Deep integration of industry, academia and research to promote the development of new quality productivity

Recently, the 'Intelligent Upgrade of Online Process Control and Testing for Hot Dip Galvanization of Steel Pipes' project jointly developed by Hebei Ourun Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., Hebei University of Engineering, and Handan Zhengda Pipe Group Co., Ltd. won the second prize of Innovation Achievement of Hebei Province Industry University Research Cooperation Promotion Association in 2025. Our company's R&D leader Zhang Yichi, as the main completion person, has obtained the innovation achievement certificate, which marks an important breakthrough for Hebei Ourun in the fields of industry university research cooperation and intelligent manufacturing.

governmentPolicy guidanceIndustry university research cooperation welcomes new opportunities

Currently, the country is vigorously promoting the development of new quality productive forces, with intelligent manufacturing as the main direction and the goal of improving quality, reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and reshaping value creation. It is pointed out that a modern industrial system must possess basic characteristics such as intelligence, greenness, and integration. Under this policy guidance, industry university research cooperation has become an important lever for promoting industrial transformation and upgrading.

The establishment of the Innovation Achievement Award by the Hebei Industry University Research Cooperation Promotion Association is in response to the national policy call to encourage deep cooperation between universities, research institutes, and enterprises, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and provide technical support for high-quality industrial development.

Technological innovation, solving industry pain points

The 'Intelligent Upgrade of Online Process Control and Testing for Hot Dip Galvanizing of Steel Pipes' project aims to address the problems of low detection efficiency, high labor costs, and unstable quality control in the traditional production process of hot dip galvanizing of steel pipes. Through intelligent technology, real-time monitoring and automatic control of process parameters have been achieved.

The project successfully developed a fully automatic online analysis system for surface treatment solution of hot-dip galvanized parts, which can detect key detection indicators such as zinc chloride, ammonium chloride, ferrous ions, pH in real time online, achieve automatic sampling, automatic calibration, automatic detection, automatic cleaning, and automatically upload data to the Internet of Things platform to guide the automatic feeding of the production line. This innovation eliminates the sampling process, laboratory pre-processing, testing, and manual feeding of reports to the production line for customers, greatly improving production efficiency and product quality.

Three party collaboration, complementary advantages and significant results

The success of this award-winning project fully reflects the enormous advantages of industry university research cooperation. Hebei Ourun Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., as a professional scientific instrument R&D and manufacturing enterprise, has a profound accumulation in automation detection technology; Professor Kang Lianwei's team at Hebei University of Engineering has provided strong academic support in theoretical research and technological innovation; Handan Zhengda Pipe Manufacturing Group Co., Ltd., as the application party, has provided real industrial scenarios and valuable practical experience for the implementation of technology.

This tripartite cooperation model of 'enterprise+university+user' effectively solves the problem of technology research and development being disconnected from market demand, ensuring the practicality and promotability of innovative achievements. As industry experts have pointed out, industry university research cooperation products have advantages such as outstanding product characteristics, strong cooperation background, and lack of competition in segmented markets, with a high winning rate.

Looking ahead to the future, intelligent manufacturing has broad prospects

With the deepening implementation of the "Implementation Plan for Digital Transformation of Machinery Industry", by 2027, the proportion of enterprises with a maturity level of second level or above in intelligent manufacturing capabilities will reach 50%, and no less than 200 intelligent factories will be built. This has brought tremendous development opportunities for scientific instrument enterprises.

Hebei Ourun will continue to increase research and development investment, deepen industry university research cooperation, focus on developing high-tech testing equipment for intelligent operation scenarios, and continue to promote breakthrough applications of intelligent load management technology, dynamic stability control technology, adaptive operation assistance technology, active safety technology, and energy management technology.

At the same time, the company will actively respond to the national call for 'chain digital transformation', collaborate with upstream and downstream enterprises for development, open data interfaces, and use standards to promote the popularization of intelligent manufacturing equipment, manufacturing processes, excellent management concepts, etc. in the industrial chain and supply chain, driving the chain transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Conclusion

This award is not only a recognition of the technical strength of Hebei Ourun Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., but also a full affirmation of the industry university research cooperation model. Under the policy guidance of vigorously developing new quality productive forces in the country, Hebei Ourun will continue to adhere to the development concept of 'innovation driven, win-win cooperation', and work with partners such as Hebei University of Engineering and Handan Zhengda Pipe Manufacturing Group to contribute greater strength to promoting the intelligent upgrading of the manufacturing industry and building a modern industrial system.