Environmental
Protection
VTech has developed a high performance production chain to
maximise our resources efficiency and improve the productivity
while maintaining a green manufacturing and logistic practice.
We also have policies in place to ensure that our operations
are compliant with all the relevant environmental, legal and
statutory requirements.
Sustainability Report 2015
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VTech strives to operate its
manufacturing processes and
facilities in a manner that minimises
the impacts to the environment,
and ensure that our operations
are compliant with all the relevant
environmental, legal and statutory
requirements. We have developed a
high performance production chain
to maximise our resources efficiency
and improve the productivity while
maintaining a green manufacturing
practice. We also adopt a green
logistic management approach and
use the most environmentally friendly
transportation modes for the delivery
of our incoming materials from
suppliers and outgoing products to
our customers.
Sustainable Manufacturing
Process
In order to ensure that our
manufacturing operations are always
following the best practices of the
industry, we have developed a
sustainable manufacturing process
which includes the programmes
on achieving a high performance
production chain, and also
established a green manufacturing
practice across the manufacturing
facilities of all our three product lines.
High Performance
Production Chain
VTech’s continuous improvement in
the manufacturing process is driven
by two key principles – “produce for
quality” and “produce for efficiency”.
Without compromising quality in our
production, we have implemented
the process of low cost automation
and adopted new manufacturing
management methods, such as
lean manufacturing and small
cell production, to maximise our
resources efficiency and improve
the productivity, while minimising
the wastes and improving product
quality throughout the manufacturing
process. In FY2015, production
output per worker increased by
13.5%.
Production Output per worker
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Unit per worker
FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Lean Manufacturing
Our manufacturing team has
implemented the principle of lean
manufacturing to improve our
production efficiency. The idea of lean
manufacturing is to add value at each
production stage while reducing the
handling time in each process and
increasing the flexibility for production.
It shortens the through-put time and
minimises the idle time during the
process.
