Shiyan Evening News (Wen, Tu/Reporter Xu Zhengguo Correspondent Zhao Xiaohui Liu Ziye) In the era of intelligence, how can traditional manufacturing promote industrial transformation and upgrading in the breakthrough? Zhangwan District is building a "smart manufacturing" highland in the province with the development model of industrial clusters, and has initially formed a relatively complete range of industries such as automobiles and parts, general equipment, special equipment, CNC machine tools, high-end molds, and intelligent transportation. The equipment manufacturing industry cluster is in order to cope with the severe challenges brought by the decline in demand, overcapacity, and new economic shocks faced by traditional advantageous industries, and then promote the transformation and upgrading of the intelligent manufacturing industry.

60A number of equipment "intelligent manufacturing" enterprises gathered in Zhangwan

"You see, it is also an intelligent equipment enterprise." The interview vehicle was traveling through the west of Zhangwan District. Yu Chuanying, director of the Economic and Information Bureau of Zhangwan District, pointed to an enterprise in front of him and told reporters.

The name of this enterprise is Hubei Convex and Concave Mould Technology Co., Ltd., located at No.6 Yueda Road, Zhangwan Industrial New District. Through academicians and their teams, the company carries out high-tech research and development, key project research and development, relocation and construction to create intelligent projects, and uses information technology to carry out process reengineering to ensure "zero accidents" in more than 20 links of products from design, processing to manufacturing. to achieve rapid development, the annual output value is rising, and the mold output value exceeded 100 million yuan last year.

"There are many intelligent equipment enterprises like this in Zhangwan District: Dongfeng Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Dongfeng Automobile Mould Co., Ltd., Hubei Mengcheng Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd,Shiyan Tianshu Induction Equipment Co., Ltd.... "Yu Chuanying is like a treasure.

During the interview, the reporter found that these intelligent equipment enterprises are distributed in Zhangwan Industrial New area, Xicheng High-tech Industrial Park, 316 National Highway and Xicheng Avenue. Wherever the reporter went, the workshop was full of fiery production scenes.

Yu Chuanying said: at present, there are more than 60 large, medium and small equipment manufacturing enterprises in Zhangwan equipment manufacturing industry, including 34 equipment manufacturing enterprises above scale, 13 key cultivation enterprises, and nearly 400 core patents and software copyrights. in 2017, sales revenue reached 4.013 billion yuan, one sold 1 billion yuan, and eight sold more than 100 million yuan. In addition, there are 9 automobile intelligent equipment manufacturing enterprises, 11 CNC machine tool manufacturing enterprises, 6 mold manufacturing enterprises, 5 industrial robot manufacturing enterprises, other equipment manufacturing enterprises (lifting equipment enterprises, heat treatment equipment enterprises, non-standard equipment manufacturing enterprises) 4.

It is particularly worth mentioning that 34 intelligent equipment manufacturing enterprises above designated size achieved sales revenue of 3.743 billion yuan and profit and tax of 0.562 billion yuan in 2017, of which tax revenue reached 0.228 billion yuan. The sales revenue, profits and taxes of the intelligent equipment industry increased by 36.5, 31.7 and 28.2 respectively compared with the same period last year, making it the fastest growing emerging industry in Zhangwan District after the automobile industry for three consecutive years.

Intelligent equipment product competitiveness continues to break through

When I came to the assembly workshop of Dongfeng Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the reporter found that there was no roar of machines here, and more than 20 installed machining centers entered the final part trial cutting stage. I saw that the processing center was operating at high speed and was able to retract and release freely. The workers dressed neatly and had a man-machine dialogue in front of the computer display screen. The huge processing equipment runs automatically after setting the program code. In a short time, a new Jack sewing machine with cutting accuracy controlled within 0.02mm per meter was offline.

Ma Hongfeng, director of machine tool design for the project, said that through the improvement of manufacturing technology, the production efficiency of this new Jack product has increased by 40%, helping customers to reduce a workshop from 200 people to a few people now. Employees only need to monitor the production of equipment, thus greatly reducing labor costs and truly realizing intelligent manufacturing.

This kind of intelligent manufacturing and lean production is also reflected in the new factory of Dongfeng Equipment Xicheng. As soon as he entered the welding equipment workshop, the reporter saw dozens of yellow mechanical arm robots neatly placed. They are undergoing pre-factory pre-commissioning, will soon be "inaugurated" in Dongfeng Honda three automated production lines.

"In recent years, we have focused on the development trend of industrial 4.0 and the direction of high-quality development. According to customer needs, we have not only developed vertical and horizontal machining centers and numerical control equipment, but also developed the first high-speed machining center with complete intellectual property rights in China., Filling the domestic gap." Fan Junshan, chief engineer of Dongfeng Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., proudly introduced that in the past 6 years, the company has 3 projects that have won the Automotive Industry Science and Technology Progress Award, and 18 projects have won the Dongfeng Motor Company Science and Technology Progress Award, ranking first as a Dongfeng professional factory., The technical strength has steadily improved. "Development and commercialization of DH500 series high-speed machining center" and "development and application of robot piping line" won the top ten scientific and technological achievements of Dongfeng company in the 12th Five Year Plan. Among them, a number of core technologies to break the industry monopoly.

Yu Chuanying said that Dongfeng equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has successively broken through 74 core technologies of CNC machine tools and become a leading enterprise in China's special aircraft manufacturing industry. In 2016, the company ranked sixth in the top 30 of China's machine tool industry.

In addition, there are a large number of intelligent equipment enterprise competitiveness is also constantly breakthrough. For example, Dongfeng Mould Company has exported its mold products to PSA Group (France), Nissan Co., Ltd., Honda and other automobile companies through intelligent manufacturing. The company has become a first-class domestic company with R & D and manufacturing capabilities for commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles. As another example,Shiyan Tianshu Induction Equipment Co., Ltd. has successfully developed the first TQK automatic shaft induction hardening machine for large-scale crankshaft induction hardening production in China. It is superior to imported machines  in terms of processing flexibility, production efficiency, crankshaft hardening deformation control, use and maintenance costs, process costs, and technical services. The products are widely used in Guangxi Yuchai, Guilin Fuda, Dongfeng Cummins, Beijing Futian, Dongfeng Co., Ltd. and other enterprises..

According to public data from the Municipal Economic and Information Commission, in the intelligent equipment cluster in Zhangwan District, there are 18 national high-tech enterprises, accounting for half of the total number of enterprises above designated size. There are 6 provincial-level enterprise technology centers, 6 provincial-level intellectual property demonstration enterprises, 8 provincial-level integration enterprises, 2 academician (expert) workstations, 12 enterprises and scientific research institutes have established industry-university-research cooperation bases, and have created 1 Chinese well-known trademark and 5 Hubei famous trademarks. More than 400 patents were authorized, including 25 invention patents.

A number of intelligent equipment enterprises won overseas orders

In the cruel market competition, the core technology is the housekeeping ability of intelligent equipment. It is by virtue of this that many intelligent equipment enterprises in our city have successfully won a large number of overseas orders. "The first intelligent welding production line in the Romanian automobile industry we brought is great and highly recognized by the other party." After more than a year of production and operation, Chen Liang, manager of Renault Romania Welding Project of Dongfeng Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., was extremely gratified.

At the beginning of April last year, Dongfeng Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. officially put into production the welding production line of Renault Romania factory, which was carefully assembled and debugged. During the trial operation, the local workers were very surprised. They had never seen the welding line complete the welding of an entire car body in 78 seconds. This project, which has 8 welding production lines and 64 robots with two engine room lines, front and rear floor lines, left and right side wall lines and left and right longitudinal beam lines, will realize mixed-flow production of 3 passenger car models after being delivered to customers for operation, and can complete the welding of the entire body in 1.5 minutes.

Through this project, the company has won a beautiful big battle overseas with its advantages of intelligence, high efficiency and professionalism of striving for perfection. In 2017 and 2018, Dongfeng Equipment successively undertook projects such as Renault Turkey factory, Spain factory and Morocco factory line 1. In addition, Renault Morocco factory line 2, side wall line project, Brazil factory main line, side wall line project and Romania side wall line project are under negotiation, Renault Algeria, Colombia factory project has reached a consensus, is also advancing.

At 100 Xicheng Road, Zhangwan District, the production workshop of Hubei Mengcheng Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. is busy. Workers are rushing to produce more than 40 sets of welding jigs to be sent to Indonesia. "As the delivery will be made in February 2019, the Spring Festival is approaching and there will be a holiday, so the time is very tight." Zhang Longqun, deputy general manager of the company, who urged production in the workshop, said, "if this batch of orders is completed, the output value will be 0.23 billion yuan this year, of which the output value of overseas orders accounts for 20%, reaching the expected target."

Hubei Mengcheng Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in the research and development, manufacture and installation of industrial conveying equipment, coating equipment and non-standard automatic equipment. It relies on high-quality products such as friction conveying system, swing dry conveyor, 360-degree flip conveying line of coating body, etc. which lead the industry trend, it has successively developed, manufactured, installed and transported coating equipment for many professional factories of Dongfeng Motor Company, domestic Toyota, Anhui Valin, Chongqing Ford, Zhengzhou Nissan, Wuhan Shenlong Honda and other well-known domestic enterprises, which have won high praise. therefore, orders "fly" from overseas. Prior to this, the company has successfully taken orders for automobile production lines in Russia and Thailand.

In a year's time, this cluster will achieve an output value of 10 billion yuan.

Intelligent equipment manufacturing industry is known as the "industrial mother machine", is the cornerstone of the manufacturing industry.

Today, at a time when China's high-quality development has entered a new stage of full implementation, whether it is the great changes brought about by major breakthroughs in new technologies such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, industrial big data, and industrial robots, or the rounds of crazy mergers and acquisitions and restructuring carried out by industry unicorns, all of which have added a strong color to the great change of intelligent manufacturing in the new era.

Kang Shuangcheng, deputy secretary of the Party group of the Municipal Commission of economy and information technology, believes that the intelligent equipment industry is related to the industrial transformation and upgrading of our city. Although the intelligent equipment manufacturing industry in our city has made certain development and achieved local breakthroughs in some fields, compared with advanced regions at home and abroad, There is still a big gap in the lack of core technology of independent intellectual property rights, weak R & D and innovation ability, high dependence and weak foundation, it is urgent to accelerate the development of innovation and increase support. For Zhangwan District, intelligent manufacturing of automobiles and parts, general equipment manufacturing, non-standard equipment manufacturing, mold manufacturing, measuring instrument manufacturing, industrial robots, etc. should become the development direction of intelligent equipment in the future.

In this context, the Municipal Economic and Information Commission guided the Zhangwan District Economic and Information Bureau to issue a development plan for intelligent equipment industry clusters. According to the plan, Zhangwan District, relying on Shiyan Industrial New District Intelligent Equipment Industrial Park, Xicheng Avenue, Xicheng High-tech Industrial Park, etc., will focus on enlarging the size of the park, optimizing the layout of industrial space, promoting the development of the equipment industry in the direction of park and cluster, and bringing together efforts to promote the development of intelligent equipment industry clusters. Strive to reach 100 enterprises above designated size in the region's intelligent equipment industry cluster by 2025; 7 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan, including 1 enterprise with an annual output value of 5 billion yuan, 3 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 2 billion yuan, and 3 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan. Expand new areas of industrial development and build an intelligent equipment manufacturing and application demonstration base with important influence in Hubei Province and even the whole country.

At the same time, guided by high-end equipment innovation projects, cultivate the development echelon of equipment companies, combine the actual conditions of Zhangwan District, improve the independent design level and system integration capabilities of a group of equipment companies, break through the common key technologies and engineering, and industrialization bottlenecks. Strengthen the automobile mold manufacturing industry, high-end CNC machine tool manufacturing industry, cutting tool gauge manufacturing industry, non-standard equipment manufacturing industry, special machinery manufacturing industry and emergency rescue equipment manufacturing industry. By 2020, the output value of intelligent equipment industry cluster will reach 10 billion yuan. By 2025, the output value of equipment manufacturing industry cluster will exceed 20 billion yuan.