"Chinese Entrepreneur" visited the representatives of "Shuangshi Enterprise" and walked into Sany Renewable Energy



Recently, "Chinese Entrepreneur" joined hands with famous domestic economists to visit the second stop of "Shuangshi Enterprise" - Sany Renewable Energy Nankou Host Smart Factory. Peng Xu, Deputy General Manager and Chief Digital Officer of Sany Renewable Energy, gave a warm reception. After the event, China Entrepreneur released a report on Sany Renewable Energy's digital and intelligent transformation on the homepage of its official website, the full text of which is as follows:

Abstract: Always redefining oneself and re-exploring an industry

It's a transformational journey that's deep enough.

In 2015, the wave of digitalization began, and a road of change that swept all areas of the manufacturing industry began.

In the past eight years, digitalization has become a key development strategy for almost all manufacturing companies. With the continuous integration of digitalization and intelligence, while continuing to empower the development of enterprises themselves, the extension of digital intelligence is also expanding.

This is what we call a "double solid enterprise" in our minds.

On July 11, "Chinese Entrepreneur" visited the southern intelligent manufacturing base of Lenovo Group and felt its development path of "digital and real integration", and joined hands with experts to open the second stop of the "double real enterprise" and walked into the host smart factory of Sany Renewable Energy South Exit.

Sany Renewable Energy is a global wind power solution provider specializing in the R&D, manufacturing and sales of wind turbines.

In the past 30 years of development history in China, the wind power industry has relied heavily on the production and manufacturing capacity of enterprises, and technological breakthroughs and production mode innovation in the industry have always been the source of power for the development of the industry. Therefore, since Sany Renewable Energy entered the field of wind power equipment manufacturing in 2008, it has taken technological improvement and innovation in the field of production and manufacturing as the key point to break the situation. In the course of 15 years of development, R&D and innovation have always been the core competitive advantages that Sany Renewable Energy values the most.

Nowadays, intelligent manufacturing has become the trend of future development, and digital transformation has long been integrated into the development of Sany Renewable Energy. In 2021, Sany Renewable Energy successfully seized the tuyere of the "dualization" transformation, and achieved sales of more than 10 billion yuan through the improvement of process links and full-cycle digital management, which not only achieved leapfrog growth, but also provided a reference sample for the high-quality development of the entire wind power industry.

Zhou Fugui, Chairman of Sany Renewable Energy, said, "The digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises is a top project. At present, Nankou Industrial Park is version 1.0 of the whole machine intelligent manufacturing factory, and the industrial park in Chenzhou is version 2.0 of our intelligent manufacturing factory. ”

Sany Renewable Energy's goal is not limited to wind power. From digital top-level design, intelligent production and manufacturing of wind turbines, to the design, operation and maintenance of wind farms, and the construction, operation and management of power stations, Sany Renewable Energy has always been looking for new tracks and growth points in the industrial chain, and more businesses are still accumulating, waiting for an opportunity to explode in a centralized manner.

1. Intelligent experience: dare to do, dare to try

Adhering to the concept of "Made in China 2025" and "Industry 4.0" deep integration of the Internet of Things and informatization, Sany Renewable Energy takes the automation of production lines, the integration of equipment, the intelligence of production, the visualization of operations and the digitalization of operations as the goals, and is committed to achieving a high-quality, efficient, low-consumption, clean and flexible digital production system.

Under the digital production system, less manpower, low energy consumption, and zero waste are the representative characteristics of Nankou host smart factory. Different from the industrial workers who come and go in the traditional manufacturing workshop, it is almost difficult to see the workers in the production area and production line of Sany Renewable Energy. Through the integration of robot application and lean production system, intelligent robots are used to replace manual labor in key processes, and processes such as distribution and quality inspection are also automated, so as to improve production efficiency and assembly quality reliability. Wind turbines, which weigh mostly in tons, have huge components and complex processes, but in Sany Renewable Energy's production workshop, the energy platform based on the Internet of Things can reduce repeated operations and improve energy efficiency while maintaining high equipment efficiency. In the multi-model mixed-line production process of orders, the industry-leading "pulsating" production system with flexible production capacity can achieve precise control of materials, standardization of packaging, and avoid waste.

Peng Xu, deputy general manager and chief digital officer of Sany Renewable Energy, believes that Sany Renewable Energy should firmly take the intelligent route. "The wind turbine itself is a highly intelligent product, and wind speed regulation, power generation capacity and wind turbine control are all closely related to intelligence." Peng Xu said that quality, cost and benefit are all important indicators for Sany to judge the effect of intelligent manufacturing, improve quality and reduce costs through intelligent manufacturing, and ultimately improve production efficiency and efficiency.

In Sany Renewable Energy's view, all digital and intelligent transformations serve the development of enterprises and the progress of the industry.

Due to the special production equipment and huge product scale of the wind power industry, the cost of Sany Renewable Energy's intelligent transformation is much higher than that of other manufacturing industries. However, Peng Xu said that if the operation and maintenance costs, brand building and the transformation of the production line are counted together, intelligence is definitely a cost-effective deal.

At the end of 2020, when Sany Renewable Energy had just completed its digital transformation, it was in the rush to install wind power in the wind power industry. With the help of the improvement of production efficiency after digital transformation, Sany Renewable Energy has created an industry miracle of "producing 800 wind turbines in 100 days" for a single production line.

Zhou Fugui believes that daring to do and dare to try is Sany Renewable Energy's successful experience in intelligent manufacturing. This is in line with the spirit that prevails within the group: do it wrong rather than miss it.

In 2021, relying on digitalization and intelligence, Sany Renewable Energy Nankou Smart Factory has gradually formed a high-quality, efficient, low-consumption, clean and flexible intelligent manufacturing system, and has also been recognized as an "Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprise" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Zhou Fugui said that Sany Renewable Energy hopes to lead the development of the industry and empower the wind power industry through its own efforts.

2. Self-evolution and redefinition

Jia Kang, founding dean of the Huaxia Institute of New Supply Economics, said in the survey that Sany Group and Sany Renewable Energy can achieve today's performance, which is inseparable from the opportunities of the era of reform and opening up.

Jia Kang believes that in the future development, Sany Group and Sany Renewable Energy should continue to closely integrate institutional innovation, scientific and technological innovation and management innovation on the existing basis, and seize the opportunities of the times. "In the past, we had a more mindset of missing out than doing wrong. And Trinity is just the opposite, and it is better to make mistakes than to miss it. This means that Sany actively participates in every round of innovation, which requires greater confidence. ”

Guan Qingyou, a well-known economist and president of the Institute of Financial Research, said that today's Sany Group has started from a small factory in the small county town of Lianyuan, Hunan, and has gone out of Hunan, to the whole country and to the world.

"From the beginning of special materials to the field of construction machinery after the transformation, Sany has continuously consolidated the foundation in the process of development and practiced the ability to take care of the house." In Guan Qingyou's view, Sany, which has firmly occupied the top position in the industry, has the biggest challenge at present: exploring no man's land. The so-called no man's land is that in the track of large industry and large manufacturing industry, enterprises with clear industry status are not changing the track and mode, but continuing to dig deep in the industry. For Sany, it is to continue to extend the industrial chain of construction machinery and stick to the industry position.

Guan Qingyou believes that industry and capital going overseas must be the only way for the development of enterprises. "Although there is still a lot of domestic space, whether it is wind power or photovoltaic and other fields, peers must not only compete in the domestic market, but compete on the world stage."

Wu Bofan, president of the New Species Research Institute and a business thinker, said that an enterprise must have the awareness and ability to cultivate new tracks, and be able to explore and try them, and today's Sany Renewable Energy has such capabilities. "The fan business is currently the most profitable, and other businesses are still in the development stage and need time to cultivate." Wu Bofan defined this type of enterprise as Nezha type of enterprise and Nezha type of business, the gestation period of this type of enterprise is particularly long, but after a certain period of time, Nezha-type business will achieve an explosion.

Wu Bofan believes that the reason why Sany Renewable Energy can survive in the fiercely competitive Chinese market is that it is always redefining itself, always exploring an industry, and "looking for a second growth curve when the momentum is right".

In Wu Bofan's view, today's Sany Renewable Energy has been significantly upgraded. "This ability to self-evolve and self-upgrade, and the attitude of upgrading and evolving as a habit, is worthy of reference by many enterprises."

In a prominent position in the Sany Renewable Energy workshop, the slogan of "Industry Serves the Country" is pasted. "It is necessary to improve the quality of products made in China as a whole and change the stereotype of the international market for low quality and low price made in China." Zhou Fugui said that quality changes the world is the mission put forward by Liang Wengen, the founder of Sany Group, and it is also the concept that Sany Renewable Energy has been practicing.

Zhou Fugui said that Sany Renewable Energy must adhere to innovation and exploration in the field of cutting-edge wind power technology, give full play to the company's advantages in the field of digitalization and intelligent manufacturing, continue to lead the high-quality development of the industry, and contribute Sany's wisdom to the world for China's wind power. "After stepping up to the level of 10 billion yuan in revenue, Sany Renewable Energy is committed to strengthening its three core competencies of R&D, service and manufacturing, promoting digitalization and intelligence, and leading the transformation of China's wind power to high-end manufacturing."

Source: Chinese entrepreneurs