Jinhai Heavy Industry Company (JHI) plans to spend RMB500 million on digital transformation, with business contracts to be signed before June 2017.
Last July, JHI announced an investment of RMB3 billion in the construction of an intelligent shipyard that is sophisticated and flexible according to the requirements of 'one workshop, one shipyard, one system'. The intelligent upgrading will lay equal emphasis on hardware and software.
JHI will bring in several dozen units of intelligent manufacturing equipment, construct an intelligent steel stockyard, intelligent workshop, intelligent tube workshop, intelligent coating workshop and an intelligent shipyard. Enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution system (MES) and other information systems and software will be installed to control the hardware and link the whole process from design, manufacturing, logistics, and quality to on-site operations.
Suo Zhe, Director of JHI Chief Engineer's Office said, "according to the principle of 'overall planning, step-by-step implementation', we will primarily focus on the construction of automatic production lines and improve the capabilities of lean production and flexible manufacturing in the first phase."
Suo said the project is expected to be completed by the end of the year. In addition, the newest technology like double-curved-surface steel plate bending machines will be co-developed, "to explore a path to intelligent upgrading that fits in with shipbuilding sector."
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