As one of the "Five Major Bearing Industrial Agglomeration Areas in China", Liaocheng City has been committed to taking digital transformation as the focal point and breakthrough for the quality improvement and upgrading of the bearing industry. It has built a digital foundation for the bearing industry cluster and created a number of application scenarios in aspects such as industrial ecology, intelligent manufacturing applications, and common technologies, enabling data to better "understand" the business and be more valuable.

In the "digital factory", each piece of material has its own "ID", and the whole link from entering the factory, forging, welding to leaving the factory can be traced. The efficient, transparent and traceable quality management system for bearing production minimizes the trial-and-error cost of merchants and relieves the inventory pressure... Recently, the launching ceremony of the full-chain quality traceability platform for the bearing industry was held in Linqing City. As one of the important application scenarios of the industrial brain serving bearing enterprises, it marks a solid step forward in the construction of the Shandong Province Bearing Industry Brain.

In April 2024, the Shandong Province Bearing Industry Brain Platform was officially launched. "The bearing industry brain integrates digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, aggregates massive data across the entire chain, and develops application scenarios such as industry indices, financial services, and centralized procurement of raw materials, helping enterprises solve problems such as high production and management costs and a large proportion of capital occupied by raw material procurement. It realizes the full life cycle management of bearing products, covering from raw material procurement, production and processing, quality inspection, warehousing and logistics to sales and service."

Yuanfeng Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. in Guan County once faced a situation where all the workshop equipment came to a halt because the service system of the equipment manufacturer could no longer be accessed after the manufacturer went out of business. After obtaining this information, the Shandong Province Bearing Industry Brain Platform, through systematic screening and research and judgment, decided to invite the expert team from Xin Nong Shang Software Technology Co., Ltd. to step in. Soon, the problem was solved and the equipment resumed operation. At the same time, after the lightweight cloud transformation, all the production data of the equipment was uploaded to the cloud, and the enterprise's production scheduling, production flow, and finished product inspection all achieved digital management. Just the equipment update alone saved the enterprise several million yuan.

Yujie Bearing has carried out several rounds of digital technological transformation, achieving full-process digital management of production, orders, and inventory. The MES intelligent management system makes the production process more efficient. Bot Bearing adheres to the "Internet + industry" intelligent model, reducing costs by 15% and increasing turnover by 40%, and has maintained the first market share in the thin-walled bearing field nationwide for consecutive years. "Relying on the industrial brain, we focus on the main directions such as 'centralized procurement of bearing steel raw materials, operation of product sales business, and development of one-stop procurement modules', achieving one-stop procurement for enterprises, a closed-loop quality management of the industrial chain, and effective connection between R&D supply and demand." Combining the demands of enterprises and the development trend of the industry, the industrial brain is increasingly demonstrating its advantages in helping enterprises optimize production processes, improve production efficiency, and reduce operating costs.

Among them, Linqing City is accelerating the rapid transformation of the bearing industry from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing". It has established the "Three Lists" including the cultivation of urgently needed talents, tackling key and core technologies, and the introduction of iconic leading talents. It has introduced Academician Hu Zhenghuan of the Chinese Academy of Engineering to establish the only inclined rolling bearing rolling element production line in the province. The efficiency has increased by 10 times and the cost has decreased by 30%.