The rise of China's intelligent logistics system integration

"I heard about two investments today. One was invested in smart logistics, and the other was also invested in smart logistics."

The booming smart logistics industry in the past few years can be glimpsed from this joke.

Gaogong Robot Industry Research Institute (GGII) has counted the financing situation of China's logistics robots/logistics warehousing related fields from 2017 to the first half of 2022. In 2017, it was still hovering around 1 billion yuan, and in 2021 it reached 4.715 billion yuan. In just 4 years, the amount of financing has nearly quadrupled. In the first half of this year, the amount of financing reached 2.7 billion yuan.

The stable development of the intelligent logistics industry is inseparable from the contributions of system integration manufacturers. Unfortunately, although they have been developed for many years, compared with international giants such as Dematic, domestic intelligent logistics system integration companies are still at a disadvantage in terms of size.

Dematic officially entered China in 1996 and built a factory in Suzhou in 2006. After years of hard work, it has landed more than 1,000 integration projects in China. As of now, Dematic's annual revenue has reached nearly 30 billion yuan (4.299 billion US dollars in 2021), while there are only a handful of domestic manufacturers with revenue of 2 billion yuan.

12 years after Dematic entered China, a Chinese intelligent logistics system integration company was established in Jiaxing with the goal of competing with Dematic. The company is called Eoslift, the predecessor of Angge Technology. At the beginning of its establishment, it mainly engaged in the manufacture of light and small forklift machinery. In 2013, Angge Technology, which had been established for 5 years, officially completed its transformation into a solution provider.

Angge Technology is committed to becoming an international-level solution company with its own core standard products, achieving overtaking on curves, and becoming a pioneer force leading the rapid development of China's industrial intelligent logistics industry.

After 14 years of development, Angge Technology has become an innovation-driven, full-link industrial intelligent logistics solution provider, capable of providing overall logistics planning for newly built factories .

In terms of hardware , Angge Technology develops and produces its own stackers . The horizontal operating speed of the pallet stacker can reach 240m/min, and the horizontal operating speed of the box stacker can reach 360m/min. The positioning accuracy is ±3mm, the maximum height can reach 40M, the minimum temperature reaches -30℃, and the maximum load is 8000KG, which can adapt to the height and efficiency requirements of different customers' warehouses.

Angge Technology's AGV series products are all equipped with a self-developed AGV dispatching system. Among them, the EA-T/G series AGV uses laser navigation technology to achieve collaborative work of multiple devices and optimized task management, and the EA-B series AGV can be customized according to the needs of different users.

In terms of software , Angge Technology has developed its own WMS and WCS systems, AGV dispatching systems, and digital twin systems.

At the same time, based on the industry, degree of intelligence, and specific business, Angge Technology can also provide system customized development services.

In terms of systems, Angge Technology's core businesses include intelligent storage systems, intelligent picking systems, intelligent handling systems, and intelligent sorting systems . Its solutions cover many industries, including chemical fiber, new energy, new materials, auto parts, papermaking, electronics, food and beverages, etc.

Up to now, Ange Technology has been able to provide customers with a full-link industrial intelligent logistics solution covering " equipment + software + system + platform service", covering intelligent warehousing of raw materials, transportation of raw materials, line-side logistics, finished product distribution and other links, and has implemented more than 100 smart logistics projects .

After 14 years of trials and tribulations, how did Angge Technology win the trust and recognition of customers step by step?

Unlike Dematic, which focuses its business on industries such as apparel, consumer goods, food and beverages, and daily necessities, Angge Technologies has set its sights on previously uncultivated land - the chemical fiber, glass fiber and other industries .

Angge Technology chose the chemical fiber and glass fiber industry and became a first-tier supplier in the industry, maintaining stickiness with leading customers in the industry such as Tongkun Group, China Jushi, and Xinfengming Group.

Chemical fiber products are large in size, difficult to transport and easily damaged, and require high technical requirements for warehousing and logistics integration. Angge Technology officially entered the chemical fiber industry by undertaking a project for Xinfengming Group . In this project, Angge Technology provided a total of 18 stackers, established more than 20,000 storage locations for Xinfengming Zhongyi Chemical Fiber, and equipped it with independently developed WMS and WCS systems. After the project was completed, the warehouse became one of the warehouses with the highest logistics efficiency in Xinfengming Group.

Xinfengming Zhongyi Chemical Fiber Project.

Tongkun, a chemical fiber giant, is also one of the clients served by Angge Technology. Tongkun proposed a logistics solution to solve the irregular terrain of the warehouse and meet the inbound and outbound dispatching requirements such as "warehouse in by SKU, warehouse out by order", "priority department supplier warehouse out". Angge Technology chose to use multiple stackers with a uniform height of 25.5 meters, and successfully established more than 20,000 warehouse locations in the warehouse area, achieving high space utilization and maximizing logistics efficiency; the reverse warehouse function of the WMS software maximized the equipment efficiency in this project and reduced the adverse effects caused by complex sites.

This project opened the door to long-term cooperation between Angge Technology and Tongkun Group. In 2020 alone, Angge Technology signed a cooperation order worth 100 million yuan with Tongkun Group.

In the finished product storage solution of a listed company in the fiberglass industry, Angge Technology provided 18 double-column stackers, 26 pallet entry and exit platforms, 1 set of pallet chain conveyors and 1 set of pallet roller conveyors, and 1 set of WCS and WMS software systems, which increased the system's warehousing efficiency to 100 pallets/hour and the outbound efficiency to 50 pallets/hour, reducing the error rate.

Angge Technology has also accumulated experience in many industries such as automobiles and new energy, environmental protection new materials, papermaking, electrical, pharmaceuticals, furniture, etc., and has gained high-quality customers such as Luxshare Precision, Jiangsu Jiatong New Energy, and Zhejiang Dibei.

The strategy of staggered cooperation and broadening the track has brought huge advantages to Angge Technology. It is understood that Angge Technology's order amount in 2020 was about 400 million yuan, of which the largest order amount was 160 million yuan; in 2021, its order amount reached 560 million yuan; it is expected that Angge Technology will be able to reach an order amount of 800 million yuan this year.

Based on customer needs, Angge Technology insists on promoting technological improvement and is one of the local logistics technology companies that takes the lead in promoting cutting-edge technologies such as digital twins, machine vision, and AI algorithms . Especially in the promotion and application of digital twin technology, it is not inferior to Dematic.

The so-called digital twin is a technology that digitally replicates physical assets and updates them in real time to match the real world.

Dematic uses digital twin technology to build warehouse simulation software to help improve layout and workflow, and intuitively understand changes in production lines, so as to discover problems in advance and reduce production risks. It allows customers to have an immersive digital warehouse experience and help predict the future development direction of production lines.

The prototype of Angge Technology's digital twin logistics system is 3D monitoring technology , which began to be used in the intelligent logistics project of Zhejiang Dingmei Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. in 2018. With the further development of software and hardware technologies such as 5G communication and virtual simulation, Angge Technology's 3D monitoring technology has gradually developed into a technology with a more technological name - digital twin.

In 2020, Angge Technology deployed its first digital twin system. In 2021, China Jushi officially laid the foundation for a 120,000-ton fiberglass pool kiln drawing production line in Egypt. Angge Technology will apply the iteratively upgraded new version of the digital twin system in the project.