The strongest productivity ｜ Digital empowerment sings a new chapter in Haier’s green and intelligent creation.

Xinhuanet Beijing, May 30th (Grain Rain) The Tenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Circular Economy points out that vigorously developing circular economy is of great significance to ensuring the security of national resources, promoting the realization of peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality, and promoting the construction of ecological civilization.

With the acceleration of the "double carbon" process, cultivating new kinetic energy for green development has become an important component of high-quality development in the new era. Today, with the deep integration of the new generation of information technology and the traditional manufacturing industry, how to take advantage of the "double carbon" east wind and win a "green" future with the upstream and downstream partners in the industrial chain is the key to the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of today’s manufacturing industry.

The WEF Intelligent Industry Index Certification White Paper "Insight Report on Manufacturing Transformation" was released on the website of the World Economic Forum, and Haier was selected again, and its four factories were also selected as white paper cases.

The picture shows the World Economic Forum (WEF) announcing its selection as a new member of the Global Lighthouse Network in 2022.

Undoubtedly, under the new development pattern, with the increasing emphasis on the importance of "digital industrialization and industrial digitalization", Haier stands out among countless enterprises in China, creating an excellent demonstration model of global intelligent manufacturing, which is a model for the in-depth integration and development of digital economy and real economy.

Recently, following Haier Central Air Conditioning Interconnection Factory, Shenyang Haier Refrigerator Interconnection Factory and Tianjin Haier Washing Machine Interconnection Factory, Zhengzhou Haier Water Heater Interconnection Factory was selected as the eighth batch of global lighthouse factories.

Create a green and beautiful life experience

Ms. Du, who lives in Qingdao, found that after bathing, her skin often became dry and itchy, because the water heater was used for a long time and the internal scale was deposited. In fact, the general water heater needs to be cleaned regularly. If it is not cleaned in time, it will seriously affect the family’s bathing experience.

In order to fundamentally solve the troubles of users, in the scene of healthy water use of Haier electric water heater, clean water washing technology can sterilize the running water filter liner, and its long-term scale inhibition rate is as high as 99.9%. It can also start the purification and bacteriostasis mode with one key, realize the high temperature bacteriostasis of the whole liner at 80℃, kill 99.9% bacteria in the liner, and keep the water clean and healthy liner without manual cleaning. Let each user’s home bath water quality be more assured.

This is inseparable from the empowerment of Haier’s innovative technology. Innovate crystal gallbladder technology, completely subvert the traditional metal liner, and build an electric water heater without magnesium rods; Innovate deep drawing process, and eliminate the traditional 3-seam liner which is easy to corrode and leak. This also makes Haier water heater bring a better life to users, while it is more stable and durable, and its energy consumption is gradually reduced, and it has gradually become a green product that is deeply loved and trusted by consumers.

In addition to the comfortable experience of green, low carbon, environmental protection and energy saving brought by the user’s demand side, for the production side, digital technology can also run through R&D, design, production, operation, service and other links, enabling enterprises to reduce production costs, improve quality and increase efficiency from the source and process to the whole, and at the same time effectively reducing energy use and carbon emissions.

Through the high-speed operation of 5G+MEC platform, the material specifications of different products can be quickly identified, and with the high-precision 3D visual positioning system, the problems of slow data transmission operation speed and low assembly efficiency can be effectively solved.

Based on the digital platform of IOT equipment, the performance and process parameters of key equipment can be collected and analyzed, and the real-time monitoring of operation can be realized, achieving 100% interconnection and visualization. If there is any abnormality, the fault information will be directly pushed to the employee’s mobile phone remotely, so as to timely remind and remotely control, effectively improve production efficiency and reduce energy consumption.

Through the advanced next-generation information technologies, such as industrial Internet of Things, big data, 5G cloud computing and artificial intelligence, Zhengzhou Haier Water Heater Interconnection Factory has initiated 63 industrial technology integration applications, including 20 industrial 4.0 technologies and 43 advanced manufacturing technologies, which are in the forefront of the field of intelligent manufacturing of water heaters.

The picture shows the unmanned turnover of Zhengzhou Haier Water Heater Interconnection Factory.

Constantly practicing and accelerating energy-saving and low-carbon transformation

The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating the construction of a new pattern of China’s economic development, and the economic value brought by green, low-carbon and environmental protection needs to be supported by information technology and digital technology. Intelligent manufacturing is becoming a key breakthrough to achieve the goal of "double carbon".

Zhengzhou Haier water heater interconnection factory not only produces air energy water heaters and electric water heaters, but also opens up a production line for gas water heaters. For gas water heaters, it is very important to ensure the high efficiency, stability and energy saving of the heating link.

Through the hybrid technology of fuel and electricity, the single heating mode of traditional water heater is improved, and the problems such as the water temperature is suddenly cold and hot after turning off the water and the noise of frequent start and stop are solved, so that the constant temperature in the whole bath and the silent water use in the kitchen are truly realized. A closed combustion chamber is also built in, so that the combustion is stable, the water temperature is constant and does not fluctuate, the flue gas does not leak backward, and the firepower in the combustion chamber is ensured to be stable, more stable, more constant, safer and more energy-saving.

The gas water heater products produced by Zhengzhou Haier Water Heater Interconnection Factory are one of the powerful proofs that Haier Lighthouse Factory has carried out practical exploration around the realization path of "double carbon" goal. It is precisely because of this that Haier has made great breakthroughs in high-efficiency production and sustainable development from manufacturing in China to manufacturing in China with the help of advanced technology.

In Zhengzhou Haier Water Heater Interconnection Factory, from 2020 to 2021, the order response speed increased by 25%, the production efficiency increased by 31%, and the product quality increased by 26%, realizing high-precision, zero-defect end-to-end intelligent manufacturing and whole-process interconnection.

"Double carbon" will become the underlying logic supporting the development of digital economy. According to the relevant person in charge of Haier, through COSMOPlat kaos’s "one body and two wings" (one body: AIoT+digital innovation; Two wings: global purchasing resources allocation ability, mass customization order empowerment ability), Haier continues to accumulate "lighthouse experience" to build an ecological circle with users and resources in parallel.

Facing the booming market and increasing demand for high-end products and services, Haier Hot has established closer ties with suppliers, factories and customers. On the one hand, build a digital supplier management platform, which is interconnected with suppliers in real time, support suppliers to dynamically adjust material preparation and production capacity, and drive upstream suppliers to produce at full capacity, high quality and low cost; On the other hand, the establishment of a multi-energy intelligent service cloud platform can not only remotely operate and manage the client-side energy-supplying equipment, but also perform fault self-diagnosis, intelligent early warning and remote maintenance, so as to match the best energy-saving scheme for users and reduce energy waste.

Pictured: kaos builds the world’s first intelligent +5G mass customization demonstration and verification platform.

Light up the road of ecological green development

Relevant forecasts show that the comprehensive contribution rate of circular economy to China’s carbon emission reduction will reach 30% during the 14 th Five-Year Plan period. In order to accelerate the development of circular economy, Haier, as the leader of the ecological brand of the Internet of Things, has already drawn a "double carbon" road map, and has embarked on the road of all-ecological green development with green technology to promote the high-quality development of enterprises and continuously export green and low-carbon solutions.

At the beginning of this year, Haier Group further clarified the development direction of "double carbon". Haier announced the establishment of the Science and Technology Committee, which will set up a special industrial fund of 40 billion yuan and invest 60 billion yuan in R&D in the next three years, and the science and technology field that aims at breakthrough first is "green double carbon", and in the future, it will "pay attention to the new development opportunities brought by new energy and circular economy and become the pioneer of green development".

In the smart home sector, Haier integrates low carbon into the whole product life cycle from green home appliances to green scenes, to green logistics and green recycling; In the industrial internet sector, Haier uses digital technology to promote the intelligent and green development of enterprises, parks and industries, and realize low-carbon energy transformation; In the big health sector, Haier’s solar vaccine refrigerator and other green and low-carbon solutions have gone global …

At present, the first interconnected factory project of China household appliances recycling industry built by Haier will be put into production in Qingdao, which is a recycling industrial park that uses a large number of renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy. It can dismantle 2 million sets of waste household appliances and modify and granulate 30,000 tons every year, effectively promoting the large-scale, standardized and clean development of renewable resources processing and utilization industry.

The picture shows that Haier’s home appliance recycling industry interconnection factory started construction in Laixi, Qingdao.

Up to now, there are 103 lighthouse factories in the world, 37 of which are located in China, which proves the surging vitality of China manufacturing in the new era. Today, with the increasing emphasis on the construction of ecological civilization, it has become a general trend for the manufacturing industry to achieve green and low-carbon sustainable development.

At the same time, Haier has built the "Haier Sino-German Smart Park", a 5G+ intelligent manufacturing fully connected industrial park, to help Haier intelligently control 14 kinds of energy media in the whole process of energy conversion, transmission, distribution and consumption.

China’s economy has turned from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. Haier has become a leader in intelligent manufacturing, and is actively playing a demonstration role, anchoring the "road map" of the "double carbon" goal, constantly tamping the "ballast stone" of digital technology, practicing the "general tone" of sustainable development, and linking the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to form an "agglomeration effect" to open up a broader space for high-quality development.