Recently, the official of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology announced a "List of Future Factories in Zhejiang Province in 2023", identifying 213 factory/workshop projects in Zhejiang Province as provincial future factories, smart factories, and digital workshops in 2023. Among them, Wencheng Wahaha Hongzhen Food Technology Co., Ltd. was listed and successfully awarded the "Future Factory in Zhejiang Province in 2023".
Wencheng Wahaha Hongzhen Food Technology Co., Ltd. is the unit of Wencheng Wahaha Beverage Future Factory. This "factory in the mountains", which has attracted much attention since the start of construction two and a half years ago, has also been regarded as the latest thinking and exploration of Wahaha Group in the field of intelligent manufacturing.
"Factory of the Future" in the mountains
Drive rural revitalization and high-quality take-off
Wencheng Wahaha Beverage Future Factory is located in Bailuzhou Water Economy Industrial Park, Wencheng County, Wenzhou City. It is the fourth factory invested and built by Wahaha in 26 counties in mountainous areas of Zhejiang Province, and one of the 76 branch factories established by Wahaha in less developed areas across the country in the past 37 years. Wencheng Base covers an area of about 120 acres and mainly produces innovative beverage knock-out products such as Wahaha AD calcium milk, eight-treasure porridge, high-calcium multi-dimensional milk drinks, and coconut milk.
It took only 15 days from negotiation to signing, only 2 months from signing to land supply, only 11 working days from land supply to construction project planning license, and only 7 months from starting construction to commissioning and production of the first production line… To be officially certified as a "factory of the future", the construction of Wencheng Wahaha Beverage Future Factory is not only a vivid example of industrial co-prosperity in 26 counties in mountainous areas of Zhejiang, but also runs out of the "Wahaha speed" of intelligent manufacturing project construction.
At present, Wencheng Wahaha Beverage Future Factory has completed multiple rounds of recruitment, with nearly 200 employees, the vast majority of whom are locals in Wencheng County. Wencheng Wahaha Beverage Future Factory continues to "generate blood for the local area in terms of providing employment, purchasing raw materials, and driving logistics."
Cleaner and more efficient
Green production escort mountains blue water green
Looking down from the factory, patches of gray-black photovoltaic panels cover the factory roof like scales.
In response to the national 3060 double carbon policy, Wahaha actively promotes the installation of distributed photovoltaic power generation devices to gradually establish a multi-energy complementary, optimized combination of fossil energy and new energy, and then establish a low-carbon green power system with renewable energy as the main body. Wencheng Wahaha Beverage’s future factory has installed a total of 4.5MW of distributed photovoltaics, with a total power generation area equivalent to 14.69 standard football fields. The annual power generation and consumption are about 1.30 million degrees, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1020.5 tons.
Wencheng Wahaha Beverage’s future factory practices green production, reducing water consumption and wastewater discharge and improving water resource utilization through steam condensate recovery, RO concentrated water recovery, water-saving management at key water points, and odor biological purification treatment technology in the wastewater treatment process. Through the application of a series of green water-saving technologies, it can save more than 10,000 tons of water annually.
What’s more worth mentioning is that the future factory of Wencheng Wahaha Beverage has applied the flexible and intelligent low-emission CIP system independently developed by Wahaha for the first time. Each process pipeline in production can automatically call the corresponding cleaning program, cleaning parameters, and customized cleaning according to the different products and processes of production. To ensure that each pipeline has the shortest cleaning time, the best effect and the lowest energy consumption. Special recycling treatment and reuse technology is adopted for the acid and alkali used for cleaning. Some of the cleaning water is recycled after special process treatment, which greatly reduces water consumption and sewage discharge. After the implementation of the project, Wencheng factory will reduce the discharge of cleaning water and sewage by 52% every year, and reduce the consumption of acid and alkali by 30%.
Environmentally friendly has always been an inseparable goal of industrialization. Wencheng Wahaha Beverage Future Factory realizes intelligent energy management, improves energy utilization efficiency, and establishes a high-standard and highly integrated smart energy management system to promote industrial development while caring for greener mountains and greener water.
Smarter and more flexible
Full-link upgrade leads the era of Industry 4.0
Today’s Wencheng Future Factory is fully confirming Wahaha’s latest practice of intelligent manufacturing. Relying on the WERP platform, Wencheng Wahaha Beverage Future Factory can quickly realize the interconnection and interoperability of resources, information and data with the group, integrate the most advanced aseptic intelligent manufacturing equipment and modular production process in the application industry, "one-click intelligent control" ingredient center, intelligent visual inspection, 5G intelligent warehousing, intelligent logistics platform and other advanced technologies to achieve comprehensive improvement of efficiency, cost, quality and other indicators, leading the future factory construction of the food and beverage industry.
This also means that the future factory of Wencheng Wahaha Beverage has been completely different from the Industry 3.0 format, but through the Internet of Things to connect automation equipment with orders, materials, networks, and data, and perform full-link information processing and calculation. Ultimately, with the least waste, the easiest and most effective communication, reducing intermediate participation links, and realizing the efficiency and energy conservation of Industry 4.0 production.
Original title: "Provincial Future Factory! Wencheng Wahaha is very" wow "!"
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