In the workshop of Jinrui Company, workers are producing. Photo by correspondent Cai Xuan
Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client October 26 news Recently, the Yangtze River Daily reporter walked into the welding workshop of the digital mold company located in the Caidian Economic Development Zone, and was greeted by the cold spark of close contact between the robot arm and the stamping parts. 10 welding robots are working in an orderly manner, but they can't hear the noisy spot welding sound. In the workshop of Jinrui Technology Company, the process of scooping aluminum water and processing center pickup, which was originally completed by hand, is now completed by the automated robot arm.
The robotic arm is in close contact with the stamping parts but there are no sparks or spot welding sounds. Photo by Zhang Heng, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily
Production line change, machine change "person", equipment core change... The reporter learned from the Caidian District Economic and Information Bureau that this year, Caidian District implemented a total of 35.43 million yuan of special funds for provincial and municipal technological transformation, involving 10 enterprises such as Changhua Changyuan, Unini Stamping, Jinrui Technology, etc., and built 6 municipal intelligent transformation demonstration projects such as BorgWarner and Jinrui Technology.
The automation rate increased from 50% to 90%, and the technical reform "accidentally" won hundreds of millions of overseas orders
"We have a large purchase volume, a hard indicator for the product qualification rate, a key pass rate of 90%, and an overall pass rate of 100%. The digital model company is large-scale, advanced equipment, supporting guaranteed, will be ordered to them, we are confident. A few days ago, Mr. Tao, head of the supporting department of a well-known domestic automaker, said this to the Yangtze River Daily reporter.
At the end of last year, Digital Mold Stamping Technology (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Digital Mold Company) signed a stamping and welding contract worth 2 billion yuan with the automaker, which will soon begin to be performed.
Digital Mode Company is engaged in the development and production of automotive molds and auto parts, this year's annual sales are expected to reach more than 300 million yuan, and according to existing orders, next year's sales can be close to 500 million yuan.
Only a few years ago, the company's main production business was limited to the development of automotive molds, and the development of enterprises was plagued by single products and lack of competitiveness. To this end, the digital mold company optimizes the industrial structure, introduces advanced production equipment, and makes great efforts in technological transformation. The company's automation rate has increased from 50% to 90% now.
Jinrui Technology Company has only a few workers in its huge production workshop. Photo by Zhang Heng, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily
The reporter saw that on the production line of more than 50 meters long in the stamping workshop, several large stamping machines nearly three stories high were arranged in a matrix, and the transmission of products between the stamping machines was borne by the robot. A steel plate passes through a fast-running press and turns into a car shell in an instant. Worth 100 million yuan, the world's most advanced German Schuler servo press is the most cutting-edge equipment introduced by the factory, which can be stamped more than 30 times per minute, which is 6 times more efficient than the traditional stamping machine tool, ensuring that the stamping parts do not leave dead corners.
"This line only requires up to 5 people to complete the operation, and the traditional stamping line requires at least 20 people." Zhou Jianxin, deputy director of the mold technology center of the digital mold company, said.
It is understood that since 2017, the digital mold factory began to carry out intelligent transformation, has invested more than 500 million yuan in transformation funds, through the introduction of robot production lines, so that stamping, welding, painting and other three major processes have a leap forward development.
Through the automation of production line transformation, the market share of digital mold companies has increased year by year, and the "circle of friends" of enterprises is no longer limited to China. In August 2019, a well-known foreign new energy vehicle manufacturer came to Visit Han, was impressed by its advanced equipment and research and development capabilities, and at the end of that year, it signed an electric vehicle battery carrier assembly order worth 100 million yuan with the digital model company, and completed mass production and batch delivery in August this year.
"Screws no longer rely on people", the traditional manufacturing industry to "intelligent manufacturing" transformation
On the 21st, Guangzhou Zhongshi Robot Intelligent Equipment (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., located in Caidian Economic Development Zone, was selected as the second batch of Wuhan artificial intelligence enterprises. It is a leader in R&D, manufacturing, application and sales in the fields of robotics, intelligent technology and high-end intelligent equipment, and provides a complete set of intelligent system overall technical solutions for the automotive and accessories industry.
Intelligent equipment developed by Zhongshi Robotics Company. Photo by Yuan Man, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily
Intelligent equipment developed by zhongzhi robots. Photo by Yuan Man, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily
Yang Yan, general manager of Zhongshi Robot Company, told reporters that in June this year, through independent research and development, they customized and delivered the province's first screw lock attached automatic production line for Wuhan Changhua Changyuan Auto Parts Co., Ltd. in the jurisdiction of Caidian, breaking the traditional manual screw tightening, realizing automatic equipment switching, automatic screw delivery, and automatic workpiece scanning two-dimensional code archiving. After the intelligent production line was put into operation, the labor was reduced from more than 20 people to 2 people, and the pass rate of the product was increased from the original 90% to 99.9%, and the production efficiency was increased by 80%.
In recent years, Caidian District has vigorously introduced supporting industrial enterprises such as industrial robots and high-end intelligent manufacturing equipment to empower enterprises in the jurisdiction to empower "intelligent manufacturing".
"The implementation of intelligent transformation will promote new production processes and equipment, replace the original outdated processes and equipment, promote quality with intelligence, and better comply with market demand." Yang Yan said that in the era of big data intelligence, traditional manufacturing industries such as automobiles and spare parts will become more 'smart', and the company is currently developing an intelligent production line for welding robots for new energy vehicles to provide assistance for the realization of lightweight body.
Sino-German technical cooperation "consultation and pulse" to create a smart interconnection demonstration factory
Industrial Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing, AR Digital Twins, SIMICAS Digital Test Bench... At the Industrial Internet Empowerment Center of the Enterprise Home of Wuhan Sino-German International Industrial Park, the most cutting-edge industrial Internet of Things overall solutions and digital solutions in Germany were displayed.
The Industrial Internet Empowerment Center is jointly built by Caidian District, Siemens and CLP Optics Valley, and through government procurement services, relevant experts will issue a professional diagnosis and recommendation report on intelligent transformation free of charge around the aspects of enterprises to improve production efficiency, reduce production costs, and ensure quality stability. Up to now, it has visited more than 100 enterprises and issued diagnostic reports for more than 30 enterprises in Caidian District, and Wuhan Jinrui Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the beneficiaries.
Siemens related experts told reporters that the empowerment center through the layout of the plant and special line virtual simulation, quantitative analysis, to find capacity bottlenecks. At present, the total investment of more than 500 million yuan in Wuhan Jinrui new energy vehicle motor body and lightweight structural parts construction project has begun construction, is expected to be put into operation next year, will reach the annual output of new energy vehicle motor body 1 million pieces, automotive lightweight structural parts 1 million pieces of production capacity.
Workers at the digital mold company are commissioning production equipment. Photo by Zhang Heng, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily
In recent years, Jinrui Technology Company has invested more than 80 million yuan in technological transformation. The comprehensive pass rate of products has increased by more than 30%, the production efficiency has increased by 42%, and the production cost has been reduced by more than 25%. The intelligent transformation of the project reduces the cost of enterprises, reduces industrial solid waste emissions, realizes clean production, green production, digital production, through intelligent transformation, enterprises apply and master a large number of new technologies, new processes, new materials, new equipment, and obtain more than 10 independent intellectual property rights and patented technologies.
Intelligent transformation has allowed enterprises to taste the sweetness and increased confidence. Wang Shengjun, the relevant person in charge of Wuhan Jinrui Company, said that the construction of the second phase of the project will be taken as an opportunity to combine intelligent manufacturing technology with artificial intelligence technology and information technology, and finally realize the demonstration application of domestic industrial robots and key components, and create a demonstration factory for intelligent interconnection of domestic industrial robot machines and key components.
(Yangtze River Daily reporter Zhang Heng, Yuan Man, correspondent Sun Keliang, Chen Si)
【Editor: Hu Zhihao】
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