Changsha Evening News: Overcoming rigidity with softness, flexible manufacturing has gradually become the mainstream

Flexible manufacturing, in the field of public life, is still an unfamiliar word.

However, from the "Made in China 2025" program the year before last, to the "Two Sessions" last year, and then to the previous G20 summit, "flexible production" and "flexible manufacturing" have always attracted much attention.

In recent years, in the Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone, single-variety, large-scale "rigid production" products have gradually withdrawn from the enterprise, and multi-variety, small-batch "flexible manufacturing" products are in the ascendant. Sany Heavy Industry, Yipai CNC, Yuhuan Intelligence and other enterprises have shifted from "rigid production" to "flexible manufacturing".

Flexible manufacturing enables the simultaneous processing of several different parts

In the eyes of industry insiders, from a manufacturing country to a manufacturing power, from the traditional economy to the intelligent economy, a key to China's economic transformation is how to shift from "rigid production" to "flexible production".

Rigid production, embodied in the large-scale production of products, meets the needs of the society for a large number of industrial products.

With the upgrading of consumption structure, the buyer's market and consumers personalized, customized, and timeliness requirements are becoming increasingly prominent, and meeting the flexible production of "diversified, small-scale, and controllable cycle" is the key to the future survival and success of enterprises.

This novel production method has been demonstrated in small and medium-sized garment manufacturing enterprises in coastal areas before. Nowadays, it has been widely used in the field of automobile manufacturing in Changsha.

Zhu Genghong, chairman of Changsha Yipai CNC Co., Ltd., has a lot of feelings about this.

"'Flexible manufacturing' is extremely flexible because it can process several different parts at the same time. Today's dazzling car models and a wide variety of configurations on the market are largely due to the flexible production system, which not only reduces the cost of automobile manufacturing, but also reduces the selling price. Zhu Genghong said.

Flexible production methods have become the mainstream in the enterprises in the park

In the interview, the reporter can see the production picture of "flexible manufacturing" everywhere. In a school of CNC, personalized customization has become the core competitiveness of enterprises.

The company's first mobile phone cover defect detection machine developed a few days ago, using human-like vision for automatic identification, which not only improves the detection efficiency, but also has an accuracy rate of more than 99% for multiple defect detection, subverting the detection process.

In Zhu Genghong's view, the high-precision engine piston production line is a star product of CNC control. "For example, the CNC piston elliptical lathe, using linear servo technology, can more flexibly and accurately control the processing shape of the piston of the high-power marine diesel engine."

Walking into the No. 18 workshop of Sany Heavy Industry, fountains and palm trees are distributed alternately, and the atmosphere of modernization and intelligence is blowing in the face. "This is the world's largest intelligent factory with an area of 5655, and it is also an intelligent manufacturing system integrating advanced automation hardware equipment and digital management system." Pan Ruigang, deputy general manager and information officer of Sany Group, introduced.

The reporter learned that at present, the No. 18 workshop has realized the flexible integration of various elements such as people, equipment, materials, and processes in production.

"At present, the construction machinery industry has rebounded strongly, in February this yearMixer trucksUp 96%, pump trucks up 91%, trailer pumps up 127%, and the product is in short supply in the entire market. Pan Ruigang said that despite this, Sany Heavy Industry still completed the production task on schedule, thanks to the flexible manufacturing system adopted in the workshop.

Today, the 8 production lines of the No. 18 workshop of Sany Heavy Industry can realize the mixed flexible production of 69 kinds of products, and the traditional cranes, excavators, fire trucks, pump trucks and other products have this flexible production mode. The C2M (customer-to-factory) production method has been adopted and applied by many other companies.

Big data is the key to "flexible manufacturing".

Judging from the interview, the essence of flexible production is to make the production process dominated by manufacturers and transformed into consumer-led. Therefore, the use of big data technology and thinking to integrate consumers and producers has become the key.

In the application of big data, enterprises can find the market faster through the collection and analysis of a large amount of data, and at the same time, let consumers participate in the production process by opening up the production process.

In the collection and mining of big data, Sany Heavy Industry has always been in the forefront of the industry. "Through intelligent hardware equipment and digital information systems, we can collect and store a large amount of data information, including user needs, product information, equipment information and production plans." Pan Ruigang said that based on the processing and analysis of big data, it is possible to formulate a suitable production plan and effectively allocate various manufacturing resources.

Pan Ruigang said that in terms of material transportation, Sany shares its own manufacturing system with the supplier's material system, and once the material inventory is insufficient, the supplier can directly supply the supplier according to the data.