Donghua Chain Xinghua, located in the Xinghua Economic Development Zone – in Xinghua city, in East China's Jiangsu province – has developed an intelligent manufacturing system throughout its entire production process.
Founded in 2017, the company was funded and developed by the Donghua Chain Group in Hangzhou city, one of the top 100 companies in China's machinery industry.
Donghua Chain Xinghua mainly produces high-end standard chains and chain transmission systems – such as precision roller chains and plate chains – with over half of its products being exported to dozens of countries including the US, Germany and Japan.
Although the actual appearance of a chain may seem small, there are wide varieties of them and the manufacturing process is intricate and particular.
Donghua Chain Xinghua now has the largest chain assembly plant in its field of endeavor, covering an area of 55,000 square meters and costing over 500 million yuan ($69.70 million), having achieved a full process intelligent manufacturing system.
"The large plant facilitates optimizing production layout, with intelligent parts processing equipment, automated assembly production, intelligent packaging production and intelligent warehousing lines distributed there," said Yang Xiaoyong, general manager of the company.
Parts are automatically inspected to eliminate non-conforming products during the production process and qualified chains are subjected to automatic tensile testing to ensure first-class quality, Yang added.
At present, more than 30,000 varieties and over 100,000 specifications of chain drive products have been produced by the company, filling multiple gaps in the domestic market.
Work gets underway at Donghua Chain Xinghua's intelligent production factory. [Photo/xinghua.gov.cn]