[SMM Aluminum Summit] discussion on the Planning and Development Route of Aluminum profile Smart Factory

SMM5 March 14: at the "2021 (16th) China International Aluminum processing Summit" jointly organized by Shanghai Futures Exchange and SMM, Chen Bizhi, chairman of Foshan Tongrun Thermal Energy Technology Co., Ltd., introduced the planning and development route of aluminum profile smart factory.

I. Overview of Wisdom Factory

Smart factory is the product of deep integration of industrial automation technology and IT technology.

The development of "smart factory" is a new direction for the development of intelligent industry. The characteristics are reflected in the independent ability of the system in manufacturing and production, the ability of self-learning and maintenance, the system of man-machine coexistence and so on.

The core structure of the intelligence factory

II. Development Prospect of Aluminum profile Industry

With the consumption of global resources and the rise of energy prices, the trend of using recycled aluminum as raw materials to produce aluminum processing products is becoming more and more obvious, and the pace of replacing steel with aluminum is getting faster and faster.

In the future, with the increase of varieties and the improvement of quality, aluminum will also be more widely used in construction, electric power, automobile manufacturing, home appliances, electronics, machinery and equipment and other fields, the market demand will continue to release. It is estimated that by 2023, the global market consumption of aluminum will reach 75 million tons.

In 2020, the real estate industry experienced a deep V-shaped reversal with the impact of the epidemic, and the hot real estate market lasted for three whole quarters. Coupled with the high start-up data in 18-19, the demand for aluminum in 2020 and 2021 is more exuberant.

According to the latest statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, in November 2020, automobile production and sales increased by 11.5% and 7.6% respectively from the previous month, up 9.6% and 12.6% respectively from the same period last year. With the support of various national policies, automobile production and sales are booming with a double-digit year-on-year growth rate per month, and aluminum alloy for automobile is also showing a hot scene.

III. The necessity of intelligent construction of aluminum profile production plant

The operation of aluminum profiles is affected by many factors.

At present, the international status and influence of China's aluminum processing industry are increasing day by day. However, the increasingly competitive aluminum profile industry is still affected by comprehensive factors such as the domestic economy, international trade frictions, the stricter environmental protection situation, and weak independent innovation. The operation of the aluminum profile industry has been greatly affected. Chinalco disclosed its 2020 annual report. The company achieved business income of 185.994 billion yuan in 2020, down 2.22% from the same period last year. Net profit was 741 million yuan, down 13.14% from the same period last year; basic earnings per share was 0.03 yuan.

Technical equipment transformation

The implementation of the smart factory project in aluminum profile enterprises is a systematic and overall key project of transformation and upgrading, and it is a major decision-making deployment for enterprises to build a production base of core competitiveness and achieve the goal of first-class enterprises.

Fourth, the present situation of technology application in aluminum profile intelligent factory.

In the production of aluminum profiles

At present, domestic aluminum profile production has realized automatic integration of feeding, heating, extrusion, traction, stretching, cutting, blanking, framing and other production processes. It is solved that in the traditional aluminum profile manufacturing industry, enterprises generally use transfer baskets to transport aluminum profiles to different processes, and some processes require workers to put the aluminum profiles in and out for many times, resulting in high labor intensity and low efficiency. It may also cause profile bumping in the handling process. Through intelligent transformation, the energy consumption of aluminum profile enterprises has been greatly reduced and the comprehensive rate of finished products has been greatly increased.

Industrial Internet

At present, some aluminum profile enterprises are actively planning to intelligently transform the production process through the Internet of things and cloud computing technology, in order to realize the real-time tracking of products through the application of workshop intelligent logistics system in each production process and the collection and management of bar code information of production materials. the automatic real-time reporting of the order production process can realize the real-time tracking of the products.

Through equipment production, process parameters collection, recording, analysis, and the use of automatic production system to reduce human intervention and other measures, can effectively ensure stable product quality.

Fifth, discussion on the planning and development route of aluminum profile intelligent factory.

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