Top 10 News on China Rubber Industry in 2018 - No. 7: Intelligent Manufacturing Has Become the Direction of Industrial Technology Upgrading

19 February 2019 | Source from China Rubber Journal

In 2018, intelligent manufacturing was deeply promoted in the rubber industry, becoming the first choice for new projects and technological transformation & upgrading. Many tire companies have announced the construction of “smart factories” overseas. Hereinto, the newly-built Double Coin Thai Factory has adopted the “4411” pattern, and built four sets of automated stereoscopic warehouse system, four sets of automatic conveying system, one set of semi-product AGV conveying system and one set of informatization management system, creating a brand new intelligentized factory of all-steel tire. On June 23, the Doublestar Dongfeng Tyre Industry 4.0 Intelligentized Factory came into operation, with the plan to upgrade the relocated Doublestar Dongfeng Tyre subsidiary to a “smart” factory. On September 17, the MESNAC Smart Factory Experience Center was officially launched, creating a new industrial manufacturing practice pattern. Zhongce Rubber introduced the concept of Ali Cloud ET Industrial Brain. In the transformation of old factories, Big Data accurately guided production, procurement and R&D, and extended from rubber mixing process to the depth to realize intelligent development. Shandong SNTON is the first smart factory among domestic steel cord enterprises. Its center control hall, production line, inspecting, sorting and packing process and stereoscopic warehouse have all achieved intelligence. Shanghai Warrior Shoes launched the “Warrior City” development plan. The core was “online manufacturing”, which made all processes develop in the direction of automation, intelligence and datamation. The domestic self-developed hand cart tire spring automatic package forming machine has been put into use in two key enterprises of Zhongce Rubber and Sichuan Yuanxing, greatly improving the efficiency and quality of hand cart tire forming.

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