Project information: Shanghai Highly (Group) Co., Ltd. is a world leading R&D manufacturer of core components and cooling & heating related products for white home appliances as well as new energy vehicles. The company operates in five related industries: compressors, motors, drive controls, cooling & heating, and auto parts. Shanghai Electric has assisted Highly Group to realize its goals relating to product innovation, capacity increases, flexible production and optimization of the supply chain. Shanghai Electric brought together data from design, production and logistics using new digital tools which were then deeply integrated into the supply chain operation system. In this way, the Just-In-Time (JIT) supply circle was established, commencing with life-cycle product management to design end-to-end operation architectures and reinforce product digitalization, equipment intelligent creation and logistics automation. In addition, it boosts corporate management innovation and financial governance through digital tools, which standardize corporate business and operational procedures via internet-based tools, improves budget management and increases effectiveness while also cutting costs.

Implementation results Highly Group has built its end-to-end business architecture using digital transformation services and digital factory construction. This has greatly improved the data flow of products, production processes and overall supply chain: automation rates are up by 24%, labor efficiency up by 27%, delivery days down by 9 days, turnover rate up by 6%, one-time pass rate up by 10%, cost down by 17%. It also supports intelligent selection of product type, intelligent order identification and placing, intelligent forecasting and order visualization. Highly group is the first home appliance manufacturer that features automated production through the wide use of industrial robots, digital factories and intelligent manufacturing ecosystems via integrated digital factories and industrialization. It has won the “Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration Enterprise” award issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as well as the “China Light Industrial Advanced Unit of Integration of Informatization and Industrialization” award.