[Looking at China with high-quality development] Focus on "smart manufacturing", Foshan is moving from "manufacturing big city" to "manufacturing strong city"

　　China News Service, February 21 (Reporter Xie Yiguan) Foshan is a major manufacturing city in Guangdong. As the advantages of traditional manufacturing gradually weaken, how to upgrade from "manufacturing" to "smart manufacturing" has become an urgent problem for Foshan to think about.

　　For this reason, Foshan insists on the manufacturing industry, chooses to focus on advantageous industrial clusters, explores a new model of digital and intelligent transformation of industrial clusters, and promotes the "manufacturing city" to "manufacturing strong city".

Strengthen and optimize the pillar industries and improve the level of cluster development

　　There is a saying in Foshan's manufacturing industry that "groups of three and five, nine out of ten": "Groups of three and five" means that Foshan has 8 industrial clusters exceeding 100 billion yuan, of which 3 are emerging industries and 5 are traditional industries .

"Nine times out of ten" refers to the fact that Foshan has everything that one expects to find in the manufacturing industry, and 80% of its products will enter thousands of households, and 90% of its industries can realize self-supporting.

　　Although the manufacturing industry has stood up the backbone of Foshan's economic development, there is a problem of "big but not strong" in Foshan's manufacturing industry, and its iconic status in the country still needs to be strengthened and improved.

　　To make the pillar industry stronger and better, the home furnishing industry of "where there is a home, there will be made in Foshan" has become the "first marcher" of digital transformation.

　　In the production workshop of Foshan Weishang Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd., each processed panel has its own "ID card", and the manufacturing process is precisely controlled; on the owner's customer's mobile phone, there is a "digital navigation", and the home decoration has arrived. Which step is clear at a glance...

The picture shows the production workshop of Foshan Weishang Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Photo by China-Singapore Finance and Economics reporter Xie Yiguan

　　The person in charge of Weishang Furniture said that thanks to the intelligent manufacturing project, the perfect combination of single-piece small batch and mass customization production has been realized at the production end of the factory, and the utilization rate of comprehensive materials has increased by 6% to 93%. The cycle is reduced from 12 days to 5-7 days, realizing high-efficiency and high-density production.

　　As the "chain owner" of the industry, Weishang Furniture also applied for projects related to industrial clusters this year, hoping to reduce costs, improve services and supplies, and build industry ecology through the power of cluster synergy.

Vigorously cultivate emerging industries and create a manufacturing innovation highland

　　In addition to promoting the upgrading of traditional industries and seizing opportunities for the development of the digital economy, Foshan is also cultivating and expanding emerging industries such as industrial robots and biomedicine to seize the new track of emerging industries.

　　In the Midea KUKA Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Park in Foshan, a fully automated production line of "robot production robots" is now "running".

It is reported that this is the first "robot production robot" production line in Guangdong, and also the first fully automated production line for heavy-duty robots in China.

The picture shows the KUKA robot.

Photo courtesy.

　　According to the data currently measured in the park, compared with traditional manpower, the single-shift production capacity of this automated production line has increased by 50%, and the working-hour efficiency has also increased by more than 30%.

"The work of people here has become an auxiliary, and the labor intensity has been greatly reduced." said Chen Feng, Director of Operations and Human Resources of KUKA China.

　　In the industrial robot industry, Foshan has formed a complete industrial chain from key components to body manufacturing, system integration and application, and is an important base for the production and application of industrial robots in the country.

In the biomedical industry, Foshan has also formed an industrial structure based on modern Chinese medicine and medical equipment, focusing on biological medicine and innovative medicine, and high-end medical equipment as a latecomer.

　　Walking into the Specimen Center of Guangdong Yifang Pharmaceutical Company in Foshan City, a large digital screen displayed real-time images of Shandong Linyi honeysuckle planting base in real time, including soil monitoring, insect monitoring and other medicinal material growth data.

The picture shows the large digital screen of the Specimen Center of Guangdong Fangfang Pharmaceutical Company.

Photo by China-Singapore Finance and Economics reporter Xie Yiguan

　　According to Zhou Lin, deputy secretary of the party committee of Guangdong Yifang Pharmaceutical, these authentic raw material data displayed in real time are realized with the subsequent production process data of traditional Chinese medicine formula granules such as processing of decoction pieces, decoction extraction, low-temperature concentration, granulation, granule packaging, and finished product testing. Interconnection has become a data asset for the production of Yifang Pharmaceutical's traditional Chinese medicine formula granules, providing data support for the optimization of R&D, production and sales links of enterprises.

　　At present, the whole process of the production of formula granules of Yifang Pharmaceutical, from the cultivation of medicinal materials to the sales of finished products, has basically realized digitalization. The online ERP, DCS and MES systems have also increased production efficiency by 15%.

　　With the in-depth development of the digital transformation of Foshan's manufacturing industry, both traditional pillar industries and strategic emerging industries are on the road of quality improvement and upgrading, and an ecological circle in which the digital economy empowers the real economy is accelerating in Foshan.

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