Rockwell Automation helps Nanjing Puyuan be included in Forbes China's annual Top 10 list

Rockwell Automation's intelligent operation and maintenance Rockii solution empowers Nanjing Puyuan to be named "China's Top Ten Industrial Digital Transformation Enterprises in 2021"

(November 18, 2021, Shanghai, China) On November 10, the "2021 Forbes China Industrial Internet Series Selection" list was announced. Nanjing Puyuan Ice Cream Machinery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Nanjing Puyuan") was selected as one of the "Forbes China's Top Ten Industrial Digital Transformation Companies in 2021" with the first ice cream intelligent production line built with the help of Rockwell Automation .

At present, under the background of information and digital development and the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, traditional enterprises are accelerating the pace of digital transformation and upgrading. This year, Forbes China officially launched the "2021 Forbes China Industrial Internet Series Selection", aiming to find outstanding and influential companies and platforms in the industrial Internet industry across the country and set a new benchmark in the industry.

It is worth noting that the Chinese ice cream market is developing rapidly and has broad prospects, but the automation, informationization and intelligent construction of the industry has just started. Nanjing Puyuan's inclusion in the list shows that Rockwell Automation's intelligent operation and maintenance Rockii solution, as a technical support platform, has been highly recognized by the industry for promoting the digital transformation of Nanjing Puyuan. It also reflects that Rockwell Automation takes creating value for customers as its mission, fully implements the sustainable development SEEE values ​​of safety, energy saving, environmental protection and efficiency in intelligent manufacturing, and enables the infinite possibilities of digital transformation and upgrading of the ice cream industry.

Nanjing Puyuan is one of the leading companies in the field of ice cream manufacturing equipment in China. The ice cream and cold drink equipment it manufactures accounts for 60% to 70% of the domestic market share. The company builds many new ice cream production lines every year, and has an urgent need for whole-line control and intelligent operation and maintenance. Through Rockwell Automation's early intelligent manufacturing consulting and top-level design, Nanjing Puyuan's digitalization practice needs to achieve innovative integration of operational technology (OT) and communication technology (IT), break through "data islands", accelerate data integration and sharing, and use high-quality data to drive the production mode to a smarter, more efficient, and more energy-saving operation mode.

As a leader in smart manufacturing, Rockwell Automation has more than 100 years of experience in automation, informatization and digital transformation. To address the pain points of Nanjing Puyuan's digital transformation, Rockwell Automation has applied its intelligent operation and maintenance Rockii solution to Nanjing Puyuan's freezing machines, disc machines (color lines), stick loading machines, nine-way packaging machines, cartoning machines, translation robots and other equipment, helping Nanjing Puyuan to use IT communication technology to upgrade OT operation technology, build smart production lines, and achieve a comprehensive transformation from smart machines to smart production lines and then to smart factories.

From the perspective of functional implementation, the establishment of the intelligent machine system connects the IaaS data of the ice cream production line machine layer, which can realize data integration and collection; through the integration of the entire line, the production line linkage is realized, centralized control and report display are realized at the PaaS layer, and remote access is built to the SaaS layer to realize the OEE statistical analysis of the equipment, alarm fault statistical analysis, energy consumption statistical analysis, etc. In addition, Rockwell Automation introduced the concept of digital twins and built the industry's first virtual ice cream production line for Nanjing Puyuan.

Based on Rockwell Automation's intelligent operation and maintenance Rockii solution, Nanjing Puyuan has achieved comprehensive digital transformation and innovation from R&D and manufacturing to operational services and business models. The ice cream production capacity has increased by 30%, and labor costs have been saved by 50%-90% (depending on the different processes). It is expected to reduce waste emissions by 122 tons each year and create an additional economic benefit of RMB 9.6 million.

It is worth mentioning that through the implementation of this project, Rockwell Automation and Nanjing Puyuan have polished the construction specifications and related standards for China's ice cream digital workshop, providing a reference for promoting the rapid development, level improvement and industrialization of digital workshop technology in the domestic ice cream industry, thereby improving the level of intelligent production and quality management in ice cream factories, improving the automation of equipment, efficiency of personnel, information management and safety of milk products in China's ice cream industry, and promoting the sustainable and healthy development of the industry.