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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.
As an environmentally conscious
company, 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. By implementing
the high performance production
chain, we have improved our resources
efficiency and productivity while
maintaining our green manufacturing
practice. Through the adoption of the
green logistic management approach,
and choosing the most eco-friendly
transportation mode for delivering our
incoming materials from suppliers and
outgoing products to our customers,
we have also further reduced our GHG
emissions.
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
Two key principles – “produce for
quality” and “produce for efficiency” are
the main drivers for our manufacturing
process improvement. In FY2017, our
production output per worker increased
by 10.5% year over year. We have been
implementing the low cost automation
and lean manufacturing management
to maximise our resources efficiency
and improve our productivity without
compromising the quality of our product,
while aiming to reduce the potential
environmental impacts throughout the
manufacturing process.
Lean Manufacturing
In order to further improve our production
efficiency and flexibility, our manufacturing
team has been implementing our lean
manufacturing principles. 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.
In FY2017, we have optimised the use
of Automated Optical Inspection (AOI)
system by enhancing the software
programming of the system and
redesigning the machine loading base.
This has improved the flexibility of AOI
system, allowing the inspection of two
different PCBs at the same time.
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7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
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Unit per worker
FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017
Production Output
per Worker
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 statuary requirements.
Highlights
Production output per worker increased by 10.5% compared with FY2016
CO
2
emission per production output decreased by 7.9% compared with FY2016
Electricity consumption per production output decreased by 6.1% compared
with FY2016
Environmental Protection