In September this year, the international marketing company of Sany Heavy Industry, a construction machinery enterprise in Changsha, Hunan Province, received a special order from overseas, which has special manufacturing requirements for the top main power, front leg, chassis, control system and coloring, and such a pump truck, the other party only ordered one.

Do you get a list like this? Can the existing production line meet the production requirements of this special pump truck?

810-001489-016 “Of course you do! In just 17 days, the pump that met the customer’s needs was off the line.” Rao Youfu, director of intelligent manufacturing of Sany Heavy Industry pumping Division, told this reporter.

Originally, the secret of Sany Heavy Industry is the flexible production line of Changsha 18 smart factory, which was put into use this year. “The original manufacturing cycle took about 28 days, but after the flexible modification of the production line, the manufacturing cycle was shortened by nearly 40%.” Rao Youfu said with a smile.

Flexible manufacturing, for the general public, may still be a somewhat unfamiliar term. However, in recent years, “flexible production” and “flexible manufacturing” have been concerned, in addition to large-scale rigid production products, multi-variety, small-batch flexible manufacturing products are on the rise, and many enterprises have tried flexible manufacturing.

What makes flexible Manufacturing attractive? How to 810-001489-016 view the development prospects of flexible manufacturing. In this regard, the reporter conducted an interview.

Meet differentiated consumer needs

In Geely’s Proton factory in Malaysia, Guangzhou Mingluo Equipment Co., Ltd. undertakes more than 70 robots, with an automation degree of more than 80%. In this project, the total combination system of Mingluo can meet the random production of 7 models.

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What does it mean to have multiple models in line and in random production?

Yao Weibing, chairman of Mingluo Equipment, told this reporter that after the transformation of the flexible total spelling system of Mingluo, multiple models can be rolled off the line from a production line, and at most, their flexible production line can meet the requirements of producing 11 models.

In this process, it is the flexible and intelligent products and solutions proposed by Mingluo relying on digital technical means and information management system, from gradually realizing small-batch and low-cost flexible intelligent production, to empowering the transformation 810-001489-016 of manufacturing industry with common technology and common management mode, and from the transformation of automotive equipment industry. Towards a broader application of large equipment industry.

Like Mingluo, it is the desire of many manufacturing enterprises to achieve flexible manufacturing and meet more personalized production needs. So, what is flexible manufacturing?

The International Production Engineering Research Association pointed out that flexible manufacturing system is an automated manufacturing system that can produce any range of product families with minimal human intervention, and the flexibility of the system is usually limited by the product family considered in the design of the system.

In contrast, rigid production is usually reflected in the large-scale production of products, which meets the social demand for a large number of industrial products. With the upgrading of the consumption structure, the increase of the buyer’s market and the personalized, customized and timeliness requirements of consumers, and the flexible production and flexible manufacturing of “diversified, small-scale and controllable cycle”, the market demand is increasingly strong.