Southwest Aluminium Extrusion Plant Successfully Breaks Out in April

The reporter recently learned that in the face of the plight of the Southwest Aluminum Extrusion Factory, it began to make profits in April by adjusting its product structure, strengthening management, and improving quality and efficiency.

In the first three to four months of the year, because of the objective reasons such as short effective production time, uncertain market conditions, and high customer wait-and-see sentiment, the squeeze plant will fall into a serious shortage of orders. In order to overcome the "curse" of losses in the first quarter, this year, the plant has held two secret weapons, product structure adjustment and new product development, and the civilian and military products markets have made every effort to stop the key "bleeding point" of losses in the first quarter.

The 5A06 rectangular tube is one of the key products of the plant. This product is a thin-walled pipe, due to the limited equipment of the factory, the production efficiency is low, and the contract is seriously insufficient. Since 2015, the plant has been working on a two-pronged basis. On the one hand, it strives to fight the 5A06 rectangular tube market and strives for more orders. On the other hand, it strengthens internal control and starts with optimization of the production process to increase production efficiency. From January to April of this year, the plant's 5A06 rectangular tubes will generate profits of more than 2 million yuan.

62SN cold drawn bar, mainly used for precision parts on the car. The bar is a high-precision, high-performance products, process requirements are relatively high, the domestic are generally imported. In order to break this situation, the extrusion plant after repeated research and development, finally successfully achieved the development of 62SN cold-drawn bar trial production, the bar has now basically achieved mass production. "Don't underestimate this product, although the amount is not high, but only this one species, from January to April this year, will bring more than 1 million yuan in profits to the extrusion plant! In accordance with this momentum, 62SN cold-drawn bar The import monopoly situation can be gradually broken,” said the plant manager, Wen Fang.

According to statistics, from January to April, the output of high-value-added products of the extrusion plant accounted for more than 85% of the total output, and the new products accounted for 10.74% of the total output, with obvious economic benefits.

At the same time, according to the current situation of production and operation, the extrusion plant starts with the connotative management, deepens internal and internal potentials, treats both the symptoms and causes, implements full-scale precision management, and gradually develops a new set of “repairing, discarding, and reducing inventory”. Upgraded version of the new model. The plant actively implements an autonomous maintenance model to reduce maintenance costs and spare parts costs. From January to April this year, the material consumption of the plant decreased by 46% year-on-year.

In order to effectively improve the quality awareness of employees, the extrusion plant has established a quality-enhancement and efficiency-enhancing “toughness battle” through the establishment of quality award special funds, organization of quality-and-improvement-labor competitions, and special measures for quality improvement. With the joint efforts of all employees, in April of this year, the pipe yield of the plant increased by 3.72 percentage points over the plan.