Mengniu Dairy, ranked among the top 20 dairy companies globally in 2022, has established core factories in various locations such as Hohhot (Helingeer) and Henan (Jiaozuo). The company is dedicated to providing consumers with nutritious and healthy dairy products, holding a leading position in the fields of high-purity milk, low-temperature yogurt, premium fresh milk, cheese, and adult milk powder. Wellthinic Technology has assisted Mengniu in building a digital factory, guided by the concept of Industry 4.0, to establish a seamlessly collaborative industrial ecosystem across the entire industry chain, encompassing design, manufacturing, and service. Upon delivery and use, the production line achieved an automation rate exceeding 98% and an informatization rate exceeding 95% (including systems such as ERP, WMS, LIMS, etc.). This has contributed to Mengniu Dairy becoming a benchmark for quality within the industry.

Challenges Faced in Digitization:

• Driven by Demands for Greenness, Safety, and Compliance

• Information Islands Despite Numerous Information Systems

• Industry and Technological Development Driving Laboratory Business Innovation

• Demand for Lean Management in Laboratory Operations

• Inefficient Business Collaboration and Smooth Process Transition

• Strategic Drive for Mengniu's Own Digitization and Intelligence

Our Solutions

• 36 factories' QC labs and 2 central labs have been integrated, electronically archiving original records for 1,400 testing methods.

• More than 2,500 instruments across 80+ models have been connected, exceeding 90% of the total, addressing challenges posed by the diversity in quantity, types, manufacturers' specifications, and non-standard interface protocols.

• A flexible design for production execution control has been devised to drastically reduce the time-to-market for new products.

• Comprehensive quality supervision is in place, offering statistical analysis, anomaly management, and quality traceability.

• Visual Management with Digital Dashboards: The implementation of digital dashboards has facilitated "visual" management, enabling timely control over production sites. This empowers managers to make data-informed decisions, enhancing decision accuracy and effectively guiding work processes for employees.

Implementation Effect

• Optimized quality inspection processes have reduced redundant work by 20% and increased efficiency by over 15%.

• High integration between systems has eliminated information islands, resulting in a 70% increase in production efficiency.

• Control over production processes has improved production efficiency and yield rates, with a 70% reduction in production transition times.

• Milk collection efficiency has been enhanced by 20%.

• The electronation rate of batch records has reached 90%.

• Traceability in production processes allows for the identification of product defects, enabling a rapid response to quality issues and a 240-fold increase in traceability efficiency.

• The combination of automatic instrument data collection and validation of manually entered data has eliminated human errors in the recording process.

• The company has been recognized as a national quality benchmark enterprise for consecutive years.

Wellthinic Supports the In-depth Development of Mengniu Factories

• 2014Mengniu Dairy's (Helinger Base) Digital Factory LIMS Pilot Project

• 2015Mengniu Dairy Group's Digital Factory LIMS Promotion Project

• 2018Mengniu-Yashili Group MES Promotion Project

• 2021FMengniu-Yashili Group RD Project

• 2022Mengniu Dairy's (Jiaozuo Factory) Digital Factory MES Project