Gravity Casting Equipment
Yeun Deng has introduced renowned Italian brand iMR’s gravity casting equipment, integrating Japanese FANUC robotic arms and a locally developed automatic control system for automated casting. This transformation shifts what was previously a labor-intensive process into a smart, automated manufacturing system, significantly increasing production capacity.
For the molds, which are crucial in determining the quality of copper cast products, Yeun Deng uses internally optimized mold runner designs along with resin sand cores printed in-house. This not only greatly improves raw material utilization but also enhances product yield and production capacity to international standards.
Smart Manufacturing
In response to the growing demand for small-batch and customized orders from clients, Yeun Deng has not only implemented a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to improve production scheduling accuracy and enhance capacity but also applied IoT (Internet of Things) technology to collect and transmit machine parameters and data. This includes critical factors that significantly impact product quality and production efficiency, such as core machine heating and cooling times, electric furnace temperatures and mold temperatures.
Yeun Deng employs big data analysis to make adjustments and improvements in various areas, including product design, mold development, production scheduling, process planning and equipment maintenance. These data-driven adjustments directly influence product quality and production efficiency, ensuring the company can fully meet customer requirements for both quality and delivery timelines.
Low-Carbon Manufacturing
In 2023, Yeun Deng completed its first greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and external verification, gaining a thorough understanding of the primary sources of carbon emissions, which are electricity consumption and copper ingots. To achieve its low-carbon goals, the company has implemented the following measures:
At the design stage, Yeun Deng focuses on material reduction design while ensuring that customer requirements are met.
On the production side, Yeun Deng implements scheduling management by consolidating furnace operations based on customer orders. This approach enhances production efficiency, accelerates the recycling of scrap materials back into the furnace and ensures regular inspections to improve yield. These measures help reduce electricity and energy consumption, as well as minimize raw material procurement.
Yeun Deng has purchased new machines with variable frequency drives (VFDs) and installed an electrical monitoring system to optimize energy usage and reduce electricity consumption. Additionally, the company has leased its factory roof for the installation of solar panels to generate renewable energy. 20% of the generated power is used for in-house consumption, contributing to carbon reduction by sourcing green electricity.
Process Efficiency Improvement
Specific practices include introducing robotic arms for production, designing multi-cavity molds, improving bottleneck processes, establishing standard working hours, increasing the proportion of multi-skilled workers, adopting a production order-based system and enhancing equipment utilization rates. These actions contribute to a comprehensive and continuous improvement in process efficiency, ensuring smoother operations, higher productivity and optimized resource usage throughout the manufacturing process.
Safe and Friendly Work Environment
Yeun Deng is committed to a people-centered corporate environment, placing a high priority on the safety and well-being of every employee’s work and living conditions. Founder Mr. Chen Wen-bin, having entered the casting industry at a young age, deeply experienced the dangers, hardships and messiness of the work environment. As a result, he has always ensured that both the factory and process planning consider potential risks and hazards employees might face. Through thoughtful design of air circulation, workflows, and auxiliary equipment, the company creates a work environment where employees can work in a comfortable, healthy and safe manner.
This approach completely overturns the common societal stereotypes of the so-called “3K industries” (including casting, surface treatment, printing and dyeing, rubber, etc.), which are often associated with dangerous, strenuous and dirty working conditions. Yeun Deng has redefined these industries by providing a safe and clean work environment that enhances employee welfare and productivity.
Environmentally Friendly Practices
Yeun Deng effectively reduces its environmental impact and achieves its goal of an environmentally friendly operation by focusing on pollution control and minimizing energy and resource consumption. The company approaches improvements from two key sources: product design and production planning. Specific practices include optimizing product design to reduce raw material usage, adopting specialized techniques to reduce welding frequency, recycling scrap materials and waste sand, setting up fixed air pollution control systems, outsourcing the legal disposal of industrial waste, enhancing process efficiency to minimize energy consumption and installing solar panels for self-use to reduce carbon emissions.
These measures are aimed at reducing environmental harm and promoting sustainability. Yeun Deng achieved ISO 14001 environmental management system certification in 2022 and completed its first carbon inventory report and external verification in 2023. Through the oversight of external stakeholders, the company can further solidify its commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainability.
Product Optimization
Accumulating years of hands-on experiences in product design and development, casting, processing, polishing, electroplating (outsourced), assembly, water testing and packaging as well as an impressive in-house production rate of over 95% equip Yeun Deng with the capability for continuous product optimization through research, development and innovation.
Product optimization at Yeun Deng is primarily driven by addressing potential pain points identified in the areas of product functionality, aesthetics, environmental friendliness, quality and price. After confirming the customer’s needs, the company proceeds with solutions such as custom product design, design improvements, process enhancements and quality upgrades. Through these approaches, Yeun Deng provides effective solutions that resolve customer pain points, ensuring that the products not only meet but exceed expectations.
