Project Background
3TREES (Skshu Paint Co., Ltd.) is a leading enterprise in China's civilian coating industry and a listed A-share company. In the engineering sector, the company provides an integrated green-building materials system that combines interior and exterior wall coatings, waterproofing, insulation, industrial coatings, flooring, home-building materials, auxiliary materials, and construction services. In the retail sector, it offers a seven-in-one product and solution system covering latex paint, artistic coatings, rural revitalization coatings, adhesives, auxiliary materials, waterproof coatings, and technology-innovation product lines. 3TREES ranks among the Hurun China Top 500 Private Enterprises, the world's top ten listed coating companies by market capitalization, and the global top ten architectural decorative coating brands.
Business Needs
- Inability to quickly obtain production status, resulting in low plan-execution efficiency
- Untimely or inaccurate accounting transactions, affecting cost calculation
- Material feeding relies on operator experience rather than strict process-formula requirements
- Quality inspection lacks systematic control and cannot support full-process product traceability
- Slow response to process abnormalities, causing low efficiency and potential batch-quality issues
Implementation Overview
N2.MES Manufacturing Execution System
Covers process and planning management; manufacturing-process management (batching, mixing, filling, and packaging); equipment, tooling and fixtures, and equipment-interface management; quality management; traceability management; alert management; visual management; and integration with SAP, OA, and DCS systems. The implementation spans the Putian and Anhui factories, covering the latex-paint workshop, texture-coating workshop, and multicolor-coating workshop.
How the Solution Addresses Core User Needs
- Enables real-time work-order tracking and closed-loop production management through production-process data collection, improving workshop scheduling and control.
- Integrates with the SAP system to process line-side material movements and accounting updates in real time, enhancing the accuracy of MRP material requirements.
- Establishes a recipe library, enforcing formula compliance through barcode scanning and electronic weighing to prevent operator errors.
- Implements systematic management of inspection plans, with real-time collection, statistical analysis, and early-warning of inspection results.
- Collects 4M1E-related production factors through process-level barcode scanning, enabling full-process quality traceability.
- Pushes production information in real time, enhancing cross-functional collaboration across planning, production, quality, and logistics, and improving overall operational efficiency.
Implementation Benefits
- 50% improvement in production-management efficiency
- Error-proofing rate increased to 100%
- Implementation cycle shortened by 20 days, reducing promotion cost from RMB 1.2 million to RMB 150,000
- Accounting timeliness shortened from 3 days to 1 day, improving efficiency by 66%
- Accounting personnel reduced from 3 to 1, a 75% reduction
