The Dawn of Smart Prefabrication in Construction

As Industry 4.0 steadily advances, various sectors are undergoing profound transformations. In the construction domain, the era of smart prefabrication has quietly arrived. Prefabricated buildings, especially those with steel structures, are experiencing unprecedented development opportunities.

Zhimide, as the innovator behind the "Steel Structure 4.0 Smart Factory Overall Solution," advocates for the establishment of "Digital Joint Venture Demonstration Factories" for steel structures. When combined with new lightweight wall systems for prefabricated buildings, this represents a deep exploration and iterative upgrade in the development of the prefabricated steel structure industry, offering a systematic solution for its advancement.

Zhimide's Digital Joint Venture Demonstration Factory: A Leap in Smart Manufacturing

Zhimide's "Digital Joint Venture Demonstration Factory" for steel structures is built on smart equipment for full-process steel structure processing. It utilizes digital twins and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as key connections, establishing an intelligent manufacturing system that spans the entire steel structure design-production-operation and maintenance lifecycle.

This solution provides clients with a comprehensive smart factory solution for steel structures, integrating:

Plate storage
Cutting
Welding
Correction
Shot blasting
Painting
Exhaust gas treatment

All steel structure processing equipment within the production flow are Zhimide's patented products, characterized by their intelligence and high efficiency. Notably, the automatic one-time forming production line for prefabricated building steel beams holds 33 patents. This line has achieved significant breakthroughs in control systems, robotics, artificial intelligence systems, and welding reaction deformation. It can automatically complete five processes in one go: automatic feeding, assembly, welding, flipping, and correction of webs and flanges for H-shaped building steel beams. The entire steel beam production process requires no manual handling via cranes.

When paired with Zhimide's "Jueying" and "Wuzhui" multi-wire multi-arc welding machines, welding speeds reach approximately four times that of traditional equipment, marking a groundbreaking new solution for the steel structure processing industry.

"Zhizhutong": Intelligent Management for the Entire Lifecycle

Concurrently, Zhimide has developed the "Zhizhutong" Smart IoT Platform for the Prefabricated Building Industry. This platform creates a visualized management and control system for the entire lifecycle of steel structures. It leverages digital twin technology to create a 1:1 replica of the physical production line, managing, analyzing, and storing various production data. It dynamically optimizes production scheduling, fully integrates lean manufacturing principles, significantly enhances management efficiency, boosts production output, and allows for a comprehensive overview of the entire steel structure factory's production and operation on a single screen.

Zhimide has also established the "Zhizhutong" E-commerce Platform for the Prefabricated Building Industry. Through the data integration capabilities of the Smart IoT platform, it provides value-added services such as:

Centralized procurement of high-quality consumables for the steel structure processing industry (welding wire, flux, shot blast steel grit, anti-rust coatings, etc.)
Order sharing
Factory capacity sharing
Industry enterprise reputation rankings

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Innovating Lightweight Wall Solutions for Prefabricated Buildings

In addition to advancing smart manufacturing for steel structures, Zhimide is actively promoting the research and application of lightweight composite walls in prefabricated steel buildings.

Currently, prefabricated wall panels in the industry generally have a bulk density of 800-1000 kg/cubic meter. Zhimide's newly developed "Zhizhu Jing" sintered lightweight prefabricated wall panel boasts a bulk density of less than 500 kg/cubic meter. While meeting the mechanical requirements for walls, this significantly reduces the bulk density of prefabricated walls, thereby effectively lowering the material, construction, and long-term maintenance costs of prefabricated steel structures. Overall costs can be reduced by approximately 60%. Furthermore, it improves construction efficiency and safety, greatly enhances waterproof performance, and elevates building quality.

Moreover, this type of lightweight wall panel allows for customized designs of surface colors and patterns, completing the surface aesthetic during the wall formation process, eliminating the need for subsequent secondary decoration.

It is understood that Zhimide has successfully developed various new types of prefabricated lightweight wall panels, including:

"Zhizhu Jing" sintered lightweight wall panels
"Zhizhu Yuan" cast-in-place lightweight wall panels
"Zhizhu Tong" ECP lightweight wall panels
"Zhizhu Yao" CLC lightweight wall panels

Along with these, Zhimide has also developed corresponding intelligent wall panel production lines, positioning itself at the forefront of lightweight wall panel formulation, production processes, and intelligent equipment development for prefabricated walls in China.

Shaping the Future of Construction

The deep integration of industrialized production and intelligent construction technologies in prefabricated steel structures represents the future trend of the construction industry. In the era of Industry 4.0, Zhimide is actively promoting the application of digital intelligence technologies in the steel structure industry. By advocating for the construction of "Digital Joint Venture Demonstration Factories" for steel structures and driving the research and application of new lightweight wall systems for prefabricated buildings, Zhimide is helping the prefabricated steel structure industry advance towards a more digital, intelligent, and green future, achieving high-quality development.