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Haier: Adjusting washing machine machining conditions
- Company
- Haier
- Country
- China
- Adoption stage
- In operation
- Source published
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The work problem
When machining tolerances accumulate in a washing machine inner drum, vibration appears as it spins. If dynamic balance breaks down, product quality wavers. The Haier Shanghai washing machine internet factory set out to catch this accumulated tolerance problem within the process itself.
Technology and data
The plant built a model that optimises inner drum dynamic balance performance. The model continuously monitors key process variables such as pressure and tension. When it sees signs that a variable is drifting out of the normal range, it adjusts the machining conditions that follow by itself in real time. This cuts off the vibration problem caused by accumulated tolerance in mid-process. The same plant also has an AIGC virtual design assistant that combines a multimodal generation engine with prompt optimisation. This assistant quickly turns design ideas written in text into scene renderings of several options.
Results
Haier said this plant is the washing industry's first advanced customisation lighthouse factory to tie the whole flow from design through manufacturing to delivery together with AI. It explained that the plant's logistics system combines ground AGVs, overhead accumulation chains and an intelligent automated warehouse into one, raising in-plant logistics turnover efficiency by 60 percent. The World Economic Forum added this plant to its lighthouse factory list on 16 September.
Limits and open questions
The 60 percent logistics turnover efficiency is the result of the logistics dispatch decision engine. A change in defect rate or a vibration reduction figure for the inner drum dynamic balance model is not in this source.
Sources
- 海尔智家灯塔工厂：新增两座，行业最多-海尔官网haier.com, Accessed
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