 

Decision Support: Digitalization of Business Analysis

 

Liu Guoxing, director of software research and development, said: "With the reporting tool, we have mastered the ability to build data analysis models independently. Combining the needs of operators and various departments, we can extract and integrate data and display it on a large screen, which can better provide data support for business management decisions."

 

Project Value

 

1. Build a unified information management and control platform

 

A unified information platform has been set up to standardize basic data, business processes and accounting policies. According to the project plan, in the first stage, on the basis of smooth replacement of the old business processes, effective information management and control requirements for key businesses will be improved at this stage. In the second stage, a supplier collaboration platform will be established, integration with CRM will be realized, and an ecological circle will be formed by connecting the upstream and downstream of the enterprise to ensure timely service, transparent management and timely grasp the market terminal trends, guide enterprises to respond quickly to market changes.

 

2. Standardize the process, industry finance and taxation integration, product cost transparency

 

The project team spent several months straightening out the process, standardizing the information entry of front-end business, combining with the setting of voucher templates, automatically generating vouchers, and realizing the integrated operation of business finance through the sharing of people, money, things and information, with the automation rate of vouchers exceeding 95%.

At the same time, in the process of this project, the cost center, calculation of semi-finished product cost, timely calculation of outsourcing processing fee, allocation of manufacturing cost according to product standard working hours and other schemes have been refined. Through two to three months of running-in, the accuracy and compliance of data entry in business departments have become higher and higher, basically realizing one-click calculation of product cost, making cost accounting closer to the real cost of products and providing data support for market pricing.

 

3. Multi-organization business collaboration, supply and upstream and downstream cooperation win-win

 

Multi-organization business collaboration: reduce document entry workload, optimize procurement, inventory resource allocation and fund occupation, and consolidate internal control.

Link upstream and downstream, group heating and win-win cooperation: cooperate with suppliers to realize inquiry and quotation, order, delivery, warehousing and reconciliation; Realize to check supplier stocking progress and supplier inventory; Open up the relationship between upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain, cooperate closely with suppliers, trust and benefit each other, and improve supply efficiency.

In addition, through the application of mobile barcode, the efficiency of warehouse entry and exit has been improved: with the cooperation of suppliers, purchasing personnel scan delivery orders with PDA and receive goods on site in real time; Warehouse personnel scan codes to complete warehousing and shelving, pick up ingredients and deliver finished products. Combined with the serial number attribute of the product, the verification and inspection can be automatically matched with the production report form according to the serial number, the box code can be automatically printed, stored and put on shelves, and the goods can be sorted.

 

4. PLM ERP MES, realizing the integration of research, production, supply and marketing

 

Through the implementation of this project, the research and development management platform in Huizhong is unified, and the new research and development system specification is reconstructed. The research and development center generates materials and BOM through drawings, ensuring the accuracy of materials and BOM from the design source. Through PLM material standardization, material selection, substitution relationship, change management, document management and other functions, the repeated and non-value-added work links of research and development engineers are reduced, and the coordination efficiency and quality of research, supply and marketing are improved. Through Kingdee Cloud Star PLM ERP MES integrated platform, we can break through enterprise data barriers and realize efficient coordination of sales, research and development, procurement, production and service.

 

5. Intelligent sales forecast, accurate adjustment of production capacity in low and peak seasons

 

By building a big data algorithm model, the end-level grouping of materials and even the prediction of material details are increased, providing data support for the enterprise's demand planning and supply department material reserves, and accurately adjusting supply and demand.

 

Digital Transformation Value

 

As a technology leader in the industry, Huizhong takes the responsibility of building an international leading ultrasonic flow measurement brand, and makes use of big data and cloud computing technology to vigorously develop intelligent water supply and intelligent heating platform, and gradually transforms from a product-oriented manufacturing enterprise to a service-oriented manufacturing enterprise.

At the same time, the project has realized EBC five links: link partner, link customer, link employee, link device and data service. In the process of information construction, 100 + suppliers are linked to the supply coordination platform. Through CRM integration, 3300 + customers are covered and linked, and more than 90% of the employees of the whole company are served through cloud home and palm reimbursement application. PLM is applied to realize the integration of research, production, supply and marketing. Build an intelligent prediction model to provide digital support for enterprises to balance stock up and production capacity; The application of light analysis platform enables enterprises to customize data analysis reports independently. Interfacing with MES and APS systems to further refine the production execution process and meet the efficient coordination of the rapid operation of the enterprise's intelligent manufacturing workshop.