“This year, the main economic indicators of the tire industry are all negative growth. The sales revenue and profits of the Chinese tire industry have fallen sharply year-on-year, which is a phenomenon that has been rare for many years.â€
At the National Conference on the Management and Export of Tires and Related Industries held recently, Deng Yachen, president of the China Rubber Industry Association, said that the most immediate problem facing Chinese tire companies is the decline in orders.
Standard confusion drags China's tire industry intelligent manufacturing hind legs
It is reported that, besides, homogenization competition, overcapacity, rising labor costs, rising land prices, increasing environmental pressures, reducing tax incentives and export weakness, and trade protectionism are also plaguing China's tire industry.
Faced with the difficulties and challenges in the development of the industry, experts attending the meeting agreed that smart manufacturing will become the breakthrough and key to the transformation and upgrading of China's tire industry.
Businesses are involved in smart manufacturing
Some recent industry forums and exhibitions have shown that smart manufacturing is no longer a patent of foreign tire giants, and many tire companies in China have begun to “eat crabs.â€
According to Deng Yaxuan's introduction at the meeting, tire backbone enterprises such as Sen Qilin, Double Star , Triangle, Delicatessen , China Strategic, Double Money, Aeolus , Wanli, etc., have all started intelligent, digital attempts, and related investments are increasing.
She hopes that tire companies will be able to upgrade their equipment, drive technological innovation, process innovation and management innovation, and change the development model that used to rely on low-cost labor.
The intelligent way of the rising star of the industry, Sen Qilin, has become a beautiful landscape in the domestic tire industry. Lin Yulong, general manager of Senlinlin Tire Co., Ltd., said at the meeting that the Sennimin Thai plant will become the world’s highest level of automation, information, and intelligence in the tire industry. By March 2016, it will reach an annual output of 12 million high-performance semi- Steel radial tire production capacity, and the entire production line employs only 470 people.
It is understood that the Qingdao Double Star 4.0 plant will be completed before the end of this year, its green, green tire factory 4.0, will become a "green tire intelligent production demonstration base."
It is reported that radial tire production of Fengshen Tire also achieved full coverage of automated production lines.
How does the “acceleration†of transformation and upgrading brought about by smart manufacturing? In manufacturing, productivity and product quality are always the most concerned.
Lin Xiaolong said: "There are fewer workers, but the production efficiency has increased. We can now exceed 80% of the equipment utilization rate compared to the traditional production line of only 60%."
A responsible person of Race Wheel Jinyu said to Tireworld.com that intelligent manufacturing has shortened the company's new product development cycle by 70%, reduced the defective product rate by 60%, and reduced the company's operating cost by 20%.
A participant from a tire company told the tire world network that in recent years, business operations have been difficult, product exports have been blocked, and inventory has increased. How to use smart manufacturing to reduce costs and increase production efficiency has become the company's current focus. This is also the main purpose of his participation in this meeting.
More than tire companies, tire equipment manufacturers are also making frequent efforts in smart manufacturing. Ma Shuanghua, vice general manager of Sachi Huachen Machinery (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., said at the meeting that the company's self-developed "semi-steel radial tire intelligent one-time molding machine" can shorten the tire molding time by 1/3, and reduce the labor cost. In half, it also reduces worker errors and makes tires more stable.
Industry standards urgently need to be unified
Domestic tire companies have more and more successful cases in smart manufacturing. However, the development of new things will always face challenges. Some phenomena indicate that the intelligence of Chinese tire companies still has a long way to go.
"In the 1990s, the tire industry once popularized a saying that 'it wasn't a project to die, and the project was to find death'. Now the Chinese tire industry is moving toward the era of 'machine generation' of intelligent manufacturing, not on the 'machine generation'. People are just waiting to die."
Sun Huaijian, the general manager of Jiatong Tire Co., Ltd., highlighted the ambivalence of Chinese tire companies that love and hate smart manufacturing.
Smart manufacturing can bring so many benefits to tire companies. Why do you have to compare intelligent manufacturing with “finding death�
When Sun Huaijian talked about intelligent manufacturing, he said that the automated production lines on tire-related processes have not yet become standardized and modularized, and they lack a unified industry standard.
According to reports, the same function of the equipment, because of different manufacturers, the choice of machinery, electrical components are not the same, the price gap is relatively large, the production line parts of the commonality is poor. This will cause great trouble for future maintenance, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and renovations.
The media learned that a well-known tire company in China had suffered from a loss of uniform standards. After careful inspection and investigation, the company plans to introduce an automated production line as a complete set, but when it was introduced, it found that the production line could not be matched with existing equipment.
“The confusion of industry standards has seriously affected the promotion of smart manufacturing. The pressure of economic downturn has caused tire manufacturers to stretch out the hard-to-find smart devices. However, because the standards are not uniform, they cannot be used. Ultimately, they can only “look at the oceanâ€. The participants complained to Tireworld.com.
Some industry insiders believe that the realization of smart manufacturing must be based on a common system communication platform, and communication should be based on common standards. In the face of increasingly complex industrial systems, standardization has become an effective means of effective management. The chaotic industry standards have now become an important factor contributing to the smart manufacturing of Chinese tire companies.
It is understood that the National Standards Committee is also accelerating the construction of standard innovation research bases, actively playing the advantages of the newly established technical standards innovation bases of Zhongguancun, South China Center, and Guangzhou, and strengthening the collaborative development of technical standards, scientific innovation, and industrial upgrading.
In addition, Chinese tire companies are faced with many problems such as high costs, lack of talent, and lack of experience in achieving smart manufacturing. Chang Yi, deputy general manager of Shuangqin Group Co., Ltd., said that due to the high input costs of smart manufacturing, tire companies must grasp the input and output, and from easy to difficult, step by step implementation can not be rushed.
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