In 2016, Guilin Rubber Machinery stepped up its efforts in technical research and development, actively carried out new product research and development, design optimization and patent application, worked with KraussMaffei to promote optimization and upgrading in the aspects of design, technology and processing, and made remarkable achievements.
Last year, the company was granted 21 patents including five patents for invention, and applied for 10 patents for utility model. At present, the company has 116 valid patents, including 29 patents for invention and 87 patents for utility model, holding a safe lead in the rubber machinery industry of China.
In 2016, the company completed seven new product R&D projects, eight technological projects and three electric projects, including the steel wire sleeve application project, in which steel wire thread sleeve is used to repair aluminum alloy screw hole that has thread machining error or has been damaged. It has proved that the method is economic and effective. .
Since September last year, the company has invited senior manufacturing experts of KraussMaffei to conduct intensive benchmarking studies on processing, welding and assembling, put forward 55 suggestions on improvement and optimization in the aspects of processing technology, machining tool, work fixture, welding process, assembly site and drawing, and worked out corresponding measures for improvement. Now, relevant improvement projects are in progress and have been proved effective in the Apollo project in India and so on.
In 2017, the company will continue to step up efforts to make product innovation, lower costs, improve business performance and carry out technical research and development, so as to provide sufficient momentum for sustained and healthy development.