HEFEI,
China, Sept. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent
years, Anhui, a province in
eastern China, has been pursuing
high-quality development across the entire spectrum of new
industrialization and endeavoring to make manufacturing
become high-end, smart, and green.
In Ma'anshan City, significant changes have been taking place to
the city's economic mainstay steel industry. With expanded product
catalogue and application of more scientific and technological
innovations, the steel products have successfully entered into
high-end market and added value of the steel products has seen a
dramatic increase. Baowu Group Masteel Rail Transit Materials
Technology Co., Ltd., a leading enterprise in Ma'anshan, has
mastered core technologies for manufacturing wheels for high-speed
trains, and also established an advanced and stable
manufacturing system. The company's premium axle products have been
exported to over 70 countries and regions worldwide.
Lighthouse factories, assessed by the World Economic Forum
in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, have been considered
as pacesetters in the intelligent and digital transformation of the
global manufacturing sector. Anhui
is home to five such lighthouses, ranking third in the country. One
of them is the Hefei Haier COSMO Intelligent Control Interconnected
Factory. The factory has reduced the time required for its standard
operating procedure (SOP) from three to four hours to less than
three seconds by employing a virtual industrial engineer. This
virtual engineer is capable of making real-time adjustments and
selecting the best one from thousands of solutions, resulting in a
30 percent increase in efficiency.
More than 80 percent of industrial enterprises above designated
size in Anhui Provnince have launched their digital transformation.
Over 50 percent of them have achieved digital transformation. The
new landscape of intelligent manufacturing is taking shape at a
fast pace.
Tongling City located in central Anhui
Province is the home to the first copper industrial
base of the People's Republic of
China. In the workshop of the Tongling Nonferrous Metals
Group Co., Ltd. Jinguang Copper
Branch, accompanied by the roar of machines, the slag
generated in the production process is being recycled via a series
of processes including slow-cooling, crushing, and screening.
"Through technological upgrading and transformation, we can recover
as many as 14,300 tonnes of copper metal a year, with total
resources equivalent to the reserve of a medium-sized copper mine,"
said Wen Yan, general manager of the
branch.
To accelerate the green development of the manufacturing sector,
Anhui has taken comprehensive
measures, namely, reducing output, controlling production capacity,
and adjusting structure at the source; bolstering technological
capabilities and energy efficiency in process control; setting
models for enterprises and driving recycling in the
end-of-pipe treatment. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period
(2016-2020), the energy consumption per unit of the added value for
industrial enterprises above designated size in Anhui decreased by 20.05 percent. Currently,
80 percent of national-level industrial parks and 75 percent of
provincial-level industrial parks have completed recycling
transformation.
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SOURCE The 2024 World Manufacturing Convention