Ultimate Liquids’ Technology for Responsive, Agile & FLEXible MANUfacturing

Ultimate Liquids™ 技术实现快速响应、敏捷

• 批准号: 101271
• 金额: $ 30.31万
• 依托单位: UNILEVER U.K. CENTRAL RESOURCES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=101271
• 关键词: Ultimate; Liquids; Technology; Responsive; Agile

In FMCG, manufacturing processes have traditionally been designed to minimise conversion costs and have large production runs with few changeovers, to minimise waste and cleaning effluent. This model has come under increasing pressure, with retailers demanding suppliers like Unilever to be more responsive. To achieve this, radically different approaches are needed, towards flexible and agile manufacturing, where products are only made as and when required. This project aims to develop a new integrated process design concept, which enables a demand driven production schedule. Key is a significant reduction in Minimum Order Quantity without significant reduction in operational efficiencies. The process design that Unilever, with Silverson Machines and University of Manchester, aim to deliver will allow products to be pulled through the value stream quickly and accurately rather than rely on forecasts well ahead of demand & would be completely new for FMCG

在快速消费品中，制造过程传统上被设计为将转换成本降至最低，并具有较大的生产周期，很少有转换，以最大限度地减少浪费和清洗废水。这种模式面临着越来越大的压力，零售商要求联合利华等供应商做出更多反应。为了实现这一点，需要完全不同的方法来实现灵活和敏捷的制造，在这种制造中，产品只在需要的时候制造。该项目旨在开发一种新的集成工艺设计概念，使需求驱动的生产计划成为可能。关键是在不显著降低运营效率的情况下大幅减少最小订货量。联合利华与Silverson Machines和曼彻斯特大学共同致力于提供的流程设计，将使产品能够快速、准确地通过价值流，而不是依赖远远超出需求的预测-这对快速消费品来说将是全新的