Cao Bang construction materials: The first flag for applying technology 4.0

Cao Bang Joint Stock Company, formerly known as Construction Material Enterprise, established in 1959, with the main task of producing construction materials such as baked clay bricks with tunnel kilns, concrete bricks, cement, concrete poles centrifuges, culverts of all kinds, etc. In 2000, the Company changed its own form of a state enterprise into a Joint Stock Company. After 18 years of equitization, the company has always affirmed that the movement of technical innovation and innovation has really developed strongly and is considered a key, long-term factor, creating a breakthrough in scientific development learn technology.

In June 2019, Cao Bang Production and Construction Joint Stock Company applied Robot to integrate 4.0 technologies into Tuynel brick production at the stage of carpentry brick production, replacing manual labor at this stage of production.

The company boldly invested VND 6 billion in installing an imported robot used in the production of carpentry bricks and invested VND 24 billion in upgrading and renewing auxiliary infrastructure, including wagons and rails, return, automatic winch, ferry, kiln, etc. This is one of the outstanding improvements of the Company over the past 20 years of the company.

Director of Cao Bang Building Materials Production Joint Stock Company Vu ​​Bao Lan said: After loading a wheelchair with a layer of bricks, the robot turned around and reached out its arm to grab another equal amount of bricks neatly folded onto the wagon. Each time the robot can pick up 96 wooden bricks to load onto wagons, each wagon load 2,880 bricks, increasing productivity a lot more than before.

On the other hand, this robot has also significantly solved the company’s manpower problem. Each Robot can replace 30 workers working in a continuous shift to unload bricks into the wagon. A day’s productivity of robots can be equal to 100 workers. Thanks to the application of advanced science and technology to production, the company realized that initially, it had brought about significant efficiency in production, while saving costs in production and creating favorable conditions for direct workers production in lines, at the same time stabilizing product quality, improving productivity, meeting the needs of construction works.

The achievement of scientific and technological application has contributed to improving the brand of construction materials of the Company in Cao Bang market as well as across the country. The standard brick output reached 49 million bricks (in 2014), increasing to 57.4 million bricks (in 2018); precast concrete output reached 700 m3 (in 2014), increased to 800 m3 (in 2018); cement products corresponded to 11,904 tons (2014), increased to 15,093 tons (2018) unburnt bricks. The turnover reached 55 billion VND, equal to 90% of the plan; State budget over 2.7 billion; The average income of employees is VND 5.6 million / person / month.

Productivity and Quality Office