Good products come from good factories. The global manufacturing industry calls top-tier factories 'world-class factories'. This kind of factory is a manufacturing base that uses the WCM (World Class Manufacturing) system as a standard to provide large-scale industrial products for the global market. The establishment of the WCM evaluation system is a collection of the world's top factory production experience, management experience and valuable experience in the quality management system. It can be said that a manufacturing plant that meets the requirements of the WCM evaluation system must be the birthplace of a high standard product.
The Ariston Thermal Energy Group, which has a century-long brand history, has always attached importance to the improvement of factory management. As early as 2010, it joined the WCM Association and began to adopt WCM management methods for its factories, continuously improve manufacturing performance, and ensure product and service quality. Safety and environmental protection. In China, the Ariston Wuxi plant began to use the WCM management system in 2012. After years of training, it has achieved outstanding results.
What is a WCM world-class factory?
WCM is a management system that runs through the entire production process, covering environmental protection to logistics, quality, etc., to improve production performance, reduce pollution, and ensure product quality. The industry that currently employs the WCM system spans machinery manufacturing. Automobile industry, raw material manufacturing and service industries and many other industries, these cross-industry applications have proved the correctness and universality of the WCM system.
WCM is composed of 10 technology modules and 10 management modules covering all aspects of factory manufacturing. The core idea of WCM is 'continuous improvement'. Its purpose is to promote thorough performance improvement of production systems through full participation and ensure on time Delivering high-quality and satisfactory products to customers, and at the same time committing to eliminating non-value added activities, avoiding waste and loss in human resources, equipment, energy, etc., and ultimately achieving zero waste, zero defects, zero failures, zero inventory, and zero accidents. Zero' goal.
Wuxi Factory WCM Road to Growth
Ariston regards China as its most important market in the world and has taken the lead in implementing a localization strategy. Since its establishment in 1995, the Wuxi plant has become the world’s largest and most advanced automated production base in Ariston. Since 2012, Wuxi The factory began implementing the Ariston Global World Class Facility (WCM) program, fulfilling the highest industry standards and stringent implementation specifications for every aspect of production and R&D—“zero waste”, zero Defect' and 'Zero Fault'
By 2017, Ariston Thermal Energy Group has more than 10 'world-class factories worldwide, and China's Wuxi Plant is the world's first world-class plant in addition to the Italian OSIMO Plant and ARCEVIA Plant in the WCM Judgment! For Aris For the Chinese team, this is just the first step in their ambitious blueprint.
Safety, ranked first in the entire WCM system, its importance is self-evident. The entire factory area in Ariston's Wuxi plant is clearly visible, well-planned, rigorous, and professional. The factory entrance is full of eye-catching full-length mirrors. , affixed with the employee's standard dress map, the safe product is derived from safe production, and the safe production begins with the formal dress of each employee. Comes to the interior of the workshop, the space is bright and spacious, and the freight lane and the freight lane are carefully divided on the ground. Pedestrian walking trails. Because the forklift and other large machinery often enter and exit the workshop, this division facilitates the safe passage of employees and avoids accidents.
In addition, Ariston uses traceability systems in its products to make every product available. Arieston's entire plant traceability system comes from the MES system of Hermes Reply, Italy, which is a set of workshops for manufacturing companies. The implementation of the production layer information management management and execution system can provide a unique traceability code for each component of the product, which can effectively trace the original important information of each major component and provide a strong guarantee for the excellent quality of the final product. Strong positioning capabilities also provide unlimited possibilities for more efficient service to Chinese consumers.
These are just a few of the strict standards implemented by the Ariston Wuxi factory in implementing the WCM system. The achievement of the world's 'world-class factory' is inseparable from the support and construction of a world-class team and the active participation of employees. The employees of the Wuxi factory have always maintained high morale. They are proactive and enthusiastic in all aspects of their work. Only then can they consolidate and resolve various problems continuously, overcome difficulties, and constantly surpass them. 'Excellent manufacturing' is being transformed into the genes of this world factory. The efforts of all employees and managers are to make Chinese factories rank among the world's top manufacturers.