Industry promotion in Fujian “class robot” came to the Fuding government enterprises to promote automation to enhance the manufacturing industry reporter solemn correspondent Leishun

Our news (reporter solemn correspondent Lei Shun) on the assembly line, they are constantly installing parts; In the finished product shop, they move goods lightly and neatly… Although the functional forms are different, they have a common name – automated production line, Fuding manufacturing owners call it “robot-like”.

Resources are increasingly tight, and how do some enterprises that originally rely on cheap labor and resource consumption to survive turn around and seek breakthroughs? Under the promotion of the government and the leadership of industry associations, 28 leading carburetor enterprises in Fuding City have established industry-university-research strategic cooperation alliances with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and China Machinery Industry Association to jointly promote automation and rapidly increase production capacity.

Truncation, transfer, stamping, forming, testing… On the 18th, in the finishing workshop of Huayi Locomotive Factory in Fuding City, the reporter saw that the manipulator on the production line was repeating a simple action, and a red steel bar became the parts of the engine after ten seconds.

Automated transformation, so that Huayi real taste the sweetness. “One robot can replace more than 30 workers. Through more than three years of automation, the number of employees has decreased from 1,300 at the end of 2008 to 1,000 now, but the production capacity has increased by 50 percent.” Finishing shop manager Fan Yongliang is a witness to this change.

When he first came to Huayi in 2007, Fan Yongliang was engaged in the finished assembly of carburetor connectors. At that time, there were more than 300 assemblers like him, each assembling about 1,000 pieces a day. In 2011, after the automation of the workshop, one person operated a machine and assembled a carburetor every seven seconds.

There are also semi-automated assembly lines in Huayi’s workshop. “Before, the goal of an automation device was to replace four or five people. Now our philosophy is that a machine is worth investing in as long as it can free one person.” Zhu Jianling, chief engineer of Huayi, said that at present, the factory is developing a production line of CNC equipment instead of manual robots, which can double the production efficiency and reduce the workers by more than 30% after being put into use.

The automation of Huayi Locomotive factory is to introduce foreign advanced technology, carry out transformation and design, and make it conform to the actual production of enterprises. Compared with purchasing automation equipment directly from abroad, the cost is greatly reduced.

“An automation equipment, purchased from abroad to more than 10 million yuan, through the introduction, digestion, absorption, and then design and manufacture, as long as 5 million yuan.” Zhu Jianling said that since 2000, Huayi has cooperated with Tsinghua University to transform the production line, first trying semi-automation, and slowly developing to full automation.

“Production automation is an inevitable choice for industrial transformation and upgrading. On the one hand, it is difficult to find workers and labor costs are rising, and on the other hand, profit margins are gradually falling, how to do? The equipment helps.” Provincial carburetor industry Association vice president, Fuding City Fengtai carburetor manufacturing company chairman Zhang Chuanjian said. At the beginning of last year, he began to plan to integrate the existing automation resources of the carburetor industry in Fuding City, promote automation applications, and promote the upgrade of the carburetor industry.

“In recent years, more and more Fuding automation production enterprises. There are more than 1,000 kinds of carburetor industry products, if you can play their respective strengths, learn from each other’s strengths, automation can be rapidly promoted to further improve the level of carburetor enterprise production automation.” Zhang Chuanjian said.

The combined efforts of government and enterprise to promote automation are showing results. For every 100 motorcycle carburetors produced in China, 40 come from Fuding, Mr. Zhang said. For every 100 general-purpose machine carburetors produced, 58 came from Fuding; For every 100 motorcycle carburetors and 100 general machine carburetors exported, 23.3 and 44 came from Fuding, respectively. Carburetor is becoming the business card of “Made by Fuding”.