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Jun 11 /2021
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Intelligent logistics originated in the United States in the mid-20th century. After decades of development, its level of specialization, technology, and informatization has been increasing. my country started late in this field, but it has grown rapidly, especially in the past ten years.The scale of China's intelligent logistics market has shown a step-by-step growth, and will exceed 500 billion yuan in 2020.
Source: Prospective Industry Research Institute
The continuous expansion of the market scale provides fertile soil for the rapid growth of my country's logistics industry, and the strong market demand has given birth to the continuous innovation of logistics technology. In just over ten years, my country's intelligent logistics business has been completed the development has leaped from the fact that most of the core technologies rely on imports to the export of a complete set of equipment to overseas developed countries.
The rapid development of China's intelligent logistics industry is inseparable from the hard work of a large number of self-improving national enterprises,BlueSword Intelligence is one of the most representative companies.
Strugglers of national rejuvenation - giving Chinese answers to the wisdom of the world
In 1993, BlueSword Intelligent was established, becoming one of the earliest high-tech enterprises in the field of logistics in China. The founder Professor Wu Yaohua led the team to start from 3D modeling and simulation, with consulting, software and integration as the main business, and went through the first decade of development - the era of integrators.
In 2002, the company received venture capital and further expanded its scale, and the second decade, the era of special-purpose machines, also began. During this period, BlueSword Intelligent has developed automatic waterfall sorting lines, automatic unpacking machines, automatic packaging machines and other special equipment for use in the tobacco industry. Until today, Lanjian Intelligent's advantages in the tobacco industry are still obvious. high market share.
Picture: Weifang Tobacco Logistics Center Automation System
In 2012, BlueSword Intelligent began to build its own high-tech logistics equipment industrial park, and has the ability to independently produce high-tech logistics equipment. The company has entered the third decade of rapid development - the era of general-purpose machines. The equipment is more advanced and diverse, and the business is more extensive and comprehensive. From the logistics end to the manufacturing end, it is the head of more than 20 industries such as tobacco, medicine, e-commerce, large-scale retail, daily chemicals, automobiles, electric power, tires, petrochemicals, and aerospace. Customers provide full-process smart logistics system solutions. In 2018, it officially opened its overseas strategic layout, becoming one of the few Chinese brands in China that can export complete sets of high-end logistics equipment to overseas developed countries. At present, it has landed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board and completed the listing.
Picture: Central Warehouse Intelligent Storage System of Zhejiang PetroChina's Non-Oil Business
The three "ten years" have witnessed Lanjian Intelligent's transformation from a simple integrator to a full-process intelligent logistics system solution provider with a highly educated R&D team, a high-tech equipment park, and a high-level service capability. BlueSword Intelligent's nearly 30-year journey is the epitome of the development of China's intelligent logistics industry.
Pioneer of logistics technology - only innovation can win the future with swords
Under the guidance of the core concept of "only innovation", technology research and development has always been the top priority of BlueSword's intelligent enterprise development. The company's research and development investment accounts for an average of more than 7% of operating income every year, and it is as high as 8.78% in 2020.
BlueSword Intelligence has a R&D team led by a number of doctors studying in the United States, and has established extensive cooperative relations with Shandong University and other famous domestic universities, jointly undertaking a number of national, provincial and municipal scientific research projects. It has also established a national-level logistics engineering talent training and training base, and innovatively implemented an all-round directional training plan for logistics engineering talents.
Based on strong R&D strength, BlueSword Intelligent has formed its own original logistics theoretical system. By the end of 2020, it has obtained 193 intellectual property rights. At present, the core technology has covered the company's main system-level products, and self-developed and self-developed high-end intelligent logistics robot equipment covering warehousing robots, shuttle robots, handling robots, picking robots, etc.
Among them, the logistics software system with digital twin as the core is the brain of the entire intelligent warehouse logistics automation system. It comprehensively uses lean management, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, through embedded software, business application software, and business intelligence software. , sorting, distribution, management, assessment and other comprehensive management and control. And it can realize high-level applications such as dynamic modeling, virtual simulation, offline debugging, 3D-SCADA online monitoring, active operation and maintenance, preventive maintenance, and decision analysis.
Figure: Digital Twin Intelligent Logistics Platform
It is worth mentioning that BlueSword Intelligence has been selected into the first batch of "Winning Units for the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Key Tasks" issued by the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. Only two companies from Inspur and BlueSword Intelligence were selected in Jinan City, and there were eight companies in Shandong Province.
Figure: Screenshot of CCTV's "News Network" report
The fit of the market demand - customer first, service oriented
Based on the principle of customer demand as the center, BlueSword Intelligence not only focuses on the iterative innovation of logistics technology, but also provides customized construction and management solutions oriented to real needs for customers in different industries and different stages of the same customer. and automation system solutions to bring more efficient and high-quality disruptive innovation value to customers.
At the same time, BlueSword Intelligence has been exploring new business models and is committed to providing customers with more choices. BlueSword Intelligent has deployed RaaS (Robot as a Service, Robot as a Service) on behalf of the operation service earlier, and is a global dominant enterprise in this field.
As early as 2014, BlueSword Intelligence and Vipshop jointly launched an agency operation cooperation model based on picking robots to solve massive orders, massive SKUs in warehousing operations, high order timeliness, and large-scale, efficient and accurate dismantling and picking, etc. complex issues. Today, BlueSword Intelligence's business in the field of RaaS generation operations is very mature.
Under the background of Industry 4.0, China's intelligent logistics is developing rapidly. However, we must also be soberly aware that there is still a gap between us and developed countries in terms of product advancement and industry standardization. The rise from a logistics power to a logistics power is still a long way to go. As an advantageous enterprise in this field, BlueSword Intelligent takes the mission of building a national brand with international influence and starts a new journey of internationalization - giving Chinese answers to the world's smart warehouses!
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