At the just-held 2023 National Petrochemical Intelligent Warehousing and Material Handling Technology Conference, Meng Qun, head of logistics industry of Schneider Electric Industrial Automation China, was invited to attend, and discussed the development trend of warehousing and logistics in the petrochemical industry with industry experts, and shared Schneider Electric intelligent logistics solutions and rich industry application and practical experience.

The petrochemical industry is a pillar industry of the national economy and plays an important role in promoting industrial upgrading of the national economy and driving economic growth. Entering the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s petrochemical industry ushered in a key period of transformation and upgrading, high-quality development, planning and construction of a large number of ultra-large ethylene plants, as a petrochemical enterprise to achieve operational excellence an important part of the upgrading and development of warehousing logistics has attracted much attention. Due to the constraints of land resources, labor resources and other conditions in recent years, as well as the changes in downstream customer demand, the diversified development of petrochemical products, and the continuous improvement of petrochemical enterprise production capacity, the warehousing and logistics model with plane warehouse as the core has been unable to support the sustainable development of petrochemical enterprises. How to accelerate the transformation to the intelligent warehousing and logistics with automated three-dimensional warehouses as the core? It has become a subject that petrochemical enterprises must overcome.

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Meng Qun, head of logistics industry of Schneider Electric Industrial Automation China, delivered a speech

Meng Qun said, “The intelligent development of petrochemical warehousing and logistics is a major trend, an important measure for petrochemical enterprises to move toward the middle and high-end, accelerate transformation and upgrading, and an inevitable choice to create competitive advantages under the new normal.” Schneider Electric has deep industry insight in the logistics industry, complete hardware and software product portfolio and strong innovation, can use standardized, modular, digital ideas, rapid deployment, reduce project costs, at the same time, the use of innovative technology to continuously enhance the openness, manageability, sustainability, and help petrochemical enterprises to build flexible, easy to control, environmentally friendly intelligent logistics system.”

For the key points of smart warehousing logistics planning and construction of petrochemical enterprises, Meng Qun believes that there are mainly six points, “One is to pay attention to the preliminary planning, synchronized with the design of the factory general drawing, the second is to fully consider the mode of transportation, different modes of transportation have a greater impact on warehousing planning and design, as well as the application of facilities and equipment, and the third is to strictly control the quality of automated warehouse construction to ensure stable operation.” The fourth is to attach great importance to the safety, environmental protection, fire system emergency design standards, and the fifth is to comprehensively consider the business scenario in the process of warehousing and logistics upgrade; The sixth is the full use of digital technology to open up all aspects of the former process to automated warehousing.”