Xinhua News Agency, Tianjin, January 5 At the beginning of the new year, the production workshop of Tianjin Freddy Technology Development Co., Ltd. was a little "deserted", while the R&D center on the side was in full swing. It turned out that a batch of 10 sets of flexible screen attachment production equipment had just been delivered to the production line of the customer company to prepare for "taking up the post", and the R&D personnel began to design customized intelligent production solutions for other customers non-stop.
"The company uses artificial intelligence design to make the production line 'smarter', which not only improves production efficiency, but also makes product quality more stable. Zhu Kuifeng, general manager of the company, said that the company has cooperated with more than 20 enterprises in the fields of semiconductors and integrated circuits across the country, and the output value will increase by 30% year-on-year in 2023.
Zhu Kuifeng used to work for a multinational company in charge of supply chain management. "I have inspected thousands of factories, although the manufacturing industry in mainland China was developing rapidly, but many enterprises at that time were still far from the level of automated production. Zhu Kuifeng said that the huge potential of China's manufacturing industry made him see the opportunity and decided to start a business to engage in intelligent industrial product design.
On December 28, 2023, Zhu Kuifeng of Tianjin Freddy Technology Development Co., Ltd. introduced the company's situation. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ran
In 2011, Zhu Kuifeng founded Tianjin Freddy Technology Development Co., Ltd., which was not all smooth sailing at first. "At first, it was difficult to draw a design for a smart production line. He said frankly that the company first learned Xi foreign advanced technology and design concepts, and then widely absorbed R&D talents, strengthened industry-university-research cooperation, and designed its own AI algorithm step by step, so that data can "flow" on the production line and make accurate "decisions".
Zhu Kuifeng took the flexible screen attachment production equipment designed by the company as an example, as a supporting equipment in the production line of mobile phone curved screens, it can shorten the production efficiency of curved screens by 1.5 seconds, and greatly increase the output value of the production line.
Zhu Kuifeng believes that this is a vivid interpretation of the empowerment of scientific and technological innovation, from "Made in China" to "Created in China", and then to cultivate new quality productivity, and promote the production efficiency of the entire ecological chain to achieve a leap through source design.
Tianjin Yike Automation Co., Ltd. also makes the production line of manufacturing enterprises more intelligent. Unlike Freddy Technology, the company has created a set of "neural networks" for the company's production line through products such as small and delicate sensors, encoders, and industrial bus communication systems.
Walking into its production workshop, several operators are monitoring the data and images on the screen in real time, assembling and debugging the high-precision servo motor encoder, and the error of its precision components cannot exceed 1 micron.
"From the offshore wind power industry to the biscuit processing manufacturers, the company's products can be applied to a variety of complex and precise production line operations. At present, the company's products have more than 10,000 users. Zhang Xin, chairman of the company, introduced that since its establishment in 2003, Yike has been deeply engaged in the "track" of industrial automation, relying on independent innovation, from an obscure small enterprise to a national key specialized and new "little giant" enterprise with more than 1,300 employees and an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan.
In October 2023, in the production workshop of Tianjin Yike Automation Co., Ltd., operators are assembling products. Xinhua News Agency
Freddy Technology, Yike and other enterprises are located in Tianjin Xiqing Economic and Technological Development Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Xiqing Economic and Technological Development Zone"). After years of industrial agglomeration and development, Xiqing Economic and Technological Development Zone has formed five leading industries represented by electronic information, automobiles and spare parts, biomedicine, high-end daily necessities and equipment manufacturing, and has brought together a number of strategic emerging industries such as information technology, intelligent networked vehicles, big data, and artificial intelligence. Many manufacturing enterprises have plugged in the wings of "digital and real integration" here, embarked on the "road of upgrading", and accelerated the formation of new quality productivity.
Tianjin Hongrentang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which is also located in the Xiqing Economic and Technological Development Zone, is now accelerating its digital and information transformation to make the production of traditional Chinese medicine more efficient and the products of Chinese patent medicine more stable.
In its pharmaceutical production workshop, capsules are poured out, neatly arranged on pallets, and then transferred to a fully automated intelligent packaging production line to be encapsulated by double aluminum film. "More than 30,000 Chinese patent medicine hard capsules of the same size and weight can be produced here every minute. Song Wen, secretary of the party committee and deputy general manager of the company, said that Hongrentang has also built a number of intelligent workshops for traditional Chinese medicine extraction, granulation, and filling.
This is a view of the production workshop of Tianjin Hongrentang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Xinhua News Agency
Covering an area of 38,000 square meters, Tianjin Hongrentang digital intelligent manufacturing production line will also be put into use, which will be based on the digital control of the whole industry chain to create a digital system covering the whole process of medicinal materials, manufacturing, quality, warehousing, logistics and so on. "After it is put into use, the annual extraction of Chinese medicinal materials can reach 1,600 tons, the quality consistency between finished products will increase by 26.7%, the production efficiency will increase by 251.6%, and the output value of the production line will exceed 2 billion yuan. Song Wen said.
The "potential energy" of innovation is transformed into the "kinetic energy" of development. In recent years, Xiqing Economic and Technological Development Zone has actively cultivated advanced manufacturing clusters and vigorously cultivated new quality productivity. Up to now, there are 146 national science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises in the Xiqing Economic and Technological Development Zone, 112 science and technology enterprises that have been cultivated by cascade cultivation of "young eagles-gazelles-science and technology leaders", and 10 and 49 national and municipal "specialized, special and new" enterprises respectively.
Zhang Lei, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Tianjin Xiqing Economic Development Group Co., Ltd., said that the park will accelerate the development of key industries such as integrated circuits, promote the deep integration of emerging industries such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence with the physical manufacturing industry, cultivate new growth points of new quality productivity, and leverage high-quality development.
Co-ordinator: Shao Xiangyun, Cao Xiaoxuan
Reporter: Song Rui
Poster: Fang Jinyang
Source: Xinhua News Agency