Moderator: Ms. Jiang Hong, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Logistics Technology and Application
Guest: Mr. Zhang Wei, Automotive Development Director of Linde (China).
Guest: Mr. Gao Zhongkun, Senior Manager of Sales and Solutions, Mobile Robot Division, Linde (China).
Moderator: Hello everyone, welcome to watch the logistics technology and application technology visit program, I am today's host Jiang Hong. Today, our theme is - logistics solutions for the automotive industry that keep pace with the times, and today's program is attended by two guests from Linde Forklift Trucks, Mr. Zhang Wei, Automotive Industry Development Director of Linde (China) in the Beijing Studio, and Mr. Gao Zhongkun, Senior Manager of Linde (China) Mobile Robot and Intralogistics Business Unit in Xiamen.
Well, first let's take a look at Linde Company, Linde was established in Xiamen in 1993, is Linde Material Handling Group in Asia production, sales, service and technology research and development base, Linde as a member of the KION Group, has a history of development for more than 100 years, has a rich product line, not only the world's leading forklift manufacturers, but also provides one-stop intralogistics solutions, in recent years in the new energy, automation and digital industry development trends, Linde (China) launched lithium battery forklifts, Hydrogen fuel cell forklifts, AGVs, digital fleet management systems and other new products, the automotive industry has always been Linde's dominant industry, today we invite Linde's two guests to talk about the development of logistics solutions in the automotive industry.
Moderator: First of all, mr. Zhang would like to introduce the development of Linde in the automotive industry and its brand advantages.
Mr. Zhang: Okay, as Teacher Jiang just mentioned at the beginning, the automotive industry has always been our dominant industry in Linde, precisely because the automotive industry has some relevant requirements for the use of forklifts, such as the characteristics of relatively high frequency of use and relatively large work intensity.
That's why he chose us Linde forklift trucks as his logistics partner. Let me briefly introduce the several characteristics of our Linde forklift trucks in the automotive industry, basically all the main engine factories of domestic automobiles, such as FAW, Second Automobile, Dongfeng, SAIC, BAIC, GAC are our users, it should be said that everyone should have a history of nearly fifteen years of cooperation, this is because our product line is relatively complete, from a ton of electric forklifts to eight tons of electric forklifts, a variety of warehousing forklifts, including a variety of special forklifts, we can provide, At the same time, because our protection is the most complete, we basically have more than 800 service engineers in the country, which can guarantee the needs of our automotive industry twenty-four hours a day, and at the same time, we also have some relatively customized products and our cross-departmental cooperation team to support the needs of our automobile factory.
Moderator: The next question is Xiamen Gao Zong, we know that automobile manufacturing is one of the industry areas with a very high degree of automation, in recent years, automotive companies are accelerating the transformation and upgrading of automation and digitalization, what are the significant changes in their demand for logistics solutions?
Gao Zong: In the automotive industry, the demand for automation and informatization in recent years should be said to have two very obvious characteristics: the first feature is the breadth of the entire industry, which can be said to be in the entire industry, including the main engine factory of the automobile, to the professional factory of the key assembly, to the auto parts enterprises, the upstream and downstream enterprises of new energy, the entire breadth of the entire industry is a wide range of needs, including the needs of automation and informatization. That in another broad feature is in the depth of demand, that from the storage of our small pieces, to the picking of the set, to the cache of the line distribution, and then to what we call the production line of this station distribution, and we say that the transfer of this process, all involve the needs of all dimensions of automation, including our entire depth of automation, the most special is that it needs to be closely integrated with the information we produce, can be combined with the production of the pull system, The formation of an automatic material pull and distribution, that in general, the automation informatization in the entire automotive industry can be summarized as a very typical production-type warehouse with the integration of the automation system solution requirements.
Moderator: Well, thank you for your analysis, how has Linde responded to these changes, and what automated and digital solutions can be provided?
Gao Zong: In the face of the automotive industry's typical warehouse integration of the automation system integration needs, it should be said that Linde has rooted in the entire manufacturing field for so many years of experience and the technology we have reserved, indeed provides a very good advantage, from a full range of automated products, to our entire software system architecture from the warehouse management system to the operation execution system, for this solution matching for our various needs, providing a very good technical background. From our small piece warehousing contains our multi-wear automated vertical warehouse solutions, to our goods-to-people, or box-to-person AGV solutions,
In the line edge cache and line edge sorting for our complete set of materials, we provide a sorting solution including AMR's this line-side cache called piggyback, and we use our traction-type milkrun for the production line, pull-type production and distribution or AMR production line distribution, and then transfer between our processes, you can use the universal forklift-type AGV,
That is simply to say, for our automotive industry processes, each process of automation solutions needs, we have the corresponding technology and product solutions to correspond to it, at the same time, we can also provide from the warehouse management system to the derivative to the digital twin, to achieve a more economical and lean digital management.
Moderator: Mr. Zhang, what are the typical application scenarios of Linde forklift trucks in the automotive industry, and what characteristics of your forklift trucks are most valued by customers?
Mr. Zhang: As Editor Jiang just said, the automotive industry is actually the entire four major manufacturing processes, we Linde can provide the corresponding demand products, such as the stamping workshop, it needs a large tonnage of electric forklifts, the original stamping workshop may use large tonnage diesel forklifts, with the improvement of environmental protection requirements, then we Linde can now provide eight tons, ten tons, twelve tons of electric forklifts, then this may be very rare in the same type of manufacturers. Second, in the assembly workshop, welding workshop, basically it will be relatively high for our forklift requirements, the need for twenty-four hours of uninterrupted operation, then we will also provide this three tons, two tons of forklift trucks for daily handling according to customer requirements, at the same time, we can also provide the corresponding corresponding attachments according to customer requirements, reduce work intensity, improve work efficiency. For the painting workshop, he may have his own requirements, such as the need for explosion protection, the need for this high standard of precision handling, Linde can also provide similar corresponding products.
Moderator: Through Mr. Zhang's introduction, we can see that Linde has a variety of products to meet the needs of customers, so I would like to ask Mr. Zhang to introduce what are the typical application cases of Linde forklift trucks?
Mr. Zhang: Ok, for the automobile factory, one of its automobile manufacturers, it needs a lot of spare parts, then we simply provide two cases: one is that our traditional fuel car manufacturers like Beijing Benz, basically have our entire series of nearly two thousand forklifts, from its material handling, from its material picking to the entire automated three-dimensional library, there are our Linde participation. As a new energy manufacturer, Xiaopeng Motors also widely uses our products, it should be said that from indoor and outdoor logistics logistics to logistics handling and logistics traction, we Linde provides a full range of products. In addition to the four main processes of the automobile factory just introduced, it is worth mentioning that in the automotive manufacturer's parts library, it requires dense storage, so at the same time we choose our original K car (narrow channel forklift), V car (medium and high-level electric picker), N car (low-level electric pick car) This high-tech car, effectively ensures the high-speed safety of material picking.
Moderator: Just now Mr. Zhang introduced the typical application cases of Linde forklift trucks Ha, Mr. Gao, I would like to ask you to combine Linde's case and introduce the application of automated logistics solutions in the automotive industry and the value brought to customers.
Gao Zong: Well, I would like to share two or three typical application cases here, that is, on the side of the final assembly line of the car, like our traditional logistics traction distribution automation model, in fact, there is a very wide range of applications of this demand. That assembly line from its material distribution, from the PC area for a multi-power traction milkrun distribution, according to the production information to pull the multi-station for an accurate material matching, and then from the PC library area automatic traction distribution to the corresponding station, and to achieve automated decoupling, or from our production of this material cache area, according to the corresponding trolley and our chute docking automatically complete the material connection, and then distributed to each station, an automatic lift and chute docking , and then form a material automatic distribution line, are very typical of this final assembly, or the operation process between the processes of this distribution, and in some key assemblies of this main engine factory involves including some small pieces of picking on the edge of the line, then we use including what we just said about the multi-wear, or the use of our goods to people this is called the material shelf to the person of this way, for a small piece picking, and then use our piggyback AMR to complete the cache and sorting of the line edge, Then according to the pull of production to complete our accurate station distribution for the production of each station of the complete set of materials, the use of piggyback AMR, then these typical application solutions have been carried out in our customers a very good application, that in this dimension, we say not only to solve the specific needs of each project in this reduction and efficiency, but also for the industry to provide innovative automation solutions.
Moderator: Mr. Gao, you introduced very well, and I would like to ask you to talk about it again, that is, when automotive companies adopt automation and digital solutions, what are some important points that need to be paid attention to?
Gao Zong: In this dimension of intelligence, we need to pay special attention to how to take into account a variety of technical solutions under a unified system architecture, which actually involves the automation of this product that includes different technical means, including these technologies of automation, that and in the information-oriented dimension, how to seamlessly coordinate with our production system, that in this dimension of automation, we need to pay special attention to what we call long-term needs. Because in terms of long-term effect, aside from some of the dimensions that we are concerned about in the current project establishment stage, the long-term needs include the high standards that we say can be relied on for safety, and the stability of what we call hardware, as well as the long-term guarantee of this service and the ability to operate this called escort, then in this dimension, it is necessary to pay special attention to these dimensions in the automotive industry as a century-old industrial enterprise.
Moderator: Finally, I would like to ask Mr. Gao to talk about the development trend of automobile companies in the supply chain and logistics optimization in the next few years, such as the integration of line-side logistics. In addition, what are Linde's development plans for product development and solutions as well as services?
Gao Zong: Indeed, in terms of this development trend from the supply chain of the entire automobile industry, indeed I think it is the direction of this supply chain solution that integrates the automation of the entire line, and the automation of production should be said to be a typical example of the original entire industry, and in the whole extends to the production of the corresponding material distribution and this typical scene of the line edge, including the cache, sorting, and set to the station distribution of some of the warehousing and distribution we just talked about. The automation of the entire line of warehouse integration is a major trend in the future, and it is with the introduction of new technologies and the reduction of application costs of the application technology of automation technology, then these processes in the depth of the industry, and then to the upstream and downstream of the breadth of the industry, will be a very typical trend of demand, that in this regard, in the dimension of Linde, we began to deliver automation solutions for customers from 1954, especially in this sector of manufacturing. There is a very rich experience in our experience and our technical strength, that according to these typical needs, we can further extend to the automotive industry in the industry, and internally, we are also constantly based on these typical warehouse integration automation solutions, to further extend or evolve the functions of my products and the performance of my products, as well as including our further modularization in the system dimension, standardization of my system, and some standardization of my interface. That in this dimension, we are also in accordance with the broader needs of such an application, to do our direction definition including research and development and our entire product solution, that is included in the entire customer-oriented service dimension, because according to the automotive industry as a typical, in the manufacturing sector, his long-term demand for services is very typical, including what we call the long-term care of equipment, security, maintenance or good, timely repair and the nearest service guarantee, That in this dimension, it is also to play our Linde in the whole country for so many years of advantages, to and from based on the automation needs of this kind of warehouse integration that we call manufacturing, we can come and provide this seamless or non-intermittent service guarantee for the real production end, then this is also a key point that we hope to say that we can play Linde in the entire field of automobile manufacturing, while playing the technical background and technical advantages of Linde, thank you!
Moderator: Well, thanks to linde two experts to participate in this program, they combined the logistics characteristics of automobile manufacturers, introduced the application of linde forklift trucks and automated digital solutions in the automotive industry, in fact, we know that in the face of complex and changeable logistics needs, only by constantly innovating solutions can we better serve customers and bring greater value. Thank you all for watching this episode, we'll see you next time!
Mr. Zhang: Okay, thank you!
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