"Our company boasts the longest automated flexible production line in the Asia-Pacific region, which integrates 6 sets of the latest intelligent machining centers. It realizes the automatic allocation and real-time dynamic adjustment of orders and production factors, ensuring delivery cycles while reducing the risk of manual operation errors. Most importantly, it provides strong support for the production of high-precision, cutting-edge products," introduced Liang Guihua, Chairman of Cipai Group Co., Ltd.
Cipai is a high-tech enterprise mainly engaged in the R&D and manufacturing of oil and gas drilling and production
wellhead devices, pipeline valves, wellhead valves,
Control Valves, and instruments and meters. Through years of efforts, the company has gained recognition from major oilfield service companies and engineering companies worldwide for its product quality and continuous innovation capabilities. Among them, several valve products have become internationally renowned brands.
Liang Guihua said, "Excelling in being 'specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative' is Cipai’s strategic policy for development; refining the market, vigorously developing independently innovative products, and making products exquisite, sophisticated, and perfect is our eternal purpose."
As early as 2000, the company recognized the importance of building and promoting e-commerce platforms to quickly enhance its reputation. In 2006, it established domestic and foreign e-commerce website clusters to increase online sales. In 2012, it carried out its first technological transformation since its founding, completing product upgrading and technical renovation. In 2015, it launched the second technological transformation, investing 28 million yuan to add CNC lathes and machining centers. In 2019, it successively invested 160 million yuan to build the "Cipai Intelligent Dream Factory," placing its intelligent manufacturing at the forefront of China’s valve industry. In 2020, it established a relatively complete information network system to integrate new-generation IT technologies with industrial systems. In 2021, it adopted industrial Ethernet and industrial wireless technologies to realize the interconnection of production equipment, sensors, control systems, and management systems, enabling data collection, circulation, and processing. In 2022, it deployed and applied security technical measures such as industrial firewalls in the factory, forming information security capabilities including network protection and emergency response. In 2023, with intelligent big data improving production management, it achieved increased productivity and efficiency, reduced operating costs, and improved product qualification rates, while promoting the intelligent upgrading of local manufacturing enterprises.
According to Liang Guihua, each intelligent transformation has brought tangible benefits to the enterprise. Currently, the company’s platform centered on MES (Manufacturing Execution System) realizes transparency in workshop production processes, refinement in production management, and real-time capability in production control. QMS (Quality Management System) enables real-time collection of quality data throughout the process and full traceability of product quality. Through the integration of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) and other systems, it conducts comprehensive and scientific management of the entire product lifecycle. The WMS (Warehouse Management System) realizes functions such as material positioning, tracking, and control. The workshop automatically picks (via AGV intelligent carts or light-guided picking), delivers in real-time, and automates distribution according to production needs. Meanwhile, through the integration of various systems, big data analytics (BI, Business Intelligence) is formed, which quickly and accurately provides reports and decision-making basis, helping enterprise managers make wise business decisions and solve management and operation strategy issues.
The implementation of the information system upgrade and technological transformation project has further strengthened the application of information technology in production and operation links, achieving remarkable results: a 20% reduction in production personnel, a 15% increase in production efficiency, a 10% decrease in product defect rate, a 10% improvement in energy utilization, and a reduction of over 12% in comprehensive operating costs.
Thanks to its advanced intelligent manufacturing philosophy, Cipai Group has obtained supplier qualifications from CNPC, Sinopec, and CNOOC, and has become a qualified supplier for many well-known domestic enterprises. It is also a qualified supplier for national oil companies such as Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and Sonatrach of Algeria. Its products are exported to more than 30 countries including the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy.
Cipai Group has successively won honors such as National High-Tech Enterprise, National-level "Little Giant" Enterprise specializing in specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative products, Jiangsu Provincial Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Factory, Jiangsu Provincial Internet Benchmark Factory, Jiangsu Provincial Five-Star Cloud-Enabled Enterprise, AAA Certification for Integration of Informatization and Industrialization Management System, Provincial Pilot Enterprise for Integration of Informatization and Industrialization Management, Jiangsu Provincial AAA Enterprise for Quality Credit, and Huai'an Mayor's Quality Award.
Liang Guihua stated that in the future, Cipai will continue to promote intelligent transformation and digital transition to achieve optimal allocation of resources, energy conservation and emission reduction, and reduce operating costs. It will introduce advanced technologies and equipment, optimize business processes, improve production efficiency, and enhance product and service quality. Through technical means such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence, it will gain insights into market demands, explore potential business opportunities, achieve differentiated competition in products and services, expand new markets and customer groups, and gain greater market competitive advantages. It strives to build Cipai into an industry beacon that is the first choice of users and a source of happiness for employees.
