On June 19, 2025, the Hebei Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology released the “Notice on the Announcement of Hebei's 2025 First Batch of Advanced-Level Smart Factories.” Following guidelines set out in the 2025 Smart Factory Development Program, 78 facilities across the province were selected. Among them, Hebei Risun Energy Co., Ltd. (hereafter “Hebei Risun”) earned official recognition for its “End-to-End Lean Management Smart Coking Facility” after strict review and recommendation by the Dingzhou Bureau of Science, Technology and Industrial Informatization, and thorough assessment from a multi-agency expert panel. Evaluation criteria included technological innovation, application effectiveness, and model demonstration value. Hebei Risun’s selection underscores its excellence in combining intelligent manufacturing with lean operational management, and its ongoing efforts to implement cutting-edge technologies such as big data and IoT across the coking sector.
This distinction affirms Hebei Risun's achievements in smart manufacturing and highlights its leadership in applying digital solutions to improve production efficiency, environmental sustainability, and operational safety.
The provincial initiative aims to identify benchmark smart manufacturing enterprises to guide and inspire industrial transformation across Hebei. For years, Hebei Risun has remained aligned with global trends in industrial digitalization, investing extensively in building a wide-spectrum smart ecosystem. In addition to the awarded coking facility, the company has rolled out several digital platforms, including:
1. A smart safety and environmental system enabling digital risk control
2. An energy management platform supporting breakthrough efficiency gains
3. A smart supply chain system enhancing coordination across production and logistics
4. An operations management system enabling precision production oversight
5. A coal blending platform driving cost-effective quality improvements
6. A predictive maintenance system providing full visibility into equipment status
These innovations deeply integrate next-generation technologies — AI, DT(Digital Twin), and industrial internet—into core operations such as safety, quality control, energy use, logistics, chemical processing, and finance. The result: real-time monitoring, lean resource allocation, and continuous improvement in productivity and product quality, all supported by a robust digital infrastructure.
Hebei Risun’s recognition as an advanced smart factory marks a pivotal achievement in its digitalization journey and serves as an influential model for intelligent, efficient, and sustainable transformation across the coking industry.
Looking ahead, Hebei Risun remains committed to its vision of becoming a world-class provider in new energy, advanced materials, and green circular chemical manufacturing. Leveraging its scale as the world’s largest independent coking enterprise and its strengths in fine chemicals and hydrogen energy, the company will continue to build high-standard smart facilities and intelligent industrial parks. With smart manufacturing at its core, end-to-end data integration as the foundation, and the industrial internet as a backbone, Risun is forging ahead—innovating relentlessly, leading the industry, and contributing actively to high-quality industrial development in Hebei and nationwide.
