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Author: Huang Nan

Editor: Yuan Silai

Hard Krypton learned that Shenzhen Ant Factory Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ant Factory") recently completed a C++ round of financing of over 100 million yuan, invested by Beijing Information Industry Development Fund and Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone Industrial Upgrading Equity Investment Fund.

This round of funds will be used to build a flexible and agile advanced manufacturing R&D center and an industrial Internet and digital empowerment engineering technology center in Beijing. At the same time, as a public technology service platform in Beijing, it will provide close and rapid services for product R&D and prototyping in industries such as humanoid robots, semiconductors, aerospace, and medical devices, use "AI+Internet" means to serve traditional manufacturing, and establish a demonstration-level flexible and agile advanced manufacturing base for industrial parts for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

Founded in 2017, Ant Factory is a service platform integrating industrial Internet, flexible and agile manufacturing, and supply chain. The company targets the equipment manufacturing industry and has built a modern manufacturing service industry ecosystem with online transactions and quick customization of massive industrial parts.

Among the founding team, many core members have worked for companies such as Alibaba, JD.com, Beihang University, and Kingdee, and have rich technical accumulation and product experience in the fields of industrial automation, intelligent manufacturing, and AI.

The Industrial Internet platform is aimed at the digitalization, networking and intelligent needs of enterprises in the manufacturing field. Based on the collection, aggregation and analysis of massive data, it builds an industrial cloud platform to support the connection, elastic supply and efficient allocation of manufacturing resources, helping enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

With the rapid development of high-end equipment fields such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and lithium batteries, the mechanical parts processing industry has grown rapidly; according to MIR and Yiheta data, from 2020 to 2028, the domestic FA (standard parts) and FB (non-standard parts) market size is expected to grow from 140 billion to 220 billion yuan.

But the reality is that the equipment manufacturing industry, represented by mechanical parts processing, has long been in a traditional manual operation state, and problems such as labor shortage, recruitment, difficulties, and rising labor costs are becoming increasingly prominent.

In this context, many companies have chosen to build automated production factories to accelerate the digital transformation of the mechanical processing industry. The development of technologies such as AI, big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and robots has brought about a new round of scientific and industrial revolution. The digital transformation of the mechanical processing industry is expected to become a new quality productivity and provide underlying support for my country's new industrialization.

Since its establishment, "Ant Factory" has been deeply engaged in the field of industrial parts. Its main products include FA standard parts such as linear motion parts, transmission parts, pneumatic fluid equipment, linear modules, as well as non-standard parts processing, dispatching orders with visual control of quality and delivery time, and FB customization such as machining CNC processes and programming.

One-stop purchasing platform for industrial parts

Taking the processing technology of non-standard parts as an example, the traditional production model is highly dependent on personnel experience and technology, with a low level of intelligence. The automatic production line for mass production lacks flexibility and is difficult to popularize on a large scale. At the same time, the information transformation of the workshop has a large demand for data collection, information fusion and auxiliary decision-making, making it difficult to achieve highly intelligent production management and scheduling.

Paying attention to this issue, Ant Factory proposed a "second report, hourly production" solution based on its self-developed AI non-standard cloud platform. Through the automatic process planning software, the quotation response time for non-standard customized parts can be controlled within 30 seconds. Aiming at multi-dimensional information management and efficient resource scheduling for end-cloud collaboration, Ant Factory integrates automatic network order taking, automatic process planning, and automatic production line processing, and launched a cloud-to-end full-chain production management system that can cover the entire process of order taking, production dispatching, scheduling, production, and delivery. It can establish a digital flexible and agile manufacturing production line, which can shorten the delivery time by 40%.

At present, "Ant Factory" has established manufacturing bases and service agencies in Beijing, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Suzhou and Wuxi, and has the ability to produce full-matrix industrial parts.

In terms of customers, "Ant Factory" can supply more than 1,500 product series in hundreds of categories, including standard parts such as linear motion/transmission, non-standard parts processed according to drawings, pneumatic components, electric cylinder modules, etc. It has served more than 20,000 customers in industries such as semiconductors, new energy, robotics, automobiles, medical, and consumer electronics.

Building the "factory of the future" with digital flexible and agile manufacturing as the axis

Investor comments:

Beijing Xinchan Fund (co-managed by Beijing Guorui and Legend Capital) said:Beijing Information Industry Fund is one of the four industry funds (information development, medical health, artificial intelligence, and robotics) with a scale of 50 billion yuan launched by Beijing on December 28, 2023. It focuses on industrial Internet, network security and information innovation, Beidou, Internet 3.0 and other fields. In recent years, my country's manufacturing industry has risen rapidly, and the mechanical processing industry is in urgent need of digital transformation. As a leader in flexible and agile manufacturing platforms, Ant Factory will actively respond to Beijing's policy call and drive the transformation and upgrading of Beijing's local manufacturing industry. We believe and are optimistic that Ant Factory has the ability to provide solid basic support for Beijing's humanoid robots, aerospace, semiconductor and other industries, and help the industry develop rapidly.

Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone Industrial Upgrading Fund said,The Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone Industrial Upgrading Fund uses a fund investment + industrial platform empowerment model to focus on key enterprises such as new generation information technology, robotics and intelligent manufacturing, and digital economy, and focuses on major projects that enhance, strengthen, and supplement the industrial chain. Intelligent manufacturing is the main focus of the national development strategy, and using industrial automation to promote industrial transformation and upgrading has become an industry consensus. Ant Factory has deep industry accumulation, a strong team, and its business is closely aligned with national policies. We expect the company to fully grasp industry opportunities, continue to maintain its leading position, and help the rapid development of Beijing's high-end equipment industry.