Innovation-Driven,Activate Corporate Development Motive Force

Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Implements National Top 100 Innovative Enterprises Project By He Baoxin

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding) as the only enterprise in the first group of National Top 100 Innovative Enterprises Project in the shipbuilding industry is fully aware of great responsibility and glorious mission. Under the firm leadership of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC),Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding sticks to innovation drive, activates corporate development motive force in the new era and orderly propels implementation of the Top 100 Innovative Enterprises Project with perseverance, scientific and realistic style and brave attitude.

Ram up Foundation of Innovation and Development

Innovation system becoming perfect. Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding obtained various qualifications of State and Shanghai Enterprise Technology Center, Shanghai High-Tech Enterprise, National Accreditation Laboratory, National Defense Science and Technology Industry Accreditation Laboratory, Research Center of Deep Sea Equipment and Material and Protection Engineering Technology, etc.The Company has almost 900 technical personnel, including 2 Shanghai industry leaders, 21 senior experts, 9 doctors and 95 masters.

Persist in “Innovation in introduction and leading in innovation”.Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding lays emphasis on introducing market and government research resources, and actively establishes strategic partnership with institutions of higher learning and research institutions. It also actively undertakes important tasks of national research in key areas, has accumulatively undertaken more than 130 key research projects of NDRC, State Commission of Science and Technology for National Defense Industry, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Economic and Information Commission,Shanghai Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Commission and CSSC and approved project amount exceeds RMB1 billion.

Continuous enhancement of product innovation capability. Since the founding,Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has set up the goal of “creating green brand and building first-class product”, inherited the design concept of “green, low carbon,energy conservation and environmental friendliness” and finally grasped core technology of high-technology ship and high value-added product sectors.Developed products include: Capesize bulk carrier, Aphramax tanker, Suezmax tanker, VLCC, ultra-large container carrier, VLGC, VLOC, etc. Capesize bulk carriers have been developed to eighth generation 210K BC, deadweight tonnage has substantially increased,comprehensive fuel consumption,hull form and EEDI have been further optimized, reaching the goal of “continuous upgrade, leading the market”. VLCC has been developed to fourth generation, not only meeting the requirements of HCSR and Tier III rules,but also reaching the standard of “always maintaining world first class”.

The early completion and delivery of 18000TEU and 20000TEU ultralarge container carriers broke the Korean monopoly in the area. 21000TEU and 22000TEU ultra-large container carriers undertaken by batch are the largest container ships ever undertaken by China. 83000cbm and 84000cbm VLGCs are generally recognized high-tech and high value-added ships, and the smooth delivery of such ships means Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has stridden into the large gas carrier manufacturing club at one stroke. The Company undertook 14 second generation 400000 dwt VLOC in 2016, making Shanghai become the world VLOC construction center.

Build Innovation and Development Platform

Clear idea of innovation and development. Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has closely centered on the national strategic task of developing ocean economy and building an ocean power,taken the opportunity of being admitted into the first group of pilot enterprises for Top 100 Innovative Enterprises Project to strengthen capacity building of corporate innovation. It persists in innovation practicality, integration and directionality, leads the Chinese shipbuilding industry in product innovation, process innovation,management innovation and business model innovation and even leads the world shipbuilding industry.

Clear target of innovation and development. Through innovation and development, it has improved highend product R&D capability, improved intelligent manufacturing capability,improved delicacy management capability and developed into a leading shipbuilding enterprise of various brands, high efficiency and fine management. Its aim is that comprehensive index will reach and main shipbuilding index overtake Korean advanced shipbuilding companies.

Step up technical innovation input.It has increased R&D fund input by various channels: Setting up the R&D fund guarantee mechanism, keeping yearly R&D fund at over 5% growth and by 2020 hitting the research input level of Korean leading shipbuilding enterprises. Meanwhile, it persists in parallel operation of product R&D and technical reserve, sticks to the innovative idea of “production generation, design generation, development generation and advanced research generation”,puts high-percentage research activity fund every year in relevant software and hardware facility upgrade and renovation and automatic equipment research, etc.so as to guarantee smooth operation of technical innovation activities.

Taking the lead in organizing an industry-university-research collaborative innovation alliance.Intensifying development of R&D institutions and building four innovation R&D platforms. Providing guarantee for technical center construction and development in terms of fund, personnel and planning and giving full play to core function of the technical center in the corporate technological innovation.Further expanding the industryuniversity-research collaborative innovation mechanism with institutions of higher learning and research institutions,conducting research with strategic products and cutting-edge technology research as core, and building the following four R&D platforms:

1.Building luxury cruiser innovative R&D platform, setting up the Luxury Cruiser Design Company and grasp luxury cruiser innovative R&D capability.

2.Building ocean engineering innovative R&D platform, forming State-level ocean engineering research center and improving high-end ocean engineering equipment innovative R&D capacity.

3.Building intelligent manufacture innovative R&D platform, promoting shipbuilding model upgrading (modern shipbuilding model 2.0), integrating intelligent manufacture and innovative R&D capacity and improving shipbuilding technological level.

4.Building IT application integration with industrialization innovative R&D platform, constructing national engineering laboratory for IT application integration with industrialization and guiding development of the shipbuilding industry.

Improvingintelligent manufacturing. Preparing intelligent manufacturing top level planning,building corporate “Shipbuilding 2025”, completing intelligent shipyard data (chain, group) structural planning,combining with the IT application integration with industrialization innovative R&D platform and promoting implementation and application of relevant data and information software.Lay emphasis on top level architecture research of intelligent shipyard;application research of production logistic; intelligent shipyard oriented digital workshop demonstration project research; offshore engineering equipment,high-tech ship intelligent manufacture research; intelligent manufacture related production flow path planning and reengineering.

Optimizingshipbuilding technological process. Under the overall framework of intelligent shipyard,optimizing existing shipbuilding technological process and upgrade and renovate current equipment. By simulating imitation technology and intelligent decision-making methodology,carrying out shipbuilding new process research, realizing orderly equilibrium in space and time, realizing delicacy management. Combining with the intelligent manufacture technological process, renovating existing equipment and facilities, expanding application scope of cutting robot and welding robot, expediting straight assembly line upgrading and improving intelligent degree of equipment and facilities.

Breaking through high-end key technologies. Carrying out cooperation with domestic research institutions and universities, gradually breaking through key technologies of high-end automatic equipment. Laying emphasis on applied research of luxury cruiser sheet sectional automation workshop, pipe welding robot,joining pipe assembling and welding assembly line, profile steel treatment assembly line,group erecting intelligent manufacturing line, virtual simulation and optimization of sectional manufacture, large plane spraying robot, sand washing robot, etc.

Forming intelligent manufacture application. Through informatization means, realizing seamless connection and integration of digital world and physical world. Lay emphasis on shipyard internal wireless network,promoting shipyard logistics wireless rapid application; carrying out Internet of Things technological R&D, and building industrial chain service platform; carrying out technical research, setting up master data management center to assist in decision-making analysis; carrying out intelligent manufacture technology research and building smart shipbuilding demonstration area.

Introduction and Training of Innovative Talents

Assembling excellent innovative talents and teams. In eco-friendly ship form development, luxury cruiser design and manufacture,ocean engineering equipment design and manufacture, IT application integration with industrialization and intelligent manufacture innovation platform construction, using the State“Recruitment Programs of Global Talents” to introduce and train chief experts and give experts research fund and research condition support with a view to driving team development.

Strengthening international global talent training. Using opportunity of industry-university-research cooperation, cooperation with overseas relevant institutions and M&A to implement talents “walk out” training program and rapidly train talents and leaders of relevant sectors.

Independently fostering experts and professionals. In ship welding automation application, coating robot,ship automatic line, intelligent shipyard planning and design, informatization system architecture and application and extension, through project R&D and capacity accumulation, train chief experts of a number of sectors.

Implementing talent training “Three Programs”. Attaching importance to talent cultivation, launching talent cultivation interim plan: launching “unmooring plan” at the career exploration stage (for young staff 1-3 years with the shipyard); launching “setting sail plan” at the career establishment stage(for young staff 3-10 years with the shipyard);launching “ocean-going voyage plan” at the career maintenance stage (for corporate managers), gathering talents through various means of talents plans.