Cosco and Haier have jointly built a digital joint laboratory

On January 18, German materials manufacturer Cosco ventured into a cooperation agreement with Haier, the world's largest home appliance brand, in Qingdao to build a "Haier-Cosco Digital Joint Laboratory" based on Haier Industrial Intelligence Research Institute. As an important step in Cosco's global digital strategy, the laboratory will focus on developing digital solutions related to polyurethane processes in the production of home appliances, with the aim of setting a new benchmark for digital transformation in the chemical industry.
- ideal insulation material
polyurethane hard foam is the ideal material for high-efficiency insulation, widely used in refrigerator manufacturing and other fields
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. During the manufacture of refrigerators, it is required to ensure that precise injections are injected into the housing and foaming quality is guaranteed for full filling. Therefore, polyurethanes and their foaming processes are critical to the refrigerator manufacturing industry.
, however, due to the complexity of polyurethane's characterization in the foaming process, this material characteristic is a major challenge for the home appliance industry to achieve intelligent production. As the inventor of polyurethane, Cosco expects to help the home appliance industry meet its challenges with digital solutions.
Digitization Process Optimization Model
through the Haier-Cosco Digital Joint Laboratory, the two companies will jointly develop solutions in a variety of areas, including line data acquisition, online quality monitoring, data analysis and mining, and process optimization. Coxtron expects to achieve continuous improvement in polyurethane foam production through data analysis and modeling, optimize foaming quality, help companies reduce production costs, and bring new opportunities to the home appliance industry in the digital age.
, head of global research and development at Cosco Ventures' polyurethane business unit. Ulrich Liman said at the signing ceremony: "By building a laboratory together, Cosco Can leverage its technological advantages in polyurethane materials and foaming processes, while Haier can leverage its innovative capabilities in industrial automation and big data analytics to jointly transform the chemical industry."
COSMOPlat
a pioneer in smart manufacturing, is Haier's first industrial Internet platform to introduce a full-process user engagement experience. It can realize the transformation from large-scale manufacturing to large-scale customization, reshape the industrial value chain and ecological chain, empower enterprises, users, resources, etc., and build a new manufacturing ecological system that creates win-win results.
"As an open multilateral interactive sharing ecological platform, Haier COSMOPlat's large-scale customization model centered on user experience can be replicated across industries, domains and cultures, and is a globally universal industrial Internet platform," said Haier officials. This cooperation with Cosco will undoubtedly inject the innovative power of chemical digitalization into Haier's intelligent manufacturing development. "
-scale customized solutions
In recent years, China's various industries continue to deepen digital transformation, and for the traditional chemical industry, digital transformation is also related to the development of many upstream and downstream industrial chains. In the future, Cosco and Haier will adhere to a mutually beneficial and win-win long-term strategic partnership, and constantly develop innovative products and digital solutions. With the support of the COSMOPlat platform, successful research and development results will be validated to provide personalized process solutions for other applications of polyurethane, resulting in large-scale customization of solutions.
. Schmako, head of innovation at Cosco Ventures Asia Pacific, said: "It's a great idea to Michael Schmidt) and Cosco's Vice President of Polyurethane Business In China, Dou Wei, led the research and development and sales teams at the signing ceremony, respectively, and said the new cooperation model is expected to further strengthen Cosco's all-round cooperation with Haier. The joint laboratory is an important step in digital research and development in Coxtro's digital strategy, and the two companies are working together to explore digital technology solutions related to polyurethane foaming to further advance the process of intelligent manufacturing in the home appliance industry and large-scale customization solutions in the chemical industry.