King Long Bus Case Study: Line-Side Smart Storage Cabinets | RiseMind Tech Smart Storage Solutions
Keywords: RiseMind Tech | Line-Side Smart Storage Cabinets | Automotive Manufacturing | Parts Management | Smart Warehousing | Material Issuing
Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. (King Long) is a leading company in China’s bus manufacturing industry, with a strong focus on product quality and technological innovation.
Automotive production involves a wide range of small components, such as screws, connectors, sensors, and fuses. Although small, these items play an important role in assembly operations. The efficiency of their storage, issuing, and inventory management directly affects material availability and workflow coordination on the production floor.
For small-component management in automotive manufacturing, line-side smart storage cabinets offer an approach to organized storage, traceable material issuing, and inventory status management.
As the variety of components used in automotive production increases, traditional shelving and manual material-issuing processes can create challenges in locating parts, managing inventory, and controlling material usage.
Automotive production involves thousands of SKUs of small components. In traditional shelving systems, parts with different specifications may be stored together, requiring employees to identify and locate the correct items manually.
According to the project materials, locating a single item took approximately 15 minutes on average under the traditional process. This added to employees’ workload and could affect assembly efficiency.
Traditional material-issuing processes rely heavily on manual operations and on-site supervision. This can lead to uncontrolled withdrawals and incomplete issuing records. When material consumption is not promptly reflected in inventory data, managers may find it difficult to determine actual stock levels accurately.
Excess inventory and shortages may also occur at the same time, making stocktaking, replenishment planning, and production cost accounting more difficult.
To address the need to manage a wide variety of small components, frequent material withdrawals, and inventory-control requirements on automotive production floors, RiseMind Tech’s line-side smart storage solution can combine identity verification, withdrawal-record tracking, inventory monitoring, and compartmentalized storage to support a more standardized and visible material-management process.
The line-side smart storage cabinet supports employee login by access card or facial recognition and links each operator to the corresponding material-picking record, helping managers track material withdrawals.
Associating employee identities with withdrawal activities improves traceability and reduces the administrative burden of traditional manual record-keeping, supporting material-use management on the production floor.
The system uses sensors to monitor inventory status and can automatically trigger replenishment alerts when predefined conditions are met, helping managers track changes in material levels.
This approach improves inventory visibility and supports coordination between replenishment and production demand, reducing the risk that material shortages will interrupt production.
Given the variety and differing sizes of small components used in automotive production, the cabinet supports configurable storage compartments across multiple levels to accommodate different material specifications.
A well-planned storage layout helps improve material classification and organization, make better use of storage space, and create a clearer working environment for material retrieval and inventory management.
Organized storage and compartmentalization help employees locate target components more systematically and reduce repeated searching associated with traditional shelving.
By linking employee identification with withdrawal records, the system helps standardize material-issuing processes and provides records for later review and management.
Sensor-based inventory monitoring and replenishment alerts help managers track material levels and support replenishment planning and production material availability.
Configurable, multi-level compartments accommodate components of different sizes, improve storage organization, and help make more efficient use of available space.
Material management in automotive manufacturing involves more than efficient use of storage space. It also requires controlled issuing processes, visible inventory status, and effective coordination between material supply and production schedules.
RiseMind Tech focuses on digital solutions for industrial warehousing and production material management. Its solutions include line-side smart storage cabinets, electronic labels, and related smart warehousing equipment for different application scenarios.
For line-side material management, smart storage equipment can bring together employee identification, material-withdrawal records, inventory monitoring, and storage-space planning to help businesses develop more standardized and efficient on-site material-management processes.
The King Long case illustrates how line-side smart storage cabinets can be applied to managing small components in automotive manufacturing. To address challenges such as a large number of SKUs, time-consuming manual searches, insufficient control over material issuing, and limited inventory visibility, these cabinets combine identity verification, withdrawal-record tracking, inventory monitoring, replenishment alerts, and multi-level storage compartments into a more systematic approach to production-floor material management.
RiseMind Tech is committed to providing smart solutions for industrial warehousing and production material management. For requirements involving component storage, line-side material issuing, or inventory management, suitable equipment configurations can be explored based on actual workflows, material specifications, and available floor space.
