Amid the ongoing wave of automotive intelligence and electrification, safety—long regarded as a fundamental performance cornerstone—is being redefined. A leading intelligent automotive safety component manufacturer remains deeply rooted in the field of passive safety, with a strong focus on core products such as airbags. In response to surging orders, increasingly complex materials, limited space, and fragmented information, the company faces mounting pressure to break away from traditional manufacturing models. By embracing intelligent solutions, it aims to address dual challenges in production and logistics, significantly enhancing delivery efficiency and overall operational performance. Unclear Task Assignment and Low Collaboration Efficiency A disconnect between production planning and execution, coupled with unclear task assignment processes, leads to poor visibility over job priorities and resource allocation on the shop floor. As a result, collaboration becomes inefficient and response times are delayed, disrupting the overall rhythm of the production line. Disorganized Order Management and Heightened Delivery Risks The absence of a unified order management and traceability system results in delayed status updates and misalignment between material preparation and shipment schedules. This compromises delivery accuracy and erodes customer satisfaction. Inventory Backlog and Severe Resource Occupation Inefficient material flow and mismatches between replenishment and consumption create imbalanced inventory structures. The coexistence of excessive raw materials and stagnant finished goods not only consumes valuable warehouse space but also drives up management and operational costs. To address the above challenges, the company partnered with EFORK to develop a smart factory project that integrates raw material storage, production lines, and intra-factory logistics. The project centers on core equipment including an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), conveyor system, and a PTL (Pick-to-Light) system. Material delivery is handled collaboratively by CTU robots and omnidirectional latent AGVs, enabling fully automated material picking and loading. Finished product dispatch is integrated with an automated packaging system, ensuring seamless information sharing and full traceability across the flow of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished goods, as well as auxiliary materials. By reinforcing data integration, full-process automation, and site-wide digitalization, the factory has achieved real-time visibility and intelligent management, significantly improving operational efficiency and decision-making precision—paving the way toward high-efficiency intelligent transformation. In response to rising raw material prices and increasing labor costs, the manual picking process posed challenges such as frequent errors and low efficiency. To address this, EFORK implemented a solution combining the PTL system with CTU tote-handling...

Survival Challenges for Print and Packaging Enterprises Amidst the Digital Transformation Wave The printing industry's vast product range and complex workflows make automation upgrades and warehouse–logistics integration particularly difficult. In packaging printing, raw materials, semi‑finished goods and finished products must shuttle constantly between pre‑press, press and post‑press stages, yet reliance on manual forklifts today leads to low efficiency, chaotic line‑side storage and lengthy verification times. Rising labor costs and quality issues from human handling only exacerbate the problem, making an intelligent transformation imperative. One leading high‑end packaging manufacturer—whose portfolio spans luxury cosmetics, perfumes, premium spirits and cultural goods—has long held an industry‑leading position and earned the trust of many top global brands, even winning the printing world's "Oscar", the Benny Award. Current Situation 1: Space Planning The printing‐and‐packaging sector handles many large, varied items—raw paper rolls, cartons, bags, etc.—yet the on‑site storage near the shop floor uses flat racking without zoning by paper type, width or grade. This leads to stockpile backlogs, time‐consuming searches for materials, and poor support for efficient production supply and turnover. Current Situation 2: Information Management Throughout production—from raw and auxiliary materials, to semi‑finished and finished goods—there’s no digital or automated management system. All inventory records are handwritten, and data travels via paper cards, making errors inevitable, breaking the data chain and preventing any traceability of product quality. Current Situation 3: Distribution Operations All workshop logistics—internal deliveries and warehouse in/out—are done by hand. Without smart delivery equipment or automated slot management, workers must hunt for items manually, resulting in low delivery efficiency and high labor intensity. Current Situation 4: Environmental Requirements Raw paper and finished paper products are flammable, prone to spoilage and moisture deformation. They must be stored in a dry, clean environment with controlled temperature and humidity, never in high‑heat or high‑pressure areas. Otherwise, friction can build static and pose a serious fire risk. A Tailored Smart Warehousing & Logistics Solution for Packaging & Printing We design and customize an end‑to‑end intelligent logistics system around your actual production logistics and storage needs—covering everything from raw materials and work‑in‑progress to finished goods and consumables. By integrating automated inbound/outbound handling, storage optimization, distribution, and digital data capture and management, this has become one of the industry’s most effective smart‑logistics templates and a benchmark for intelligent manufacturing in printing and packaging. This project spans multiple zones—cutting, printing, screen‑printing, laminating, folding/gluing, r...

According to the "14th Five-Year Plan for a Modern Energy System," the power grid must serve as the core platform to coordinate the large-scale development of new energy with the safe and stable operation of the power system. By advancing the digital upgrade of the power system, building new power system models, and deepening institutional reform, the plan aims to enhance technological innovation and intelligent O&M capabilities while strengthening power resource allocation. As a pillar of the national economy, the electric power industry must, while fulfilling its core role in supporting social development, build an intelligent and efficient warehousing and logistics system to boost its competitiveness. Given that power materials are diverse, have large demand volumes, and require timely supply, it is essential to scientifically plan warehouse layouts, optimize logistics architecture, and improve resource allocation efficiency to create a modern warehousing system that combines precise daily allocation with rapid emergency response, thus providing a solid material support foundation for the safe operation of the power system. PART ONE-Pain Point Analysis of Warehousing Upgrades in the Electric Power and Grid Industry The extensive variety of materials: spanning power transmission and transformation equipment, emergency repair tools, safety protection gear, etc. - presents significant challenges in categorical management. This complexity often leads to storage inaccuracies, inefficient retrieval, and may potentially cause repair delays due to material misidentification. High-Priority Emergency Response Demands: Power equipment failures may trigger large-scale power outages, necessitating rapid deployment of spare parts for emergency repairs. Conventional warehousing models exhibit slow response speeds, struggling to meet emergency demands particularly during nighttime operations or in remote areas. Challenges in Distributed Inventory Management: The widespread geographical distribution of power infrastructure creates coordination complexities for regional warehousing centers. This often results in uneven inventory distribution across service zones, leading to suboptimal resource allocation and increased operational costs. Data Latency and Information Silos: Manual inventory auditing processes cause delayed data updates (typically 24-48 hours) with accuracy rates below 85%, insufficient for real-time dispatching decisions. Compounding this issue, fragmented material management systems across departments maintain isolated datasets, preventing effective cross-functional coordination. Physical Space Constraints: Approximately 65% of power grid warehouses are retrofitted from legacy facilities, introducing inherent design limitations: Dimensional constraints in length/width, Restricted floor load-bearing capacity, Height limitations. These structural parameters fundamentally constrain storage optimization potential. PART TWO-Yufeng Intelligent Ele...

In the past, the refractory materials industry was often regarded as a high-pollution, low-value-added sector. However, with the development and application of digital technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence, the traditional refractory materials industry is rejuvenating. It is gradually evolving towards automated solutions, including smart warehousing, automatic batching equipment, integrated forming equipment, and automatic packaging machinery. With the in-depth application of computer software systems, the refractory materials industry is entering the Industrial 3.0 era. The green, smart, and digital transformation of refractory enterprises is imperative. However, the path to intelligent upgrading for refractory enterprises is by no means a quick and easy process. As we all know, refractory materials are non-metallic materials that withstand high temperatures and are widely used in high-temperature fields such as steel, building materials, non-ferrous metals, and chemicals. They are indispensable foundational materials for various high-temperature industrial kilns and equipment. The construction of intelligent vertical warehouses must fully consider the production processes and storage requirements of refractory materials. Yufeng Intelligent & Refractory materials industry In the face of core pain points such as low storage space utilization, insufficient logistics efficiency, and weak production coordination in the intelligent transformation of the refractory materials industry, Yufeng Intelligent successfully developed a comprehensive intelligent warehousing and logistics solution for a leading enterprise in the sector. By innovatively applying a dual deep-level heavy-duty vertical warehouse and an intelligent transfer system, Yufeng Intelligent has supported a national high-tech enterprise in achieving the intelligent upgrade of its project that produces 250,000 tons of environmentally friendly magnesia-based refractory products annually. This project has received multiple national honors, including the "Outstanding Scenario in Intelligent Manufacturing" from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, establishing a new benchmark for the construction of intelligent factories in the refractory materials industry. PART ONE--Intelligent Storage and Transportation System Solution for Refractory Materials → Intelligent Production Line Project for 250,000 Tons of Eco-friendly Refractory Products Annually As a subsidiary of a leading company in the refractory materials industry, this enterprise actively responds to the three-year action plan (2021-2023) for the "Four Reforms" initiative of national industrial enterprises. It comprehensively promotes technological upgrades, digital transformation, energy-saving renovations, and environmental improvements to drive industrial transformation and upgrading. In 2021, the company launched an intelligent production line project for the annual output of 250,000 tons of eco-friendly...

With the rapid rise of the new energy market,as the core driving force of this industry,the market demand for lithium batteries also continues to grow.According to the statistics of GGII Lithium Research Institute (GGII),China's lithium battery shipments reached 1,175GWh in 2024,a year-on-year growth of 32.6%.Among them,power battery shipments were 780+GWh,335+GWh for energy storage batteries,and 55+GWh for digital batteries,realizing growth of 23%,64%,and 14%,respectively.In the field of power battery,the shipment of lithium iron phosphate battery was as high as 560+GWh,accounting for 72%.These data clearly reflect the explosive growth of the lithium battery market and the dominant trend of technology routes. The rapid development of the industry can't be separated from the perfect and competitive industrial chain,especially the power battery R&D and manufacturers play a vital role in it.Under the wave of the intelligent era,enterprises have accelerated the layout of digital production system and intelligent logistics system to seize the high ground in the future market. However,as a key link in the manufacturing of new energy batteries,warehouse management faces a series of challenges On the one hand,the traditional warehousing mode is overly dependent on labor,which not only leads to high labor costs,inefficient use of space,but also exists a certain material management safety hazards.On the other hand,new energy batteries are of various types and have different characteristics,which leads to extremely strict management standards.Therefore,how to ensure the safety of personnel and materials,improve the utilization of storage space,enhance the efficiency of warehouse turnover.And on this basis to effectively reduce operating costs,has become a new energy battery companies need to solve the core problem. PART 1--Project Background A new energy battery enterprise according to the development strategy and future business needs,start a new annual output of 5GWh fast-charging power battery production base,focusing on light power battery market layout.Recently,its soft pack power battery intelligent warehousing and logistics system project was successfully put into operation.The project is planned,designed and implemented by Yufeng Intelligent,covering three core areas:raw material warehouse,logistics of separation and transformation workshop and finished product warehouse of electric core,which significantly improves the operation efficiency of the base and the level of logistics intelligence. The successful commissioning of the first phase of the project has taken the lead in the formation of 4GWh minute-level super fast-charging lightweight power battery manufacturing capacity,laying a solid foundation for the enterprise to seize the heights of the new energy battery market.At the same time,the project,as an important part of promoting the high-quality development of new energy battery industry in Anhui Province,continues to inject new kinetic...

The raw materials for wires and cables are mostly transported in ton bags and ton bags. In most factories, the ranking divisions are unclear and the ground markings are not rigorous, which leads to unreasonable placement of materials, messy placement of materials, difficulty in finding goods, and safety hazards at all times. In order to reduce transportation costs and avoid material surface scratches, material degeneration and other demand pain points caused by stacking storage methods and climate environments, an old domestic special cable manufacturing company joined hands with Yufeng Intelligent to carry out an intelligent transformation of its raw material warehouse. The warehouse has been upgraded to an "intelligent three-dimensional warehouse", which includes intelligent vertical warehouse equipment such as curved rail stackers and conveyors, and is combined with software systems such as WMS and WCS to create an "integrated software and hardware" intelligent warehousing, which has greatly improved It improves warehousing efficiency and accuracy, and has significant effects in storage capacity, cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and lean management. Intelligent warehouse of curved rail stacker realizes low-cost storage of raw materials According to the raw material usage requirements of the customer company, the project uses double-extension curved track stacker, allowing each stacker to switch freely in multiple aisles. Compared with general straight track stacker, it greatly reduces the company's investment cost while meeting the customer's in and out of warehouse flow requirements. Integration and connection of multiple systems The entire set of warehousing and logistics solutions applies the WCS, WMS and other intelligent logistics software systems independently developed by Yufeng Intelligent. Based on industrial Internet technologies such as 5G and big data, it is connected with customers' MES, ERP, TMS and other systems, and has opened up various links such as production design, planning and scheduling, production operations, quality control, enterprise management, warehousing and logistics, to achieve production transparency, exponential increase in production efficiency, and continuous improvement of product quality. Project Value Reduce costs and increase efficiency The construction of smart warehouses has completely changed the traditional model of "people looking for goods", greatly reduced the company's scrap rate and picking error rate, increased the customer's on-site operation efficiency by more than 50%, and increased the delivery speed by at least 1 times. Reduce storage space The storage mode has been transformed from the original ground stacking to three-dimensional stacking, saving more than 40% of the land use area. The whole process is traceable, improving the level of intelligence, digitization and informatization Yufeng Intelligent's self-developed WMS system breaks through data silos through information systems...

In response to the needs of the world's leading home appliance OEMs for large-volume cargo storage and high-traffic warehousing, Yufeng Intelligent provides them with a complete set of intelligent logistics solutions from finished product warehousing to warehousing and order management, using production lines and warehouses. Interoperable design between multiple stackers, shuttles, AGVs, conveyor lines and linkage with the WCS software system enables the creation of tens of thousands of cargo spaces in four sub-warehouses, helping customers double their space storage capacity. , easily cope with the efficiency requirements of centralized warehousing and warehousing of large quantities of finished products. Project Highlights High-density storage to maximize space utilization The size of the goods in this project is large. Under the existing site, conventional warehouses cannot accommodate multiple types of finished products.High density and large capacity storage requirements. In this regard, Yufeng Intelligent adopts Stacker crane + shuttle vehicle combination solution helps customers maximize the use of storage space. In the design of intensive warehouses, shuttle vehicles are used to replace stackers for loading and unloading goods, thus freeing up equipment operating space and increasing the amount of cargo space. With the support of powerful algorithms of software systems such as WCS, multiple stacker cranes and shuttle vehicles can be used to pick and place goods from any cargo location on multiple floors. Realize global integrated link ●Multi-vehicle operation within the site enables cluster scheduling and high-precision operations. AGV serves as a cargo transfer tool for the entire factory, accurately connecting production lines, centralized strapping centers, corridor conveyor lines, pallet warehouses and other devices. Visual correction is designed when AGVs pick up goods. vehicle angle, so as to meet the precise forklift of large-sized goods and complete the cross-regional transportation and storage of various goods; ●Through cross-floor elevators and air corridors, the space linkage between warehousing and multi-layer production lines is realized; ●Work collaboratively with high-efficiency intelligent equipment such as stackers and shuttles. High quality finish Taking into account the customer's requirement that the warehouse be constructed and used at the same time, the project was divided into two phases and one system was implemented step by step. The two phases were seamlessly connected and the delivery time was significantly shortened compared to similar projects. project value ●Accelerate the turnover rate of goods: Seamlessly connect the production line and the intelligent library to achieve uninterrupted operations and speed up the turnover of goods. ●Achieving full-process intelligence: The application of a full set of intelligent equipment makes the storage and withdrawal of goods of multiple categories and specifications on...

01 Background introduction As a leading company in the field of functional security gloves, the customer is also a leading company with comprehensive advantages in the global safety protection field. Its business areas cover the research and development, production and sales of raw yarns, hand protection products and full-body special protection products. The customer is far-sighted in laying out the "intelligent transformation" strategy, and has put into operation a new intelligent industrial park based on the intelligent upgrading of the original intelligent factories and production lines. It plans to upgrade again and further enhance the intelligence level of the future factory, realizing the transition from the automation stage to the moving forward in the direction of digitalization, informatization and intelligence. The customer is committed to realizing the intelligent manufacturing goal of the "dark factory", by which time production capacity will be effectively released to meet greater market demand, while at the same time promoting the construction of low-carbon, smart, green parks and creating a green ecological industrial park. 02 Solutions and implementation effects The Yufeng intelligent AS/RS stacker crane automzted warehouse system maximizes the utilization of space, seamlessly connects the logistics system and the production system, breaks the information silo, and is equipped with a loop multi-vehicle RGV conveyor system to realize storage of raw materials, finished products and intelligent workshop supply. In terms of software, customized services are used to connect with the client's DCS system. In terms of information construction, the persistent connection method is used to perfectly realize the information interaction between the underlying sensing system and the upper central system. The entire intelligent logistics system can quickly respond to the customer's logistics supply and meet its annual production capacity and storage needs of 72 million dozen functional safety protective gloves. The intelligent factory built based on the operating increment over the years and future industry increment data can meet the continuous application of enterprises in the future growth stage. Space utilization Yufeng Intelligent makes full use of the existing space in the warehouse, and is inspired by international traffic road design. It adopts designs such as upper and lower layering and cross-layering in the XY direction to maximize the use of vertical space. With the intelligent automzted warehouse system as the core, it has successfully created tens of thousands of storage spaces completely get rid of the constraints of compact space and meet the storage requirements of raw materials and finished products. Warehousing + production line smart interconnection In order to respond to the needs of the production line in a timely ...