Switch to smart manufacturing from an automobile factory.
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It is learned that Hangzhou Gaopin Automation Equipment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Gaopin Automation”), an intelligent equipment manufacturer mainly serving the auto parts industry, has completed 100 million yuan A round of financing, and the investor is Hangzhou Shi Asset Management (Hangzhou) ) Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Hang Shi Asset Management”). Hangshi Asset Management mainly invests in high-end equipment manufacturing, digital economy, biomedicine and other industries.
According to AiMedia’s consulting data, the investment in smart manufacturing continued to rise from 2014 to 2018, and the investment amount from 2017 to 2019 exceeded 30 billion yuan. The market size in 2020 is expected to reach 10767.0 billion yuan.
The recent high-end automation is a company that focuses on total solutions for intelligent manufacturing. Gaopin Automation was established in 2013 and is headquartered in Hangzhou Future Technology City.
The main products of Gaopin Automation are intelligent assembly test lines and intelligent manufacturing execution system software (MES) based on industrial Internet technology. Its main business areas include: motor automation assembly testing, automotive electronics automation assembly testing, powertrain automation Assembly testing and unmanned assembly testing.
The intelligent assembly test line is a test line for special equipment or intelligent equipment of a certain product or a certain type of product according to the user ’s requirements for product manufacturing and manufacturing processes and processes. Gaopin Automation has already cooperated with auto parts manufacturers. For example, BorgWarner, Bosch, Denso, Magna, Continental, Autoliv, etc. have formed cooperation. Xu Huabiao, general manager of Gaopin Automation Operations, believes that often better products will encounter more problems in process implementation, and all intelligent manufacturing solution providers such as Gaopin Automation need to solve the problem that iterative product upgrades bring to manufacturing production lines. problem.
The core business of Gaopin Automation focuses on the construction of smart factories. The business model is based on the modular content that has been developed by the team and then customized according to user product needs. Xu Huabiao said that “smart manufacturing is not only an AGV + robotic arm”. The product core of Gaopin Automation is to enhance the intelligence of the production line from the multiple dimensions of order collection, processing, analysis and resource matching, reliability and timeliness of data interaction.
The traditional factory-level MES reports and visualizes the real-time information of different production lines, which improves the efficiency of information acquisition and facilitates manual decision-making. And Gaopin Automation is committed to the system’s feedback mechanism and interaction mechanism, hoping to raise the level of intelligence to the data decision-making stage, and then cooperate with the detection process in the production of front-end production lines to reduce product scrap rate and improve production efficiency. At present, high-quality automation can reduce the processing time of MES system from 300 milliseconds in traditional manufacturing plants to less than 100 milliseconds in the face of data of the same magnitude.
The user group of Gaopin Automation is mainly headManufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz, BMW and other world-class car brands. At present, Gaopin Automation is mainly concentrated in the domestic market, and there are a few production lines in overseas regions such as Japan, Canada, and Mexico.
In 2014, Gaopin Automation completed a 10 million RMB angel round investment invested by Rushan Capital. In 2017, it received a Pre-A round of financing with Jiuren Capital exceeding 70 million. After this round of financing, Gaopin Automation will focus on the expansion of overseas markets, and plans to establish R & D, sales divisions and new factories in Japan and Europe to increase business scale.