Alibaba’s new unit ‘Rhino Intelligent Manufacturing Factory’ in Hangzhou, Zhejiang (China) has been making headlines for all good technological reasons ever since it became operational on 16 September 2020!
Bullmer Mechanical and Electrical Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China’s Jack Stock, has become a core strategic partner of Alibaba in this new smart factory and has installed a whole line of cutting and spreading machines within the premises.
Zheng Haitao, General Manager, Bullmer, commented “Apart from laying these lines, Bullmer has been assisting Alibaba in getting through the data downlink taking over a remote control of the machinery.”
All the cutting and spreading machines provided by Bullmer are IoT-enabled which helps Alibaba in getting real-time display of equipment output and its utilisation. Alongside, the production monitoring; work efficiency analysis; fault diagnosis; consumables status; remote order dispatch, seamless integration with the plant’s MES system; etc. are other parameters that are assisting Alibaba’s analysis production capacity as well as overall equipment efficiency.
According to Zheng Haitao, Alibaba itself has a deep understanding of cutting-edge technologies such as IoT, modern digitisation equipment, and that’s what has inspired Bullmer to go into strategic collaboration with the company.
“Bullmer is quite optimistic about Rhinoceros smart manufacturing unit and we’ll wholeheartedly contribute to build the future of intelligent manufacturing,” concluded Haitao.
