Shanghai SmartState is now part of the umati community
What expectations do you have of umati, what do you expect from the partnership?
We expect a strong and open network for communication standards across machinery and control systems of any branch and manufacturer. While developing customer focused solutions with the umati standard, we are looking forward to presenting showcases together with our umati networking partners.
What advantages does umati offer your company and your customers?
We focus on the positive design and development of high-end manufacturing equipment and industrial software, empowering users to achieve digital transformation and upgrading, and providing solutions at various levels for production lines, workshops, and entire sites. As a partner of umati, it has increased the visibility of Shanghai SmartState in the field of high-end manufacturing. Of course, this helps building up new relationships within neighbor business areas and meeting new customers.
How do you evaluate the expansion of the umati initiative to the entire mechanical engineering industry?
From a technical perspective, intelligent manufacturing is based on communication. From an application perspective, intelligent manufacturing should focus on customer needs in order to solve operational problems in manufacturing plants. Umati simplifies, secures, and seamlessly connects machines and software, helping customers to leverage the added value of data.
About Shanghai SmartState
The company originated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, integrating scientific research and engineering implementation. It has always focused on the strategy of independently controllable high-end equipment and industrial software, empowering users to achieve digital transformation and upgrading, and providing solutions at various levels for production lines, workshops, and entire sites.
Relying on the academic achievements and talent advantages of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the company actively explores the deep integration of scientific research and engineering, adheres to original innovation and positive development, practices the belief in extreme thinking, extreme standards, and extreme manufacturing, and pursues the realization of customer business value with perseverance and continuous striving.
The company currently has more than 200 employees and has a high-level R&D team of hundreds of people led by an academician as the chief scientist under the university-enterprise cooperation mechanism. It has undertaken more than 10 major national scientific research projects, invested more than 900 million yuan in R&D, obtained more than 100 intellectual property rights, and has won many honors and qualifications, including the first prize of the 2020 China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award, the national industrial technology basic public service platform, Shanghai’s “Specialized, Fined, Peculiar and Innovative” enterprise, and the first prize of Shanghai’s industry-university-research.