Whether it is abroad or in any region in China, with signal support, as long as the machine fails, the big data center located in the Weihua Intelligent Industrial Park in Changyuan, Xinxiang can promptly alarm and send out a failure signal. This is the industrial Internet platform established by Henan Weihua Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. using a big data center to achieve full life cycle management of lifting equipment.
On February 20, in the Weihua Intelligent Industrial Park, in addition to busy workers, there were also "busy figures" of machine welding arms. "We have changed the traditional welding technology. The work that used to require 50 people now only requires 10 people, and does not even require manual operation." said Xie Baohua, executive vice president of Weihua Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.
In addition to the intelligence on the production side, on the product side, the cranes put into the market by Weihua Group have become "material handling robots", covering products such as fully automatic anti-sway cranes, fully automatic garbage disposal cranes, and steel coil warehouse intelligent cranes.
For a crane weighing more than 300 tons, will the rocker arm swing significantly during the lifting process? Han Hong'an, chairman of Weihua Group, said that Weihua independently developed anti-sway precise automatic positioning control technology, which reduces the swing amplitude by more than 95% and has a control accuracy of 2 mm. It is the first in the world and fills the technical gap in this field. "We are currently developing a third-generation crane. The control accuracy of the swing arm is even finer, and the time for the swing to stop immediately is shortened to 1 second or even ignored."
Currently, the four major satellite launch bases in China all use Weihua’s crane products equipped with anti-sway systems. Weihua's fully automatic garbage crane products are suitable for use in harsh environments with high dust and strong corrosion, and are suitable for use in harsh working conditions of waste power generation. This product has won the China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Progress Award and the Henan Province Science and Technology Progress Award. Its technical level is at the leading level in the country, with a market share of more than 45%.
Before last year, there were two categories of cranes: "European" and "General". European-style cranes are mostly produced in European and American countries and are characterized by lightweight and precision; general-purpose cranes evolved from Soviet-style cranes and are characterized by solidity, strength, and long life.
On May 28, 2021, Weihua Group launched the "New Chinese-style" crane to the world. Through the application of new structures and new accessories, the height of the crane itself was reduced by 30%, the weight was reduced by 25%, and the overall energy consumption was reduced by 20%; through the application of a batch of new technologies, the impact force of the crane was reduced by 90% and the noise was reduced by 20 decibels without increasing costs.
In addition, with the joint action of central information processors, sensors, and big data centers, cranes can be controlled through voice and gestures, and online equipment monitoring and remote operation and maintenance can also be realized, giving new Chinese-style cranes "intelligent" and "new skills."
“We use the big data center to establish an industrial Internet platform to realize product design optimization, remote monitoring, fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance, remote operation and maintenance service applications of lifting equipment, open up the technology research and development and industrialization chain, and realize the full life cycle management of lifting equipment. "Han Hongan gave an exampleFor example, if a crane breaks down somewhere, the signal fault light in the big data center will light up to achieve "real-time monitoring."
Han Hongan said that the company had started drafting the new Chinese-style crane industry standards in June last year and is expected to officially release and implement them in June this year. At present, Weihua Big Data Center has invested in various types of equipment covering 29 provincial administrative regions in China and Southeast Asia. The users involve 121 enterprises and units in 13 industries such as mechanical and electrical, petrochemical, etc. Weihua compiled the first "Crane Index" in the lifting industry, which became a "barometer" reflecting the operating conditions of the industrial manufacturing industry.
