A "Super Brain" for the SERES Super Factory
On November 1, 2024, SERES released its October production and sales report. In October, it sold 36,011 new energy vehicles (NEVs), marking a 104.61% year-on-year increase. From January to October 2024, its total sales reached 352,724, a remarkable 310.99% increase compared to the same period last year.
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Given the company's size, tripling growth is considered a "miracle" in the automotive industry. This "miracle" is possible thanks to the company's AITO series, produced at its SERES Super Factory in Chongqing.
The factory spans 1.838 square kilometers, roughly the size of 200 football fields. To build each AITO M9, 1600 intelligent devices and 3000 robots work together to complete dozens of complex and precise procedures.
Super Factory, Super Smart
Standing in the four workshops — stamping, welding, coating, and final assembly — you might feel like you've stepped into a futuristic world. Mechanical arms move overhead and transfer robots zip back and forth. As you walk out of the workshops, you'll see unstaffed, fully electric heavy-duty trucks, known as the Q-Truck, moving smoothly in an organized flow. Not only is it impressive, but it's also incredibly smart.
Thanks to AI, big data, and IoT technologies, the Super Factory can verify designs and simulate production processes before starting actual manufacturing, helping identify and address potential issues to optimize production. In addition, the factory implements early warning, monitoring, and traceability for key production steps. Quality data is automatically collected throughout the entire process, from steel plate to finished vehicle. Plus, the device status is monitored in real time, and quality data is recorded and uploaded to prevent issues during production. This significantly boosts production efficiency and improves detection accuracy.
For example, it takes at least five minutes to manually inspect 162 screws on the chassis. AI inspection takes only five seconds, while improving the efficiency by 60 times and achieving 100% accuracy.
Behind SERES Super Factory's intelligent applications is its "super brain", the SERES data center. With the data center as an intelligent foundation, SERES Super Factory ensures smooth, fast, and efficient production and operation at every step, making it a standout leader in China's automobile manufacturing industry.
Data Center Deployment in Just Seven Days
The data center adopts Huawei's smart modular data center solution, FusionModule2000. The solution integrates the power supply, cooling, cabinet aisle, and cabling subsystems into a single module, realizing one data center per module. The solution also eliminates the need for raised floors, making it highly adaptable to different environments. As a result, it was deployed in just seven days, setting a new speed record for modular data center construction.
The FusionModule2000 uses contained aisles to isolate cold air from hot air and deploys in-row air conditioners to provide local cooling, effectively improving the heat exchange efficiency. In addition, refrigerant pumps maximize the use of free cooling sources, achieving an extremely low PUE and making the data center greener and more efficient.
Furthermore, the SERES data center implements simplified O&M. Traditional data center O&M depends on manual inspection, which makes it difficult and slow to locate faults. Huawei FusionModule2000 uses a 43-inch smart screen for E2E visualized power and cooling management, simplifying O&M. It also supports iManager-M that runs 24/7 remote O&M via a mobile app. O&M personnel can view device status anytime and anywhere, improving O&M efficiency and ensuring stable "super brain" operations.
Stable Power Supply, Safeguarding the Super Factory's Reliability
The "super brain" needs a stable power supply to ensure operations. The SERES data center uses Huawei's flagship smart power supply product, UPS5000-H.
Compared with similar products in the market, Huawei UPS5000-H is compact but powerful. It uses 100 kVA/3 U ultra-high-density power modules to achieve one MW per cabinet, reducing the installation footprint and time. With an efficiency of up to 97%, the power supply remains highly efficient even at low loads in hibernation mode. It can power nearly 100 servers at once, ensuring the "super brain" stays in optimal conditions and providing comprehensive support for the Super Factory's efficient operations.
Huawei UPS5000-H uses iPower to improve system reliability and simplify O&M. In S-ECO mode, the system delivers an efficiency of 99.1%. It also supports 0 ms switching between all modes, achieving high efficiency and ensuring a stable power supply. Several sectors – such as government, transportation, finance, and precision manufacturing – have chosen this high-density and efficient next-generation modular UPS.
From Traditional to Smart Manufacturing, SERES's Promising Future
Powered by the "super brain," the SERES super factory has already undergone a digital transformation in manufacturing, with its data center serving as the backbone. The trust of hundreds of thousands of NEV owners and millions of passengers reflects the outstanding performance of AITO series, all supported by the Super Factory. Moving forward, Huawei will continue to enhance smart manufacturing at the Super Factory by unlocking even more potential from the "super brain," powering the digital era forward!
