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Sheet Metal Automatic Production Line For ZPMC

The flexible intelligent sheet metal automatic production line for ZPMC manufactured by SC Shenchong, has been successfully completed and put into operation. As one of the pilot projects for the “double innovation” platform in the manufacturing industry released by the China State Council, this sheet metal automatic production workshop greatly improve the production efficiency.

Details Of Sheet Metal Automatic Production Line For ZPMC

ZPMC (Shanghai Zhenhua) is an international leading enterprise in the heavy equipment manufacturing industry. Its main business includes loading and unloading machinery for large ports such as containers and ore and coal, marine heavy industry, heavy-duty special steel structures, and maritime transportation and installation. The production workshop has high requirements for fully automated sheet metal production and a high production demand. In response to the call for national intelligent manufacturing, ZPMC decided to collaborate with SC Shenchong on this “turnkey” project in early 2020. The two automatic sheet metal production lines in the entire workshop are both contracted by SC Shenchong. Through this sheet metal flexibility production line project, ZPMC have been greatly save labor and time costs and improve the efficiency.

Entering the workshop, people can find the discharge robot, assembly robot, welding robot in the welding room, loading and unloading system for laser cutting machine, CNC press brake machine, plate shearing machine, sheet metal automatic storage system, etc. The whole intelligent sheet metal production lines are begin to operation.

Report From ZPMC (Zhenhua Heavy Industry):

On August 26th, the groundbreaking ceremony for the flexible sheet metal intelligent workshop of ZPMC (Zhenhua Heavy Industry) was held at the Changxing branch. This is the first project cultivated and implemented by Zhenhua Heavy Industry’s innovation and entrepreneurship platform, with the intelligent automatic production line for cable trays being the first in China. The production of this workshop is another major achievement of ZPMC in the field of intelligent manufacturing.

The flexible intelligent sheet metal production line for ZPMC is divided into 15 areas. The east side is the cable tray sheet metal flexible production line, the west side is the cable tray intelligent automatic production line, the south side is the automatic processing area, and the north side is the manual area and storage area.

This workshop has created the first China cable tray automatic production line, and its introduced robot welding, robot splicing, and robot grasping technologies are at the international leading level. Its automatic sheet metal storage system and laser cutting linkage technology are the company’s first new technologies launched, and the production line will apply for utility model patents in the future.

The flexible sheet metal intelligent workshop fully utilizes the production management experience of ZPMC (Zhenhua Heavy Industry), optimizes the process flow, adopts more suitable tooling than traditional processes, and reduces personnel and equipment investment. In terms of new material application, the workshop replaces traditional galvanizing with material innovation to solve the market problems of environmental protection and insufficient supply. The cost, quality, and efficiency will be optimized and improved, and the expected annual output value of a single production line is 100 million yuan. In the future, the workshop will continue to expand production lines for junction boxes, highway waveform boards, 5G equipment boxes, sheet metal batch production, as well as production lines for high value-added personalized customized products.

ZPMC (Zhenhua Heavy Industry) established the “double innovation” platform in August 2018, which fully leverages its role as a resource hub, promotes the landing of innovation and entrepreneurship projects, and strives to incubate a group of unicorn projects with market appeal and competitiveness. The flexible intelligent sheet metal production line for ZPMC put into operation this time is the company’s first innovation and “double innovation” project, which was launched in April 2019. ZPMC Innovation and “double innovation” platform is responsible for the management, support, and supervision of the project, providing support services in areas such as internal and external resource integration, business negotiations, investment analysis, and comprehensive financial and legal services.