By gaining the upper hand in the development of the IoT technologies, the city of Wuxi has materialized the fusion-based grafting of its advantages of the first generation IT with the conventional industries to promote the application of IoT in industrial production to shore up the manufacturing advantages.
As the largest professional manufacturer of lithium battery automation equipment in China, Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co. Ltd has finalized its cooperation with IBM for the development of the pilot cloud platform.
With the pilot cloud, designers can work together on a single platform with a single keyboard and a single screen.
The "pilot cloud" can also enable workshop managers to gain real-time "insight" into the production of various workstations, the number of products completed, the change of the designs and missing information, etc.
Since the implementation of intelligent production, the company has fulfilled a scheduled delivery rate of 95% with the inventory turnover rate increased by 30%.
The IoT speedy train has also enabled more and more "wisdom factory" in Wuxi to thrive. The stamping workshop production line of Wuxi SAIC-Datong Optimization Design has made it to slash its work time from the original 2 hours to only 9 minutes now.
Wuxi Products Crown Technology Co., Ltd. has helped Heilan Home to create a streamline RFID reading system which is able to read the information of a whole box of clothing in a matter of seconds.
At the same time, the IoT plus industry mode has also profoundly changed the industrial manufacturing status in Wuxi. Wuxi CRRC Times Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. has developed an internationally advanced large-scale wind turbine blade robot grinding production line in collaboration with the Wuxi Institute of CRRC Zhuhou Institute Co. Ltd and the Central China University of Science and Technology.
In recent years, under the impetus of the IoT industry, Wuxi’s high-tech industry has increased its proportion in the city’s entire industrial output value from 36.7% to 43.4%.
From January through July, the city’s large scale industrial enterprises registered 918.798 billion yuan of total output value, a year-on-year growth of 16.4% and setting a new high in terms of the growth rate in recent years.
