With the accelerating digital transformation of the power industry, a long-overlooked “safety blind spot” is becoming a key focus across the sector: the management of traditional power safety tools still relies heavily on manual records, paper-based logs, and experience-based judgment. Issues such as unclear inventory status, lack of real-time visibility, and difficulty in tracking equipment lifespan may appear minor, but they are increasingly affecting overall maintenance efficiency and creating hidden safety risks in field operations.

In response to these common industry challenges, Hebei Jinneng Electric Power Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “JINPOWER”) is redefining the role and value of power safety tools through systematic digital innovation practices, driving the industry’s transformation from traditional “manufacturing” toward intelligent and safety-centered “smart manufacturing” and “intelligent O&M.”

Building the Foundation of Smart Manufacturing: Reconstructing Data and Manufacturing Capabilities

JINPOWER’s intelligent transformation began with a deep understanding of the industry’s underlying logic: true “smart manufacturing” is not merely production-line automation, but the integration of data capabilities across the entire value chain, including R&D, production, management, and services. As a National “Little Giant” enterprise specializing in precision and innovation and a National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, the company has obtained DCMM Data Management Capability Maturity Level 2 certification, demonstrating its systematic capability in data assetization and value realization.

This capability is most clearly reflected in product-level transformation. JINPOWER’s fully intelligent safety tool cabinet is no longer a traditional metal storage unit, but an intelligent safety terminal equipped with IoT sensing, RFID identification, and environmental monitoring capabilities. It can automatically identify, record, and track every insulating rod, voltage detector, and grounding wire, enabling visualized, digitized, and automated management of safety tools.

On the manufacturing side, based on MES systems and fully automated online inspection, JINPOWER has implemented “one file per product” for eco-friendly insulating rubber mats and “one code per item” across its full product range, ensuring full traceability and transparent quality management. On the R&D side, leveraging the Hebei Provincial Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, the company continuously advances new materials, processes, and algorithms, enabling continuous iteration of intelligent products.

Through the continuous integration of these capabilities, JINPOWER has built an evolving intelligent manufacturing system. It is no longer a standalone smart hardware provider, but a full-chain intelligent solutions partner capable of delivering integrated offerings—from products to systems, hardware to software, and production to operations.

From Products to Systems: Building a Smart O&M Ecosystem with Full Visibility and Proactive Warning

JINPOWER’s innovation goes beyond intelligent products; more importantly, it extends product capabilities into system-level solutions, building a comprehensive smart O&M ecosystem covering “cloud–management–edge–device.”

At the core of this ecosystem is the independently developed “Banniu Cloud” intelligent safety asset management system. Based on digital twin technology, the platform transforms dispersed offline tool assets into online visual models, enabling real-time visibility, controllability, and predictive risk management.

The system delivers tangible value in practice:

l For asset managers, it automatically displays inventory, location, lifespan, and health status. When tools are overdue or pending inspection, the system triggers alerts and can remotely lock them, shifting from manual “passive inspection” to system-driven “proactive intelligent monitoring.”

l For frontline workers, tools can be quickly searched, requested, and returned via mobile devices, reducing pre-operation preparation time by an average of 70%.

l For management teams, the system provides centralized, cross-site, and cross-regional monitoring dashboards, combined with analytical reports to optimize procurement strategies, improve asset utilization, and enhance safety investment ROI.

Currently, this intelligent O&M system serves more than 40,000 domestic and international clients, including State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, and the five major power generation groups. In a demonstration project at a large thermal power plant, the system improved tool management efficiency by over 50% and achieved a historic breakthrough of “zero overdue use” of critical safety tools.

Advancing Industry Value: Building a Chinese Model for Intelligent O&M

JINPOWER’s digital transformation is extending from enterprise-level innovation to industry standards. Based on long-term technical accumulation and market validation, the company led the formulation and publication of the group standard T/HEBQIA 091-2022 “Smart Safety Tool Cabinet” in 2022.

This standard addresses the lack of unified specifications in the industry’s digital transformation process and defines core requirements for intelligent management functions and testing criteria, covering key modules such as access control, tool traceability, and environmental monitoring. It provides a technical benchmark for product development and acceptance.

This initiative not only transforms the company’s cutting-edge practices into industry consensus but also promotes the industry’s evolution from “product compliance” to “systematic safety operations,” laying a foundation for standardization and healthy development.

As the industry continues to shift its value focus, the power safety tools sector is undergoing a systematic transformation—from “manufacturing products” to “smart manufacturing capabilities,” and further to “operational services.” In this process, JINPOWER has evolved from a traditional supplier into a “leader in intelligent power safety O&M solutions,” aligning closely with the global energy industry’s trend toward intrinsic safety and operational excellence.

Toward the Future: From Value Closed Loop to Value Flywheel

From identifying industry pain points, to building digital capability systems, to developing a smart O&M ecosystem and advancing industry standards, JINPOWER is evolving from a “value closed loop” to a “value flywheel.”

This is not only an upgrade in product form, but also a profound reshaping of the company’s role within the power industry ecosystem—from a manufacturer of safety tools to a technology company delivering safe, efficient, and intelligent future operation and maintenance capabilities.

Amid the wave of digitalization in the power industry, JINPOWER continues to drive innovation as its core engine, consistently shaping a safer, more reliable, and smarter industry future. Through continuous technological breakthroughs and industrial practice, the company is contributing forward-looking technological strength to the safe operation of power systems in China and around the world.