What does intelligent manufacturing bring to the wind power industry?

It is reported that in April 2019, under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the selection of "Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprises" was launched, aiming to select a group of enterprises with outstanding results in intelligent manufacturing, industry representativeness and demonstration effect, and lead the transformation and promotion of China's manufacturing industry from point to line to surface intelligent manufacturing through excellent typical cases of digital transformation and intelligent upgrading. Up to now, a total of 37 "intelligent manufacturing benchmarking enterprises" have been selected across the country. With its excellent performance in the field of intelligent manufacturing, Sany Renewable Energy has become the fifth batch of "Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprises".

In recent years, with the development of a new generation of information technology such as big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, etc., a new round of industrial revolution with networking, digitalization and intelligence as the core has swept the world. The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing" proposes that by 2025, most of the manufacturing enterprises above designated size will be digitized and networked, and the backbone enterprises in key industries will initially apply intelligence; By 2035, manufacturing enterprises above designated size will fully popularize digitalization and networking, and key enterprises in key industries will basically achieve intelligence.

"Digitalization and intelligence have become the primary productive forces of enterprises. Through continuous exploration and efforts, we have successfully built the first 5G fully connected smart factory in the wind power industry, and has been selected as a national 'Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprise', which is a new business card of Sany Renewable Energy and a key step for Sany Renewable Energy to become a leader in intelligent manufacturing. Peng Xu, chief digital officer of Sany Renewable Energy, told Wind Energy.

When the reporter visited the assembly workshop of Sany Renewable Energy Nankou Industrial Park, located in Changping District, Beijing, he saw that most of the work of the whole machine assembly has been automated, the real-time monitoring information of various parts and components on the production line is displayed on the electronic screen, and the mechanical arm is accurately and efficiently installed under the control of the operating system, and the AGV replaces the "overhead crane" to complete the assembly line distribution.

In terms of production line automation, Sany Renewable Energy has created a "pulsating" production system with flexible production capacity through the integration of robot application and lean production system. Intelligent robots replace manual labor in key processes to improve production efficiency and assembly quality reliability. In key processes such as pitch, yaw, transmission chain, cable, and material distribution, the six-axis robot, vision system, optoelectronic system, hydraulic, pneumatic, servo control, automation control, AGV, network interconnection, etc., are combined to form an unmanned production unit.

In terms of the Internet of Things, Sany Renewable Energy comprehensively monitors on-site production 6S, personnel safety and attendance, material use and storage through camera visual recognition technology, and uploads it to the Sanxian (on-site, real, and real) platform for intelligent analysis. Through the installation of smart water meters, electricity meters, gas meters and the application of IoT technology, intelligent analysis of real-time collection of water, electricity and gas consumption information, combined with the analysis of abnormal or peak energy consumption to reduce enterprise energy consumption; The Internet of Things technology is used to collect the data of workshop equipment, and at the same time establish a real-time database and historical database, and collect workshop production, quality and equipment information in real time through the integrated application of data acquisition system and digital information platform, so as to achieve accurate and rapid analysis, decision-making and response, and build a green manufacturing system.

The value that results from this is obvious. According to the data provided by Sany Renewable Energy, after the above scheme was put into use, while the number of workers in the workshop was greatly reduced, the production efficiency was also increased by nearly 50%, and the product failure rate was reduced by 50%.

Taking blades as an example, Sany Renewable Energy is building a "Wind Power Blade Intelligent Manufacturing Super Factory" in Shaoshan, Hunan Province in accordance with Sany's "Lighthouse Factory" intelligent manufacturing standard, which is scheduled to be completed in May 2022. After the project is fully completed, the maximum annual production capacity will reach 1,000 sets of blades, with an annual output value of about 2 billion yuan and about 1,000 direct jobs.

"Today, Sany Renewable Energy is facing the 'historic opportunity' and 'super technology window' brought about by the fourth industrial revolution and the third energy revolution." Peng Xu emphasized, "We will make unremitting efforts to build a digital ecosystem for wind power, and have planned a number of mobile factories across the country. It is hoped that by building green factories and smart factories, on the one hand, Sany Renewable Energy will be promoted to complete the transformation from traditional manufacturing to 'digital manufacturing and service-oriented manufacturing', and on the other hand, it will make first-class contributions in the field of new energy for the implementation of the country's '30·60 dual carbon' goal." ”

The convergence of the two forces also gives the future of the wind power industry unlimited imagination.