The global digital wave is in full swing, all walks of life use artificial intelligence, Internet of things, cloud computing and other digital new technologies, such as in the production process, continue to increase the level of digitalization, automation and intelligence, in order to improve production efficiency while achieving cost reduction and efficiency. Continued investment in technology. In 2022, the R&D investment of Ningde Era was 15.51 billion yuan, an increase of 101.7% year-on-year, and continued to promote technology and product innovation.

Among them, in terms of green limit manufacturing innovation, Ningde Times strives to achieve three goals: first, to reduce the safety failure rate of cell monomeric from ppm(one part per million) level to ppb(one part per billion) level; The second is to ensure the reliability of the whole life cycle of the battery product; The third is to significantly improve production efficiency and create “TWh” level of super-scale high-quality delivery capabilities.

Ningde Times is committed to building a leading extreme manufacturing system, focusing on product quality, production efficiency, safety and other aspects of manufacturing capacity, using advanced analysis, digital twin simulation, 5G and edge computing/cloud computing and other technologies, innovative process, intelligent design, greatly improve production efficiency and product quality.

At present, Ningde Times has built an industrial Internet architecture based on 5G, relying on its technical advancement of high bandwidth, low delay and wide connection to solve the key problems of extreme manufacturing. And the next generation of pull wire successfully put into production, to achieve process and engineering upgrades, compared with the original pull wire single line production capacity significantly increased, unit investment significantly decreased, product quality to a new level.

Super cable is one of the results of extreme manufacturing in the Ningde era, the introduction of a large number of intelligent equipment, competitiveness is reflected in higher production efficiency, better product quality, lower production costs, has been put into use in 2022, the future will continue to promote. In terms of the competitiveness of the super cable, Ningde Times said in the performance conference call that the super cable is our independent research and development, not a simple purchase, the company has patents and Knowhow in it, and can continue to upgrade, and competitors are difficult to copy.

In addition, after the Ningde factory was awarded the “lighthouse factory” by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, the Sichuan Times Yibin Factory was again awarded the “lighthouse factory”, and by the end of 2022, the Ningde Times has the only two “lighthouse factories” in the lithium battery industry. The World Economic Forum pointed out that the Sichuan Times Factory has further applied artificial intelligence, industrial Internet of Things and flexible automation technology on top of the achievements of the Ningde Times Headquarters Lighthouse factory, achieving a 17% increase in production line speed, a 14% reduction in the rate of loss, and becoming the world’s first zero-carbon emission power battery production base.

It is understood that Sichuan Times is now one of the world’s largest power battery production bases, in terms of extreme quality management, Sichuan Times with high-precision visual inspection equipment and AI technology, can improve the identification accuracy of welding defects to the micron level, so that pinhole defects are nowhere to hide. As a beacon of sustainable development, Ningde Times has taken the lead in reducing product defect rates from PPM to PPB. At the same time, Ningde Times is copying the agile and flexible intelligent production experience and promoting it in 13 bases around the world, making positive contributions to the high-quality development of the new energy industry under Industry 4.0.