LinkedData Partners with a Leading Automotive Parts Manufacturer to Build a Zero-Defect Smart Factory
As the global automotive manufacturing industry accelerates its transition toward intelligent and digital transformation, smart factories have become a core industry trend. Amid rising penetration of new energy vehicles, increasing supply chain resilience challenges, and evolving smart manufacturing standards, automotive parts manufacturers urgently need digital solutions to optimize production processes and enhance operational efficiency to stay ahead of market changes.
Project Background
In response to these industry trends, LinkedData has officially partnered with a renowned automotive parts manufacturer to implement the ICMS Intelligent Collaborative Management System (Smart Logistics 2.0), driving digital transformation in the customer’s production lines.
This company, a wholly owned subsidiary of a leading German automotive group in China, specializes in manufacturing high-performance dual-clutch transmissions and core engine components. It has long been a trusted supplier of high-performance powertrain solutions for major global automotive brands. Its products are widely used in both luxury and mainstream passenger vehicles, earning an industry reputation for precision manufacturing and outstanding quality. As an industry leader, the company actively promotes the “Zero Impact Factory” sustainability strategy.
This collaboration aims to optimize production processes through intelligent solutions, achieving lean management, transparent operations, and end-to-end data traceability to enhance overall factory efficiency and management capabilities.
LinkedData’s ICMS Solution: Building an End-to-End Digital Management System
Leveraging its extensive experience in smart factory solutions, LinkedData has customized the ICMS Intelligent Collaborative Management System for this project. The system features AGV scheduling, digital value stream management, traceability management, paperless document control, data integration, and visualization analytics:
AGV Intelligent Scheduling
Real-time control of AGVs via tablet terminals, enabling automated material transportation and enhancing logistics efficiency and accuracy.
Digital Value Stream Management
The system offers multi-level factory-wide, work-cell, and production-line digital value stream views, helping enterprises identify potential production bottlenecks and formulate precise optimization strategies.
Traceability Management
Ensures full transparency and control over material flow and processing information at each production stage, allowing complete end-to-end traceability.
Paperless Production Management
Supports the online creation, approval, and control of electronic documents, as well as digital input and historical record retrieval for various forms, improving information exchange efficiency.
Data Integration & Analysis
Seamlessly integrates with existing WMS, QPS, SAP, and assembly line Autark systems, enabling centralized management and optimization of production data.
Intelligent Production Visualization
Utilizes the SFM digital shop floor management tool for automatic data collection, real-time monitoring, and anomaly alerts, helping enterprises improve production execution.
Currently, the project has entered the implementation phase, with LinkedData working closely with the customer on system planning, data integration, and smart logistics optimization to ensure the successful deployment of the ICMS solution. In the future, the system will significantly enhance the customer’s production management, logistics coordination, and data analytics capabilities, setting a benchmark for digital transformation in the industry.
Strategic Collaboration to Drive Industry Excellence
This partnership marks a deeper collaboration between LinkedData and the customer in the field of smart manufacturing. As a leading provider of intelligent factory solutions, LinkedData will leverage its strengths in smart manufacturing software and data integration to deliver tailored digital transformation solutions. Moving forward, both parties will continue to explore new applications in intelligent manufacturing, advancing the automotive manufacturing industry toward greater efficiency and intelligence.
LinkedData looks forward to partnering with more automotive manufacturers and parts suppliers to accelerate the industry’s smart transformation and embrace the new era of digital manufacturing!
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