DAYANG MEDICAL Digital Transformation and Upgrading
Established in 2009, Guangdong Dayang Medical Technology Co., Ltd. is a large-scale medical device enterprise integrating research and development, production, sales and service, a national high-tech enterprise（wheel chairs、transfer wheelchair、commode chairs、walker、care bed）, with two brands Dayang and Dahao. The Company was recognised as a digital demonstration workshop in Foshan City in 2021 and received an award of RMB 2 million.
On 31 May 2024, after the visit and seminar, Dayang's determination to actively engage in digital transformation and upgrading became stronger! An active and pragmatic enterprise digital transformation and upgrading seminar was held in Nanhai Park of Foshan Hi-Tech Zone, which guided enterprises to benchmark their transformation through on-site observation and learning, and empowered industrial transformation and upgrading.
Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ‘Dayang Medical Company’), Dayang Medical Company manufacturing department minister Zeng Wei led the enterprise representatives to visit the factory and digital workshop. On the large screen of the company's system control room, the progress of each station's operation and the number of completed workstations were clear at a glance, and the number of qualified products per day and the monthly output of the process were also at a glance, and the representatives showed great interest in the system's high efficiency and convenience, and in the improvement of the quality of production.
Dayang Medical Company has fully implemented digital transformation from raw material warehousing, production moulding, semi-finished product assembly to finished product warehousing. Employees in different positions only need to scan the QR code through PDA or mobile phone to achieve the reporting of the whole process flow of reporting, testing, completion and warehousing.
In the subsequent discussion and exchange session, Zeng Wei from the company's digital transformation of the implementation of the cause, construction planning, control nodes, transformation barriers, transformation path, results and benefits of multiple dimensions of the digital transformation of the experience and recommendations, pointing out that in the face of the industry's great wave of change, the manufacturing industry to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of the enterprise is imperative. Through digital transformation, Dayang Medical Company has, on the one hand, realized the transparency of work order progress, simplified the information transfer process, reduced the data transfer error, and the delivery expectation is based on the evidence; on the other hand, it has realized the real-time visualization of hourly/piecework wages, improved the staff's motivation, and significantly reduced the rate of defective products.
Shortened production cycle time by 35%, reduced defective/rejections by 18%, reduced paper drawings by 95%, reduced data work by 67%, reduced raw material inventory by 22%, shortened delivery time by 23% ...... A series of vivid figures illustrate the benefits of digital transformation and upgrading. Zeng Wei said that digital transformation allows managers to have real-time control and monitoring of raw material inventory, production cost control, and finished product inventory, which facilitates corporate decision-makers to adjust production strategies and regulate production schedules according to market demand at any time and any place, and also greatly increases the collaborative ability and responsiveness of process management.
At the same time, Dayang Medical also shared its successful experience in achieving digital transformation as a traditional SME. This national high-tech enterprise, which focuses on the research, development, production and sales of medical and rehabilitation instruments, etc., has had its intelligent collaborative production digital workshop named as the model workshop in Foshan City. Huang Zehui, Chairman of Dayang Medical, said that since the implementation of the digital transformation of the enterprise, the direct and indirect benefits are obvious: shorten the delivery period of finished products by 5-10 days, increase the product qualification rate by 15%, reduce the total inventory by 11%, and not only improve the staff's labour motivation, but also significantly reduce the rate of product defects.
