The concept of Industry 4.0, which marks the fourth industrial revolution, has swept the world and has become a hot topic in China's manufacturing industry. Domestic manufacturing industries have sought their own smart manufacturing path. As a typical discrete component manufacturing company, China's supercapacitor leader Jixing Technology is also exploring the implementation of this concept in the production of super capacitors.
Supercapacitors are an emerging industry in the past decade. With the expansion of the industry, they have quickly experienced the process of manual production, semi-automation and automation. In order to meet the increasingly stringent requirements of customers, Jixing Technology has been moving from semi-automatic to intelligent automation production since 2010. The person in charge of the company said that in view of the complexity of the manufacturing process of supercapacitor manufacturing, including the manufacture of pole pieces and the welding of materials, the automation requirements for manufacturing equipment are high, the investment is large, and the intelligent upgrade of the factory is in accordance with the "high standard positioning, systematic layout, and points. The implementation of the strategy of “step implementation, key breakthrough” aims at an intelligent automated manufacturing system that fully realizes machine interconnection. Taking the assembly process as an example, on the basis of in-depth understanding of key processes, the engineering and technical team independently developed a more suitable and efficient assembly automation line based on the principles of efficiency, economy and control, and mastered the independent research and development of key process equipment. Upgrade and replace the ability to ensure unique process technology control. “The factory is working hard to improve the controllability of the production process, reduce manual intervention on the production line, and move towards intelligent manufacturing.”
While distributing and implementing production automation, Jixing Technology has independently developed a production management system, which has realized on-site production data collection and traceability throughout the entire process. It not only collects production line data in a timely and accurate manner, but also arranges reasonable planning and production progress. Control the quality data of the product's full production cycle. From data collection, analysis, to engineering capability assessment, online digitization of the product manufacturing process is achieved. In addition, the introduction of the product development system ensures that each product's development documents and mass production operation documents are complete and complete, fully guaranteeing that each product's design and production introduction process is identifiable, traceable and controllable. The introduction of ERP and CRM systems is organically integrating the production, supply and operation data of enterprises.
The core concept of Industry 4.0 is intelligent factory, intelligent production and intelligent logistics. Jixing Technology is making great efforts to build its own intelligent and automated manufacturing system. At the same time, it is also actively developing upstream, and is gradually deploying materials including materials and external processing. The upstream suppliers establish an exchange system for information and data, and establish a networked, distributed production, and logistics facility system to form an effective management of the entire supply chain. At the same time, according to the customer's personalized and customized requirements, the material is personalized, through the improvement of product and production information system, the implementation of flexible processing platform, the information integration of supply chain, and the overall flexible manufacturing capability Speed, order cycle is significantly shortened, meeting the requirements of zero-stock for downstream customers.
The road is long and the road is long, I will search for it. According to the person in charge mentioned above, Jixing Technology has only begun the initial stage of intelligent upgrading of manufacturing systems. In Industry 4.0, it is just a primary school student. "In addition to the construction of the manufacturing system itself, there are still a lot of work to be done on the management changes at the organizational level and the construction of the industrial ecosystem. The road we have to explore is still very long."