Founded in 1950 and known as the "Eldest Son of the Republic," this large provincial state-owned heavy equipment manufacturer in Shanxi is the first heavy machinery manufacturing enterprise independently designed and built in the PRC. It has created over 460 "firsts" in China and the world, providing more than 2,000 types and 30,000 sets of equipment for key national construction projects. Its main business covers mining, lifting, construction machinery, wind power generation, rail transit, offshore engineering, and forging equipment, making it a critical production base for China's aerospace launch facilities. In response to the "Made in China 2025" national strategy, the group is comprehensively advancing multi-system construction to address urgent needs for group-level multi-factory collaborative production, business digitalization, and standardization.
The absence of real-time, efficient data analysis tools means that order tracking, production, quality, warehouse, materials, and after-sales management are unsupported by IT solutions, leaving decisions to rely on personal experience.
Inbound and outbound logistics are managed via paper records. There is a high volume of Work-In-Progress (WIP) and obsolete materials on-site, coupled with insufficient material record information and low utilization rates.
Production information lacks real-time accuracy. There are no historical archives for handling anomalies, and equipment data monitoring is delayed.
Multi-departmental collaboration relies heavily on offline communication. Progress across business units is opaque, and processes and techniques are not fully standardized, resulting in low production efficiency and a tendency to generate obsolete inventory.
Quality control processes rely on paper records, resulting in poor traceability that cannot meet the high-precision and high-reliability requirements of heavy equipment.