What can be done in 1 hour? Henan Changyuan Crane Enterprises to answer is 38 complete cranes from here off the line, sent all over the world.
In this county-level city with a population of less than a million people, clustered more than 116 lifting machine manufacturers above scale, supporting production enterprises 1042, with an annual output of 300,000 lifting machines, parts, and components of 1.7 million sets, the products are sold to more than 150 countries and regions. In recent years, the locals continuously promoted the lifting machinery manufacturing industry to digitalization, Intelligent direction, and acceleration of the cultivation of new quality productivity.
Into Changyuan, see for yourself how these "big" cranes are "more intelligent".
Machine rumbling, welding splash, in eight from east to west more than 700 meters automated production line, hundreds of robots flexible and accurate waving the arm, from the material, assembly, welding to paint, huge crane parts from the production line in turn off the line.
Henan Kuangshan Crane Co., Ltd. Intelligent Industrial Park No. 4 workshop. Into the construction area of 169,000 square meters of intelligent workshop, in front of a busy and orderly production scene.
Responsible for a single girder eot crane robot welding assembly line of double five class workers Xia Julu, is through the CNC system to operate the robot. "Through independent research and development and design, we have realized the automation and modular production process here, which is currently the largest single production workshop in the crane industry in Asia." Xia Julu pointed not far away from the four "busy" robots, and said, "Look, these four robots can scan through the laser to automatically find the fascia plate and identify the starting position of the weld, in the welding process can also be tracked through the arc tracking technology real-time deviation correction." Xia Juru told reporters, that compared with manual work, robot welding out of the weld forming is excellent, weld width is consistent, smooth surface, and zero defects. 4 robots linkage operation, can automatically distribute the workload to 5t-22.5m standard products, for example, compared with manual welding, efficiency can be increased by 30%.
"We are the first in the industry to introduce intelligent manufacturing systems, and have built more than 100 automated welding and processing production lines, which are distributed in the 740,000 square meter intelligent industrial park." Yue Xiangbin, vice president of Henan Kuangshan Crane, introduced that more than 100,000 sets of products are sold to the world from here every year, and more than 300 sets of single girder, double girder, and other types of cranes are produced every day during the peak of orders.
In Changyuan City, another leading crane enterprise Weihua Group, intelligent manufacturing for lifting machinery production quality and efficiency also put "wings". Li Guoqiang, chairman of Weihua Group, through the introduction of automated production systems, the Group achieved a 70% reduction in the production cycle, production efficiency by 80%, logistics operation efficiency by 50%, the overall manufacturing and operating costs reduced by 20%, the overall production of energy-saving 10%, 1 hour can be a double girder crane off the line.
In recent years, Changyuan City to accelerated the promotion of lifting machinery manufacturing industry transformation and upgrading. As of the end of last year, a total of 6 intelligent factories to cultivate lifting machinery manufacturing, intelligent workshop 23.
In Changyuan, the saying "a hammer knocked out a lifting industry" has been circulated. This sentence graphically summarises the history of the Changyuan crane industry started in the 1980s folk repair industry. Today, the local has formed a more complete crane industry chain and agglomeration scale, in 2023, the lifting machinery manufacturing industry achieved a business income of 27.545 billion yuan of enterprises above designated size and was awarded the title of "lifting machinery capital" by the China Heavy Machinery Industry Association.
"After nearly 40 years of cultivation and development, the crane industry has become one of the pillar industries in Changyuan City." The Changyuan municipal party committee's main person in charge said the Changyuan crane industry is now moving towards internationalization, intelligence, digitalization, green direction, to the "new" and born, to the "quality" seek strong.
Speaking of cranes, many people's minds may come up with a huge and heavy industrial machine image. But in Changyuan, the reporter saw a lot of different scenes: just a word or gently waved a palm, kilometers away from the crane will run with voice commands or gestures, alongside the screen's real-time display of the operating effect of the simulation of the animation; in a piece of unmanned operation area, the crane through their own "observation" and "analysis", for the need to grab different kinds of materials, the crane is equipped with a "brain". "Analysis", for the need to grab different types of materials, self-replacement hooks, suction cups, grab buckets, and other spreaders, fast and stable handling at the same time can also accurately avoid obstacles.
"Cranes weighing dozens of tonnes must take the road of intelligence if they are to run nimbly and freely."Ding Ocean, vice president of Weihua Group, who is responsible for technology development, said that they launched an intelligent crane "space robot" this year, compared with traditional cranes, the "space robot" running speed increased by 3 times, positioning accuracy increased by 100 times, while the cable The length of the cable has been reduced by 80%.
"Thanks to the self-developed digital platform and intelligent control system, we will 5G, digital twin, artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things, and other advanced technologies into intelligent crane products, to the crane equipped with a thinking "brain"." Ding Ocean said, "space robot" can through data analysis and algorithmic capabilities, provide users with online and offline through the entire life cycle of the equipment's digital services.
Digital, intelligent development direction, expanding the crane in various segments of the application scene, but also to meet the user's increasingly customized needs. Li Feng, the deputy chief engineer of Henan Kuangshan Crane, said that they developed fully automated clean and explosion-proof cranes, designed by the customized requirements of the use of the construction site, taking into account the dual working conditions of clean and explosion-proof, not only to achieve fully automated unmanned operation but also through the accumulation of data analysis, to assist in solving problems. "The crane is equipped with a special "black box", which allows the operator to understand the "health" of the crane intuitively." Li Feng said that if the machine fails, the system will automatically analyze and diagnose the cause of the failure and propose solutions.
Behind the crane learns to "think", is the enterprise's continuous efforts on scientific and technological innovation. Li Guoqiang said, that Weihua Group will put 4% -6% of annual sales revenue into the field of research and development, with more than 1,200 R & D teams, established seven R & D centers around the world, built 33 national and provincial R & D platform.
In Yue Xiangbin's opinion, the most important reason why Henan Kuangshan Crane can achieve rapid development is that it attaches importance to scientific and technological innovation. In recent years, the company has continuously increased investment in research and development, established a crane key technology laboratory and other research and development platforms, and successively obtained more than 600 national patents and provincial scientific and technological achievements. "From the innovation of the production process to the innovation of the product, and then into the digital, intelligent, new quality productivity has become the biggest driving force for the development of enterprises." Yue Xiangbin said.
Changyuan City, the relevant person in charge of the introduction of technological innovation as a hand, to new product development as a driving force to speed up product iteration, become the current ChangyuIn a City, the development of the crane industry is an important initiative. Local efforts are being made to broaden the product segmentation, increase the chip, industrial software, and other key technology research and development efforts, the introduce of air material handling robots and other intelligent equipment that can be applied in industry, and life in many scenarios.
In the northwestern part of Saudi Arabia's peninsula on the Red Sea, the construction of the "New City of the Future" is in full swing, as a key project of the "Belt and Road" Initiative and Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030". The construction of the "New City of the Future" is in full swing. Helping this new city to rise in the construction machinery, there are 23 sets of cranes from Changyuan, Henan Province, China, with excellent product performance and service to win the "praise", they are Weihua Group production of explosive products - the "new Chinese". "New Chinese" cranes.
"2023, under the guidance of the China Heavy Machinery Industry Association, Weihua Group led the development of the "new Chinese" standard was officially released. In the same year, the cumulative order amount of "New Chinese" crane products exceeded RMB 4 billion." Feng Jun, vice president in charge of marketing of Weihua Group, told the reporter that "new Chinese" cranes have been greatly optimized in terms of material utilization, noise value, energy saving, and environmental protection, and the performance indicators are higher than or on a par with international standards, which improves the competitiveness of China's lifting products in the international market.
In the Weihua Intelligent Industrial Park interview, the reporter met a team of businessmen from Kazakhstan, they came up with a crane procurement plan, the Weihua Group's products, production lines, and corporate culture to visit. Feng Jun said that there are a lot of foreign businessmen who came to purchase recently. "Weihua has performed very well in the overseas market this year, and the sales in the domestic market in the first half of the year increased by about 5 percent. And the whole overseas market sales grew about 240 percent year-on-year, and the annual growth rate is expected to reach about 400 percent."
In Henan Kuangshan Crane, Xia Julu's workshop has recently stepped up the production of a total of 21 sets of gantry cranes export order products, the first has completed the load test. Yue Xiangbin introduced Henan Kuangshan Crane production of the gantry, bridge crane machine sold in Central Asia, East Asia, Africa, and other regions of 122 countries, involving Pakistan waste heat power generation, Congo mining, Bangladesh power, Serbia copper and other key projects of the "Belt and Road". In the first half of this year, Henan mine export orders grew rapidly, accounting for nearly 30% of total sales. Yue Xiangbin believes that the domestic crane market tends to stabilize, the future opportunities in the construction of "Belt and Road" countries, and other overseas markets.
Riding on the "Belt and Road" east wind, Changguan crane overseas momentum. Data show that in 2023, the total import and export of Changyuan City completed 667 million yuan, of which the number of export enterprises in the crane manufacturing industry was about 50, with import and export of 408 million yuan, an increase of 42.65%.
"Expanding overseas markets is our long-term strategy and the focus of development in the next five years." Talking about the company's next development plan, Li said Weihua will actively invest in overseas factories to enhance localization, brand awareness, and delivery efficiency. In the second half of the year, it will actively explore overseas emerging markets, "At present, the revenue share of overseas business is around 19%, and we are working towards the target of 40%."
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