Recently, Zhen De'en, Vice Chairman of Tangshan CPPCC and Chairman of Qian'an Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, led the heads of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Construction Bank, the Municipal Financial Guarantee Company and other departments to visit Hebei Ganggu for a special investigation on how to play the role of Internet plus finance and create the fourth party logistics. Wang Wenbin, Vice Chairman of Tangshan CPPCC and Secretary of Qian'an Municipal Party Committee, accompanied the investigation CEO Zhou Lei and other leaders warmly received.

On April 6th, Hu Shining, Vice Chairman of the Democratic Construction Hebei Provincial Committee, Chairman of the Tangshan Municipal Committee, Member of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Vice Chairman of the Tangshan Municipal Political Consultative Conference, as well as relevant leaders of the Democratic Construction Tangshan Municipal Committee, visited Hebei Steel Grain Union Technology Co., Ltd. for research and guidance, encouraging Steel Valley to continue to enhance the depth and breadth of digital platforms such as Zhongxin Union Cloud Commerce, and actively develop new models such as network collaborative manufacturing, personalized customization, and intelligent management, Cultivate a national influential Industrial Internet platform. Wang Wenbin, Vice Chairman of the Tangshan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Secretary of the Qian'an Municipal Committee, Tang Yanhai, Chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Guo Xiaofeng, Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Committee, accompanied the research.

On the 8th, Jiang Tong, president of China Talent Group, distinguished expert of Lyon Business School (Asia) in France, director of the Global innovation management EMBA Program Research Center, Shenzhen Pulang Medical, Huada Liuhe, Harvest Fund, Hubei Hurricane, etc. involved in military intelligence, medical technology, biotechnology, education and training, e-commerce Capital and other industry leaders visited Hebei Ganggu to visit a large number of molding solutions accumulated in "Industrial Internet+enterprise operation management".

On the 9th, Zhang Chunlei, member of the Standing Committee of the Qian'an Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and director of the Supervisory Commission, and his delegation visited Hebei Ganggu for research, watched the demonstration of digital intelligence application scenarios, listened to the introduction of enterprises on the construction and application of Industrial Internet platforms, understood the development model and operation of enterprises, and highly praised them.

In recent days, leaders at all levels of the province and city, research institutes, and industry associations have visited Hebei Ganggu one after another. Ganggu has become a "reception hall" for Qian'an City to showcase strategic emerging industries and technological innovation achievements. This once again demonstrates that the company's high-quality development and technological research and development capabilities are constantly demonstrating new trends and reaching new levels. It also indicates that Hebei Ganggu uses technological innovation to promote traditional industries to achieve high-end and intelligent development The vision of green transformation is increasingly becoming an industry consensus.

Focusing on technological self-reliance and self-improvement

Strengthen core technology research

A wise man observes the situation and moves forward, while a brave man takes advantage of it. Hebei Steel Valley enables the whole industrial chain through the dual wheel drive of "intelligent manufacturing and industrial intelligent supply chain operation", and constantly builds a "smart brain" based on new generation information technologies such as information physical systems, big data, artificial intelligence, edge computing, etc.

Industrial Internet platform application class, realizing integrated data management, providing strong support for intelligent decision-making. WeTwin digital twin platform enables remote operation and control of factories in the virtual world; WeFlux IoT platform for unified management of large-scale sensing devices; WeStore industrial big data platform, solving data collection, storage, management, and usage issues; WeAI algorithm platform, connecting the entire process of data mining; WePage low code tool, suitable for data display in various environments such as PC and large screen.

Develop the Xinda Home platform for intelligent application of process data to achieve the interconnection of enterprise information resources and improve information utilization rate; The health management system during the epidemic period has improved the prevention and control efforts and rapid response capabilities of enterprises.

Intelligent equipment category, research and development of intelligent car washing platform, programmable logic control, multi-mode automatic cleaning; The intelligent fog pile and fog gun system product effectively suppresses road dust; The unmanned continuous casting platform uses two robots to simultaneously replace the long nozzle, achieving the industry's global first.

In the field of intelligent process optimization systems, the research and development of intelligent combustion systems for heating furnaces can save over 6 million yuan in annual expenses after being applied in steel heating furnaces; Research and development of an optimized combustion system for blast furnace hot blast stoves. It has been estimated that the energy-saving economic benefits generated by reducing gas consumption can reach over 3 million yuan per year; The intelligent slag adding system for slab continuous casting reduces manual labor intensity, improves the level of intelligent production operations, and can increase economic benefits by over 1.8 million yuan per year.

Smart supply chain cloud commerce platforms and supply chain systems help customers expand their scale and reduce operational costs. Developing the Zhongxinlian Cloud Commerce Platform, with a total of over 310000 types of raw materials and spare parts for the metallurgical industry, 3080 registered users, distributed in nearly 200 cities and regions across the country. As of April 1, 2023, the total transaction amount has reached 212.88 billion yuan; Developing a supplier management system for Zhongxinlian, which has reduced the procurement and service costs of the enterprise; The Zhongxin United Tendering and Bidding Management System meets the networked, informationized, and digital processing of the entire process of procurement project application, bidding, and evaluation; The Zhongxin United Management System meets the needs of compliance and risk control in the contract management process; The Zhongxinlian Payment Management System meets the diverse payment methods of steel enterprises. The comprehensive cost reduction rate for entering steel enterprises in 2022 is 9.22%. As of March 2023, the Zhongxinlian Tendering and Bidding Management System has had a total of 244 bids, with a total of over 9000 items of materials and a total amount of over 200 million yuan. The bidding price has decreased by 10.79%, saving more than 10 million yuan in funds for bidding enterprises.

Open integration and complementary advantages

Promote technological iteration and upgrading

Hebei Ganggu has effectively integrated information technology, big data application technology, and other technologies into the production process through cooperation with third parties, vigorously promoting the construction of intelligent manufacturing projects, and achieving intelligent and refined management of the production process.

In the application case of process digital intelligence, the Manufacturing execution system has promoted the continuous optimization of production business processes; The logistics management system has achieved refined management of the entire freight process; The energy management system provides a decision-making basis for establishing an energy operation, management, and supervision system centered on energy costs; Equipment management system, achieving efficient integration and utilization of information throughout the entire enterprise; The equipment intelligent point inspection management system enables real-time tracking and querying of equipment inspection status; The electronic sales management system assists sales personnel in quickly managing important data related to customers, sales, and business.

The unmanned measurement system has improved the level of enterprise material management and control; The safety production control system, various warning information and data reports provide clear management direction for safety management; The comprehensive environmental supervision system makes environmental management work visual, intuitive, easy, and scientific; Equipment online monitoring and fault diagnosis system, achieving comprehensive intelligent monitoring of equipment; The human resource management system alleviates the frequent and repetitive handling of complex human resource affairs by enterprise employees; The financial supply chain system enables business linkage and information exchange between the core industrial chains of the group.

In the application case of intelligent equipment, Hebei Ganggu has built a bar labeling robot to achieve efficient and fully automatic control of the entire welding process; Automatic temperature measurement and sampling robot for continuous casting ladle, achieving unmanned operation of temperature measurement and sampling; Intelligent disassembly and replacement of oil cylinder robotic arm, improving the automation level of steel pouring; Intelligent gauge inspection system for section steel, achieving automation of surface quality judgment; The intelligent grading system for scrap steel has improved the efficiency of scrap steel grading; The intelligent control platform for warehousing integrates, manages, and dispatches related controls to achieve remote centralized control.

In the application case of intelligent process optimization system, the 1580mm rolling line intermediate billet optimization cutting application case reduces the cutting loss rate and ensures the optimal cutting position.

Strong cooperation and win-win situation

Achievements are fruitful and renowned throughout the country

Hebei Ganggu is a "national high-tech enterprise", "national technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises", "specialized, refined, and new small and medium-sized enterprises", "A level industrial enterprise research and development institution in Hebei Province", and "vice president unit of Hebei Information Industry and Information Technology Association". Won the honorary titles of "National Excellent Case of Commercial Science and Technology Innovation and Application", "Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Pilot Project in Hebei Province", "2021 Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Benchmark Demonstration Case", etc; Has successively passed multiple certifications such as 3A enterprise credit rating certification, ISO9001 three system certification, CMMI3 level certification, dual soft enterprise certification, DCMM2 level certification, etc; We have over 400 independent intellectual property rights in fields such as digital intelligent manufacturing and internet e-commerce platforms.

In recent years, Hebei Steel Valley is keen to join hands with "people who understand people" in the field of digital economy to reach a comprehensive strategic cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. The two sides jointly build a "steel industry cloud", work together to build a national leading steel industry Industrial Internet platform, and work together on a high-quality transformation and development path for steel and iron industry enterprises with intelligent manufacturing as the core.

Climb the mountain of technology, explore the digital blue ocean, gather talents from all over the world, and create a global brand! Hebei Steel Grain Union Technology Co., Ltd. will increase its R&D investment in technological innovation and breakthrough, and rely on Industrial Internet, AI, big data, artificial intelligence and other advantageous technologies to help rebuild the steel industry foundation, so as to achieve the goal of network, computing power and intelligence everywhere. Promote major technological equipment breakthroughs in the steel industry through technological innovation, from serving production to integrating production, to achieve mechanized personnel replacement, automated personnel reduction, and intelligent unmanned, and promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of Chinese manufacturing!