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Yongnian fasteners embrace digital, smart upgrade

[Abstract]:Yongnian's "Yongguan" platform powers digital-intelligent shared ecosystem, driving full-chain upgrade toward world fastener hub.

Reflections on Transformation: From Grassroots Sharing to Ecosystem Co-construction

As market competition intensifies and technological changes accelerate, deep-seated issues in Yongnian's fastener industry have gradually emerged: limited channels for acquiring orders, uncontrollable quality and price of raw material procurement, inconsistent product standards, and unbalanced capacity allocation. These issues have constrained the enhancement of the industry's overall competitiveness.

In fact, Yongnian has been continuously exploring shared development. During the Spring Festival each year, locals working in the fastener business outside their hometown spontaneously organize industrial networking events to exchange market information and share business resources. Today, these grassroots exchanges have evolved into international professional exhibitions, holding a significant position among national fastener fairs.

As the leading enterprise in the Yongnian fastener cluster, Guozhi Technology pondered: should it focus solely on optimizing and upgrading existing technologies to consolidate its advantages in equipment manufacturing, or invest heavily in a new field to explore a new path for industrial development?

"Having been in the fastener industry for years, I deeply realized through government-organized study tours and exploratory thinking that enterprises can only thrive when the industry thrives," Zhang Yanling frankly stated. He noted that characteristic industrial clusters can only move toward innovation, strive for quality, and break through to higher levels by leveraging modern technological power.

Through long-term cooperation with downstream enterprises, Guozhi Technology discovered that many SMEs heavily relied on supply chains and equipment operation technicians. Initially, the company provided one-stop services including technical support, raw material supply, and talent training alongside equipment provision. However, with the overall upgrading of the manufacturing sector, this single service model could no longer meet the industry's development needs.

"Only when the industry develops well can Guozhi do better." This consensus gradually formed within Guozhi Technology. The management team clearly realized that the company must transform from a mere equipment service provider to an industry digital and intelligent service provider. By integrating industry chain resources and building a shared intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, they could break the bottleneck of industrial development.

In recent years, the Yongnian District has fully promoted the "chain-building and clustering" of the fastener industry. By implementing the "five batches" principle, nearly 10,000 standard parts enterprises have been regulated and upgraded, backward capacity has been eliminated, high-end projects have been introduced, and industrial enclaves have been built. All these have laid a solid foundation for industrial transformation and upgrading.

Innovative Measures: Shared Platforms Empower the Entire Industry Chain

In April of this year, the "Yongguan" Shared Intelligent Manufacturing Digital Service Platform for the fastener industry cluster, invested in by Guozhi Technology with over 20 million RMB, was officially launched. This marked a crucial step in building Yongnian's fastener shared intelligent manufacturing ecosystem. Since its launch, the platform has attracted over 40 enterprises and more than 1,000 pieces of equipment to join its system through its innovative sharing model and strong service capabilities, with synergistic production effects beginning to emerge.

Supported by three core functions, the "Yongguan" platform has built a digital service system for the entire industry chain: the production equipment management module connects every piece of equipment from participating enterprises through industrial internet and IoT technologies, enabling real-time tracking and monitoring of equipment operation status and production process standards to ensure stable product quality; the online trading module deeply integrates upstream and downstream resources in the industry chain, builds diversified trading models, and provides comprehensive order matching services to solve the procurement challenges of multi-category orders; the shared manufacturing module focuses on collaborative production, using AI algorithms to achieve precise resource matching, effectively balancing capacity supply and demand, and reducing enterprise production costs.

In the workshop of the shared intelligent manufacturing factory, the reporter saw over 10 digital and intelligent cold heading machines operating efficiently, with an inspection worker shuttling among them to monitor equipment status. "In traditional factories in the past, a cold heading machine could only process 120 screws per minute. Now, through the upgrade of intelligent production lines, efficiency has been greatly improved," said Han Qingguo, the workshop director. He introduced that the platform adopts a "cloud-edge-end" architecture, integrating order management, equipment monitoring, and quality traceability, achieving highly efficient coordination between equipment and business.

For participating enterprises, the changes brought by the "Yongguan" platform are tangible. Hebei Beiyi Fastener Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is one of the first enterprises to join. With the platform's technical support, the company developed specialized large nuts for railways, which are widely used in railway accessories. Recently, it just received a large order of 1,200 tons. "The unified technical and testing standards provided by the platform have given us better product quality assurance and made it easier to secure high-end orders," said Zheng Baoying, the company's technical director.

Participating enterprises have not only seen significant improvements in equipment utilization and product quality but have also reduced production costs by over 2% through centralized procurement, achieved an average sales growth of 20%, and significantly saved logistics expenses. The application of the platform has not only reduced the industry's dependence on the region but has also explored a new development path to solve the bottleneck of the Yongnian fastener industry cluster through big data, automation, remote control, and artificial intelligence technologies.

Path to Upgrading: From Manufacturing to Quality Manufacturing, and Then to Intelligent Manufacturing

Standing in front of the large screen of the "Yongguan" shared intelligent manufacturing production monitoring platform, Wu Yaheng, production director of Guozhi Technology, said, "Enterprise digitalization and intelligence are not simply equipment upgrades. It is about leveraging modern information technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data analysis on the basis of digitalization to make data intelligent, enabling enterprises to possess smarter decision-making, forecasting, and innovation capabilities." The construction of the shared intelligent manufacturing ecosystem is enabling Yongnian's fastener industry to achieve a triple leap from "manufacturing" to "quality manufacturing," and then to "intelligent manufacturing."

At the innovation and R&D level, Guozhi Technology's research team provides personalized technical support to participating enterprises. Cross-border cooperation driven by real-time demand has accelerated the application of new technologies, pushing the industry toward high-end and intelligent transformation. Unified technical and testing standards ensure strict quality control for every product, which is expected to increase the proportion of mid-to-high-end products from 40% to 70% and double the average product profit.

In terms of technological empowerment, the shared intelligent manufacturing factory relies on a self-developed industrial AI digital foundation to upgrade a large number of traditional equipment into intelligent production lines. Through digital transformation, the entire production process has become fully traceable, and the product qualification rate has been significantly improved. Meanwhile, the environmental protection monitoring system integrated into the platform helps enterprises achieve green production. It can intelligently monitor and adjust VOC emissions from each piece of equipment in real time, achieving a win-win for both economic and environmental benefits.

Talent training is the core driving force for the sustainable development of the industry. The "Yongguan" platform is not only a platform for production and operation but also an invisible vocational and technical college. It directly transforms production essentials, technical standards, operating procedures, and dynamic maintenance needs into on-the-job learning courses, injecting new connotations into employee training and vocational technical practical education. This immersive training model effectively solves the problem of a shortage of technical talents in SMEs, providing talent security for industrial upgrading.

In market expansion, leveraging the resource integration capabilities and product quality stability of the "Yongguan" platform, the market radius of Yongnian's fastener enterprises continues to expand. By connecting with global suppliers and purchasers through the platform, an increasing number of local enterprises are going global and participating in international competition.

Aggregating the Chain into a Cluster: Building a World Fastener Distribution Center

From grassroots networking in the early years to today's digital and intelligent sharing, from single equipment manufacturing to full industry chain empowerment, and from regional industrial clusters to a global distribution center, the upgrading blueprint of Yongnian's fastener industry is a vivid microcosm of the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing sector.

Through the approach of government guidance, enterprise leadership, and market operation, the Yongnian District is continuously improving industrial supporting facilities, optimizing the business environment, and promoting the transformation of the fastener industry toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. At the 2025 Yongnian Fastener Industry Expo, purchasers from 43 countries and regions attended, 503 orders were signed on-site, and the transaction volume reached 138 million RMB.

Standing at a new starting point for development, Zhang Yanling's confidence grows stronger: "Through the construction of the 'Yongguan' platform and the shared intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, we aim to create a new digital, collaborative, and highly efficient development model for the fastener industry." In his view, this model will not only help the Yongnian fastener industry cluster capture a larger share in the global market but also provide replicable and promotable experience for the transformation and upgrading of similar industrial clusters nationwide.

Zhang Yanling said that in the future, Yongnian will undoubtedly become the talent center, technology center, dispatch center, logistics center, trading center, centralized procurement center, and R&D center for the fastener industry. Through intelligent resource allocation methods or technologies, the competitiveness of over 6,000 traditional enterprises in the region will be rebuilt, integrating the scattered industrial cluster into a highly collaborative and efficient "super factory," ultimately achieving the goal of becoming the "World Fastener Distribution Center."

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