1. Company Profile
Nanjing Mindray Biomedical Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Nanjing Mindray) was established in 2007 and has won many honorary titles and qualifications such as National High-tech Enterprise, Jiangsu Enterprise Technology Center, and Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center. The company’s business scope mainly involves the field of life information and support. It independently develops and produces digital integrated operating rooms, operating lights, operating tables, medical pendants/bridges, endoscopes and other surgical medical devices. In terms of the market share of operating room-related equipment segments, Nanjing Mindray’s products have reached the first in China and the fifth in the world.
II. Main Experience and Practices of “Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transformation and Internet Connection”
The digital integrated operating room smart factory is based on the digital factory. It uses the Internet of Things technology and monitoring technology to strengthen information management services, improve the controllability of the production process, reduce manual intervention in the production line, and reasonably plan and schedule. At the same time, it integrates emerging technologies such as preliminary intelligent means and intelligent systems to build an efficient, environmentally friendly, energy-saving, green, comfortable and humanized factory.
The top-level design of the smart factory is mainly composed of several modules: product lifecycle management system (PLM), enterprise resource planning management system (ERP), customer-centric intelligent system (CRM), supplier relationship management (SRM), production auxiliary system (MESA), CRM system and BI operation analysis system docking to achieve big data analysis, etc. It is equipped with existing intelligent manufacturing precision equipment, industrial robots and other intelligent manufacturing high-precision instruments, as well as self-designed EMC test laboratories, smoke laboratories, dust-free laboratories, dialysis projects, hydraulic load aging test instruments, etc. suitable for the company’s products, and ensures the security of information and systems through full information security management.
Nanjing Mindray’s “Digital Integrated Operating Room” smart factory has proposed intelligent solutions for the production process from various levels, including product solutions, top-level design solutions, sub-item construction solutions, personalized customization solutions, and online service solutions, targeting the characteristics of discrete, multi-variety, and multi-batch manufacturing. Through continuous improvement, it has achieved interconnection and effective integration between systems, equipment, components, and personnel.
III. Main Achievements
After upgrading the manufacturing equipment of smart factories, it is possible to reduce the cost of technical support investment, reduce personnel costs, reduce the risk of errors, improve operating efficiency, and realize the manufacturing of high-end products with stable production performance and reliable quality. The factory operating costs are reduced by 20%, the product development cycle is shortened by 20%, the production efficiency is increased by 20%, the product defect rate is reduced by 10%, and the sales revenue increases from 308.36 million yuan in 2016 to 1672.59 million yuan in 2023, maintaining an annual revenue growth rate of about 25%.