Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries
Port Machinery Manufacturing
- Background
- Challenge
- Solution
- Result
Background
01Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) is the global leader in port machinery manufacturing, with products covering quay cranes, yard cranes, gantry cranes and other full-category port equipment, serving hundreds of ports across 100+ countries and regions. Its vast fleet of port equipment, distributed across geographies and operating under high-intensity workloads, places extremely high demands on equipment maintenance, spare parts supply, and service dispatch.
Challenge
02Under the traditional model, port equipment maintenance records were scattered across port sites without unified data assets; spare parts demand and inventory information were siloed, often leading to duplicate procurement coexisting with emergency stockouts; field service engineer dispatch relied on manual coordination, causing slow response and unnecessary trips; equipment health status could not be predicted in advance, with faults often only detected after downtime, affecting port operational efficiency and customer reputation.
Solution
03Winsea built a customized port equipment full-lifecycle digital hub for ZPMC based on its shipping digitalization platform: with equipment ledger as the core, connecting four major modules — maintenance, spare parts management, inspection management, and service dispatch; collecting equipment operational data via IoT, combined with AI algorithms to build equipment health profiles for fault prediction and proactive maintenance; integrating with the supply chain platform for end-to-end digital closed-loop of spare parts demand-procurement-inventory-issuance; deploying a mobile work order system for full-process online field operations by engineers.
Result
04Port equipment data assetization rate increased to over 95%, with 100% traceability of maintenance records; spare parts inventory turnover efficiency improved by 40%, emergency stockout events reduced by over 60%; average service engineer response time shortened by 35%, unnecessary trips reduced by 20%; AI-based fault prevention exceeded 30%, significantly reducing unplanned downtime and helping ZPMC deliver higher-quality full-lifecycle service assurance for client ports.
