Reprinted from "Fujian Daily"--Hongrun Instrument Co., Ltd.: The Big "Intelligent Creation" from Yubei

In Shunchang, there is a private high-tech instrument company with more than 400 national patents associated with the Shenzhou spacecraft and the Lunar Exploration Project. It not only promotes local employment, but also contributes to the “Made in China 2025”. Please see – Hongrun Instrument: The big-name “Intelligence-making” from Oubei.

Shunchang, a mountainous county in northwestern Yunnan, is surrounded by mountains, surrounded by mountains and beautiful mountains. It has a population of less than 300,000. However, due to a company, it had a fate with the “tall” project such as the Shenzhou spacecraft and the exploration moon.

This company is called Hongrun Precision Instrument Co., Ltd. and is a state-level high-tech enterprise that manufactures high-end instrumentation. It has more than 400 national patents and more than 100 software copyright registration certificates, and has won national-level intellectual property advantage enterprises and China's famous Trademark titles; annual production of more than 300,000 units of various types of instruments; 300 employees, more than half are scientific and technical personnel; its customers are mostly aerospace, military, nuclear power, nuclear reactors, Fortune 500 companies and research institutes. In the mountains, looking at the world, Hongrun aims to become a world-class big-name "intelligence."

Create domestic first-class products

“This is a high-temperature electric stove. It was produced in Hangzhou, but it used our regulator.” In early June, Lin Hongping, chairman of Hongrun Precision Instrument Co., Ltd., told reporters at Hongrun’s product showroom. Demonstrated this product that made him proud. "Our control accuracy for temperature is plus or minus 0.1 degrees Celsius. Now, other domestic instruments are generally unable to achieve this accuracy, and foreign countries have very few."

Why Rainbow Regulator can be so accurate? This has to start with Lin Shanping's personally acting as a "tech pioneer." In 1986, after Lin Shanping graduated from school, he was assigned to Shunchang Automation Instrument Factory. At that time, he was already a technology “talent” in his twenties. He published many papers in national magazines, and several R&D projects won provincial and ministerial awards.

“The formula of this digital display is engineered to be transformed on the basis of the fuzzy mathematics that I developed when I was 22 years old. It was very successful and very stable and far surpassed my competitors.” Lin Shanping said.

Because this technology “reaching people” personally sits, Hongrun company can only develop other people's products from the very beginning, and now it has developed five major core products such as digital meters, paperless recorders, and process testers. Ranked in the forefront of the industry. Hongrun also participated in the formulation of 31 national standards for the instrument industry, of which 3 were the first drafters. As the products are sophisticated and can be widely used in industrial process control, Hongrun has not only attracted a large number of high-end customers, but also received a number of olive branches from foreign instrument companies.

How to achieve independent technology research and development? Lin Shanping told reporters that the key to R&D is talent. “Basically 90% of the relevant technical talents of Shunchang were dug by me and internal training. In addition, we also introduced a large number of outstanding talents of famous universities.” According to Lin Shanping, Hongrun is still in the north Major cities have recruited talents, established a academician workstation, two research and development centers, and a number of branch companies.

Advance to industrial control systems

The success of a single product did not satisfy Hongrun. Along with the development of the concept of Industry 4.0 and the formulation of the China Manufacturing 2025 strategy, Hongrun began to move toward the industrial control platform system.

“This instrument can present the position and data changes of all equipments on the industrial site and realize visual control.” In the research and development department of Hongrun, Chief Engineer Chen Zhiyang showed the reporter a “288 touch data acquisition and control workstation. "The instrument. The front of the instrument is a 10-inch touch screen with hundreds of large and small interfaces on the back. Each interface can collect a data source and perform analysis and processing on the instrument.

“Assume that something is wrong with a device, such as excessive temperature and abnormal flow, we can quickly see through this device, and regulate. This instrument can also analyze the data to see which device has the problem frequency High, so as to facilitate the diagnosis and maintenance of the equipment.” said Chen Zhiyang.

In the past, the software and hardware facilities of these industrial platform instruments were basically monopolized by foreign companies. In recent years, China has gradually reduced the gap by introducing, digesting, and absorbing advanced foreign technologies, and has gradually developed its own R&D and production capabilities. A number of domestic instrument brand enterprises. Hong Run is such a typical example.

"R&D of this equipment, we borrowed some of the Japanese technology, but it has expanded in performance and it is also more cost-effective." Chen Zhiyang said, "A larger touch screen and more interfaces are its advantages. ."

Such technology allows Hongrun's products to have the ability to embrace the industrial Internet of Things. In the next step, Hongrun plans to break the wired barrier and allow all industrial instruments to communicate wirelessly. Through the establishment of a cloud platform, wirelessly receives industrial data collected by each instrument and sends wireless control signals through the platform.

Chen Zhiyang told reporters: “This is technically no problem. We have developed an instrument that has its own wireless data transmission function, but to use it in the industrial field, we need to establish a unified network protocol. In this regard, we have participated in The formulation of four national standards, of which two are drafted by us, will enable wireless access when national standards are issued."

Practice the "three" fusion

"Our products have reached the international advanced level, but the production and manufacturing process, and then use the old production technology and production equipment to produce, it certainly is not enough." So, Hongrun also began the integration of industrialization and information.

In Hongrun's instrument production workshop, the reporter saw an electronic signage. The kanban recorded the production schedule, repair rate, and pass rate of each of Hongrun's parts and components. This is part of the ERP information management system introduced by Rainbow. Xiao Zhiming, the deputy general manager of the Hongrun branch production, said that there are nearly 10,000 kinds of products that the company needs to manage every day, and there are more than 20,000 kinds of warehouse parts and components added together. Before information management is conducted, it is difficult to know how many meters are produced each day, how each meter is produced, in which process, and from which station; now, with information management, Rainbow Every part and finish of Run are completely “clearly visible”.

The reporter saw on the warehouse shelves that each finished product had a unique two-dimensional code and code number. After scanning the two-dimensional code, it was possible to trace every production link of the finished product, and to inspect the source of each component. The whole process of the inspection, delivery and other links are followed. Informatization management has improved production efficiency by two to three times, and efficiency has also quadrupled product sales.

The integration of informatization and industrialization is also reflected in the automation of production equipment. In order to increase the degree of industrialization of production, Hongrun purchased 3 sets of automatic high-speed placement machines, wave soldering machines, automatic AOI detectors and other advanced production equipment. The introduction and R&D of these equipments has enabled the pass rate of the Hongrun instrument board to reach 99%, and the instrument repair rate is controlled within 0.5%.

The integration of informatization and industrialization has greatly improved the production efficiency and quality of Hongrun. In addition to the integration of the two, Lin Shanping has also added “Oneness” and proposed the integration of industrialized informationization and standardization.

At the station where the finished product was assembled, the reporter saw that the first worker had a 19-inch display in front of his eyes. The inside was filled with various work instructions. If the worker forgets the operation procedure, he can open the instruction book file inside. Compared with operations, the error rate is low.

The reporter learned that Hongrun has established an ISO9001 quality management system for internal management and has formulated standardized standards for job responsibilities, rectification opinions, employee manuals, and job assignments.