Entering the third decade of the 21st century, Industry 4.0 has gone from feeling a little science fictive to a required course for almost every leading manufacturing company. Unmanned workshops, dark light factories are being staged in the intelligent workshop of major enterprises, the labor intensity plummeting in the manufacturing area. More and more manufacture employees sitting in the office to developing software, the design of advanced equipment is becoming more and more important in today’s manufacture area.

With the advent of industry 4.0, digitalization promotes the transformation of manufacturing industry

There is no doubt that the world’s manufacturing industry is changing with industry 4.0. In 2015, the State Council issued the “Made in China 2025” action plan, which plans to comprehensively promote the implementation of the manufacturing strategy. The guideline claims that, by 2025, China will basically achieve industrialization and become a manufacturing powerhouse by striving to realize three major shifts: from Made in China to Create in China, from Chinese speed to Chinese quality, from Chinese products to Chinese brands. The demand for transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry coincides with the concept of “Industry 4.0”.

In the development of industry 4.0, automobile, electronics and other industries take the lead and become the representatives of the transformation of industry 4.0 enterprises. Today, the pursuit of new energy, driverless technology, car models iterative update has established a high-tech image in public’s mind.

However, “industry 4.0” is not a simple replication, traditional industry seems do not have any “science and technology” gene, to achieve 4.0 intelligent production, digital has become the premise, enterprises only realize the digital transformation, can have a chance to achieve data interaction, intelligent access.

Fortunately, some manufacturing industries with “traditional” impressions in the public mind are also seeking change actively, deepening the digital transformation to realize the transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing. For example, the customized home furnishing industry has emerged rapidly in the past 20 years.

The rise of custom home furnishing industry has become a model of digital transformation in the traditional manufacturing industry

Seeming far away from technology, the customized home furnishing industry actually endowed with digital gens by birth. As consumers of customized home furnishing live in different area of China. Number of residents, personal preferences, and even regional climate directly determine the appearance of the products. It is caused by the characteristics of this industry, non-standard products, huge data, the original production mode is difficult to complete large-scale production. As a result, the industry was once faced with long term of delivery date, some small factories could not even guarantee production accuracy. If these problems cannot be solved, customized home furnishing will be difficult to popularize all over the China.

With the help of digital technology, the problem of “customized large-scale production” has been solved. About the pioneer of digital transformation in customized home furnishing industry, the first listed company in customized home furnishing industry, Suofeiya, is the first name come into public’s mind. It has been very welcomed by Chinese consumers by its wardrobes.

CCTV is about to walk into Suofeiya, reveal the transformation road of top custom household

In 2014, before the “Made in China 2025” was issued, Suofeiya forward-looking set up a new development engine composed of IDC (Information and Digital Center), NJ Intelligent and Smart MJ, those three carriages together push Suofeiya into a new stage.

As for Suofeiya’s digital transformation, CCTV2 has reported that, “Furniture production is a typical labor-intensive industry, product quality dependent on the workers’ technical proficiency, Suofeiya realize, in the face of close to 8000 orders per day, every order sheet involved in around 50 pieces, each piece of plate including color, punching, and sealing side, at least 10 data per plate. Also, nearly 4 million data need to be deal per day. Thus, digital transformation and upgrading is the inevitable choice to ensure more stable product quality and improve production efficiency.”

Based on the strong digital processing capacity, Suofeiya took the lead in creating a 4.0 digital intelligence factory in the customized home furnishing industry. It is known that 4.0 digital intelligent factory is “brain” and “body” of the whole system, the traditional production workshops are connected by them into a intelligent production chain, the production efficiency is 645% higher than that of normal production line, the average efficiency is 125% higher than the German production line, in the process of production, sheet will not fall to the ground and will not be passed to workers’ hands all the way. As for digital driven high efficient production, Suofeiya said that the average delivery time of its factory to dealers can reach around 7 to 12 days, breaking the capacity bottleneck commonly faced by the custom industry for the first time.

After Suofeiya’s digital transformation, other custom household enterprises also turn on the way of digital transformation, because of this change, efficiency of production and stability of quality has been greatly promoted, custom home becomes more and more popular in the consumer market, it also become a choice within reach of most consumers.

Suofeiya’s digital transformation not only has an enlightening effect on the development direction of the whole custom home furnishing industry, but also leads the industry to embark on the road of high-quality development. From the perspective of national development strategy of manufacturing power, it is also a meaningful practical case of whole industry.

All along, CCTV pays great attention to the relevant issues and practical cases of manufacturing in China. As a representative of the digital transformation of traditional industries, Suofeiya is worthy of attention and discussion. Next, CCTV’s “Super Factory” column is about to enter Suofeiya 4.0 digital intelligent factory, to explore the mystery of the transformation and development of custom home furnishing.

Follow the CCTV’s footage, the audience will see more strength and surprise from Suofeiya.