Unveiling Changan's Digital Factory: Setting a Benchmark for Full-Domain 5G Digital Manufacturing

Unveiling Changan's Digital Factory: Setting a Benchmark for Full-Domain 5G Digital ManufacturingOn October 21st, Changan's Digital Factory was officially unveiled and awarded, with Huawei recognizing it as the "First Huawei & Changan Smart Factory Solution Global Benchmark Site" and China Unicom designating it as the "China Unicom & Changan Automotive 5G Future Manufacturing Benchmark Site." This full-domain 5G digital factory, built through a collaboration between Changan, China Unicom, and Huawei, aims to achieve "digitalization across the entire manufacturing process" by establishing a digital foundation and extensively employing over 40 advanced technologies, including 5G, AI, and digital twins

Unveiling Changan's Digital Factory: Setting a Benchmark for Full-Domain 5G Digital Manufacturing

On October 21st, Changan's Digital Factory was officially unveiled and awarded, with Huawei recognizing it as the "First Huawei & Changan Smart Factory Solution Global Benchmark Site" and China Unicom designating it as the "China Unicom & Changan Automotive 5G Future Manufacturing Benchmark Site." This full-domain 5G digital factory, built through a collaboration between Changan, China Unicom, and Huawei, aims to achieve "digitalization across the entire manufacturing process" by establishing a digital foundation and extensively employing over 40 advanced technologies, including 5G, AI, and digital twins. The factory boasts three technological highlights, demonstrating groundbreaking technical applications and innovative capabilities in customization, intelligence, and quality.

Customization: Deeply Implementing C2M, Ushering in a New Era of Flexible Manufacturing

Changan's Digital Factory deeply implements the C2M model, enabling customized and flexible production. This signifies the high degree of customization in production lines, equipment, and products, allowing for large-scale, diversified, and personalized production of customized goods. The factory possesses the capability to produce vehicles of different brands, platforms, and powertrain types on the same line, simultaneously manufacturing models from multiple brands and styles. Its production line debugging and changeover efficiency are at the forefront of the industry. In terms of product customization, users can choose their preferred vehicle model, powertrain type, exterior color, interior color scheme, and configurations, and place orders online for personalized customized services.

Intelligence: Unified Production Digital Platform Drives Smart Manufacturing Upgrades

For the first time, Changan's Digital Factory achieves virtual factory prediction and optimization across all processes, dimensions, spaces, and time periods. It has constructed a unified production digital platform and an "AI+Digital Twin" operational system. Leveraging the production digital platform and its full-connectivity production network capabilities, the factory utilizes virtual modeling to synchronize all factory data, empowering planning, logistics, energy, and production line transformation across the entire plant.

Supported by Huawei's products and solutions, Changan has established a large AI manufacturing database encompassing data acquisition and integration, storage layering, data computation, data management/governance, and data application. The extensive manufacturing data forms a vast manufacturing database, equipping the factory with self-learning capabilities to enable autonomous decision-making in production. Intelligent scheduling decisions during the production process are driven by data and AI to facilitate production-sales coordination and achieve real-time connections between C-end and M-end.

Based on Huawei's production digital platform, Changan combines digital twin technology with AI to create mold temperature analysis and prediction models. These models analyze and predict real-time data from integrated die-casting production, directly driving the mold temperature control unit to adjust temperature, thereby enhancing production efficiency and product quality.

Quality: Reconstructing Transparent Control Throughout the Entire Intelligent Manufacturing Quality Process

Changan's Digital Factory possesses high-precision automated operation capabilities, enabling big data to empower quality management throughout the entire process. From order generation to final vehicle roll-off, all relevant informationorder details, material data, process data, pass records, inspection results, defects and repair records, complete vehicle reports, and certificate informationis recorded. Huawei's big data governance capabilities ensure unified multi-system data management for complete traceability.

Changan's Digital Factory comprehensively constructs a new type of productivity across multiple scenarios, including the Internet of Everything, advanced manufacturing, digital transformation, and green low-carbon initiatives. It innovatively applies 5G full-connectivity technology to connect over 12,000 pieces of equipment to the production digital platform, achieving digital twinning of the entire production process. The factory's six processes, encompassing 54 production lines, over 1,200 workstations, and a total of more than 2,500 sets of equipment, are all modeled and integrated into the digital "virtual factory." In the future, the factory aims to become a "dark factory" with 100% unmanned operation for critical components, leading the way in new trends of smart manufacturing.

The establishment of Changan's Digital Factory marks a significant breakthrough for Changan in the field of intelligent manufacturing. It sets a new benchmark for digital transformation in China's automotive manufacturing industry, contributing to the high-quality development of China's manufacturing sector.