On March 28, Liberation Daily published a report entitled "China Haisum: Leading Engineering Technology, Illuminating 'Made in China'" in the special edition of "Led by the Party's building, new developments and achievements are obtained with striving spirit and unremitting efforts", which reported that since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China Haisum has relied on the courage in innovation and vigorous vitality and based on the research and development of technologies such as digitalization, intelligence and energy saving in production processes to seek for transformation and upgrading under the leadership of the Party, and while helping many manufacturing enterprises to fill the domestic production gaps, it has also won the reputation of "the power behind China's manufacturing".
·Standing at the forefront of industry development
It is difficult for ordinary people to have intuitive feeling about the iterative upgrade of the production process, however, it is critical for industrial development. As a veteran enterprise in the light industry since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China Haisum has a deep feeling. In the past 70 years, the Company has contributed numerous representative projects for the whole country, especially in Shanghai, including the Hero Iridium-point Pen Factory, Forever Bicycle Factory, Phoenix Bicycle Factory, and Guanshengyuan Food Factory, which are well known to the older generations. Since the 1990s, it has gradually become a major participant in the quality improvement and upgrading of light industry enterprises in China, and has designed large and medium-sized projects in the light industry, such as paper mills, sugar mills, fine household chemical plants and wineries, accounting for more than 70% of the total projects in China.
The absolute market share has cultivated Haisum's keen sense of grasping industry trends. The light industry covers a wide range of fields and has many subdivisions. As a large-scale comprehensive engineering company that provides engineering design consulting services and general contracting services in the light industry, Haisum needs to provide unique "non-standard" service products tailored to each client. This prompted the Company to take a completely different path from the rapid expansion of emerging tech companies with proprietary technologies. Instead, the Company developed steadily.
Zhou Yuan, Vice President and Technical Director of Haisum said that, "Through a large number of engineering and technical services and thousands of engineering projects every year, we constantly adjust the operation direction based on the latest industrial development and actively seek changes in technology to maintain growth, progress and breakthrough." Due to the large number of service industries and the great differences in products, Haisum has formed a set of patented technologies to improve production efficiency by anchoring production processes and integrated innovations.
Founded in the special era of China's light industry seeking self-reliance, Haisum is more aware of the significance of relying on scientific and technological progress to win independent development opportunities. In the late 1990s, the country sought to transform the industrial structure, and a batch of low-energy-efficient paper mills was closed. This should have been a heavy blow to Haisum, which at that time undertook more than 90% of China's paper production business, but relying on the reserve of cutting-edge technologies and accumulation of industry experience, Haisum quickly developed a set of new production processes to improve efficiency and reduce consumption and occupied the market again. Zhou Yuan, who was a young engineer at that time, still remembers this: "Grasping the industry trend and arranging technology reserves in advance are still retained as the scientific research traditions of Haisum to this day."
From manual workshop production lines to semi-mechanized, fully-mechanized and electrified production lines, and then to automatic and even intelligent production lines, Haisum's every effort has precisely stepped on the key nodes of industrial development.
In the past five years, combined with industrial digital transformation and green development strategies, Haisum has focused on energy conservation, emission reduction and digital transformation to help the recovery and upgrading of traditional industries, and actively explored and cultivated emerging industries, such as new energy and new materials, energy conservation and environmental protection, medicine, warehousing and logistics.
· Breakthroughs made in a series of key technologies
Resources of any enterprise must be allocated in a scientific and reasonable manner to create maximum benefits since they are limited. Haisum is a technology-driven, intelligence-intensive enterprise, and it keeps definite and clear targets in industrial research, instead of being overly ambitious or aimless.
In recent years, there has been a domestic overall overcapacity in some light industry sectors. Haisum has increased research on national industrial policy and industrial life cycle and improved the ability to predict the industrial development to timely seize market opportunities arising from the recovery of traditional industries or industrial transfer and promote the transformation and upgrading of smart factory design and all-round services.
"We focus on hot issues, difficulties and bottlenecks and find research subjects in projects to solve problems in engineering practice. These practical technologies are refined and summarized to form a complete set of solutions, which ultimately drive the growth of the Company itself and the entire industry." said Zhang Jiajun, Director of Haisum Technology R&D Center.
Recently, Haisum won the bid for a well-known intelligent wine industry packaging center project. The project team utilized advanced baijiu packaging production lines, the Internet of Things and network communication technologies to customize an exclusive fully-automatic internal logistics system, in which efficient and optimized management can be achieved and a digital factory can be built.
This plan is based on the scientific research results of the digital transformation of Haisum's baijiu business in the past two years: In 2021, the research on the construction of an intelligent system for baijiu brewing was included in the key scientific research projects of the enterprise. In view of the key technological process and operation and maintenance requirements of the brewing process, the design and optimization for the intelligent detection technology and equipment scheme and the digital brewing collection and analysis platform were carried out.
The core of a digital factory is process and control. Relying on the accumulation of core processes and control engineering practices for decades, Haisum has possessed the technical and theoretical basis for the core of digital transformation. At present, the enterprise is actively promoting the digital business transformation, advocating BIM/EIM forward design modeling, creating an information model for the whole life cycle of engineering projects, improving the capability to provide engineering construction services in the whole process, and cultivating the capability to provide the digital deliverables and digital management system of the entire engineering projects for the industry.
In the field of energy conservation and environmental protection, after the research and development of the R&D team, the "Reclaimed Water Reuse Demonstration Project of Nantong Economic & Technological Development Area" adopted the world's first complete set of pulping and papermaking wastewater zero-discharge process, and completed a wastewater treatment project with a daily treatment capacity of 40,000 tons, which is equivalent to building a new reclaimed water plant. After that, this set of subject research and engineering practice based on pulping and papermaking wastewater treatment is still being upgraded and iterated, providing solutions for energy conservation, emission reduction and clean production, and constantly being implemented in other projects.
In the fields of new materials and new energy, especially the synthesis and preparation of new energy materials and the industrialization of equipment, Haisum has continuously accumulated a number of technological achievements based on engineering practice centering on R&D innovation. The subjects under research include the key synthesis and preparation technologies and equipment industrialization of ternary cathode material precursor for lithium battery, which aims to solve the industrial pain point of low production efficiency and breaks through the problems such as key technologies of nickel-cobalt-manganese co-precipitation rate-controlled crystallization and large-scale and intelligent technology development of key equipment.
Oriented by problems, China Haisum carries out the development practice of complete sets of equipment. Familiarized with its own papermaking process, the Company has achieved technical research results of the papermaking surface sizing starch preparation system after years of technical research, breaking the foreign monopoly, realizing the automatic upgrade of traditional processes, and empowering papermaking enterprises to reform technologies and reduce consumption. This achievement has reached the international advanced level according to the assessment by experts.
In response to the national "dual carbon" goal, Haisum has started to develop carbon accounting and carbon reduction consulting services to help enterprises achieve smart energy management.
In overseas EPC general contracting projects in Southeast Asia and Africa, Haisum accurately calculates all equipment and material lists through digital 3D design and simulates reasonable construction and lifting schemes to reduce costs and increase efficiency, making overseas markets a new engine for the Company's development in recent years. In 2019, Haisum stood out from more than 24,000 similar enterprises in China and was rated as one of the fourteen "Overseas Engineering Benchmarking Enterprises" by the China Engineering and Consulting Association.
· Solid scientific research foundation for sustainable development
In recent years, the talent structure of Haisum has also undergone subtle changes. More and more talents from electronic information, computer and other majors join the process research and development team to accelerate the integration of traditional business process needs and digitalization.
In accordance with the national strategy of industrial digitalization and green development and the requirement of Shanghai municipal government to build a global center for science and technology innovation, Haisum is constantly improving the basic capabilities of innovating science and technology service platforms and the leading capabilities of guiding scientific and technological talents. The Company has established the "EIM Digital Innovation Center" to help it become a domestic first-rate technology engineering company with global reputation.
As of 2021, Haisum has 9 national-level high-tech enterprises, 1 provincial-level enterprise technology center, and 1 provincial-level engineering research center. It has 554 valid patents, including 139 invention patents, and has developed and obtained 48 software copyrights. In addition, it has edited 20 national industry standards and specifications and participated in the compilation of 21 national industry standards and specifications, 12 local standards and 4 group standards, giving full play to the leading role in the industry. It has won a total of 2,766 excellent project awards and science and technology awards, including 191 national awards. In 2021, it won 9 digital BIM technology application awards. Recently, Haisum was also selected as a national "Science and Technology Reform Demonstration Enterprise".
In recent years, Haisum has actively advocated industry-university-research cooperation and constantly carried out technological innovation. The achievements of industry-university-research cooperation have been applied in the complete sets of equipment and engineering systems of many projects, which has accelerated the improvement of Haisum's scientific and technological capabilities and the pace of market exploitation. Zhao Guoang, Secretary of the Communist Party Committee and Chairman of Haisum, said that, "As a central enterprise engaged in professional services in the light industry in Shanghai, Haisum will continue to adhere to the leadership of the Party, shoulder a new historical mission and grasp the international and domestic development trends. Based on the reality of the Company, Haisum will cross the development gap with organizational reform, technology improvement and digital transformation and deal with uncertainty with innovation, progress, client service, lean management, and excellent execution. Through digital transformation, Haisum will reassess its position in the industry and start again from the broader industrial chain, and light up the future of Haisum with digital technology and integrated innovation to present to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with excellent achievements!"