Empowered by "intelligence" and breaking through toward "newness," scenes of digital and intelligent operations are vividly unfolding throughout the CRCC Heavy Industry industrial park—

Where welding sparks fly, intelligent robotic arms precisely complete steel component welding, delivering stable and reliable quality in a single pass; amid the flow of data, the digital twin system for shield tunneling machines simulates geological changes in real time on the central control screen, enabling efficient and rapid remote decision-making; during production line inspections, robots automatically identify component defects, and anomaly information is directly connected to the platform to trigger intelligent warnings.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, CRCC Heavy Industry took digital and intelligent transformation as a strategic pillar, deeply advancing intelligent production lines, smart services, and management upgrades, achieving all-round leaps in production efficiency, service response, and risk control capabilities. On the journey toward "intelligent manufacturing" of high-end equipment, it has opened new prospects for advanced manufacturing, engraved the transformation mark of the "China Solution," and injected digital and intelligent momentum into the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.

Integrating Digital Intelligence with the Chain to Reconstruct a New Ecosystem of Manufacturing Processes

CRCC Heavy Industry uses digital technology as a link to break down information barriers among R&D, production, and service, building a closed-loop ecosystem in which "business drives digital intelligence and digital intelligence feeds back into business," enabling intelligent manufacturing to run through the entire industrial process.

Efficient collaboration is achieved in R&D and design—

Tool updates. Digital R&D systems such as MDM and PLM have been fully promoted, incorporating drawings and technical materials into systematic management and enabling integrated collaborative control across design, process, manufacturing, and service.

Efficient design. A custom-developed rapid pipeline design and modular management system significantly improves the efficiency of 3D pipeline design; a customized solution intelligent generation system based on large models can quickly respond to differentiated customer needs, making integrated "equipment + construction method" services more precise.

Results emerge. From modular R&D of tunnel boring equipment to scenario-based design of special equipment, digital tools have greatly shortened R&D cycles and continuously improved the efficiency of transforming innovative achievements.

Production and manufacturing are moving toward intelligence and efficiency—

Deepening lean management. An agile intelligent manufacturing model driven by "two wheels" has been created, introducing intelligent equipment such as visual recognition cutting robots and automatic welding workstations, with robot welding coverage for key components exceeding 30%.

Reconstructing production processes. A unified manufacturing data management and analysis platform has been built, increasing data transmission speed by more than 10 times and greatly optimizing core indicators such as cutting precision and machining process efficiency. After automation, sandblasting efficiency has doubled, and the efficiency of the automatic welding workstation for main drive flanges is 125% higher than traditional manual operation.

Building a stronghold for intelligent manufacturing. The flexible intelligent factory for high-end underground engineering equipment was selected into the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Excellence-Level Intelligent Factory program, with 17 typical application scenarios driving a 40% reduction in order delivery cycles and a 32.31% increase in production efficiency, fully demonstrating the hard-core strength of lean manufacturing.

Service support is achieving proactive prediction—

The "CRCC Heavy Industry Service Platform" WeChat mini-program has been launched, integrating functions such as online repair requests and work order tracking to make service processes transparent and traceable. An intelligent customer service operation and maintenance assistant developed based on AI large models can diagnose equipment faults in real time and generate maintenance plans. In projects such as the Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-Speed Railway, remote monitoring systems have promptly avoided the risk of motor overheating damage.

At the same time, the company is vigorously developing equipment leasing and remanufacturing businesses. The scale of leasing business has steadily expanded, and its share of revenue has continued to rise. By extending product life cycles, it has built a green manufacturing model based on resource recycling.

Strengthening the Industrial Foundation to Consolidate a Solid Base for Intelligent Manufacturing Transformation

Based on the core needs of high-end equipment manufacturing, CRCC Heavy Industry has increased investment in industrial foundational capacity building. Through equipment upgrades, infrastructure improvements, and management quality enhancement, it has built a solid hardware foundation and institutional guarantee for intelligent manufacturing transformation.

Iterative upgrading of production equipment has delivered notable results—

Targeted funding. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, hundreds of millions of yuan have been invested cumulatively in production equipment upgrades, with more than 60% of the funds directed toward intelligent equipment, focusing on automation transformation of core processes.

Equipment innovation. Cutting, welding, and assembly robots with data collection functions have been introduced to replace traditional manual operations, achieving automated production operations and real-time data accumulation.

Efficiency improvement. Self-developed equipment such as programming-free intelligent welding systems and self-propelled welding robots have been put into use, not only solving industry challenges such as welding deformation in large steel structures but also greatly improving the efficiency of steel arch segment welding production lines, providing solid equipment support for intelligent manufacturing.

Infrastructure construction has been expanded and upgraded—

Increased investment. A large amount of capital construction investment has been completed cumulatively, adding more than 100,000 square meters of building area, with key focus on projects such as the high-end underground equipment industrial plant, the plant for "bottleneck" key core components, and a large R&D center.

Functional support. The implementation of this infrastructure not only provides excellent hardware conditions for the R&D and production of key components such as shield machine main bearings, but also supports the coordinated development of multiple industries such as rail system equipment and special professional equipment, laying a solid physical space for intelligent manufacturing transformation.

Lean management and the standards system advance together as dual drivers—

Lean cost reduction. Following the principle of "cost management as the core and process control as the main line," more than 100 cost-reduction measures have been implemented, and a modular process database containing more than 800 core data items has been built. The average annual volume of process changes has steadily declined, and document distribution accuracy has remained high.

Intelligent management empowerment. Internal control and institutional systems have been integrated into information systems and transformed into rigid system rules. Through more than 80 decision-making reports and cockpits, intelligent and precise management decision-making has been achieved, enabling digital and intelligent management to fully cover all scenarios of production and operation.

Diversified Empowerment to Broaden New Application Scenarios for Intelligent Manufacturing

CRCC Heavy Industry has deeply integrated digital and intelligent achievements into its diversified product systems, creating intelligent benchmarks in core fields such as tunnel boring machines, rail systems, and special equipment, while also achieving cross-industry technological empowerment, allowing the value of intelligent manufacturing to take root and bear fruit in multiple scenarios.

The intelligence level of tunnel boring equipment leads globally—

Each shield tunneling machine is equipped with more than 2,000 sensors, transmitting thousands of data items in real time at a frequency of once per second. The intelligent tunneling system reaches L3 autonomous driving level, enabling geological visualization, autonomous route control, and automatic posture correction.

In the Shenzhen-Jiangmen Railway project, the "Shenzhen-Jiangmen No. 1" shield tunneling machine, relying on digital and intelligent technologies, achieved safe and efficient tunneling at a seabed depth of 106 meters, setting a new world record for the deepest high-speed railway shield tunnel; the world's first spiral inclined shaft boring machine, "Beishan No. 1," with the help of precise digital control, successfully overcame the tunneling challenge of a 590-meter vertical depth and a 10% steep gradient, becoming a model of intelligent construction in underground engineering.

Digital and intelligent upgrading of rail system equipment has delivered notable results—

The turnout company has built a development pattern of "full-scenario turnouts + derivative industries," and its developed intelligent monitoring system enables dynamic management of the entire turnout life cycle; Longchang Company has deeply cultivated intelligent manufacturing of railway equipment and built China's first automated production line for elastic rail clips, achieving full-process control from raw material processing to finished product warehousing through digital systems.

Two EMU trains on the Jinan-Zhengzhou High-Speed Railway set a world record for open-line passing with a relative speed of 870 kilometers per hour, backed by the solid technical support of the 73 sets of high-speed turnouts supplied by the company; the 1,000-mm gauge rack turnout developed to meet the needs of mountainous rail transit fills a domestic technical gap and further broadens the application boundaries of digital and intelligent turnouts.

At the same time, the Electrical Materials Company has steadily advanced mechanical processing, new materials, and logistics and warehousing industries, successfully signed an order for turnout rollers under the China Railway centralized procurement program, and provided precise material support for production through digital supply chain control, helping upstream and downstream players in the industrial chain improve efficiency collaboratively.

Digital and intelligent empowerment in the field of special equipment has achieved multiple breakthroughs—

In plateau construction scenarios, green equipment such as pure electric rock drilling jumbos and wet shotcrete trolleys are equipped with intelligent dual-mode energy replenishment technology, achieving dual improvements in power performance and energy efficiency under plateau working conditions and adapting to the operational needs of extreme environments; Tibet Company has completed product deliveries for key projects such as the Shuanghu oil and gas scientific research support base, relying on digital and intelligent adaptation technologies to enable high-end equipment to operate stably in high-altitude environments.

In the mining field, the intelligent bolting and mining integrated machine enables simultaneous "tunneling + support" operations, solving industry pain points such as hard rock tunneling and imbalance between mining and excavation, and leading mining toward efficient and safe transformation.

In the high-end agricultural machinery field, digital control technology has been deeply applied. New products such as tomato harvesters and silage machines have successfully broken import monopolies, filled gaps in the domestic market, and built a multi-category digital and intelligent agricultural machinery product matrix.

Cross-industry empowerment releases transformation dividends—

Based on manufacturing process data for thick-plate components and integrated with AI technology, differentiated intelligent manufacturing equipment and solutions have been developed and can be promoted in multiple fields such as shipbuilding and marine engineering, extending technological value across industries.

The "smart brain" big data platform connects data across all business domains such as marketing, R&D, production, and supply chains. The rectification rate for data quality issues remains high, not only supporting efficient internal operations but also forming replicable and promotable experience for industry intelligent manufacturing upgrades, injecting collaborative momentum into building a manufacturing powerhouse.

With digital intelligence as the wings and practical work as the foundation, CRCC Heavy Industry's "14th Five-Year Plan" intelligent manufacturing journey is a systemic transformation that runs through the entire chain, covers multiple fields, and empowers the entire ecosystem.

In the rise and fall of robotic arms on intelligent production lines lies the pace of manufacturing models iterating toward high efficiency; in the digital upgrading of diversified equipment lies the deep cultivation of technological innovation toward practical implementation; in cross-industry technological empowerment lies the extension of transformation value toward broad markets.

Every optimization of data, every upgrade of equipment, and every implementation of a scenario embodies a profound understanding and firm practice of "intelligent manufacturing." This path of driving high-quality development through digital intelligence keeps CRCC Heavy Industry leading in the high-end equipment track and, with tangible and replicable practices, marks clear coordinates for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.