At the intersection of Kechuang 9th Street and Jinghai Road in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the 18,000-square-meter smart factory hardly turns on the lights, and there are no workers in the workshop, but it has the ability to automatically produce one Xiaomi smartphone every second.
Behind such a “black light” factory is artificial intelligence, 5G, big data and other technologies that provide support 24 hours a day. The “black light” factory has also become a benchmark factory for intelligent manufacturing in the economic development zone. Liang Sheng, director of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee, introduced that 15 enterprises in the economic and technological development zone have been awarded the “Beijing Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmark Enterprise”. While per capita labor productivity and resource and energy utilization efficiency have been greatly improved, operating costs and product development cycles have been greatly improved. , The rate of defective products is also significantly reduced.
The “Black Lamp” factory is equipped with the “most powerful brain”
You can’t see the people coming and going and the lights are bright in the traditional factory. Only the faint sound of the machine running is heard in the ears, and the sky is densely covered by the conveyor belt. In Xiaomi’s “black light” factory, even the transfer of materials is carried out. After the robot is completed, the test no longer needs manual inspection, and the product packaging is automatically entered into the shelf to wait for delivery after the machine is completed.
The so-called “black light” factory can realize the whole process of automatic unmanned production of the whole factory’s production management process, mechanical processing process and packaging storage and transportation process. Manual only supplies materials, which is truly automated, informatized and intelligent.
Time and cost are saved by these technologies. In this factory, it is expected to automatically produce 60 smartphones per minute, which is more than 60% more efficient than traditional factories.
The mystery of the “Black Lamp” factory is the process of having the “most powerful brain”, using big data, analysis engines, and dynamic knowledge maps to independently identify, judge, and reason about complex issues, and make forward-looking, real-time decisions. “That is, the machine can make predictions ‘autonomously’, and automated unmanned production can be achieved in the whole process of inspection, motherboard processing, pre-assembly, and complete machine testing,” said the relevant person in charge of the factory.
Smart factory greatly improves production efficiency
It’s not just smartphones produced in smart factories. As the main front of Beijing’s high-precision industries, more and more factories in the Economic Development Zone are becoming smarter, more energy-efficient, and more efficient.
The multinational company ABB is a Fortune 500 company in the field of power automation technology. It is located in an intelligent manufacturing benchmark factory in the Economic Development Zone. The interconnection rate of key equipment in the workshop is 100%, the automation rate of key processes in the parts manufacturing workshop is 100%, and the automation rate of the finished product assembly workshop is 100%. 78.9%. From the beginning of an order to the final delivery, the entire value chain of parts manufacturing, finished product assembly and testing, process quality monitoring and logistics distribution and other different links have achieved a high degree of automation and digital operations. This has directly brought huge benefits. Delivery reliability has increased from 96.73% to 99.94%, annual average production efficiency has increased by more than 6%, and average delivery time has been shortened from 8 days to 2 days.
Not far from ABB is China’s leading intelligent manufacturing company Hollysys. Hollysys Smart Factory is the country’s first batch of smart manufacturing pilot demonstration enterprise projects, covering the entire life cycle of products from design to manufacturing, reducing waste in the manufacturing process to a minimum, and realizing flexible multiple varieties, small batches, and multiple batches Continuous production. More importantly, this company also “exports” smart factory solutions. More than 50 companies including Haier Group, Sany Group, Xugong Group, China Resources Group, Shuangjie Group and more than 100 factories have used Hollysys’ Independent and controllable core products and intelligent manufacturing solutions.
“Most of the smart manufacturing demonstration enterprises are distributed in the four leading industries of the economic development zone, including new generation information technology, high-end automobiles and new energy smart cars, biotechnology and health, robotics and smart manufacturing.” Liang Sheng introduced, 2019 The key process numerical control rate of pilot demonstration enterprises in the development zone has reached more than 75%.
The intelligent manufacturing industry chain is gradually formed
Not long ago, the Fortune 500 Schneider Electric Group increased its capital by 100 million yuan to jointly build a Sino-French intelligent manufacturing industry demonstration park with the Economic Development Zone and create a global R&D and production center for new products. It is worth mentioning that the park will integrate R&D, production, sales, and intelligent manufacturing technology services to serve the transformation and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing.
Looking ahead, the economic development zone is gradually forming a relatively complete intelligent manufacturing industry chain: upstream of the industry chain, SMC and other smart manufacturing equipment suppliers are gathered; in the middle of the industry chain, leading smart manufacturing such as Schneider and Hollysys are gathered System solution provider and system service provider; in the downstream of the industry chain, there are a number of superior smart factory demonstration enterprises in the fields of electronic information, biomedicine, and new energy vehicles such as BOE, Yuekang Pharmaceutical, ABB, and GE.
“The Economic Development Zone is leading the industrial transformation and upgrading development with intelligent manufacturing, and actively exploring the Yizhuang path of integrating automation, digitization, networking, intelligence and other related technologies with the real economy of the manufacturing industry, and strive to create 80 intelligent manufacturing Manufacturing pilot demonstration enterprises.” Liang Sheng said that the Economic Development Zone will foster the development of new intelligent manufacturing industries, and focus on promoting the “three cities” robots and intelligent manufacturing technological achievements through various forms such as R&D cooperation, technology transfer, technology licensing, and technology shareholding. Landing.
It is reported that the Economic Development Zone will also increase the construction of industrial parks and innovation carriers, and encourage the construction of platforms such as robot inspection and testing, intelligent manufacturing standard verification, key common technology research and industrialization services, which have a significant effect on promoting achievements and project implementation. A certain percentage of platform construction costs will be funded; the intelligent transformation of traditional manufacturing will also receive relevant policy support.