SMART FACTORY

With a total investment of RMB 700 million, the DE&E Smart Factory covers an area of 117 mu, with a planned construction area of nearly 195,000 square meters and an annual production capacity of over RMB 5 billion. Designed in line with Industry 4.0 concepts, it stands as one of China's largest and most advanced manufacturing bases for high-end kitchen appliances. It has been certified as a Hangzhou Future Factory, Zhejiang Smart Factory, and one of the first batch of cloud-connected factories in Zhejiang Province, winning top provincial and municipal honors in intelligent manufacturing.
Built on advanced automated equipment, the smart factory leverages IoT technology to realize digital information management across the entire manufacturing workflow, including production order dispatching, manufacturing process monitoring, quality control, and warehouse inbound & outbound management.
Intelligent Manufacturing Equippments Guarantee Consistent Production
All equipment in the smart factory are large-scale machines. Each unit is equipped with an intelligent terminal. Through these terminals, data such as production tasks, production progress and product quality can be viewed in real time. This enables effective control over technological processes and parameters, ensures safe and reliable operation of all production workflows, and maintains high consistency across all finished products.
Robotic Laser Welding
This represents the most advanced welding technology available, used for irregular sections of workpieces. The traditional manual welding and polishing process previously required 28 workers. By adopting the robotic welding process now, only 3 operators are needed. It greatly boosts production efficiency and delivers outstanding consistency in the quality of welded products.
Air-Powered Polishing
We adopt ABB polishing robots imported from Switzerland. The polishing process uses air power for surface finishing, which can better protect the molecular structure of stainless steel surfaces, preventing rust and corrosion. It delivers superior oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance. Constant-pressure polishing delivers precision far exceeding industry standards.
Intelligent Automatic Sheet Metal Machining Center
Also known in the industry as an automatic transfer press, it mainly manufactures components such as stove bottom shells and range hood oil cups. The process that previously required 9 workers and 9 working procedures can now be completed in a consolidated operation with only 5 procedures at the automatic machining center. One product comes off the line every 13 seconds on average.
Intelligent Mold AS/RS Warehouse
The intelligent mold automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) boosts space utilization by five times compared with conventional warehouses. Through the MES (Manufacturing Execution System), production plan instructions are sent to the WMS system. The stacker robots of the AS/RS automatically pick up corresponding molds according to production demands and transport them to the delivery outlet in advance. Molds are also automatically returned to designated storage locations upon receipt instructions during warehousing.


Coating Pretreatment Workshop
This white processing center handles the pretreatment procedure for coating, mainly used to clean workpieces before they enter the coating line. We have invested nearly RMB 10 million in this fully automatic production line. It features zero leakage and protects human health and safety.
Coating Workshop
High-voltage electrostatic powder spraying is adopted here. Conventional mechanical spraying suffers from uneven coating, while manual spraying is low in efficiency. We have built the "F5G + Intelligent Spraying" solution together with China Mobile Hangzhou. Equipped with 2 robots and 24 spray guns, the line runs through 13 processes. The staffing requirement has dropped from 32 workers to only 6, productivity is tripled, and occupational diseases are eliminated.
Automatic Packaging Line
It realizes automatic box opening, automatic labeling, automatic packing, automatic palletizing and automatic warehousing, which greatly reduces labor intensity of workers and achieves zero packaging error rate. Each product comes with a unique QR code for traceability. Powered by machine vision recognition and 5G technology, goods are inspected to check for missing spare parts and instruction manuals before entering the warehouse. Missing-item products will be screened out to improve the finished product pass rate.
Intelligent Parts AS/RS Warehouse
It is the first dense-type intelligent AS/RS warehouse for spare parts in the industry. The system can perform automatic sorting in advance according to the BOM (Bill of Materials). Four RGV shuttles automatically deliver materials to designated positions. Space utilization is increased by more than 5 times, with zero delivery error rate and 100% accuracy of inventory management data.


Intelligent Finished Goods AS/RS Warehouse
The warehouse features 5,000 storage locations with a clear height of 24 meters and a total storage volume of 24,000 cubic meters. If managed under the traditional warehouse model, this AS/RS would require 120 workers for normal operation, yet now only 2 operators are needed. The warehouse is equipped with 4 stacker cranes and 24 RGV shuttles. Currently, one operator can handle inbound, outbound and inventory management of 2,500 cubic meters within an 8-hour workday, equivalent to the workload of at least 20 staff managing a 50,000-square-meter conventional warehouse.
Thanks to the layout of these large manufacturing equipment and the adoption of human-machine interaction technologies, our smart factory
maintains consistent and stable product quality while ensuring production output. Deploying large-scale smart factories enables us to fulfill high-volume orders.