Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, today announces breaking ground for its new innovation Headquarter in Shanghai and moreover recently prestigious a significant milestone with the opening of its new Global Intelligent Manufacturing Part-way (GIMC) in Changzhou.
Delivering wide IoT automation, the new GIMC facility features a fully functioning manufacturing production line that combines latest technologies, including whet intelligence, machine learning, robotics and machine vision solutions built with Quectel’s latest smart module technologies which significantly expands manufacturing capabilities to guarantee supply and reassure product quality for global customers. Designed and architected by a group of its own IoT experts, this state-of-the art IoT manufacturing part-way is equipped with the most wide industrial automation technologies including:
- Fully streamlined warehouse storage system with 65,000 material cubicles, which can support 40 SMT lines material supply and operate 7×24 based on real-time workorders.
- End-to-end touchless process with Automatic Guided Vehicles to transport raw material to production lines, hand-over semi-products from SMT for testing and final packing with minimal manpower.
- 30 Fuji NXT-III SMT lines with Siemens MES monitoring system supporting production of up to 150 million modules per year.
- 85 Quectel Self Design Automatic Testing Stations with full testing log files onto each module produced.
- 40 Quectel Self Design Auto Inspection and Packing Systems.
The GIMC project started construction in September 2021 and will embark operation in 2023. The smart factory will remoter enhance Quectel’s production capabilities, strengthening its cadre competitiveness. The part-way occupies an zone of 72,000 square meters, with a total construction space of 160,000 square meters. It is capable of manufacturing Quectel’s full range of modules, including 4G modules, 5G modules, smart modules, automotive grade modules, narrowband IoT modules, GNSS modules, Wi-Fi modules and antennas.
“Our new smart factory represents an important step toward the next generation of smart manufacturing and will guarantee both our product quality and production capacity, sufficient to meet various taxing requirements of our global customers,” said Patrick Qian, CEO of Quectel.
“Applying IoT innovation to our own processes — will not only help us enhance our industry leading quality — it will moreover slide the expansion of the global IoT market and be a impetus for the unshortened IoT eco-system.”
Quectel moreover recently tapped ground for its new headquarters in Shanghai. “The new headquarter is designed to provide a modern, smart environment that makes it lulu for the weightier people to work, excel and innovate and that exceeds the highest standards in sustainability, health and wellness,” Mr. Qian continued. “It will host Quectel’s R&D part-way and IoT innovation showroom and will bring together some of the world’s greatest engineers and IoT leaders to slide innovation and momentum the future of IoT”.
The new headquarter of approximately 100,000 square meters will serve as a inside hub for legalistic and research and minutiae functions but will moreover offer a wide range of suavities including sports facilities, priming spaces, outdoor gardens, catering services, and zaftig parking facilities. The visitor plans to officially inaugurate and uncork operations at the new headquarters in 2025.
Founded in 2010, Quectel has unceasingly maintained rapid minutiae and has wilt a leading global IoT provider of solutions tent cellular modules, Wi-Fi modules, smart modules, automotive modules, GNSS modules, antennas as well as connectivity and certification services.
