Ultimate Liquids’ Technology for Responsive, Agile & FLEXible MANUfacturing

在快速消费品中，传统的制造工艺设计是为了尽量减少转换成本，并且在很少更换的情况下进行大规模生产，以尽量减少浪费和清洁废水。这种模式面临着越来越大的压力，零售商要求像联合利华这样的供应商做出更积极的反应。为了实现这一目标，需要采取完全不同的方法，实现灵活和敏捷的制造，即只在需要时制造产品。该项目旨在开发一种新的集成工艺设计概念，以实现需求驱动的生产计划。关键是在不显著降低运营效率的前提下大幅降低最低订货量。联合利华与希尔弗森机器公司（Silverson Machines）和曼彻斯特大学（University of Manchester）旨在提供的流程设计将使产品能够快速、准确地通过价值流，而不是依赖于需求之前的预测，这对快速消费品来说将是全新的

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