Haier aims to bring comfort and convenience to customers' homes. [Photo from haier.com]

At the IEC refrigerator branch conference held in Minsk, Belarus in October 2015, Haier was elected to run the IEC refrigerator freshness-maintenance team, and refrigeration standards it put forward through joint efforts by its research institutes around the world and through its world-leading testing institutions from the Netherlands and China Agricultural University, were finally adopted –– making Chinese industrial history.

Haier sets the pace for intelligent manufacturing standards

Haier has also made considerable efforts to study intelligent technologies and standards to help boost the intelligent manufacturing sector.

It has finished upgrading five assembly lines and 28 plants plus updated over 800 procedures so far. It has built up eight interconnected branch offices, of which, the smart plant in Jiaozhou, Qingdao, will be one of the three most advanced projects exhibited during the 2017 Qingdao Forum on International Standardization.

The Internet factory + COSMOPlat system, a digital product invented as an enthusiastic response to the prospering intelligent manufacturing sector, has been included into IEC Criteria.

Approved by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Haier pioneered the Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Strategic Alliance (IMSA), the first in the world, with the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMEC), China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI), China Information and Communications Technology Academy (CAICT), Tsinghua University and China Telecom.

Meanwhile, it worked with CESI to issue China's first intelligent manufacturing standards framework for the home appliance industry. It is thought that two standards will be released during the intelligent manufacturing forum at the end of June.