In terms of sustainable development, the factory through independent innovation of cloud platform, cloud computing, AI (artificial intelligence) technology, from the supplier to the client to open the full link, promote the coordinated development of the ecological chain, and build a green intelligent manufacturing capability. The factory has built an “agile digital twin platform” based on CAE/CAM simulation technology to simulate product performance and manufacturing process, covering 100% of development projects, identifying problems in advance and shortening design iteration cycle.

The factory uses digital and intelligent technology to empower suppliers, improve the qualified rate of incoming materials, and reduce supplier inventory. For example, AI vision and SCADA (data acquisition and monitoring) are used to empower suppliers to realize intelligent inspection of core suppliers’ parts and intelligent control of key parameters. Through the intelligent scheduling and supplier collaboration platform, the inventory of more than 300 core suppliers is online and supply and demand management, reducing supplier inventory and improving the supply integration rate.

In addition, the factory also set up a digital transformation office, and configured full-time IT, OT personnel, transformation backbone team, more than 300 people to participate in the agile delivery team work, the establishment of 10 cross-functional agile delivery teams, quick iteration per week, cumulative completion of more than 300 digital project implementation.

The spillover of the lighthouse effect of the United States enables China’s intelligent manufacturing

Midea Kitchen Hot Shunde factory with China Unicom, KUKA, Schneider, Ericsson, the United States cloud smart number, ON Zhaopin, Shanghai Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology and other more than 30 well-known enterprises and universities cooperation, to build an ecosystem. In recent years, in addition to the digital and intelligent transformation of the group’s internal factories, Midea is also accelerating the deployment of external empowerment.

Taking Meiyun Wisdom Number as an example, relying on the practice of “Midea lighthouse factory”, it continues to sum up and accumulate successful experience in many industries to form a lighthouse factory construction methodology, from the “top-level planning” to “land construction” of lighthouse factories, and jointly with ecological partners, it creates a one-stop “turnkey” lighthouse factory “from 0 to 1” for domestic manufacturing enterprises, widely serving more than 40 subsectors. It has won the recognition of more than 400 large enterprises, and provides leading digital solutions in vertical industries such as auto parts, electronic semiconductors, agricultural and animal husbandry food, home building materials, daily chemical and short process, helping the overall digital transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry.

Behind the transformation and upgrading of the lighthouse factory in the United States, the end-to-end digital intelligent supply chain services provided by Ande Zhilian have played an important role. As an important logistics base of Midea Group, Ande Zhilian has built a full coverage of the performance capacity from the manufacturing supply chain to the circulation supply chain, and then to the retail and after-sales supply chain, and actively promoted the 1 (full link) +3 (production logistics, a plate of goods, delivery and loading) supply chain services. At present, it has provided end-to-end digital intelligence supply chain services for more than 3,000 brand enterprises, mainly concentrated in the leading enterprises in household appliances, 3C, FMCG and other industries.