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Weihai Huashun Precision Machinery does not rely on government leadership. Foshan's first enterprise platform incubator has been put into operation in the South China Sea since this month. The incubator is built by Foshan Nanhai Zhongnan Machinery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongnan Machinery"), focusing on the field of intelligent machinery and equipment, the first batch of 10 scientific and technological innovation teams, successfully introducing the scientific research achievements of South China University of Technology into the South China Sea.

It is understood that this Weihai Huashun precision machinery incubator was transformed from Zhongnan Machinery using its own old industrial plant. By directly attacking the pain of "low innovation survival rate" in domestic university laboratories, Zhongnan Machinery hopes to rely on its rich practical experience in the equipment manufacturing industry to promote the enrichment and implementation of university scientific research results.

● He Fanyan Gong Jing

The old factory turned into a tall incubator "preparation workshop scientific research" directly hit the pain point of scientific innovation

The full name of this incubator is "Guangdong Zhongnan Machinery Intelligent Incubator Co., Ltd." The old factory area of Zhongnan Machinery located in Yanbu Section of Guangfo Road is "changed" because of this project ".

The machinery and equipment industry in Nanhai and even Foshan is developed. In 2015, the total industrial output value of Foshan's equipment manufacturing industry above designated size was close to 600 billion yuan, accounting for "half of the whole Zhuhai West Army".

Located at the junction of Guangfo, Zhongnan Machinery is known as the "invisible champion" of "going up to the sky and the sea. It is a supplier of "big country heavy equipment" parts such as "Xuelong" scientific research ship and domestic large aircraft, and is the "invisible key" in the field of marine diesel engine electronic injection system ". Since September last year, Zhongnan Machinery began to plan to transform its old industrial plant to build the first product platform incubator built by private enterprises in Foshan.

Now, the first phase of its transformation results have been released.

"Preparation workshop full of engine oil smell" and "modern office with bright and clean windows", these two production scenes appeared in this private enterprise at the same time, becoming the "upper and lower shop brothers" in the same industrial plant ".

The preparation workshop of the fuel common rail used to produce the "Xuelong" scientific research ship, including the engineer team, was completely retained and remained in place on the first floor. The second and third floors have completely changed. Except for the huge power distribution room left in the corner of the second floor, there is no trace of industrial plant. Instead, it is a physical space that integrates scientific research office, leisure and entertainment, and academic exchanges.

At first glance, this physical space is no different from a general incubator. The only difference is that it has an academic lecture hall that can accommodate 300 people. According to Mao Weidong, deputy general manager of Zhongnan Machinery, on May 27, the inaugural meeting of the Additive Manufacturing Branch of the Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society will be held here, and more than 200 people from the academic community will attend the meeting to participate in academic exchanges.

However, for most innovative entrepreneurs in the field of intelligent equipment, although such a high-level academic seminar is commendable, what they value most is most likely the preparation workshop on the first floor, which is full of the smell of engine oil, and the technical force hidden behind it.

Why? This has to start with the pain points of university research. In the words of Xu Guan, chairman of Zhongnan Machinery, this pain point can be summarized in 7 words: the survival rate of innovation is not high.

Xu Guan graduated from South China University of Technology and won the first prize for scientific and technological achievements of the Institute of Mechanical Science of the Ministry of Mechanical Engineering. The localization project of key diesel engine parts on which Zhongnan Machinery "made its fortune" was written by him. He said that the channels for obtaining innovative technologies in the intelligent equipment industry are mainly through industry-university-research, but the current "learning" of industry-university-research is a bit reluctant, because the biggest advantage of university professors is strong theoretical, but the hands-on ability is not strong, and they often start from the trial production stage. Encountered difficulties.

"Weihai dispenser laboratory products only focus on basic functions, but to enter the mass production to talk about high pass rate, low failure rate, need to go through repeated reliability tests. And our role is to help them turn creative or laboratory products into industrial products." Mao Weidong said.

The first batch of incoming teams are mainly "Chinese Engineering Department". The young "team leader" is "post-80s" Foshan people

Judging from the market's reaction, the incubator won applause as soon as it was born. As early as the end of last year, Xu Guan, chairman of Zhongnan Machinery, disclosed that Guangdong Zhongnan Machinery Intelligent Incubator Co., Ltd. had been established and was expected to accommodate 60 teams. Just this month, the first 10 scientific innovation teams officially entered.

The "advanced preparation technology and industrialization of high performance hot melt adhesive continuous method" led by Kuang Qinglin is one of them. Kuang Qinglin is a Ph.D. from South China University of Technology. Three years ago, he came to Nanhai as a science and technology commissioner for industry-university-research cooperation from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province to provide services in the South China Sea private enterprise "Xinglian Technology.

Three years later, Kuang Qinglin, who finished his work as a science and technology commissioner of "Star Alliance Technology", chose to start his own business. He sent his laboratory polymer testing instrument products to Zhongnan Machinery for trial production. It is said that this kind of instrument is needed by almost every scientific research laboratory. At present, the corresponding core technology is monopolized by foreign enterprises. The first instrument reaches millions of yuan, but if it can be successfully localized, the cost is less than 1 million yuan.

On March 30, the Nanhai District Economic and Technology Promotion Bureau (Science and Technology) announced the list of the seventh batch of innovation and entrepreneurship teams of the "Blue Ocean Talent Plan. According to Zhongnan Machinery, including Kuang Qinglin's team, the seven teams on the list will all settle in its incubator.

Scanning these project teams, it is not difficult to find that they are all from South China University of Technology, and the youngest team leader is the post-80s Foshan people. On closer inspection, these team leaders are all of extraordinary strength.

For example, Fan Yanbin, who brought the project "PolyCloud |-Advanced Polymer Material Processing Experimental Instruments Based on Cloud Platform", was the first batch of public students after the founding of New China. He returned to China after obtaining his doctorate from the University of Berlin in Germany. He is now a double-employed master's supervisor of Huagong and Foshan Institute of Science and Technology.

Jin Gang is an associate professor of South China University of Technology. He is one of the main academic backbones of the National Engineering Research Center for New Polymer Molding Equipment. His "SJDD Series Plastic Electromagnetic Dynamic Plasticizing and Extrusion Equipment" won the first prize of the "Science and Technology Progress Award for Science and Technology Progress Award of Chinese Universities" in 2002 (the 4th finisher); Xiao Zhiyu is a professor in the school of mechanical and automotive engineering. In August last year, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the evaluation results of the 2016 national major scientific research instrument development project (free application). Three projects of Huagong were funded, one of which was the project of "high precision electron beam selective melting and forming equipment for medical implants. South China Sea this trip, he brought is "high performance 3D printing metal powder preparation key technology research and development".

Professor Chen Yangzhi is engaged in the research of basic mechanical parts. The equipment machinery industry in Nanhai and even Foshan is developed. His project "Development and Application of Special CNC Milling Machine for First Generation Line Gear Processing" is expected to be in the middle of the industry.

Liu Yajun is an associate professor of Huagong. He is engaged in mechanical manufacturing and automation research. Both he and Kuang Qinglin have the same experience of serving as science and technology commissioners in enterprises. Du Qiliang is the younger of the seven team leaders. He is a "post-80s" Foshan native. At present, he is an associate researcher in the College of Automation Science and Engineering of China Engineering, and his research direction is micro-robot and visual control.

Kuang Qinglin, Fan Yanbin, Jin Gang ...... Innovative entrepreneurs are coming, opening up a new scene of scientific research forces in the province to seize the South China Sea.

Projects with both incubation and acceleration functions can be directly landed in Da Li when entering the industrialization stage.

When these innovative and entrepreneurial projects, which represent the cutting-edge research of the industry, have settled down one after another, does Nanhai have enough ground to help them get out of the myth of the pain point of scientific innovation, get down from the cloud of the laboratory and transform them into products on the production line?

For this, Xu Guan showed confidence.

Xu Guan said that this incubator adopts corporate operation. Unlike other incubators that only provide physical space, it not only provides basic conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship such as office and accommodation. The most important point is that Zhongnan Machinery only absorbs intelligent equipment and mechanical projects, and will have both incubation and acceleration functions. A team has been specially formed to connect and realize the projects, it can promote the direct industrialization of promising projects in university laboratories.

Mao Weidong served as the main person in charge of Xu Guanmouth's team. He said that the incubator is only used for scientific research. Using the preparation workshop on the first floor, the entrepreneurial team can quickly complete the trial production. Once an industrialized product is formed and enters the industrialization stage, the incubation is considered successful.

At present, Zhongnan Machinery has reached a cooperation with Dali Town, Nanhai District. Once any incubation project enters the industrialization stage, it can directly land in the local Daozhen Industrial Park. Such seamless connection will accelerate the development of the project., So that its products can quickly enter mass production and realize market value. "The whole incubation process will be very fast and can be completed in 1-2 years." Mao Weidong said.

Today, the curtain of the "old factory turned into an incubator" drama is slowly unfolding. It is too early to discuss how it will affect the equipment manufacturing industry in the South China Sea and even Foshan.

According to Mao Weidong, the total investment in this renovation will reach 40 million yuan, and the renovation area will reach 27000 square meters. "Now we have just finished 6000 square meters. Next, we will continue to attract more innovative entrepreneurs. Come to Foshan Nanhai to start a business."

When he said this, he showed me a new business card that had just been printed at the beginning of this month. On the business card, Zhongnan Machinery has created a brand new brand-"Zhongyu Intelligence". "Valley", "Valley" also, this Guangdong private enterprise hopes to build China's Silicon Valley with mechanical intelligent equipment?

Everything is so worth looking forward.

■ Observation

Government-led to enterprise-led

Looking at the new thinking of introducing wisdom from the South China Sea

The author has noticed that private enterprises have taken the lead in building incubators for the equipment machinery and equipment industry, which is unprecedented in Foshan and even the entire Pearl River Delta. In the past, such incubators were mainly handled by the government.

In previous interviews with some companies, the author found that companies "love and hate" this form. Love must be due to the government's "dependability", but the government-led approach will also cause problems. For example, the problem of docking between university teams and manufacturing enterprises has been unable to solve the problem of how to introduce projects and specific convergence.

Judging from the fact that seven of the first batch of enterprises stationed in Zhongnan Machinery Intelligent Incubator have won the favor of the science and technology department of Nanhai District, the Nanhai government is happy to see this way led by private enterprises. Xu Guan, chairman of Zhongnan Machinery, revealed in an interview that his new idea of private enterprises leading the establishment of intelligent machinery and equipment incubators has received strong support from the Nanhai District Party Committee and District Government.

The example of Zhongnan Machinery Intelligent Incubator shows that if an enterprise has a strong technical background and has a deep enough understanding and foresight in a certain industry, it can make a way for business model innovation and product innovation.

From government-led to enterprise-led, the author saw the new thinking of "introducing wisdom" in the South China Sea. At present, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is gradually heating up. Foshan, which supports the entire equipment manufacturing industry in the west of Zhuhai, needs the joint efforts of government and enterprises, as well as more new thinking. This is also the author's concern about the significance of this South China Sea machinery enterprises.