Approaching the Spring Festival holiday, in order to guarantee the utilization of containers by customers and the smooth of the supply chain, each container factory of Shanghai Universal, a subsidiary of COSCO SHIPPING Development, is engaging in production in an orderly manner, with intelligent manufacturing scenarios expanding and applying in many production lines. In recent years, the container factories have been deeply anchoring on intelligent production, with more than 120 new effective patents in 2023, realizing an effective increase in production capacity. The "Process Digital Design" scenario of Qidong Container, a subsidiary of the Company,was honored the Outstanding Intelligent Manufacturing Scenario Award for 2023 by the MIIT, and Jinzhou Container was honored the Liaoning Intelligent Factory Award for 2023. The container manufacturing business of COSCO SHIPPING Development is picking up its pace on the course of science and technology innovation and digital empowerment, presenting a landscape illustrating "Intelligent Manufacturing".

Robots in the Welding Workshop of Guangzhou Container Engaging Automatic Scanning Welding for Chassis

By means of man-machine collaboration, the Company gives full play to the advantages in each link by lowering energy consumption and waste generation, adapting its flexible response to the production needs for different products, conducting the follow-up and analysis for various production data, establishing a complete digital archive as well as enabling a more transparent and controllable production process, so as to achieve problem retrospection and quality management.

Efficient Operation of Automated Production Lines in the Machining Workshop of Jinzhou Container

Handling Robots in the Production Workshop of Jinzhou Container are Stacking up Materials Needed for Production

Jinzhou Container has completed the revamping for ten production lines in terms of machining integration, which abandons the traditional manual process and realizes the integrated automatic processing inthe whole production line. The application of automatic production line separates personnel from equipment, effectively guaranteeing personal safety, increasing production efficiency while ensuring product quality.

Digital Production Management Watch Panel for Ningbo Container

Intelligent Collection System for Cold Box Work station Information of Qidong Container

Leveraging its digital production management system,the parameters such as production plan and production progress are all clear to the eye. Supported by the "digital brain", the further optimization is achieved for the timeliness, accuracy and reliability of the production data, which provides a reliable guarantee for an excellent container quality.

Innovation in science and technology is an important source and dynamics for industrial development. In the era of technological empowerment, digital technology hasbecome an important backbone for the transformation and upgrading of the industry. By tightly grasping the opportunities brought by science and technology innovation, COSCO SHIPPING Development will actively conduct pilot demonstration construction for intelligent manufacturing by further speeding upthe progress in container intelligent manufacturing, and empowering high-quality development with digital intelligence.