CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd., a core subsidiary of CRRC Corporation and a crucial R&D and manufacturing base for electric locomotives in China, faces multiple challenges from economic pressures, market fluctuations, policy changes, and technological advancements. With Kingdee Cloud’s digital solutions, CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive has, over two years, successfully established a digitally driven operation system powered by real-time data sharing, analysis, and decision-making — a transformation that resonates across all its manufacturing business processes. The company optimized its manufacturing processes by organizing operations around projects, integrating core business functions such as design, process, planning, logistics, quality, and exception handling, and linking planning, logistics, and production execution to integrate business flow with data flow.

1. Integrated Design and Manufacturing

Leveraging Kingdee solution a unified planning system and MRP logic transforms design processes into production workflows. Production orders are automatically generated and dispatched to APS and MES. APS intelligently schedules under multiple constraints, generates operation plans for workpieces, processes, and equipment, and pushes them to the central control or workstations for execution. Simultaneously, numerical control programs and process drawings are issued, enabling paperless manufacturing and real-time, interactive access to technical information. The system also provides real-time progress feedback and includes a tiered abnormal incident reporting and handling process to ensure efficient and controllable production execution.

2. Integrated Planning and Logistics

Procurement Logistics

Through EAS planning system calculations, stocking and delivery plans are automatically generated and shared in real time via the supplier collaboration platform, ensuring timely arrival of materials aligned with production schedules.

Production Logistics

MES issues a 7-day material preparation plan and a 3-day binding plan. The 7-day plan guides logistics teams in material staging and kitting, while the 3-day plan drives AGV/forklift material delivery to workstations. Mobile apps enable seamless coordination and handoffs between production steps, enhancing operational efficiency and collaboration across the shop floor.

3. Integrated Production Quality and Complete Quality Traceability System

Inspection requirements are preconfigured for each process, triggering automatic quality inspections based on production progress. Through integrated EAS and MES, a comprehensive non-conformance management process is implemented, covering rework, release, and scrap disposalreplenishment. All production and quality data are linked to unique workpiece identifiers (serial numbers), and through a QR code system, one-code traceability is achieved. Traceable data includes process information, production data, quality inspection records, rework history, logistics details, and assembly records-providing a complete digital history for each product.

4. Supplier Collaboration to Enhance Internal and External Information Interaction Speed

CRRC Zhuzhou has built a mature supplier ecosystem, managing large volumes of daily information exchanges — from purchase orders, delivery plans, and stock data to quality reports, technical modifications, drawings, and financial reconciliations. The supplier collaboration platform enables cross-organizational interaction based on a win–win framework, allowing for real-time data sharing between procurement, production, quality, warehousing, and finance departments and their suppliers. This significantly improves the speed and responsiveness of information exchange and helps meet market demands.

5. Intelligent Production Scheduling — Ensuring On-Time Plan Execution

CRRC Zhuzhou uses touchscreens, mobile devices, and lean electronic boards to enable smart and visualized production scheduling. The MES platform supports task allocation to teams and process stations, incident management, work reporting, and quality inspection feedback. It also integrates with the design process to enable paperless delivery of electronic design documents to production terminals.

Kingdee has partnered with CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive to strategically integrate its mature software systems with cutting-edge management frameworks, successfully deploying a project-driven intelligent manufacturing management platform. This platform enables end-to-end governance over the project lifecycle-from procurement and cost control to quality assurance. The project-centric operational governance model developed by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive is now fully mature and being rolled out across its domestic and international affiliate networks for practical implementation.

In parallel, Kingdee and CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive are deepening their collaboration in the industrial internet space, jointly building an industry-specific industrial internet platform tailored for rail transportation. The objective is to standardize and propagate the “Zhuzhou Locomotive Model” as a benchmark solution for the entire sector.