Project Background

The plumbing and valve industry is a pillar industry of Yuhuan City and a leading sector driving export revenue. Last year, enterprises in the industry purchased over RMB 25 billion worth of copper bars from outside the region, and foreign-trade exports from the sector have accounted for over half of the city's total export value for more than a decade. In 2019, the output value of Yuhuan's plumbing and valve industry reached nearly RMB 35 billion. The town hosts more than 900 valve-processing enterprises, including over 850 micro and small businesses. However, in the past decade, the industry has encountered significant bottlenecks. Most enterprises face challenges such as: difficulty in expanding sales channels, high costs of digital transformation, and limited control over the industrial supply chain.

To overcome these constraints and achieve rapid development, the traditional valve industry must undergo transformation and upgrading. In response, Yuhuan partnered with Morewis to introduce innovative industrial resources and build the Plumbing & Valve Industrial-Complex Industrial Internet Platform, establishing a digital information system for the industry, accelerating integrated reforms, and effectively driving the optimization and upgrading of the traditional valve sector.

Implementation Overview

- Introduced a commerce and trade platform to centralize raw-material procurement and logistics dispatching, increasing order volume.

- Implemented an inventory management system with one-item-one-code control to improve outbound-warehouse efficiency.

- Deployed real-time dashboards to display employee and machine efficiency, improving average workforce productivity.

- Introduced a work-reporting system that automatically ranks production reports and employee efficiency, reducing labor costs.

- Implemented an equipment-management system to improve equipment OEE and reduce failure frequency.

Implementation Benefits

- Achieved integrated regional production management and services.

- Enabled collaboration and sharing of public production resources and services.

- Established an industrial-internet model tailored to the characteristics of the valve industry.

- Reduced procurement costs by 20%, lowered communication costs by 95%, and increased order-conversion rate by 17%.