On May 18, Weichai Lovol Smart Agriculture, a subsidiary of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, held a delivery event for the first batch of valuable customers at its intelligent tractor manufacturing base, marking the official commissioning of the first "smart factory" in China's agricultural machinery industry. Chen Zhi, president of China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association, Zhang Hongqi, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Shandong Province, Man Shengang, secretary of the Party Committee and director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shandong Province and secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Liu Yun, secretary of the CPC Weifang Municipal Committee, attended the event and delivered speeches. Li Weiguo, president of China Agricultural Mechanization Association, Fan Jianhua, president of China Agricultural Machinery Distribution Association, Yang Baolong, general manager of Beidahuang Group, and Li Yuxia, president of Shandong University of Technology, were present at the event.
Chen Zhi stated that the Lovol intelligent tractor manufacturing base is the modern tractor manufacturing plant with the largest investment scale and the highest construction level in the history of China's agricultural machinery industry. The commissioning of the base is a great event for China's agricultural machinery equipment industry and is of landmark significance. It is hoped that Lovol Smart Agriculture will continue to shoulder the responsibility of the "chain leader" enterprise in China's agricultural machinery equipment industry chain. With the completion and commissioning of the new factory as a new starting point, it will continue to provide advanced, practical, reliable and durable agricultural machinery products for farmers and new business entities, and provide more advanced equipment support for national food security, rural revitalization and the strategy of building a strong agricultural country.
Zhang Hongqi said that Shandong is a major agricultural province and a major agricultural machinery province. The provincial Party committee and the provincial government attach great importance to the development of agricultural mechanization and have included the agricultural machinery equipment industry in the 11 landmark industrial chains of the province. The Weilinri intelligent agricultural machinery equipment National advanced manufacturing cluster is the largest intelligent agricultural machinery equipment cluster in the country. The delivery of the first batch of valuable customers at the Lovol intelligent tractor manufacturing base marks a new step forward in Shandong's agricultural machinery manufacturing. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Shandong Province will further support and promote the application of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery equipment and technology to make due contributions to the development of agricultural machinery in the province and even the whole country.
Man Shengang said that Shandong Heavy Industry Group is accelerating the development of a leading technology, green development and world-class high-end equipment multinational group. Lovol Smart Agriculture is one of the six business segments of Shandong Heavy Industry and a strategic growth pole with great innovation and growth potential. Shandong Heavy Industry Group will pool the resources of the entire group to fully support Lovol Smart Agriculture to become stronger, better and larger, and move towards world-class status. We will work together with partners in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to jointly shoulder the responsibility of "taking the lead along the way" in agricultural machinery equipment, and make new and greater contributions to safeguarding national food security and promoting rural revitalization.
Liu Yun expressed gratitude to Shandong Heavy Industry Group for its contribution to the development of Weifang City. Weifang is China's agricultural machinery City, with the most complete range of products and the most complete industrial chain of agricultural machinery manufacturing industrial clusters, he said. Lovol Smart Agriculture, a local enterprise in Weifang, is a benchmark and "chain leader" enterprise in China's agricultural machinery equipment. The commissioning of the intelligent tractor manufacturing base of Lovol Smart Agriculture will play a positive role in leading the intelligent development of China's agricultural machinery, ensuring national food security and empowering the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
At the event, Chen Zhi, Zhang Hongqi, Man Shengang and Liu Yun jointly pressed the start button, and the first product of the base rolled off the production line slowly, marking the official start of production at the Lovol Smart Agriculture Intelligent Tractor manufacturing Base.
Wang Guimin, the Party Secretary and Chairman of Lovol Smart Agriculture, delivered the first product to Guo Ping, the Party Secretary and Chairman of Hulun Buir Agricultural Reclamation Group, and the domestic and international sales representatives of Lovol Smart Agriculture delivered the products to the first batch of value customers.
This Base was a solid action following President Xi Jinping’s instructions. Covering an area of 776 mu and with a total investment of 3 billion yuan, the base has an annual production capacity of 100,000 power shift and CVT tractors with more than 100 horsepower, and can produce one high-end intelligent tractor every four minutes. With multiple "superpowers" such as innovation, intelligence, efficiency and greenness, it has redefined the new height of intelligent manufacturing of agricultural machinery in China. It has become a model for China's agricultural machinery to move towards the "intelligent manufacturing" era, filling the gap in domestic manufacturing of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery.
From intelligent production to digital management, from precision craftsmanship to high-end products, this "green and smart factory" is fully benchmarked against the world's best, leading the domestic agricultural machinery industry in "intelligent manufacturing". The "5G+ industrial Internet" platform seamlessly connects machining, assembly, logistics and other links. The production line, from the first process to the final inspection, has achieved a high degree of intelligence through intelligent management systems and digital equipment - the rate of machining automation is 93%, the rate of welding automation is 72%, and the rate of painting automation is 95%. The assembly automation rate is at the leading level in the industry, and the product consistency is at the top international level.
Ma Changhai, member of the Party Committee and vice president of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Party Secretary, chairman and general Manager of Weichai Group, attended the event. Leaders from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Shandong Province, Weifang City, industry associations, research institutes and provincial reclamation systems; More than 500 people, including strategic customers, partners, domestic and foreign distributors and agents of Lovol Smart Agriculture, attended the event and visited the manufacturing base.