What About Xiamen ABB Switchgear Co., Ltd.?
company profile
Xiamen ABB Switchgear Co., Ltd. (referred to as "the company") has been focusing on the field of medium voltage switches since its establishment in 1992, providing customized products and solutions according to the different needs of customers. The benchmark in the pressure switch industry.
In the past ten years, the products of the switch industry have tended to be homogenized, the market competition in the industry has become more and more intense, and the price sensitivity has become higher; at the same time, the needs of the market and customers are constantly changing, from a single product to more Solutions for steering systems. In order to maintain the status of the industry benchmark, the company must realize product differentiation through digital and intelligent solutions, provide customers with higher value to meet changing market demands, and improve market responsiveness and efficiency through intelligent manufacturing, and reduce operating costs. To enhance the company's core competitiveness.
In recent years, with the introduction of the national "Made in China 2025" macro policy and the deepening of the concept of "Industry 4.0" at home and abroad, the scale of China's smart manufacturing market has continued to grow and has become the fastest growing market in the world. The company also put forward a clearer and firmer digitalization and intelligence strategy in due course, and decided to promote the digitalization and intelligence of product solutions, and the digitalization and intelligence of operation and manufacturing in parallel. The combination is called "digitalization strategy" as the company's core strategy.
In 2014, in response to the policy orientation of Xiamen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government's "cross-island development", as well as ABB Group's "deep cultivation in China" strategy and the need for resource integration, ABB Group announced an investment of RMB 2 billion to build ABB's largest innovation and manufacturing base in the world— —ABB Xiamen Industrial Center. Taking the construction of ABB Xiamen Industrial Center as an opportunity, the company started in 2016 and focused on the construction and upgrading of smart factories from 2017 to 2019. From October 2018 to May 2019, the "cross-island relocation" was completed in stages and the company was established in ABB Xiamen Industrial Center for operation and production.
solution
◆Plant and production line design and layout
The overall design idea of ABB Xiamen Industrial Center is based on an integrated new center to demonstrate digital operation and intelligent manufacturing as a whole. As the first joint venture of ABB Group in China, after years of accumulation of technology and experience, continuous investment in new technology and equipment and development of information systems, the company originally possessed very advanced manufacturing capabilities in the industry. In the past three or four years, due to the needs of the market and development, the company has increased investment in software and hardware, and a smart factory that fully reflects digitalization and intelligence has been formed.
The company is one of the core enterprises of ABB Xiamen Industrial Center. The smart factory project further strengthens the company's smart manufacturing capabilities by rearranging, transforming and upgrading its workshops and production lines for switch complete sets, components, sheet metal processing and services. In the planning and design of the smart factory, it fully analyzes the various links in the factory activities and the characteristics of the product process and production, studies the movement of materials, the entire logistics and information flow from raw materials to finished products, and straightens out the individual workshops and structures. relationship, so that the function of the overall layout of the factory is clear and reasonable. In addition, the planning and design of the company has also strengthened the planning and design of intelligent logistics. Demonstration and research are carried out according to the logistics flow, flow direction and flow distance between the built plant buildings, so as to make the factory layout more scientific, advanced and reasonable, so as to realize the logistics efficiency. Intelligent, reduce the amount of handling, turnover, in order to achieve the best economic benefits. The design of smart factories also makes full use of simulation and other technologies to improve design efficiency and effectiveness, reduce design errors and shorten design cycles.
◆Design development and product data management
The company's medium-voltage switch technology development has gone through several stages from foreign technology introduction, joint design and development, completely independent research and development and advanced technology output. In recent years, the development and application of digital technology has been increased, and a complete set of digital and intelligent solutions for medium voltage switches with international advanced level have been produced.
The company uses the digital customer collaboration platform to better understand the needs of the market and customers, and respond quickly to meet the needs of the market and customers, including the development and design of new products and solutions. In terms of product development and design, the company shares ABB's global technical resources, focuses on the needs of the Chinese market, and adopts the advanced door model of ABB Group for development project management. Design development cycle.
The digital collaborative design and development platform also includes computer-aided design ePLAN, Solidworks and MVE, etc., which can realize 3D design, rapid simulation, simulation and other functions to reduce design errors, improve design efficiency and effect, and shorten design and development project cycles. The technical database MVE of engineering design and the electrical design software ePlan can automatically guide the BOM to SAP, and automatically generate the wire number file and transmit it to the wire-cutting robot to achieve fast and accurate product manufacturing. Development and design systems such as MVE and Smarteam realize effective product data management, and the company realizes digital management of product development process and product development results through this platform. The company verifies or confirms the design scheme through inspections and tests at various stages. If problems are found in the process or opportunities for improvement and optimization are identified, relevant departments will promote corresponding improvement and optimization.
The company fully guarantees the design and manufacturing quality of the products from the organizational structure and process. In order to fully verify the performance, safety and reliability of the products internally, the company has established a 5,000-square-meter test and measurement center (laboratory), equipped with A large number of advanced testing and measuring equipment can carry out a series of type tests and reliability tests, and the laboratory has been certified by domestic and foreign authoritative organizations CNAS and TUV. In addition, the company regularly and irregularly conducts reliability tests and achieves product reliability growth.
Management Features and Highlights - ABB Smart Factory
Implementation effect
In recent years, the company has increased the construction of information system software and hardware to continuously improve the level of digitalization and intelligence. From 2017 to 2019, the company's information system software and hardware investment averaged around 30 million per year. Through the construction and upgrade of smart factories:
◆ The company has a deeper and faster understanding of the market and customer needs, quickly responds to market and customer needs to design and develop products and solutions, improve production capacity and production efficiency and ensure on-time delivery, provide better and more timely products and services, and improve customer satisfaction. Satisfaction has also brought continuous growth of the company's business
◆ Intelligent manufacturing improves operation and production efficiency, increases production capacity, and reduces operating costs. The company's production capacity reaches 28,000 medium-voltage switchgear, 71,000 indoor circuit breakers, and 250,000 outdoor components
◆ The smart factory strengthens the company's global positioning as a major manufacturing base in the Asia-Pacific region for ABB's medium-voltage switchgear, further laying a solid foundation for the company's development strategy of deeply cultivating the Chinese market and strengthening the global market layout, and the company has also entered a new stage of development
