China just upped its clean energy game with the grand opening of its first smart factory for offshore oil and gas equipment in Tianjin! 🏭 Built along the Bohai Sea coast, this futuristic facility is about to revolutionize how energy infrastructure is made. 🌍✨
Spanning 575,000 square meters—roughly the size of 80 soccer fields—the base produces everything from offshore platforms to liquefied natural gas modules. Thanks to its 600+ intelligent machines 🦾 and a next-gen management platform, tasks like pipe-cutting and material retrieval now require just one click. 🤯
‘Before, manufacturing was super manual and slow,’ said COOEC’s Wang Lei. ‘Now, AI handles 90% of the work, and humans tweak the details.’ The factory’s Phase 1, launched in 2022, already shipped 87,000 tonnes of equipment to places like Canada. Phase 2 boosted productivity by 20% and doubled overall capacity! 🚀
With China’s offshore oil output hitting 62 million tonnes last year (📈 3.4 million tonnes up!), this innovation could help meet global energy demands while slashing carbon footprints. 💡👏
