Zhongshan Huoh Yow Core Material Co., Ltd., established in 1992 by Taiwan Huoh Yow Enterprise Co., Ltd., has been focusing on various cores related to nickel-zinc, manganese-zinc, and metal for 30 years. It is a technology enterprise integrating scientific research, manufacturing, and sales, with a focus on the development of electronic raw materials and components. Its products are widely used in industries such as home appliances, power, communication, medical, automotive, and new energy. With professional expertise and mature technology in the soft magnetic industry, the company has grown rapidly, and its products are mainly sold to top 500 companies in Japan、Europe and America.

        As early as 2008, Zhongshan Huoh Yow began to promote information construction, successively introducing HR, ERP, SPC, and CRM systems. The company comprehensively integrated systems from the inside out, enhancing the value and efficiency of enterprise management and competitiveness. Starting in 2016, the company faced various internal and external challenges. Trade wars, the pandemic, rising raw material prices, low-price competition from peers, resistance from old employees to new management methods, and reluctance of young people to enter factories, among other difficulties, emerged one after another. The company's performance was greatly affected, and reform was imminent. Looking back, the managers' focus turned again to information construction. In order to reduce costs, enhance human value, and improve technical and quality capabilities, intelligent manufacturing has become the company's new direction for development.

        The magnetic core industry is characterized by a wide variety of products, extensive applications, significant differences across industries, and strict delivery times. Whether it's order tracking, production management, or product traceability, the workload is enormous. Although assisted by systems such as ERP and MES, the difficulty of data management and application within the company continues to increase with the surge in data scale and the proliferation of data silos.

        Zhongshan Huoh Yow has successively added various advanced industrial automation equipment to its new production line. However, due to the equipment coming from different suppliers, the management, monitoring, and control of the production equipment are relatively isolated, lacking a unified management platform for centralized monitoring of industrial equipment. To address this issue, the company has built an integrated Internet of Things (IoT) management platform that unifies the management and monitoring of the operating status, operating modes, analog monitoring, and fault detection of various industrial equipment. At the same time, this platform also effectively integrates ERP, MES, SPC systems with all production equipment on the production line, opening up the entire passage from sales orders to manufacturing, and then to customer delivery.

Through this platform, the company can grasp various production data in real-time, thereby maximizing the production efficiency and production management level of the production line. Without increasing personnel, production efficiency has increased from 83% before the platform was built to 95% after, a 12% increase, and also saved 5% of raw materials. With the increase in customer satisfaction, the new product quickly captured the market, with the order quantity increasing fivefold, becoming a new revenue growth point for the company.

        By adopting the integrated Internet of Things (IoT) management platform, the company has initially achieved the basic construction of digitalization. It has broken through the barriers of data silos, constructing a digital workshop and effectively enhancing production efficiency and optimizing management levels. Next, the company will introduce automated quality inspection systems and AI technologies. On the foundation of digitalization, it will gradually achieve intelligent management, further improving production efficiency and quality, optimizing personnel structure, and reducing production costs. This will enable the company to better connect with end customers and meet their demands.