XCMG ushers in intelligent industrial era

Keeping pace with the ongoing fourth industrial revolution, XCMG Excavator Machinery has been focusing on intelligent manufacturing and upgrading manufacturing bases. As a result, its production capacity doubles, product quality is further improved, and its flexible intelligent manufacturing capacity as well as management level are among the world's best.

XCMG Excavator Machinery leads counterparts in flexible welding production line where more than 10 welding robots finish all the procedures, including loading, unloading materials and welding, and only one operator monitors the production.

In addition to the automatic production of crucial process, core components, such as thrust wheels, can also be manufactured automatically.

In XCMG, digital design and simulation technology have not only been used for product development, but play an important role in manufacturing.

XCMG Excavator Machinery has developed a digital process design and management platform and three-dimensional digital models for its plants to simulate the entire manufacturing process.

The simulation technology can help discover the potential problems in design and production plan schedule before products are put into production, monitor the production process and diagnose faults.

Intelligent cockpit and industrial big data analysis platform are the results of XCMG's integration between data and digital technology.

The intelligent cockpit, which collects information about equipment's operation, working schedule, and efficiency, allows XCMG's employees to manage and control the equipment, product quality, and energy consumption.

The latter guarantees XCMG's products come with leading technology and durable quality. The platform is able to identify quality defects by collecting data about key processes, monitoring production in real time, and establishing abnormity detection model. All quality control employees need to do is to check the labeled process which causes the defect.

"XCMG will continue focusing on intelligent manufacturing in a bid to produce high-end construction machinery products catering to the users around the world," said Wang.

This year marks the first year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) and XCMG has set its new strategic positioning over the following five years, that is, digital, international, and world-class.

XCMG has also specified its strategic targets. By 2025, the group is expected to rank first among Chinese construction machinery manufacturers and its main indicators, including economies of scale, technology quality, and international competitiveness, will rank top two worldwide and by 2035, XCMG's main indicators will secure the first place in the world.

The group has held the top position among China's construction machinery manufacturers for 32 consecutive years, according to a ranking released by KHL Group on the world's top 50 construction machinery manufacturers in May 2021, and its global ranking climbed one spot to third from a year ago, only behind Caterpillar and Komatsu.

Headquartered in Xuzhou, XCMG is a leading domestic machinery manufacturer, having the largest market share in cranes, road machinery, piling machinery, and other equipment.