Westwell’s Smart Factory Solution Helps the Manufacturing Industry Transform and Upgrade
Against the backdrop of intensified competition in the manufacturing industry and the continuous rise in production costs, the construction of smart factories has become a crucial path for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness and achieve sustainable development. Westwell, as a leader in the intelligent transformation of the large logistics industry, relying on its profound technological accumulation in “intelligentization + new energyization”, provides customized smart factory solutions for factory customers, assisting factories in achieving intelligent upgrades.
Westwell can customize a complete set of unmanned logistics solutions for the transportation and storage of production materials in factories and parks, aiming at the pain points of factory and park customers such as low efficiency, difficult management, and high energy consumption. This solution applies the self-developed Plant Traffic Management System (PTMS), the Automated Storage and Retrieval System (YMS), and the Smart Factory Gate System. It integrates advanced equipment products such as automated storage and retrieval systems, horizontal transportation driverless vehicles Q-Truck, and Well-Bot Intelligent Logistics Robots, realizing functions such as unmanned vehicle access management, horizontal transportation, loading/unloading and storage, vehicle-road coordination, and automatic logistics dispatching and command. This series of innovative applications run through the entire logistics chain from the entry of raw materials into the factory to the production material end, helping customers achieve unmanned operations and full-process management of incoming materials, constructing a comprehensive integration of “operation mode – equipment hardware – software system”, and achieving the dual goals of unmanned factory logistics and efficiency improvement. At the same time, Westwell’s solution also uses electric driverless vehicles to execute short-distance distribution, and with the use of battery swap stations, it effectively responds to the goals of green manufacturing and the national dual-carbon development strategy.
Smart Factory’s Intelligent Carbon Reduction Transformation: Comprehensive Coverage and Efficient Collaboration
Facing the common pain points of factories such as low efficiency, difficult management, and high energy consumption, Westwell has customized a complete set of smart factory solutions. This solution not only integrates advanced hardware devices, such as driverless transportation vehicles and intelligent logistics robots, but also comes with self-developed software systems, including the Plant Traffic Management System (PTMS), the Automated Storage and Retrieval System (YMS), and the Smart Factory Gate System. The organic combination of these hardware and software has realized unmanned operations and full-process management of the entire logistics chain from the entry of raw materials into the factory to the production material end. In practical applications, WellFMS is a vehicle-road coordination solution of “vehicle-road-cloud + V2X” in autonomous driving. By deploying sensing devices on the roadside, it can achieve overall control and overall planning on a cloud platform, enabling the autonomous driving fleet to have a wider view. For Q-Truck, under the fully automatic path planning, it can effectively reduce situations such as docking time, congestion, and emergency braking in actual work, thus improving transportation efficiency and reducing energy consumption.
In a more popular way of saying, WellFMS is like the order dispatching system of ride-hailing services, efficiently and orderly scheduling and managing the fleet resources, including the best task allocation for each vehicle and the optimal driving route planning. Most advanced of all, under its management, it is even possible to achieve mixed operation of driverless and manned vehicles, which is not available in general autonomous driving companies focusing on single-vehicle intelligence. Under the scheduling of WellFMS, the intelligent battery swapping of Q-Truck has also become a highlight function.
Q-Truck Full-Time Driverless Container Truck: Green Manufacturing, Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement
As an important part of Westwell’s smart factory solution, Q-Truck provides factories with efficient and reliable short-distance distribution services with its full-time driverless capability. Q-Truck not only has excellent autonomous driving performance and can operate stably in complex and changeable factory environments but also adopts an electric drive mode, actively responding to the goals of green manufacturing and the national dual-carbon development strategy.
With its high-efficiency transportation capability and environmental protection features, Q-Truck has brought significant cost reduction and efficiency improvement effects to factories. On the one hand, through the intelligent scheduling system, Q-Truck can flexibly adjust the transportation route and frequency according to actual production needs, ensuring that materials are delivered to the production site in a timely and accurate manner, thus improving production efficiency. On the other hand, the electric drive mode reduces energy consumption and emissions, reduces the environmental impact of the factory, and is in line with the sustainable development concept of modern enterprises.
Well-Bot: Space Optimization and High-Efficiency Storage
The Well-Bot robot boasts excellent navigation and obstacle avoidance capabilities. It can independently complete the handling and distribution tasks of materials in complex and ever-changing factory environments. Moreover, it supports multiple handling methods and tools, meeting the needs of different materials and scenarios.
Westwell is a leader in the intelligent and sustainable low-carbon transformation of the global logistics industry. As a provider of integrated intelligent and new energy solutions, the company has achieved commercial implementation in 28 countries and regions worldwide, serving over 200 customers. Its solutions cover a wide range of scenarios, including seaports, railway ports, land ports, air ports, smart factories, and smart industrial parks. Through rapid global commercial deployment and one-stop full lifecycle digital intelligence services, Westwell accelerates its global commercialization and ensures reliable project operations.
Adhering to the vision of “Combining new intelligence with new energy to help the global logistics sector achieve higher efficiency and more sustainable value in its intelligent and green evolution,” Westwell is committed to its brand slogan of “Make a Well Change.” The company devotes itself to every single change, driving more significant and positive changes for humanity and the world. Westwell actively promotes the sustainable development of global logistics, dedicated to providing sustainable and green intelligent transformation solutions for customers to achieve long-term social and environmental values.
