On April 28, 2019, the first Yangtze River Delta Global Science and Innovation Project Roadshow and the Haiyan sub-venue of the 2019 China Jiaxing Aerospace Hundred-Person Conference opened. Representatives from well-known investment and incubation institutions and startups at home and abroad, along with key science and innovation platforms, technology enterprises, listed companies, leading companies and technology bank branches, gathered in Haiyan to seek development. At the event, Qicheng General Manager Liu Hua and Tongji University representative Professor Xu Liyun signed a cooperation project to pursue shared development through a new model of combining strengths.
To build a hub for made-in-China and Zhejiang intelligent manufacturing, support Tongji University's Double First-Class development, advance Qicheng's intelligent stamping technology and improve the industry-academia-research model for intelligent stamping equipment, the two sides agreed in the spirit of friendly cooperation, mutual benefit, complementary strengths and common development to establish the Tongji-Qicheng Intelligent Stamping Equipment Research Center in the Haiyan Economic Development Zone.
Qicheng promotes advanced stamping automation technology at home and abroad and works closely with renowned stamping equipment suppliers and robot makers, holding a leading domestic position in stamping automation equipment manufacturing and services. Tongji University is a comprehensive, research-oriented and international university with a long history, an outstanding reputation and strong influence at home and abroad. As enterprises are the main actors in technological innovation and universities are centers for talent development and aggregation, a joint technology R&D center meets the internal needs of both parties to grow and compete.
Building the research team: Tongji University will provide technical support through two professors, two associate professors and six doctoral and master's students; Qicheng will contribute technical talent to the center.
Raising the company's R&D system: help Qicheng establish a corporate technology center, set development goals and plans, and strive to become a provincial technology center within three to five years.
Developing new products and technologies: Qicheng will provide industrialization demand information as research topics and Tongji will provide technical support, guiding R&D and implementation in intelligent stamping equipment and process optimization based on production big data.
Promoting new products and technologies: to raise market awareness, Tongji will connect Qicheng with partners and projects in automotive and home appliance manufacturing and help expand capacity and reputation.
Joint project applications: the two sides will jointly apply for municipal, provincial and national research projects and seek breakthroughs in provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards.
Industrializing research results: using Qicheng's channel and market experience, some design and R&D projects will be subcontracted to Tongji to translate research outcomes into industrialization.
The center combines teaching with production. The two sides support and engage each other, complement strengths and share resources and benefits. It is an important path to modernize university education and enterprise management, advance productivity, accelerate in-house talent development and sustain research and production, while helping Qicheng raise its R&D system, market awareness and competitiveness.