Agricultural machinery is awesome, and farming is labor-saving. Agricultural modernization provides a wide range of application scenarios for new industrialization, as well as important support for ensuring food security and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.
Entering Shandong Jindafeng Machinery Co., Ltd., various types of agricultural machinery such as corn harvesters, peanut harvesters, and wheat harvesters are arranged in different categories, with an industrial style aesthetic and intelligent performance that is unforgettable. On August 23rd, the online theme promotion activity of "Number in 'New' - Decoding New Industrialization" came to this agricultural machinery "intelligent manufacturing" enterprise located in Jining to experience the pulse of modern agricultural development on site.
Exploring new driving forces for agricultural development on the front line of production
Shandong Jindafeng Machinery Co., Ltd. was founded in 1995. From a small factory that only produces agricultural machinery parts, to starting with the production of backpack wheat machines, and now developing into a national high-tech enterprise specializing in agricultural machinery, Jindafeng has embarked on a "reverse path" of agricultural machinery development.
In the tractor production workshop of Jinda Fengnan Industrial Park, workers are enthusiastically carrying out the process of putting the entire chassis online, assembling the hydraulic system, and installing the cab. After 40 processes, a finished product is driven off the production line in just over ten minutes. According to the staff of Jin Dafeng, this tractor production workshop has three assembly lines and one chassis spraying line, with a designed annual output of 12000 units and a daily (8-hour) output of 48 units, averaging one unit produced in 10 minutes.
This is a tractor assembly line with a length of 128 meters, which can meet the research and production needs of 50 horsepower to 440 horsepower. The reporter learned that the 440 horsepower tractor produced on this production line is a high-power tractor developed by Jin Dafeng after spending 3 months and investing 3 million yuan in research and development costs. Currently, it is the largest horsepower tractor in China, breaking the bottleneck technology of high horsepower in foreign countries.
The research and development in the field of agricultural machinery differs significantly from that in other manufacturing industries, mainly focusing on the design, trial production, and performance testing of new products. In terms of technological innovation, in 2023, Jin Dafeng invested 41.38 million yuan in research and development, accounting for 4.8% of the total, and has maintained a growth trend for three consecutive years. In 2023, the sales revenue of Jin Dafeng's new products reached 560 million yuan, accounting for 65% of the company's total sales revenue.
Through more than 20 years of innovative development, Jin Dafeng has been successively recognized as one of the first batch of key specialized, refined, unique and new "little giant" enterprises in China, a single champion product enterprise of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a national green factory, a leading enterprise in agricultural machinery industry in 2022, one of the first gazelle enterprises in Shandong Province, a leading enterprise in Shandong Province's characteristic industrial cluster, and a leading enterprise in modern and efficient agriculture among the "top ten" in Shandong Province.
Technological innovation helps accelerate agricultural machinery production
In recent years, Shandong has been deeply carrying out the digital transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and the coverage of digital transformation of industrial enterprises above designated size has continued to increase. The industrial digitalization index and the manufacturing digital transformation index are both among the top in China. Among them, Shandong Jindafeng Machinery Co., Ltd.'s multifunctional, efficient, intelligent joint harvesting equipment digital workshop was awarded the first batch of Shandong Province Digital Economy Industry Innovation Centers.
The reporter learned that currently, Shandong Jindafeng Machinery Co., Ltd.'s multifunctional, efficient, intelligent joint harvesting equipment digital workshop has achieved automated processing, handling, and on machine measurement of workpieces, real-time monitoring of the operation status of each machining center, and digitalization, informatization, and networking of the entire workshop manufacturing process management. The digitalization rate of workshop product design has reached 90%, and the CNC rate of manufacturing process has reached 95%, becoming a benchmark for digital workshops in the agricultural machinery production industry.
In terms of efficiency, compared with before the implementation of the project, the digital workshop has increased the production capacity of the enterprise by 40%, saving more than 25 million yuan per year, increasing production efficiency by 74.2%, reducing operating costs by 31.8%, shortening product development cycles by 42%, and reducing operators by 35%. Digital transformation has helped enterprises achieve a dual improvement in production efficiency and order quantity.
Wei Xiaoli, assistant to the chairman of Shandong Jindafeng Machinery Co., Ltd., believes that the continuous growth of agricultural machinery orders this year is due to the efficiency of equipment updates and digital transformation that the company has been releasing in recent years. "In the wave of digital economy, the development of agricultural machinery manufacturing is no longer limited to single line technological innovation, but rather multi technology integration innovation
The relevant person in charge of the enterprise stated that in the future, Jin Dafeng will continue to deepen its work in the field of agricultural machinery and equipment, continuously increase research and development investment, enhance the innovation capability of the enterprise, continue to safeguard the harvest dreams of farmers, and strive to become a pioneer and leader in the global research and development and manufacturing of all types of agricultural machinery.