On August 20, Yu Guo-ping, president of NSK Company (Japan Seiko Co., LTD. NSK) and his delegation visited Nangang, and the two sides exchanged ideas on material supply and data intellectualization reform. Nangang Party Secretary, chairman Huang Yixin, executive Vice president Xu Xiaochun attended the discussion.

During the exchange, Nangang introduced bearing steel and other products, and the two sides reviewed the cooperation process in recent years, and fully communicated on CPD, CQA, CIBU and other specific business areas, as well as further deepening cooperation.

Yu Guoping thanked Nangang Steel for its long-term support to Ensch. He highly commended Nangang Steel's digitalization process and lean management, and believed that its management systems in smart sales, production, and procurement have forward-looking and reference value. This shows the common pursuit of both sides in digital transformation, and provides an opportunity for deep cooperation in this field. He said that Nangang Steel's stable supply and high-quality performance of bearing steel products have won Ensch's recognition. He hopes to deepen cooperation with Nangang Steel in stable supply, continuous cost optimization, maintaining product quality stability, and export business of ring segments. Regular business exchange meetings will be held. At the same time, he looks forward to expanding new areas of cooperation between the two sides on the basis of the existing cooperation, learning from each other in technology, quality, management, digitalization, and equipment, seeking new cooperation models, and jointly achieving new heights of high-quality development.

Huang Yixin expressed his welcome for Yu Guoping's visit and thanked him for his long-term support and attention to Nangang. He said that Nanshan Steel is a leading international enterprise in the industry, and its cooperation with Nanshan Steel has a long history. Both sides are suppliers to each other, and through mutual value creation, they have achieved diverse growth. In recent years, Nanshan Steel has improved its production and delivery efficiency, stabilized product quality, and reduced costs through intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and lean management, optimizing the "people, machines, materials, methods, and environment." It will also venture into "no-man's land" by means of data governance and large models and further achieve intelligent management and decision-making. At the same time, Nanshan Steel has linked upstream and downstream enterprises through business as the binding force and has built a digital ecosystem. He hopes that both sides will work together to explore new areas in smart manufacturing, artificial intelligence, etc. and continuously improve the level and quality of cooperation, contributing to the development of the industry.

 Yu Guoping and his entourage, accompanied by Xu Xiaochun, visited the Nanshan Steel Smart Operation Center and the Middle Bar Plant.