A NEWS REPORT of Kaifa INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING PUBLISHED ON SHENZHEN ECONOMIC DAILY By Chenshu Kaifa is established technology enterprise in Shenzhen, also the earliest central enterprise touching land in Shenzhen. In recent years, Kaifa has kept sustainable competition in electronics manufacturing industry through intelligent manufacturing upgrading with the increasingly shrinking dilemma of traditional market. On March 17, a special day for MSBU, one million Amber electricity meters have successfully shipped. Director of MSBU, Zhang was excited to hold orange box equipping one-million electricity meters with IBM customer, Joep. vanLeersum. But smart meter is the emerging business Kaifa hopes high. At present, the installation quantity and penetration of smart meters are growing with smart grid construction up around the globe. Global authority market-research organization, Technavio estimates, the compound annual growth rate of global smart meters will achieve 8.1% from 2015 to 2019. Kaifa has practiced "go global" strategy in terms of smart meters all the time, turning the low added-value into the high added-value, terminals into systems and service.     Kaifa kept stable business’s rise in Italian and Indian traditional advantageous market earlier and has made breakthroughs in the United Kingdom, Holland and Korea recently. In July 2013, IBM and Kaifa launched single smart meter and three-phase smart meter meeting Holland DSMR4 requirements. IBM and Kaifa became the first smart meters supplier of Holland. Kaifa also took over RMB 340 million yuan IBM project in Holland in 2014. Joep.van Leersum expressed "Kaifa gets the highest marks in several suppliers cooperating with us" in the celebration. It is known that IBM and Kaifa have been long cooperation for 15 years in hard disk production. During the past ten years, IBM and Kaifa have made their way into smart meters and quality delivery field. Kaifa has offered Europe above 22 million smart meters so far, 8 million electricity meters preventing from electricity larceny have exported to other countries of Asia while delivering approximately 10 million smart meters in China. Credible quality makes Kaifa stand out in global competition. Kaifa ranks seventh in global electronics manufacturing service enterprise. Kaifa has distributed beforehand in intelligent manufacturing field, in 1997, automatic institute firstly was established and gradually, Kaifa built several professional labs that focus on improving manufacture process, developing intelligence, efficiency-based intelligent equipment, producing EMS intelligent information system and positively building intelligentize digital factory. A intelligentialize digital factory has been completed after 20 years and been the leader in national SMT intelligent manufacturing field. Kaifa has world-class intelligent equipment and has formed comprehensive intelligent information service system as well. In the future, surrounding "Made in China 2025" plan, Kaifa will further create state electronics intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration enterprise and launch more self-made intelligent equipment and information system to external and internal markets and aim to become the leader of key products, technology and service in the world’s electronic information intelligent manufacturing chain and make efforts to rank among the best in the global EMS enterprises.