With the continuous effect of high-quality development, Yueqing enterprises have greatly enhanced their ability to resist risks through the intelligent transformation of "machine substitution". ".
A few days ago, the reporter came to the SMT dust-free patch workshop of Zhejiang CONSHION Electrical Group Co., Ltd., 3 automated assembly lines and nearly 100 automated machines are running non-stop. Under the control of a fully automatic manipulator, the processes of feeding, patching, sub-packaging, and inspection are completed in one go. Employees wear masks to perform their duties, and the entire production process is orderly.
Zhou Hongming, Chairman of Zhejiang CONSHION Electrical Group Co., Ltd.:
All the equipment like ours is to realize the intelligent manufacturing of machine-to-human. Like these pick and place machines, and that dispenser, and we are all part of high-end manufacturing. From automatic feeding, to automatic sub-packaging, to a test here, only two people are needed for the entire line.
Since the resumption of work on February 24, the company has accelerated the promotion of "machine substitution", and has been one step ahead of others in the resumption of work and production, and has quickly restored production capacity only by relying on Zaile's core technical backbone.
Zhou Hongming, Chairman of Zhejiang CONSHION Electrical Group Co., Ltd.:
Under the influence of the epidemic, our company has also taken full measures. We have adopted the system of one person and multiple positions to let some other managers take the post. We have also replaced humans with machines to automate as much as possible, so that machines can run more efficiently on behalf of humans.
In 2019, the company invested more than 18 million yuan in equipment in the "intelligent manufacturing, machine substitution project", and invested more than 10 million yuan in innovative research and development funds, and obtained nearly 40 national invention patents and utility model patents. Thanks to the "machine substitution" strategy for many years, while organizing employees to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, the enterprise maximizes the role of intelligent equipment and intelligent robots such as automated production lines, and the production capacity recovery is more efficient.
As one of the earliest enterprises in our city to implement "machine substitution", since 2015, Chint invested more than 200 million yuan, and it took three years to realize the full-process automatic production of small circuit breakers and AC contactors. With the help of the mature operation of digital technology, Chint can quickly increase production capacity in the shortest time after resumption of work, which further strengthens the company's determination to promote intelligent manufacturing.
Wu Bingchi, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of Chint Group:
This is the only way to go. Therefore, for Chint, we need to speed up the replacement of machines in the future, increase the intensity, and increase the investment. It is very important to develop in this way.
This Spring Festival, the sudden epidemic has brought a survival experience and test to the enterprise. In the face of temporary difficulties, companies have to try their best to make the immediate "crisis" into a "opportunity" for transformation: how to improve risk management and control, production processes, adjust product structure, use machines to increase productivity, and use intelligence to iterate the industrial chain, so as to alleviate Difficulties such as the shortage of front-line operators have brought new opportunities for "machine substitution", which may become the starting point for intelligent manufacturing to accelerate again.