????Facing the common problem of traditional manufacturing enterprises in transformation and upgrade: increase of labor cost and management difficulty, Qingdao Sentury Tire Company, which was completed and put into production on July 2009, focuses on Internet+, Standardization+ and Internationalization+ form the very beginning. In just a few years, the company has played a combination smart robot plays max effect throughout the whole manufacturing process, work together with smart management system to increase production of single equipment of nearly 50%, with qualification rate of 99.8%; in the Qingdao base, No.1 company with 5 million high-performance semi-steel radial tires only uses 212 employees, which equals to a single worker produces 23,585 semi-steel radial tires annually, nearly 40 million labor cost can be saved. Tire manufacturing turns to smart manufacturing.

????Sentury now has established the 1st tire industry 4.0 smart plant in China and developed the 1st Sentury smart management system; all of its intellectual property rights are self-owned. The system helps to increase labor efficiency of production line with annual production capacity of 5 million semi-steel radial tires for 5 times. The company has established the 1st graphene electrostatic conduction tire production base in the world, and the only self-owned tire company can put the graphene electrostatic conduction tires into mass production in China. Sentury also is the 1st non-government company to obtain the aviation tire production license in China and to be the standard drafter in the field. The company is also established in Thailand and the US, and a 42 million semi-steel radial tire production capacity is forming.(Zhou Wei)