“Xiaopeng’s seats are being tested in the factory.

" Xiaopeng 's seats are being tested in the factory." Recently, a reporter from Yangtze River Daily learned at the Wuhan Industrial Intelligent Renovation Demonstration and Promotion Conference that Dongfeng Yanfeng Automobile Seat Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dongfeng Yanfeng Seat") has continuously won new customers through intelligent transformation. In the context of uncertainty in the automotive parts market, the output value of Dongfeng Yanfeng seats has achieved countercyclical growth. In the next three years, the company will continue to increase investment in production line transformation and continue to win market competitiveness.

In recent years, with the rise of new energy vehicles and smart cars, car seats, as an important part of the automotive parts supply chain, have also ushered in a period of rapid market development. By 2025, the domestic market is expected to exceed 100 billion yuan.

As the demand for comfort, lightweight, intelligent and personalized by car seats continues to improve, many car seat companies are also achieving "double breakthroughs" between products and markets through intelligent transformation.

As a demonstration case of Wuhan's industrial intelligent transformation in 2021, Dongfeng Yanfeng seats located in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone are representative companies among car seat companies. The company has produced a total of 740,000 car seats. Yi Guangjun, general manager of Dongfeng Yanfeng Seats, said: "The factory and products are continuing to upgrade intelligently to meet different automobile usage scenarios such as driving, entertainment, and conferences."

▲Dongfeng Yanfeng Seat Smart Factory.

On the production lines of Dongfeng Yanfeng seats, orders from many car manufacturers such as Shenlong Auto , Dongfeng passenger car, Dongfeng Honda , Dongfeng commercial vehicle , Lantu , SAIC-GM and other orders are in production.

"Lightweight, fully traceable, short, flat and fast." The Xiaopeng seat skeleton production line, which is being tested and about to be put into production, is a concentrated reflection of the intelligent transformation of Dongfeng Yanfeng seats. Through the upgrade of the company's own CMS skeleton platform, and the automated and informatized robot production lines and first-class quality inspection laboratories, the "new automotive forces" need for "light" and "intelligent" seats are met.

From 2019 to the present, Dongfeng Yanfeng seats have invested more than 80 million yuan to build an intelligent factory, achieving lean management in all links, creating flexible production capacity, and improving data traceability and R&D testing levels.

At present, the company has built an information management system, and the time for orders to be submitted to the production line is no more than 3 hours; the welding station and testing station are taken over by a "robot", and an average of one product is taken off the line every 10 minutes; 45 patents have been obtained, the laboratory has passed the CNAS national certification, and is recognized as a "high-tech enterprise". From January to August this year, the factory production efficiency increased by 15%, and the timely delivery rate of products reached 100%. The "cost reduction and efficiency improvement" of

's intelligent transformation has brought about an intuitive improvement in corporate efficiency. Yi Guangjun introduced that during the intelligent transformation period, the company's revenue increased by 220 million yuan. Based on the output value exceeding 1 billion yuan in 2021, the output value in 2022 is expected to reach more than 1.1 billion yuan.

▲The staff demonstrated the seat pressure detection equipment in the laboratory.

The intelligent transformation of Dongfeng Yanfeng seats over the years has not ended. Yi Guangjun said that Dongfeng Yanfeng seats will create a full supply chain information system from procurement, manufacturing to sales, and realize the automation of the entire production process, "embracing the wave of intelligence and helping Chinese automobile brands 'accelerate'."

Produced by: Propaganda Department of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone Working Committee

Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone Integrated Media Center

Source: Yangtze River Daily

Editor: Lu Zuolu Jiang Qiuyu

Production: Wang Ya

Production: Wang Ya