Wellmold: Lead Innovative Smart Home Brands Into the World Market by Means of DFMA Service

Guangdong Well Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Wellmold), founded in Shenzhen 23 years ago, has grown to be a high-tech enterprise with an area of 160,000 square meters. Though challenged with the epidemic, Wellmold has rapidly grown and continued to increase capital and expand production. And it has become an excellent supplier that supplies goods to such big brands as Narwal, MIUI, Ecovacs, Nissan Motor, Xiaopeng Motors and Honda Motor. As you see, the goods in the front waiting to be loaded and shipped out are piled up, and workers are busy pushing carts back and forth.

Currently, its customer service scope involves two main fields: automotive electronics and the smart home hardware, such as self-cleaning sweeping robots, floor scrubbers, air purifiers, household energy storage products and smart pets. Also, Wellmold has established an engineer team with 23 years of experience to provide innovative entrepreneurs with free DFA/DFM engineering analysis for the industrialization of new products, promote the customers to optimize product design, help the customers reduce BOM costs and improve production efficiency in order to facilitate product launching. In addition, it provides one-stop manufacturing services, such as precision mold manufacturing, injection molding, secondary processing, finished product assembly, etc.

Pursuing High Quality

High-end Equipment Boosts High-quality Development of Enterprises

In the Wellmold factory, a number of YIZUMI injection molding machines are running properly. Since 2016, it has established a cooperation relationship with YIZUMI to introduce more than 100 A5S series injection molding machines in succession.

With regard to the cooperation with YIZUMI, Ning Jianqiang, Board Chairman of Wellmold, said, "As recommended by my friends, I went to YIZUMI for field investigation. Its workshop management, process control and quality control were impressive. The attitude towards workmanship also shows the enterprise's attitude towards the quality and the expectation of the market. Thus, we chose YIZUMI."

As an enterprise producing new smart home products, Wellmold successfully entered the supplier system of such floor sweeper brands as Narwal and MIUI in 2018. With "unexpected" quality delivery performance made for the customers launching new products, it has attracted many innovative brands of intelligent hardware to lay a solid foundation for its official listing.

Smart home products with a nice appearance can stimulate the consumers' desire to buy. Therefore, the molding of product appearance parts is of great importance. Ning Jianqiang said, "Such parts have a large size and are subject to high requirements for assembly relationship, product surface and sense of quality, which requires high precision and stability of the production equipment."

So Wellmold has introduced YIZUMI's A5S series injection molding machines integrated with the third-generation servo system and the hydraulic oil circuit for optimization and operation resistance reduction, thereby ensuring the machines' reliable and stable operation, low noise, strong power, fast response and low energy consumption.

Ning Jianqiang said, "So far, YIZUMI's injection molding machines have met the production requirements, which can produce high-gloss appearance parts free of black spots, flow marks, bubbles, splay marks and other defects. The machines can reach the pass rate of 98% or above, thus ensuring the high quality of products."

Market-based

YiMES System for Innovative Factory Management

With the growth of performance and the increase of equipment and production workshops, Wellmold's difficulty in management has also increased significantly. How to carry out lean management and real-time production status monitoring has always been the crucial issue faced by Ning Jianqiang.

In this regard, further cooperation between Wellmold and YIZUMI was carried out. YIZUMI's intelligent interconnection technology team went to Wellmold's workshops involving all links and processes of production so as to provide solutions. At the end of last year, Wellmold officially launched YIZUMI Yi+ intelligent manufacturing platform, opening a new track for informatization and digital management of factories.

"Up to now, digital transformation has become the inevitable choice of enterprises seeking opportunities in crisis, and also the general trend of economic and social development. The companies wanting to go further must combine production with digitalization." Ning Jianqiang said, "By now, the smart home market has still maintained a high degree of prosperity, and it is very necessary for the development of Wellmold to timely introduce Yi + smart manufacturing platform."

Using the YiMES manufacturing execution system, Wellmold has achieved the monitoring and early warning of process parameters, the 100% system management of order progress, and the increase of equipment utilization rate to a certain extent. By means of informatization, the circulation of paper sheets can be avoided. All data are online in real time, so that all equipment and auxiliaries can be controlled in a centralized manner to reduce downtime, mold change time and human input.

The system administrators can clearly check the information such as real-time order status, testing status, production progress and pass rate using mobile phones or computers. In this regard, Ning Jianqiang said, "With specialized on-site design and equipment debugging, the YIZUMI team has given us a lot of help. Using the YIMES system, the company has enhanced the lean production capacity of the factory, thus boosting the lean production."

DFMA Services

Facilitate the Launching and Production of New Products

In recent years, the innovation plus intelligence has become the next development trend. Wellmold has made great efforts for transformation and upgrading. Relying on the DFMA (product design for manufacturing and assembly) as the core competitiveness, Wellmold has established the strategic development direction of intelligent home appliances and automotive precision parts.

"The DFMA service is to promote the redesign of the customers' products by manufacturability analysis, so as to achieve the industrialized production of high quality, low cost and high efficiency. It can help the start-ups avoid risks in core links such as design and development, cost control, etc."

In order to effectively reduce the product development cycle and modification frequency, Wellmold has set up a strong engineering team to participate in customer product design, which can make detailed technical analysis on the customers' product drawings and give professional solutions for DFM/DFA optimization to facilitate the launching and production of new products.

Ning Jianqiang stressed, "With rich experience in the industrialization of intelligent hardware products, I believe Wellmold can attract more innovative intelligent enterprises. The company will also seize the opportunity of fast-rising national brand driven by the tide of innovation and entrepreneurship in China, and strive to become a model manufacturing enterprise for industrialization of intelligent hardware products, thus making greater contributions to the revitalization and development of national brands."