Two Subsidiaries Of SOLETKS Group Selected into 2024 Shandong Provincial Digital Economy "Morning Star Factory" List

Recently, the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology officially released the list of enterprises awarded the 2024 Shandong Provincial Digital Economy "Morning Star Factory" title. The industry's attention has been focused on this important honor in the field of digital economy. Notably, two subsidiaries of SOLETKS Group—Shandong SOLETKS Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Shandong Feitian New Energy Co., Ltd.—have both made it to the list by virtue of their outstanding innovation capabilities, remarkable application effects, and strong economic benefits. They have become benchmark enterprises in the digital transformation of the flat-plate solar energy and new energy sectors, adding a brilliant touch to the group's digital development blueprint.

As an important recognition in Shandong's digital economy field, the "Morning Star Factory" is not just a simple honorary title, but a high recognition of an enterprise's digital transformation achievements. Its definition clearly refers to "digital-driven digital economy enterprises with outstanding innovation capabilities, strong typical demonstration effects, obvious application results, and significant economic benefits". Each criterion is accurately aligned with the core requirements for the high-quality development of enterprises in the digital economy era. Against the backdrop of the accelerated intelligent and digital transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the "Morning Star Factory" undertakes a more important mission—it is not only a proof of an enterprise's own digital strength, but also plays a leading and exemplary role. It provides a referable "model" for intelligent transformation and upgrading to enterprises in different industries, fields, and development stages, and can be called a "weather vane" for promoting the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. The fact that two subsidiaries of SOLETKS Group have won this honor simultaneously this time is not only an affirmation of the past digital construction of the two enterprises, but also highlights the group's forward-looking vision and solid strength in the layout of the digital economy.

Looking back at SOLETKS Group's digital transformation journey, it has always been guided by the national digital economy development strategy, regarding digital construction as the core driving force for the high-quality development of the enterprise, and continuously accelerating the pace of transformation. From the perspective of the entire chain of enterprise operations, the concept of digitalization has been deeply integrated into every link, forming a full-process digital closed loop "from the supply chain to the production end, and from the R&D end to the customer end".

In the supply chain management link, the group has broken the limitations of information silos in the traditional supply chain with the help of a digital platform. By building an intelligent supply chain system, it has realized real-time monitoring and data sharing in links such as raw material procurement, inventory management, and logistics transportation. Supplier information is updated in real time, raw material inventory is dynamically warned, and the entire logistics track is visible. These digital measures have not only greatly shortened the response time of the supply chain, but also reduced the risk of inventory backlogs, ensuring the accurate and timely supply of raw materials required for production, and laying a solid foundation for the stable operation of front-end production.

The production process control is even the core battlefield of the group's digital transformation. Walking into the production workshops of Shandong SOLETKS Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Shandong Feitian New Energy Co., Ltd., one can see intelligent equipment operating in an orderly manner, data dashboards beating in real time, and digital scenarios everywhere. The group has introduced an intelligent production management system, which connects data such as production plans, equipment operation, and quality inspection to the platform in real time, realizing visual and intelligent management and control of the entire production process. For example, in the production process of flat-plate solar collectors, the system can automatically collect production parameters of each process. Once there is a parameter deviation, it will immediately issue an early warning and suggest an adjustment plan, effectively avoiding human operation errors and improving the product qualification rate. At the same time, through big data analysis to optimize the production process and rationally allocate production resources, the production efficiency has been significantly improved compared with the traditional model, truly realizing "driving production with data and improving efficiency with intelligence".

The digital empowerment in the fields of technology R&D and quality management has also injected strong impetus into the group's innovative development. In terms of technology R&D, the group has built a digital R&D platform that integrates cutting-edge technology data at home and abroad, customer demand information, and past R&D cases. R&D personnel can use the platform to conduct simulation experiments, scheme comparisons, and collaborative innovation, greatly shortening the R&D cycle of new products. Taking the R&D of high-efficiency flat-plate solar systems as an example, through digital simulation software to repeatedly simulate and optimize the heat absorption efficiency of collectors and the cycle performance of the system, the product iteration was completed in only half the time of the traditional R&D model, and the product performance indicators were significantly improved. In the quality management link, the application of digital testing equipment and intelligent quality inspection systems has realized the full-process quality traceability from the entry of raw materials to the delivery of finished products. Each product has an exclusive "digital ID card", and every test data in the production process is uploaded to the system in real time. Once a quality problem is found, it can quickly trace back to the specific link and the person responsible, ensuring the stability and reliability of product quality, and also providing digital support for the group's "quality-oriented" concept.

Even in the back-end links such as sales and logistics support, the power of digitalization is equally remarkable. In the sales process, the group has built a digital marketing and customer service platform. Through big data analysis, it accurately grasps customer needs and provides personalized product solutions and services for different customer groups. At the same time, customers can query the order progress, product usage, and after-sales service appointments in real time through the platform, which improves customer satisfaction and loyalty. In terms of logistics support, the digital management system covers many fields such as employee attendance, canteen management, and park security, realizing the efficiency and refinement of logistics services, creating a convenient and safe working and living environment for employees, and indirectly improving the overall operational efficiency of the enterprise.

"The selection of the two subsidiaries into the 'Morning Star Factory' is an important milestone in the group's digital transformation journey, but it is by no means the end," said a relevant person in charge of SOLETKS Group. Facing the new opportunities brought by the development of the digital economy, the group will take this honor as an opportunity to continue to deepen the digital operation of the enterprise. On the basis of the existing digital achievements, it will further explore the in-depth integration of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and industrial Internet with the real economy. In the future, the group plans to increase investment in the construction of intelligent factories, the upgrading of digital supply chains, and the accurate customer service. It will continue to optimize the functions of the digital platform, seize the development opportunities of the digital economy with more efficient full-process digital management, empower the high-quality development of the enterprise with new productive forces, and contribute more "SOLETKS Experience" to the digital transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in Shandong Province and even the whole country.

From an enterprise focusing on flat-plate solar systems to a group enterprise with multiple digital benchmark subsidiaries today, the development path of SOLETKS Group is a vivid epitome of China's manufacturing industry embracing the digital economy and realizing transformation and upgrading. It is believed that driven by the strong momentum of digitalization, SOLETKS Group will surely go further on the road of the integrated development of new energy and the digital economy and create more brilliant achievements.