Hunan Daily: Technological innovation supports the leapfrog development of Sany Heavy Industry

Transferred from: China Daily Source: Hunan Daily Author: Tang Aiping
 

In the 2010 annual patent application and authorization list, Sany Heavy Industry ranked first in the province and domestic construction machinery enterprises with 103 invention patent applications and 46 authorized patents. Several awards with high "gold content" have also been awarded before and after the Spring Festival.

In the construction machinery industry, Sany is a mystery.

More than ten years ago, Sany was just a "small offspring" in the industry; Today, the global construction machinery industry giants Caterpillar and Komatsu have listed Sany as the strongest opponent in the next decade;

Why in just over ten years, Sany has been able to grow into a leading and leading enterprise in China's construction machinery industry?

With an average annual growth rate of 50% and 1356 patents authorized, Sany Station has promoted Sany Station to the forefront of the world's pump truck manufacturing field, and the domestic market share of concrete machinery has been 5656 for 8 consecutive years

Sany has given birth to the world's first long boom pump truck, the world's first three-stage concrete trailer pump, the world's first fully hydraulic motor grader, and the world's deepest rotary drilling rig...... Sany's position in the industry is self-explanatory.

However, when Sany began to test the construction machinery industry in 1994, few people in the industry knew about this company.

At the beginning of the business, Sany once thought of taking a shortcut. However, the technical barriers set up by industry giants have "forced" Sany, which has repeatedly hit a wall, onto the road of independent innovation.

Before Sany entered the industry, concrete boom technology has always been in the hands of foreigners. At that time, the length of the boom was 36 meters, and there was a saying in the industry that "every additional meter is more difficult than climbing to the sky". In 1998, Sany "Dou Guts" began to study boom technology, and in 1999, it took the lead in making a 37-meter boom pump truck in China. The 66-meter boom pump truck rolled off the assembly line in 2006 has 15 first-class core technologies, making Sany stand at the forefront of the world's pump truck manufacturing field for the first time. Two years later, Sany broke the record it set again, and the boom length increased to 72 meters.

The infinite power of innovation has made Sany taste the sweetness again and again, and it has also inspired them to try more fields:

In the field of hoisting, the first 400-ton crawler crane known as "Shenzhou*5656 crane" was launched, and the crawler crane was made to 1600 tons; Last year, the first 1,000-ton class in ChinaAll-terrain cranesline, breaking foreign monopolies;

In 2007, the world's first microfoamed asphalt cement mortar vehicle was successfully developed, overcoming the world's problems in the core technology of high-speed rail construction.

Gradually, the core technology has grown from less to more, and the spark has become a prairie fire. In 1998, Sany only had 4 patented technologies, and by the end of 2010, the total number of Sany patent applications had reached 2,441, ranking first in China's construction machinery industry, with 1,356 authorized patents, with an average annual growth rate of 50%.

Technological innovation supports Sany to continue to attack the city in the market. In the field of concrete machinery, the domestic market share of Sany brand for 8 consecutive years * 5656 has changed the domestic concrete machinery market pattern from the early 90s of the last century to more than 95% of the domestic brand market share. In addition, crawler lifting machinery, piling machinery, excavation machinery, etc., the Sany brand has ranked 5656 in the domestic market for many years.

Technological innovation has achieved "Sany speed". In 2005, the company's total annual revenue was only 5.8 billion yuan; In 2010, the company's sales revenue achieved a leap, stepping up to 50 billion yuan, becoming a listed company with a profit of 5661 and a market value of more than 100 billion yuan in China's construction machinery industry.

The average level of domestic counterparts is 3~5 times the R&D investment, forming a lasting and strong innovation ability of Sany

"Everything comes from innovation" is the soul of Sany's development. Where does Sany's enduring and strong innovation ability come from?

Xiang Wenbo, President of Sany Heavy Industry, believes that the innovation project of the enterprise system is the fertile soil that gives birth to one innovation achievement after another.

As early as the beginning of the business, Sany realized that the development of enterprises should obtain a steady stream of power, and it could not be supported by a few hard projects and a few independent technologies. In order to enhance the overall innovation power of the enterprise, Sany systematically strengthens technological innovation planning from the strategic level, continues to explore and increase investment in technological innovation, and forms a virtuous circle of "innovation-capacity improvement-re-innovation".

Taking this as a guideline, Sany's R&D investment is unrivaled in the industry. In Sany, R&D expenses are not controlled by the budget, and the company will invest 5% to 7% of its annual sales revenue in the field of R&D, which is 3~5 times the average level of the industry. Over the past 10 years, Sany has invested a total of 5 billion yuan to ensure the successful completion of a series of scientific research projects.

In order to motivate scientific and technological personnel, Sany has successively implemented many measures such as options and R&D project incentives. Good incentives have gathered a large number of outstanding engineering and technical personnel for the enterprise, among which the most famous is Yi Xiaogang, who was just awarded the first "Top Ten National Science and Technology Workers". As the R&D coach of Sany, Yi Xiaogang has led the development of the first domestic 37-meter pump truck, the world's first three-stage concrete pump, the world's first fully hydraulic grader, the world's first microfoamed asphalt cement mortar truck, the world's first long boom 72-meter pump truck and many other innovative products; Yi Xiaogang personally applied for 166 patents and authorized 114, including 21 inventions; All the patents applied for have been successfully transformed into productivity, and more than 60 technologies have reached and exceeded the international first-class level. The products developed by him have achieved a total sales of 73.28 billion yuan and exports of more than 1 billion US dollars, and the products have participated in the construction of key projects such as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the Three Gorges and the Bird's Nest Stadium.

A R&D team of more than 5,000 people, 23 research institutes and 138 product research institutes around the world have achieved the "confidence" of Sany to move towards the "kingdom" of construction machinery of *5653

When Sany made a 72-meter boom pump truck, someone asked Yi Xiaogang, how long can you make the boom in the future?

Yi Xiaogang said, I don't know how long, but I can guarantee that the Guinness Book of Records for the boom will always belong to Trinity in the future!

When Sany pumps concrete to a height of 500 meters, someone asks Yi Xiaogang, how high can Sany send concrete?

Yi Xiaogang replied that how high the building can be built, how high Sany can send the concrete.

Yi Xiaogang's bold words are backed by Sany's strong technical foundation.

At present, Sany has a R&D team of more than 5,000 people, which is the largest team in China's construction machinery industry. Sany has also set up 23 research institutes and 138 product research institutes in the United States, Germany and other parts of the world. It has established *5652 enterprise technology center, national postdoctoral research station, 2 provincial enterprise technology centers, 2 provincial engineering technology research centers and 1 provincial industrial design center. Such R&D strength can support Sany's sales scale of 200 billion.

In particular, the completion of the company's complete innovation platform has made Sany invincible in technology research and development. In January this year, the construction of Sany's innovation platform won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the reason given by the judges of the National Science and Technology Progress Award is that Sany Heavy Industry has embarked on a technological leapfrog road for private equipment manufacturing enterprises, realized the localization of the core technology of major national equipment, and made outstanding contributions to enhancing the status of China's construction machinery products in the world. On the day of receiving the award, Xiang Wenchang breathed a sigh of relief, and he excitedly told the media that this is the country's affirmation of Sany's overall innovation ability, and it is also a good note for Sany's rapid growth.

Users in the industry know that the entire enterprise innovation platform won the second prize of the National Technological Progress Award, although the bonus is not much, but the gold content is particularly high. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, only 21 enterprises have won the award, and Sany Heavy Industry is the first enterprise in the construction machinery industry to win the award.

Standing at the starting point of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", Sany has a new dream: to build a "kingdom" of construction machinery of *5653, comparable to the world's first-class industry giants. In the third venture of internationalization, we are steadily moving towards the goal of "exceeding 100 billion yuan in sales and entering the world's top 500".