Today, Siemens continues to deepen its strategic cooperation with CITIC Decca Co., LTD., the world's leading aluminum alloy auto parts manufacturer, by holding a smart manufacturing launch ceremony at the Siemens Center in Beijing and signing a supplementary agreement to the strategic cooperation Agreement.
Today, Siemens continues to deepen its strategic cooperation with CITIC Decca Co., LTD., the world's leading aluminum alloy auto parts manufacturer, by holding a smart manufacturing launch ceremony at the Siemens Center in Beijing and signing a supplementary agreement to the strategic cooperation Agreement. Mr. Xu Zuo, General Manager of CITIC Decca Co., LTD., and Mr. Wang Haibin, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Digital Factory Group of Siemens (China) Co., LTD., attended the signing ceremony. Previously, CITIC Decca had announced that Siemens had won the tender for its manufacturing execution system and other digital manufacturing solutions in the United States. Thus, Siemens will provide CITIC Decca with the digital enterprise software suite necessary to build a digital enterprise: Based on the Siemens integrated cooperation platform Teamcenter, it combines life cycle management software (PLM), fully integrated Automation (TIA) and Manufacturing execution systems (MES), plus related electrical and information engineering services and technical support.
The signing of this supplementary agreement will also further advance the strategic partnership agreement signed by the two sides in January this year. Under the agreement, Siemens will act as a strategic partner to fully support the development of CITIC Decca's digital manufacturing business in the automotive parts industry. "Siemens will help CITIC Decca build a truly digital enterprise with its complete digital enterprise portfolio," "With roots in China for more than 140 years, as the world's leading supplier of advanced industrial automation electrical products and software, Siemens is committed to helping local industrial enterprises in China improve their productivity, efficiency and flexibility to become world-class advanced manufacturing enterprises," said Wang Haibin.
As early as 1989, CITIC Decca began to use Siemens control systems. Subsequently, Siemens' typical TIA fully integrated automation solution was applied in CITIC Decca. In 2010, CITIC Decca R&D and Design Institute began to use Siemens Teamcenter and other PLM software platforms for research and development and trial production. At present, CITIC Decca Qinhuangdao headquarters and Ningbo, Zhejiang branch of the three new wheel die-casting lines with an annual capacity of 2.2 million pieces, all use Siemens integrated engineering software platform TIA Boto, and Siemens a new generation of advanced control system Simatic S7-1500 PLC. Compared with the traditional production line of CITIC Decca, the new wheel production line can achieve 1 person to manage 12 machines, the written documents are almost zero, the working time of the change adjustment is shortened by 90%, the overall efficiency of the project is increased by 30%, the rate of defective products is reduced by 30%, and the production flexibility is brought to the extreme.
Headquartered in Qinhuangdao, CITIC Decca, as the world's leading aluminum alloy auto parts manufacturer and the first aluminum alloy wheel manufacturer in China, has ranked first in the world in terms of sales of aluminum wheel products since 2008. Citic Decca has established overseas plants in the United States, Germany, the Czech Republic and other places, of which the US plant is scheduled to start production by the end of 2015. In 2012, CITIC Decca acquired the German KSM Foundry Group owned by ThyssenKrupp and developed into one of the world's largest automotive aluminum components companies. At present, the annual sales volume of CITIC Decca automobile wheels has reached more than 30 million, the international market share has reached 14%, the domestic market share has exceeded 40%, and the market share of high-end products is as high as 70%.
