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Reprinted: From Individual Units to Systems, Co-building a Digital Post-Press Ecosystem
2024-11-28
Source: China News Publishing and Broadcasting Journal, Reporters: Wang Qin, Zhu Xiao-Zhen, Mou Yi
As a leading company in the development and production of post-press binding equipment in China, JMD Intelligent Machinery Co., Ltd. has become a leader in intelligent equipment by focusing on precision and system integration, with its core technologies maintaining an international competitive edge. Located at the forefront of China's reform and opening-up, Chairman Mr. Zheng Bin has a keen insight into both domestic and international market trends and industry development. With the determination of an expert entrepreneur, Mr. Zheng has always aimed for world-class standards in equipment research and development. In a recent interview with China News Publishing and Broadcasting Journal, Mr. Zheng expressed that through intelligent system integration, the company seeks to promote deeper industrial collaboration and ensure the efficient flow of quality resources across a broader scope.
Industry Self-Iteration Drives Industry Chain Collaboration
"Equipment manufacturers, like us, are akin to weapons manufacturers for the future battlefield," Mr. Zheng Bin stated. He believes the shape of future industries will require appropriate technology and tools to respond effectively. For printing equipment manufacturers, it is crucial to analyze future trends and anticipate market developments.
Mr. Zheng Bin pointed out that after over 40 years of reform and opening-up, the printing industry faces challenges like overcapacity, excess supply, and fierce competition leading to "internal turmoil." At present, China is undergoing a period of transitioning its development model, optimizing economic structure, and shifting growth drivers. External complexities and uncertainties have increased, while domestic structural adjustments deepen, presenting new challenges. These include shorter delivery periods, higher quality demands, difficulties in recruitment, rapid advancements in intelligent development, and the need for flexible production models.
From the perspective of the industry’s self-iteration, Mr. Zheng emphasized the necessity for the entire industry to change traditional production methods and management models. This involves achieving digital production, smart equipment, industry chain optimization, data-driven decision-making, and collaborative innovation. "I sincerely hope the entire printing and publishing industry can unite, share resources, take coordinated actions, and integrate development. This will help establish a mechanism that links government, industry, academia, and finance to drive technological innovation, demonstrate applications, and advance industrial development, promoting shared growth in the publishing and printing industry."
System Integration: Evolution from Individual Units to a Comprehensive System
Printing equipment is a key component of productivity, forming the "skeleton" of production line layouts. Given the increasingly short production cycles, higher quality demands, and intensive capacity pressures, independent systems are no longer viable. Mr. Zheng Bin advocates for the evolution from individual units to an integrated system, utilizing intelligent system integration.
System thinking, which includes reducing procurement, usage, labor, and maintenance costs, is crucial. "Higher-speed production equipment with less maintenance, simpler operation technology, and fully automated production processes with MES system applications, alongside continuous systematic training, are common demands of printing enterprises," Mr. Zheng noted. He stressed that the old "single machine thinking" is outdated, and a more systematic approach is needed when considering equipment. Some enterprises only consider the current situation or the suitability of individual machines for production, but this may not be optimal from a holistic system perspective.
System integration also has its "indicators." Mr. Zheng explained, "If top-tier, second-tier, and third-tier equipment are simply connected together, the overall efficiency will be determined by the lowest reliability device in the system." Third-tier equipment, with high failure rates and insufficient intelligent applications, will cause the entire system’s failure rate to rise. Therefore, aiming for top-tier equipment is essential to enhance overall system intelligence.
Driving Printing Equipment to the Mid-to-High End of the Value Chain
As a national manufacturer, JMD has taken on the mission of integrating innovative technology to support the high-quality development of the publishing and printing industry. In the process of pushing printing equipment toward the global value chain's mid-to-high end, JMD focuses not only on enhancing the intelligence of individual pieces of equipment but also on ensuring the system’s and collaboration’s development.
From an industry structural perspective, Mr. Zheng noted that the printing process is complex, with many stages, and there is still a lack of communication between publishing units, printing enterprises, and equipment manufacturers, leading to "innovation silos." He believes that driving deeper industrial collaboration will form a collective industry force, co-building a digital post-press ecosystem.
Currently, in the field of traditional post-press digitization, JMD’s latest fourth-generation AI glue-binding linked lines have been adopted by leading enterprises such as Hunan Tianwen, Guizhou Xinhua, Shanghai Zhonghua, and Zhejiang Xinhua. In the digital post-press sector, companies like Hucai Printing and Hebei Mingcheng have adopted fully integrated lines from paper rolls to book production. Mr. Zheng stated that the priority for uniting the entire industry chain is to connect pre-press, printing, and post-press stages, with digital printing technology making this possible. The future of printing equipment development will combine digital and traditional methods, transforming the production process into a "continuous printing → continuous folding → book production" process, thus opening up broader possibilities for printing enterprises.