Sing about China's intelligent manufacturing

Company Founder & Chairman Professor Wu Yaohua

Interviewed by MM "Modern Manufacturing" magazine

Sharing BlueSword for nearly three decades

The innovative and advanced road of steady development

Article source: MM "Modern Manufacturing"

Author: Xu Ying

Introduction:

An excellent national brand that has been established for nearly 30 years in a stable and orderly operation, a conscientious and rigorous, simple and stable company leader with profound knowledge, a team familiar with the industry, equipment and clear goals, the right place and the right time, See how BlueSword's intelligent situation changes, clear the mystery, and find the direction.

China's logistics industry, especially the logistics equipment manufacturing industry, has completed the process of growing from small to large in the past ten years. During this period, our national brand has also developed significantly, and each enterprise has gradually embarked on a characteristic road that suits the market demand. During this period, comprehensive solution providers such as BlueSword have emerged, and the professional development trend of enterprises has gradually strengthened. From the successful listing to the acquisition of large orders from several leading companies such as Ningde Times and Muyuan, to the super future factory where the main body has been completed and each production line will be put into operation one after another, the development of BlueSword Intelligence in recent years is obvious to all. Compared with 2020, the total operating income in 2021 has achieved a substantial increase of more than 33%.

Comprehensive layout of product lines to highlight strength advantages.

As a high-end logistics robot and intelligent software system solution provider, BlueSword currently has a full range of intelligent logistics equipment such as warehousing robots, shuttle robots, handling robots, aerial robots, picking robots, packaging robots, depalletizing robots, loading and unloading robots, etc. There is also a smart logistics management and control platform based on digital twin technology, and can provide full-process customized smart warehousing innovation solutions covering storage, picking, transportation, packaging, monitoring, management and other links for various industries. For the entire product line, BlueSword Intelligent's self-developed and self-developed production rate reaches 80%, and the cost advantage is obvious. The product quality performance and indicators are compared with the products of overseas developed countries. The safety, stability, reliability and efficiency have reached international standards. .

As the saying goes, "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools". The reason for BlueSword's high reputation in the industry is inseparable from its advanced technology level and excellent product quality. Professor Wu Yaohua, founder and chairman of BlueSword, said: "In the development strategy of BlueSword Intelligence, we want to enter the world's leading logistics system solution provider ranking, and at the same time, we want to build a century-old enterprise in the future."

How to achieve high quality, fine technological process, advanced production equipment and strict quality control are important links. In terms of production equipment, BlueSword Intelligence always chooses high-precision equipment and components from global leading companies to improve the reliability of its own products from the hardware aspect, laying a solid foundation for building high-quality products. At the same time, BlueSword also attaches great importance to the improvement of process flow and quality management, and advocates lean production. From material to process, from production process to technical support, BlueSword builds every device with heart and creates more value for users.

Compared with the R&D side, the production side and landing applications may be the key to evaluating the quality of an enterprise. No matter how high the R&D goal is, how advanced the R&D technology is, whether it is suitable for user enterprises, whether it can play a subversive role, and whether it can truly realize intelligent rather than automated production is the key.

In recent technological development, the BlueSword honeycomb system that surpasses Amazon's flat goods-to-person system, the 3D goods-to-person system (also known as "three-dimensional goods-to-person system") is a classic, and its efficiency is improved compared to the flat system. 5 times, which better solves the problem of massive throughput of Chinese e-commerce, and also allows BlueSword to occupy a place in the international market.

Figure 1 BlueSword Super Factory of the Future

Sharpen the front and pave the way for a smart future

In Professor Wu's view, it is the continuous technological and application innovation that has made BlueSword what it is today. "Only innovation" is the inexhaustible driving force for BlueSword to move forward.

As labor costs continue to rise, low-tech production will gradually withdraw from the Chinese market. China's logistics equipment industry must upgrade to the direction of high value-added and high-tech production, and the logistics equipment industry must also firmly move towards intelligence.

Industry-university-research is an important way to promote the scientific and technological progress of enterprises, but only with the enterprise as the main body and the market as the orientation, coupled with the scientific and technological innovation ideas of the helm of the enterprise, can truly empower the entire industry. As a leader in the logistics automation industry, BlueSword is deeply aware of the ever-changing market situation and the rapid development of science and technology. Therefore, BlueSword has established extensive cooperative relations with many famous domestic universities such as Shandong University, and jointly undertakes 20 A number of scientific research projects have formed more than 200 independent intellectual property rights. After continuous development and growth, it is now committed to the development of various scenarios solutions, and has achieved corresponding gratifying results.

The emergence of aerial shuttle robots not only brought subversive changes to the logistics equipment industry, but also pushed BlueSword into the spotlight once again. But in fact, the aerial shuttle robot is just an inevitable product of BlueSword's sustainable and healthy development. It carries the rich application and service experience that BlueSword has accumulated over the years. Whether it is using the monorail hoisting method and modular design concept to realize the free shuttle of the rail car in the air and improve the space utilization rate of the workshop; or using the intelligent dispatching system to realize the optimization of multi-vehicle task allocation and walking route optimization through advanced algorithms, Improve the overall material handling efficiency of the system; or use full servo control to achieve precise positioning of walking, lifting, grabbing and other actions; and then use the high-order S-curve motion control algorithm to greatly improve the stability of motion; coupled with laser avoidance The equipment of the obstacle radar ensures the operation safety to the greatest extent. All of these prove that BlueSword has been at the forefront of the industry.

Professor Wu said frankly that in order to keep the company's innovation ability in the long-term development, BlueSword broke the single innovation model and started the combined innovation of "technological innovation + product innovation + business model innovation" to create a more advantageous enterprise competitiveness.

The road of innovation BlueSword has persisted for nearly 30 years. It is precisely these nearly 30 years of persistence that have allowed them to reap fruitful results: they have developed automatic waterfall sorting lines, automatic unpacking machines, automatic packaging machines and other special equipment for the tobacco industry earlier, and they have gained market share in the tobacco business field. Leading the ranking in terms of rate; self-built high-tech logistics equipment industrial park, becoming a "intensive storage and picking integrated system" solution for "self-developed and self-made" general commodities "bin level" and "pallet level" with a complete domestic product chain. It was selected into the first batch of "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Key Tasks Announcement Winners" issued by the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China; it was the first to build a super logistics robot future factory of more than 200 acres.

Figure 2 BlueSword all-scenario and all-category handling robot family

Super Factory of the Future Breaking Development Barriers with "Super"

In the realization of factory automation upgrading, the construction of automated production line system is an important part. This extremely digital and intelligent factory includes a series of automated production lines such as pulsating production lines, automatic spraying lines, and automatic robotic welding. It will realize the use of robots to produce robots and develop to all fields and scenes. Professor Wu revealed: "The construction of the super future factory is to lay a solid foundation for the future development of BlueSword. This factory is a strong support for BlueSword to realize intelligent logistics and equipment intelligent manufacturing, and it is also the force behind the continuous growth of business volume in the future. ."

At present, the construction of the main body of the Super Future Factory has been completed, and some production lines have been put into production; other production lines are in the process of installation and commissioning. Professor Wu predicts: "After the super future factory is put into production, it is expected to open the ceiling of the company's profit scale. At present, the company's existing production capacity can support orders of 1 billion yuan, but after the super future factory is put into operation, the production capacity that the entire factory can support will be increased to The order scale of 2 billion yuan has directly doubled."

3 BlueSword Air Shuttle Robot

Lay a solid foundation and go to the world

"National enterprises must actively explore overseas markets and develop steadily through a diversified and international development path in order to verify the level of their own equipment and fully prove the strength of the enterprise." Professor Wu has his own opinions on overseas layout.

As a leader in national enterprises, BlueSword will accelerate its global layout and open up the international market. "In fact, we already have some foreign customers now. Nearly half of the top ten companies in 16 industries around the world are using BlueSword's equipment." Professor Wu said proudly: "BlueSword in 2018 In 2018, we successfully exported complete sets of high-end logistics equipment to Japan. This is not just the export of one or two pieces of equipment, but the recognition of the complete set of BlueSword intelligent solutions by foreign companies, which is undoubtedly an affirmation of our local brand and more powerful. confirmed."

With the rapid development of China's logistics equipment industry, the industry has gradually recognized domestic equipment. For future development and planning, Professor Wu has a very clear understanding: "It is an indisputable fact that the Chinese market demand is growing rapidly, but the overall level of China's logistics integrated equipment brand has not yet achieved a place in the world. BlueSword's goal is to, Let the self-developed and self-produced full set of intelligent logistics system equipment become the world's first-class, and let BlueSword become the global pioneer of high-end intelligent logistics robots."

BlueSword has experienced wind and rain for nearly 30 years, and has always been striding forward. I believe that in the future, BlueSword will also continue to complete the perfect combination of artificial intelligence and logistics equipment, provide industrial users with more efficient and reliable solutions, and sing about China's intelligent manufacturing!