To benchmark against industry leaders, absorb advanced development experience, broaden team horizons and enhance overall competitiveness, Tankii recently organized employee representatives to visit Baosteel Industrial Innovation Park for an immersive benchmarking learning journey.

Since its founding, Tankii has always regarded outward learning and benchmarking improvement as a core driving force for team growth and enterprise upgrading. As a professional alloy wire manufacturer deeply rooted in the high-end manufacturing supply chain, we have long paid close attention to the development path of leading enterprises in the industry.

As industry peers, our team visited the leading enterprise with a thirst for knowledge, reflected on practices during observation, improved capabilities through exchanges, and returned with fruitful insights and practical improvement ideas.

1. Baosteel Baoshan Base — A World-Renowned Industry Benchmark

1.1 Profile of the Base

Baosteel Co., Ltd. Baoshan Base is a world-famous modern steel production base. It is also a garden-style urban steel mill integrating red heritage, blue intelligent manufacturing and green ecology.

With decades of technology accumulation and continuous digital transformation, it leads the global industry in production efficiency, product accuracy and energy consumption control. Its green manufacturing system has won multiple national and international environmental awards, setting a classic model for traditional heavy industry to achieve low-carbon and sustainable transformation.

Its achievements in production operation, technological innovation, green development and corporate culture have long been a model for the industry. For Tankii, which focuses on high-performance alloy material R&D and production, Baosteel’s development practice provides very valuable reference for our production upgrading and refined management.

2. Immersive Visit: Key Spots & In-Depth Observation

2.1 Curated Visiting Route

Following the park route, our team visited featured spots including Baosteel History Exhibition Hall, Hot Rolling 2050 Production Line, Party Spirit Education Smart Experience Center, Smart Highland, and Sentinel Zoo.

The Hot Rolling 2050 production line, as a core intelligent production unit, attracted the most attention from the team. With a high level of automation and full digital management system, it realizes full-process traceable production and highly flexible customized manufacturing. At the Smart Highland, the team learned about Baosteel’s multi-level R&D investment system and industry-university-research cooperation mechanism, which brought great inspiration to our technical R&D team.

While enjoying the pleasant ecological environment of the park, the team focused more on the development philosophy, operation mode and core strengths of the benchmark enterprise.

2.2 Focused Learning & Active Discussion

At each visiting spot, team members listened carefully to the explanation and observed operational details attentively.

Many employees took photos of key equipment and management display boards on site, and communicated with the on-site guide around practical problems encountered in daily work. Faced with advanced intelligent production equipment, mature management modes, cutting-edge technology applications and sound ecological development systems, everyone took the initiative to ask questions and discuss with each other.

Combined with their own positions and the company’s development status, they recorded best practices and sorted out doubts, striving not to miss any valuable experience for reference. From equipment maintenance mechanism to quality control process, from on-site 5S management to employee training system, everyone conducted targeted exchanges and gained targeted improvement ideas.

3. Core Takeaways from the Benchmarking Activity

3.1 Inspiration on Green & Integrated Development

At the Steel Road Gallery and Sentinel Zoo, the team intuitively experienced Baosteel’s achievements in green development and industry-city integration.

For Tankii’s production department, this visit brought new ideas for workshop environmental upgrading and energy consumption optimization. Everyone agreed that green development is not only a social responsibility, but also an effective way to reduce comprehensive costs and improve long-term operational efficiency. They also reflected on the upgrading direction of ecological and environmental protection combined with their own work.

3.2 Insights on Corporate Culture & Original Aspiration

At the History Exhibition Hall and the Original Aspiration Train Coffee Bar, everyone deeply felt the original aspiration and cultural strength of the enterprise’s hard-working spirit.

The team also gained a lot in corporate culture construction. Baosteel integrates the spirit of craftsmanship and the sense of responsibility into every link of production and management, which makes everyone realize that excellent corporate culture is the core driving force to support the long-term development of an enterprise.

During the visit, the team conducted in-depth discussions around intelligent manufacturing, refined management, Party building culture and talent development. Through mutual learning and idea exchange, many work problems gained new solutions.

3.3 Awareness of Gaps & Direction for Improvement

This benchmarking activity is not only a broadening of vision, but also an ideological baptism and capability improvement.

All participants broke through the limitations of inherent thinking, clearly saw the gap between ourselves and industry benchmarks, and learned many practical and referable advanced experiences and methods. In terms of intelligent production, we still have room for improvement in production data visualization and automatic quality inspection. In terms of refined management, we can further optimize on-site management standards and process flows.

Everyone deeply realized that the leadership of leading enterprises stems from endless innovation, striving for excellence, down-to-earth persistence and the pattern of keeping pace with the times.

4. Turning Insights into Concrete Actions

4.1 Commitment from Visiting Employees

After the visit, all participants stated that they would translate what they saw, thought and realized into practical actions.

Employees from the production department said they would focus on promoting on-site refined management and equipment efficiency improvement. The technical R&D team said they would learn from Baosteel’s R&D management mechanism to accelerate the iterative upgrading of alloy products. The management team will sort out the advanced management concepts learned this time and gradually promote them within the company.

After returning to their posts, they will take the initiative to benchmark against Baosteel’s advanced concepts and practices, identify gaps and draw on strengths. They will integrate the learned experience into daily work, and turn the inspiring power into motivation for career development, performing duties with a more rigorous attitude, more pragmatic style and more innovative ideas.

4.2 Company’s Long-Term Development Direction

Going forward, Tankii will maintain a learning mindset, take the initiative to benchmark against industry advanced standards, and constantly break through ourselves to improve quality and efficiency.

We will take this benchmarking learning as an opportunity to launch a series of internal improvement projects around intelligent manufacturing, quality upgrading and green production. At the same time, we will continue to organize similar outward learning activities to let more employees go out to broaden their horizons and bring back advanced experience.

We will continue to focus on our core business, dare to innovate, and work together with all staff to promote the high-quality development of the company and forge ahead steadily in the wave of industry development.

Conclusion

This benchmarking visit to Baosteel has injected new ideas and impetus into Tankii’s development.

Standing at the starting point of high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, Tankii will always maintain a humble learning attitude. We will take every benchmarking learning as a new starting point, constantly polish our product quality and optimize our service system.

We will always take excellent enterprises as benchmarks, keep learning and making progress, and strive to create greater value for clients and the industry with more solid strength and more innovative solutions.