In recent years, Nanping City in Fujian has accelerated the intelligent upgrading and digital transformation of traditional enterprises across the city, promoted deep integration of new-generation information technology with manufacturing, comprehensively improved the intelligent and digital application level of traditional manufacturers in design, production, management, and service, continuously strengthened digital infrastructure and demonstration-driven work, and achieved positive results in industrial digitalization. In the recent selection of digital benchmark cases, Soonfor customers Dushi, Weijia, and Longsheng were all selected as benchmark enterprises for digital transformation in Fujian Province!!! Among the 13 companies on the List of Fujian Province Benchmark Enterprises for Industrial Internet Application, the furniture companies Dushi and Weijia were selected. Among the only three companies on the List of Fujian Province Benchmark Enterprises for New Models and New Business Forms of Deep Integration between New-Generation Information Technology and Manufacturing, the only furniture company selected was Jianyang Longsheng. The digital service provider for all three companies is Soonfor Software.
In this issue, we will first introduce the case of Dushi's Bamboo and Wood Smart Manufacturing MES and ERP Deep Integration Application Informatization Project for your study and reference. In the next issue, we will share Weijia's case, so please continue following this official account.
As a pilot demonstration enterprise for smart manufacturing in Fujian Province, Soonfor's long-term customer Fujian Dushi Wood Industry Co., Ltd. was selected as a provincial benchmark enterprise for industrial internet application and was also included as one of the 12 typical application cases of new-generation information technology and manufacturing integration development in Fujian Province. Starting in 2015, Dushi began cooperating with Soonfor from a single ERP management system and MES manufacturing execution system, and then gradually extended to group management and smart manufacturing. The entire group's digital transformation has achieved major results. Today, Soonfor is already Dushi's deep strategic partner. Dushi integrates traditional bamboo and wood processing technology with new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, forming an effective all-information management and control model covering product design, order splitting, defect identification, CRM, ERP, SCM, APS, MES, and other fields in development, production, and after-sales service. It advances intelligent construction in research and development, process, manufacturing, inspection, and logistics, realizes intelligent control and dynamic optimization of the production process, builds technical standards that meet the national integration of informatization and industrialization management system, obtains provincial certification for the integration management system, constructs a sustainable development system and action framework in a multidimensional way, and opens a new path for the sustainable development of bamboo and wood processing enterprises. With the overall workforce remaining unchanged over the past two years, the company has saved 8. percent in manufacturing costs annually, increased material utilization by 13 percent, achieved annual growth of more than 20 percent in output value, and continuously increased net profit.
Case Sharing of Fujian Dushi Wood Industry
Enterprise name: Fujian Dushi Wood Industry Co., Ltd. Scenario name: Bamboo and Wood Smart Manufacturing MES and ERP Deep Integration Application Informatization Project Service provider: Guangdong Soonfor Software Co., Ltd. Enterprise profile: Fujian Dushi Wood Industry Co., Ltd. is located in Shaowu City, covers an area of 236 mu, has 81,400 square meters of standardized workshops, employs more than 1,200 people, and processes and manufactures mid-to-high-end bamboo and wood products such as solid wood furniture, cabinets, solid wood doors, handicrafts, pet products, and bamboo lifestyle furniture. The company has successively won honors including National Green Factory, National Specialized and Sophisticated Little Giant Enterprise, National High-Tech Enterprise, National Advanced Enterprise in Employment and Social Security, and one of the first Fujian Province demonstration enterprises for the quality and safety of bamboo, wood, and grass products. It is one of the first national key leading forestry enterprises, one of the three major panel furniture manufacturing enterprises in Fujian, one of the backbone enterprises earning foreign exchange through exports, and holds 224 national patents.
A leader in the sustainable utilization of bamboo and wood resourcesand in digital innovation
Recently, upon entering the production workshop of Fujian Dushi Wood Industry Co., Ltd., more than 1,200 frontline workers were working overtime to rush export orders. On the production line, automated intelligent machines were each performing their tasks and running quickly; on the ground, logistics carts shuttled back and forth with precision; on large screens, real-time data kept changing, and production status was clear at a glance, presenting a busy scene. Fujian Dushi Wood Industry Co., Ltd. is located in Shaowu City, one of Fujian's key forest areas and one of the four major forest product processing centers. Covering 236 mu and with 81,400 square meters of standardized workshops, it has created two major product systems, wood and bamboo, developed the distinctive product standards of Muyu Space, and steadily promoted the sustainable development of its independent brand. Compared with other industries, forest product processing involves many categories of materials and complex procedures, so its digital transformation is difficult to achieve in one step. How to seize new opportunities for digital transformation in the era of the digital economy is a mandatory question for the home furnishing industry to achieve high-quality development. Under the wave of the digital economy, Dushi Wood Industry has adhered to high-level positioning, followed the laws of industrial development, gathered various factors, used digitalization to leverage existing capacity and create incremental growth, and unswervingly promoted intelligent industrial upgrading and digital transformation. The company has obtained FSC certification and, relying on local Chinese fir resources in Shaowu as well as imported softwood and hardwood resources from Europe and the United States, jointly designed and developed with WEINIG a complete set of Industry 4.0. fully automatic intelligent production technology. Through reasonable log selection, drying technology, and infrared scanning technology, it classifies timber, ensures wood stress control, establishes allowance management standards, minimizes sawing and planing allowance, achieves fine texture and high added value, adopts full-process bamboo anticorrosion stress control and residual recycling technology, and establishes an environmental governance system according to international standards to improve energy conservation and emission reduction. Among all production links, wood stock preparation is the first process in wood processing. The precision of stock preparation directly affects product quality, material utilization, labor productivity, product cost, and economic benefits. In the first quarter of 2022, with smart manufacturing as the main direction, Dushi Wood Industry invested more than 50 million yuan to customize, test, and install the country's first automated and intelligent timber selection scanner, realizing four-sided identification of wood and automatic material selection, eliminating manual identification steps and making the process not only more efficient but also more precise. 
Chairman Du Jinxiang pointed to the scanner display and did the math for the reporter: the original selection equipment was not accurate enough in identification, so wood was not fully utilized. The scanner scans and analyzes knots and defects in the timber fed into the machinery, breaks down the proportion of usable material, and achieves maximum timber utilization. Through this technology,with the number of workers on the production line reduced from more than 50 to 17, the accuracy rate of timber identification increased from about 80 percent to 99 percent, and timber utilization improved by more than 8. percent. This one item alone saves the company more than 7. million yuan a year. In addition to stock preparation, at Dushi Wood Industry the technical transformation to improve material utilization runs through the entire process and full cycle of every procedure on the production line. Taking the multi-blade saw as an example, in the past, producing a wooden board 1.8. centimeters thick required reserving 2.1. centimeters of timber, which meant 0.3. centimeters of wood was wasted. Du Jinlong said that through technological upgrading, the reserve can now be controlled to only 0.05 centimeters extra,thereby improving the company's overall timber utilization, saving 8. percent in manufacturing costs each year, increasing material utilization by 13 percent, adding 50 million yuan in annual sales revenue, and generating about 13 million yuan in taxes and profits.Against the backdrop of rising raw material prices and shipping costs, greatly improving timber utilization is the company's core competitiveness, said Du Jinlong, executive vice general manager of Dushi Wood Industry. In recent years, Dushi Wood Industry has been committed to achieving intelligent manufacturing through process optimization, hardware upgrades, and information integration, improving product quality and continuously reducing production costs. The Bamboo and Wood Smart Manufacturing MES and ERP Deep Integration Application Informatization Project jointly developed by Dushi Wood Industry and Fujian Soonfor Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. integrates traditional bamboo and wood processing technology with new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, forming an effective all-information management and control model covering product design, order splitting, defect identification, CRM, ERP, SCM, APS, MES, and other fields in development, production, and after-sales service. Focusing on the application of intelligent manufacturing management systems in the standardized and industrialized bamboo and wood industry, the company has built an information management platform covering the entire process of product research and development, sales, procurement, warehousing, production, finance, and human resources. Based on its own needs, it has implemented the construction of bamboo and wood smart manufacturing informatization projects step by step, relying on advanced information technology, communication technology, and internet technology to grasp production conditions in real time and respond quickly. Through the accumulation and analysis of production big data, it continuously improves production operations, innovates operating models, and forms new production operation management and control capabilities.With the overall workforce unchanged over the past two years, the annual growth rate of production output value has exceeded 20 percent. The construction of Dushi Wood Industry's Bamboo and Wood Smart Manufacturing MES and ERP Deep Integration Application Informatization Project has opened up the end-to-end value chain, consolidated the two transformation foundations of digital capability and organizational capability, further promoted coordinated improvements in business, organization, and technology, and shifted the focus of enterprise production and operation from local attention to overall planning and from emphasizing technology to standardized management, highlighting its advantages in lean manufacturing and economic efficiency.
The results of the Bamboo and Wood Smart Manufacturing MES and ERP Deep Integration Application Informatization Project are also reflected in improved operational efficiency and on-time delivery commitments. During project implementation, the company made full use of the CRM customer relationship management system, integrated market and customer information, accurately positioned product development, ensured rapid data interconnection across systems, and realized digital management of the entire process from research and development to procurement, manufacturing, and logistics. The company has also actively carried out industry intelligentization research and, combined with the high integration and coordination of ERP, MES, and other information systems, promoted intelligent construction in research and development, process, manufacturing, inspection, and logistics, realized intelligent control and dynamic optimization of the production process, built technical standards that meet the national integration of informatization and industrialization management system, obtained provincial certification for the integration management system, constructed a sustainable development system and action framework in a multidimensional way, and opened a new path for the sustainable development of bamboo and wood processing enterprises. Innovation is the fundamental driving force of enterprise development, and employees are the main body of enterprise technological innovation, Du Jinxiang said. The company integrated and established a technology research and development center, set performance goals, and systematically promoted lean production and quality management. It set up innovation awards, designated the end of September each year as the Dushi Festival and Innovation Festival, issued certificates and incentive funds to award-winning project teams and individuals, and encouraged innovation by all staff. Ninety-eight percent of the company's innovation achievements have already been transformed. By cooperating with major universities at home and abroad to establish a modern new vocational education school for forest products industrial enterprises, it has built an education mechanism that closely integrates industry, academia, and research, cultivated specialized talent for bamboo and wood resource applications, established a scenario-based experiential education model, and built an industry-academia-research chain tightly linking project initiation, research, testing, production practice, and industrial-scale production. Together with relevant colleges and universities, it has also carried out professional title evaluation for the bamboo and wood industry to cultivate specialized talent for the sector. At the same time, Dushi Wood Industry has cooperated with advanced home furnishing system management software companies at home and abroad to establish a refined mass-production order process that runs through marketing, design, ordering, order placement, and production, build a production and sales system that interconnects people, materials, and equipment, improve employees' professional skills and professional qualities, form a culture of craftsmanship that strives for excellence, ensure efficient management throughout the product manufacturing process, improve product quality, and drive the development of a large number of surrounding industries such as printing, packaging, transportation, and metal processing. It has also simultaneously helped farmers expand the planting area of fast-growing Chinese fir forests and moso bamboo bases, increasing annual income for forest farmers by 41,600 yuan per household. Following the progression from the integration of informatization and industrialization to deeper integration and then to digital transformation, Dushi Wood Industry adheres to the basic principles of digital transformation of data-driven operation, systematic advancement, capability as the main line, open cooperation, and value orientation. It implements key tasks such as development strategy, new capabilities, systematic solutions, governance systems, and business innovation transformation, and obtains value benefits such as production and operation optimization and product and service innovation from the dimensions of process, elements, and management. Starting from the sustainable development and utilization of resources, after more than 30 years of accumulation, the company has improved the full-value-chain upstream and downstream production, processing, and sales system from logs to boards and then to products, Du Jinxiang said. As an industry leader, Dushi Wood Industry will, based on big data and the industrial internet platform, explore solutions with stronger local characteristics and continue to serve as the pace-setter for the digital transformation of forest product processing enterprises in Nanping, an advocate of innovation in modern wood applications, and a leader in the sustainable utilization of resources. Summary On the development path of home furnishing enterprises, digitalization and informatization have become the general trend. In China's home furnishing industry in the post-pandemic era, digitalization has been elevated by many home furnishing enterprises to a new height and has become a new engine for sustained business growth. In recent years, many home furnishing manufacturers have also been laying out digital development strategies, integrating and upgrading their original digital and information resources, and promoting the rapid development of enterprise digitalization and intelligence. Source: compiled from Nanping Radio and Television Station
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