Enotek Group: More than 10 years of deep cultivation, be a long-term theorists of logistics system

2022 will be the first year that Enotek Group officially completes its brand upgrade.

A year later, Enotek Group bring out the big guns, this year to focus on expanding overseas markets, set a revenue target of 100 million, overseas revenue accounts for more than 40%.

At the beginning of this year, Enotek Group began to lay out the overseas market intensively.

In March, the wholly-owned North American subsidiary of Enotek Group exhibited at the ProMat 2023.

The general manager of the US subsidiary of Enotek Group said that this exhibition is the company's first overseas exhibition in 2023, aiming to take this opportunity to further understand the North American logistics market demand, and show the company's innovative technology and solutions, strengthen the exchange and cooperation with international counterparts, gather and assimilate differences, enhance brand influence and market competitiveness.

It is worth mentioning that there is no volume in the domestic market in recent years. Under the catalysis of fierce competition among robot enterprises, domestic robot enterprises are forced to go to sea frantically to "grab" orders and find new growth points. In fact, at this time Enotek Group has been in the overseas market for more than ten years.

Enotek Group's overseas development can be traced back to 2012. Aiming at the globalization of the layout behind, is always adhere to the "long-term doctrine", technology innovation as the brand "moat", in order to achieve a comprehensive upgrade of the brand IP strategy.

Self-developed hardware and digital intelligent software

Enotek Group was founded in 2008, headquartered in Shanghai, the predecessor of EOS, founded in the beginning to light small forklift machinery manufacturing. In 2013, Enotek Group has finished branding upgrade and transformed itself into a solution provider, becoming an innovative technology company that can provide customers with a full-link industrial intelligent logistics solution covering "equipment + software + system + platform service". Its core business includes intelligent storage system, intelligent handling system, intelligent sorting system and intelligent picking system.

" Enotek Group is an intelligent logistics integrator in the industrial sector, which is our most important role. However, the difference between Enotek and most domestic integrators is that the whole set of software and hardware for the solution is developed and produced by Enotek." Yang Li, vice president of Enotek Group, said.

Up to now, Enotek Group has realized the production of hardware standards such as AGV, RGV and stacker, to the software research and development of digital intelligent brain systems such as WMS/WCS, AGV/RGV dispatching system and digital twin. It also has a strong industrial design team, project implementation team and after-sales service team. With innovation, service and delivery as the background of "different factories have different needs", the company tailors an exclusive integration plan for the upgrading and transformation of the manufacturing industry. By combining self-developed core software and hardware with lean industrial design, the company brings reliable, efficient, stable and efficient logistics experience for customers.

In terms of hardware products, AGV series products developed and produced by Enotek Group can flexibly, efficiently and accurately complete intelligent material handling in limited space, and support handling operations in various scenarios such as factory production line, production warehouse or distribution center. From the production line to the production line, from the receiving area to the warehouse, from the warehouse to the sorting area, from the sorting area to the delivery area and other long and short distance handling operations.

Enotek Group self-developed and self-produced another "ace product" - stacker series, including pallet stacker, bin stacker and new energy stacker, etc. Through painstaking research and development and continuous innovation, the stacker products of Enotek Group have been standardized, and the standard stacker includes the pallet stacker ES-P10 and the bin stacker ES-C05.

Specifically, the standard pallet stacker ES-P10 has a rated load of 1000kg, a standard lifting height of 24m, a horizontal acceleration of 0.3m/s², a maximum horizontal running speed of 120m/min, a maximum lifting speed of 30m/min, and a positioning accuracy of ±3mm.

Standard bin stacker ES-C05, rated load 50kg, maximum lifting height 15m, horizontal operating acceleration 4m/s², maximum operating speed 300m/min, maximum lifting speed 180m/min.

Enotek Group can also be customized according to the actual needs of customers, such as different stack height, cargo weight and efficiency, etc. It supports customized products up to 40M, maximum cargo capacity up to 8000KG, and speed up to 240m/min.

It is worth mentioning that the new energy special stacker developed and produced by Enotek Group has the characteristics of high temperature resistance, and equipped with intelligent fire extinguisher and cargo platform explosion-proof device, to meet the factory's high temperature resistance, fire and explosion-proof requirements. The shelf first layer beam height of 500mm, can store more goods, effectively improve the utilization rate of storage space, but also support low temperature cold storage (low temperature cold storage: -20℃~ -10℃, ultra-low temperature frozen cold storage: -30℃).

At present, the standard products of Enotek Group stacker from pallet type to bin type products, can meet the needs of various mainstream industries, including chemical fiber, new energy, new materials, auto parts, paper, electronic appliances, food and beverage, etc.

In the aspect of software system, Enotek Group has developed WMS/WCS, AGV/RGV scheduling system, digital twin and other digital intelligence brain system software.

Among them, WMS, known as the central nervous system of intelligent logistics system, is the most important core digital brain in intelligent logistics system. Enotek Group self-developed WMS system has high efficiency, flexibility and stability. It has high level docking system, versatile connections to various systems.

In addition to 11 major functions such as report management, print management, basic management, document management, docking management, delivery management and strategy management, it also has excellent disaster recovery system, big data, AI management system and digital twin modules, with self-learning ability, disaster recovery ability and visualization ability, etc. Truly help enterprises real-time optimization logistics system equipment running path, real-time grasp the inventory situation, to achieve cost reduction and efficiency.

In addition, the WMS has a variety of management strategies such as distribution strategy, wave strategy and early warning strategy, with flexible path planning, good dynamic environment processing ability and other attributes, which can perfectly match the differences in the actual needs of different sites, increase warehousing efficiency by 2-5x, and over 60% deduction in labor costs. At the same time, it can monitor the inventory situation in real time, remind enterprises to adjust the flow of goods and storage mode in time, reduce inventory stagnation rate, improve inventory turnover rate.

Six research and development focus in the future

Since its establishment, Enotek Group, as the pioneer of intelligent logistics innovation technology, has been constantly upgrading products and expanding application scenarios. From the initial focus on the industrial scene, it has created intelligent logistics comprehensive solutions in chemical fiber, glass fiber, new energy and other industries, and gradually extended to all walks of life. Now it has successfully provided intelligent logistics solutions for more than 100 customers.

Enotek Group understands the importance of constantly paying attention to industry policy dynamics, so the marketing department has set up an industry research team. Talking about the new direction of development this year, Xu Jiawei, CTO of Enotek Group, said there are six major aspects:

1. Continuously strengthen R&D investment and break through technical barriers: Enotek Group will continue to strengthen R&D investment this year, and promote the iteration and upgrade of self-developed hardware and software products from the aspects of customization and standardization. On the one hand, according to the actual production conditions and needs of different customers to create customized solutions; On the other hand, relying on mature standards to provide a solid foundation for the rapid deployment of customer projects.

2. Layout of intelligent products and systematic solutions: riveting full effort to develop new products, continuous improvement of product matrix. It was revealed that Enotek Group will also launch one or two new products in the AGV product line in 2023.

3. Innovation around cost reduction and efficiency increase: This year, Enotek Group will achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase in sensor parts, hardware series products, and dispatching systems, including ring through RGV, conveyer, jacking machine, stacker and AGV.

4. Penetrating into overseas market: Enotek Group will ship hardware standard products to Europe, America and Southeast Asian countries, and develop its own dealers in the local area. Technically solve the delivery problem with no code.

At present, more than 95% of the employees of the US subsidiary of Enotek Group are from the local area, which has built a fully localized marketing and service core team with rich industry experience. As a full-link intelligent logistics solution provider, Enotek Group is able to provide customers with advanced products and services, and can independently complete integration project landing and project delivery in the local area. In terms of project delivery cycle, cost performance and other aspects, Enotek Group has strong advantages compared with local integrators in the United States.

With more than a decade of experience, Enotek Group now operates in 15 states in North America and has built close relationships with integrators and other robotics companies while expanding its network across the continent.

5. Expand into new industries: The "cold chain" industry is another new industry that has developed rapidly in recent years. For this reason, Enotek Group has done a lot of verification in terms of technical reserves, and is committed to creating a large benchmark case in the cold chain industry.

6. Establish the product manager responsibility system: Establish the product manager responsibility system based on the existing core product matrix. The product manager shall be fully responsible for the whole process of product from input to income, from iteration to optimization, from development to decline, and transform user feedback into demand implementation.

At present, the Shanghai headquarters has two core teams, one is the project delivery team, the other is the research and development team. Among them, Enotek Group research and development technical staff accounted for 30% of the total staff.

As the concept of " manufacturing upgrading, logistics first " is widely recognized, in the future, Enotek Group will rely on the three innovative development modes combining "product innovation", "application innovation" and "mode innovation", focusing on technical difficulties, enterprise pain points and industry blind spots, with the full link turnkey service of equipment + software + system + platform service under the framework of the new IP strategy. Further create a series of industrial intelligent logistics solutions.