Focusing on high-end and promoting lean production, XCMG excavators compete in the "new normal" market


Release Time:

Apr 21,2025

As the founder and pioneer of China's equipment manufacturing industry, XCMG has always taken on the mission of serving the country through industry and revitalizing the country through industry for 76 years, and has taken on the important task of upgrading and shifting gears in China's construction machinery. As the core pillar of XCMG Group, XCMG Excavator Division (XCMG Excavator for short) promotes the integration of industrialization and informatization with lean depth, and wins global reputation with its reliable quality of "leading technology, durable, and made into handicrafts".

As the founder and pioneer of China's equipment manufacturing industry, XCMG has always taken on the mission of serving the country through industry and revitalizing the country through industry for 76 years, and has taken on the important task of upgrading and shifting gears in China's construction machinery. As the core pillar of XCMG Group, XCMG Excavator Division (XCMG Excavator for short) promotes the integration of industrialization and informatization with lean depth, and wins global reputation with its reliable quality of "leading technology, durable, and made into handicrafts".

 

Focusing on high-end and promoting lean production, XCMG excavators compete in the "new normal" market

 

XCMG Excavator rapidly promotes the industrialization of excavators and competes in the global market with strength

Disruptive technological innovation, leading the industry's high-quality development with strength

As the leader of China's excavator industry, XCMG Excavator closely focuses on national strategies and customer needs, always adheres to innovation-driven and unwavering, and deeply practices the product concept of "leading technology, durable, and made into handicrafts" with the spirit of "one-track mind".
Relying on XCMG's global collaborative R&D platform, XCMG excavators have innovatively built a "multi-region, multi-working condition, multi-working method, all-weather" platform technology research, especially for the special climates of plateaus, high temperatures, high cold, and high dust in global regions, customized R&D and adaptability improvements are carried out on products, and continuous breakthroughs and innovations in core technologies and manufacturing processes have been made, which has effectively promoted the industrialization of XCMG excavators. The R&D product models have fully covered 1.5 tons to 700 tons of hydraulic excavators, and the products are distributed in five continents around the world, making it a leader in China's excavator industry and a strong competitor of internationally renowned brands. In recent years, 7 scientific and technological innovation achievements have won provincial and above mechanical industry science and technology awards, including 3 national awards; the national standard for excavators drafted and revised by the company, "Earthmoving Machinery Hydraulic Excavator Technical Conditions", was successfully released, leading the industry's high-quality development with innovative strength.
At the Shanghai Bauma Exhibition in November 2018, XCMG Excavator released the latest DK series products representing the industry's leading level and the "worry-free lifelong protection" service brand to the world, which once again attracted the attention of the industry. With "value differentiation" and "value leadership" as the innovative breakthrough points, XCMG Excavator is committed to creating an industrial system that integrates "high-end, high added value, and high service level", leading the industry into a high-quality development stage and helping customers create greater value.

Lean intelligent manufacturing, strongly guaranteeing the leapfrog improvement of products
XCMG Excavator actively promotes the integration of informatization and intelligence, and has established a set of models and methods for the deep integration and coordinated promotion of lean production and intelligent manufacturing. Intelligent equipment accounts for more than 70%, covering key manufacturing processes such as welding, processing, painting, and assembly, ensuring the high quality, efficiency, speed and flexibility of the entire product manufacturing process, and laying a solid foundation for casting the excellent quality of "leading technology and indestructible".
"Flow creates value, and lean achieves high-end manufacturing." This is the lean concept that XCMG Excavator has always adhered to. On the 120-meter-long automated boom flexible welding line, dozens of booms are being tempered by light and fire. The welding stress is evenly distributed, and the welds are full and clear, which can be called perfect. From intelligent identification of boom models to robot welding, to the disassembly and transportation of workpieces, the industry's most advanced automation equipment is highly integrated with the concept of "one flow" of lean manufacturing. The welding work that originally required dozens of people to complete can now be easily completed by two or three people... In the "Jiangsu Province Intelligent Manufacturing Workshop" of XCMG excavators, such a highly centralized and powerful digital intelligent manufacturing technology force is constantly being performed. "At present, the intelligent manufacturing level of XCMG excavators is constantly reaching a new level. The CNC automated processing accuracy of key structural parts can reach 0.001mm, which is equivalent to 1/50 of a human hair, and is at the leading level in the industry." Ma Lu, chief technician of Jiangsu Enterprise, introduced.
Based on the operation of the entire value chain and the improvement of value-added capabilities, XCMG Excavator has fully introduced and systematically promoted lean manufacturing management, built a lean manufacturing management system consisting of eight subsystems including comprehensive flow management, total quality management, and full-staff production maintenance, and established a matching measurement and evaluation system and visual kanban management system including five categories of lean performance indicators such as quality, safety, efficiency, capability, and improvement, forming a lean, intelligent and green manufacturing model covering the entire value chain of products with the characteristics of XCMG excavators, and promoting the leapfrog improvement of the company's lean management level and performance indicators. In 2016, the lean management results won the first prize of the 22nd National Enterprise Management Innovation Results; in 2018, XCMG Excavator was recognized as a "green factory" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and passed the national "Informatization and Industrialization Integration Management System" assessment.

All-round quality assurance, committed to building a world-class excavator brand
In 2018, XCMG's medium and large tonnage excavators were exported to North America in batches
Chairman Wang Min once firmly stated, "The world stage is big, and XCMG cannot be absent." With the steady progress of XCMG's internationalization strategy, as a powerful new "fist" industry of XCMG Group, XCMG excavators not only have an invincible and eye-catching performance in China, but also actively seize the strategic opportunity of the country's "Belt and Road" to set sail, quickly extend the industry's tentacles to the international stage, focus on promoting the research and development and improvement of overseas adaptive products, and accelerate the construction of overseas bases such as Uzbekistan. In the Middle East, more than 300 XCMG excavators assisted in the construction of Qatar World Cup venues and infrastructure, creating a record for China's large excavator exports; in North America, XCMG excavators have won high recognition from local famous leasing companies with their excellent reputation and reached strategic cooperation; in Africa, "XCMG Gold" shines together, maintaining the top position in the local market with its superior performance of high reliability, high efficiency and low fuel consumption; in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia and in the extremely cold regions of Canada, XCMG excavators have overcome difficulties and made great strides...
Products are king, quality is first. Continuous breakthroughs in the market rely on product quality that customers trust. XCMG Excavator insists on being customer-centric and market-oriented, vigorously promotes the integration of internal and external quality information, improves the user satisfaction feedback platform, pilots the construction of quality information feedback channels for typical agents in 5 major regions, strengthens the quality improvement of suppliers, accurately analyzes and accurately connects suppliers for collaborative improvement, and regularly formulates special quality research and improvement plans. At the same time, it comprehensively benchmarks international benchmarks, establishes a quality information management system, deeply applies various quality technologies and tools, improves the quality improvement process and work standards based on data analysis throughout the process, and comprehensively upgrades the quality control system for quality responsibility transmission.
In recent years, the product quality of XCMG excavators has been steadily improved, and the overall user satisfaction has reached the industry's first-class level through third-party evaluation. In 2018, the production and sales volume of XCMG excavators reached a new high, exceeding 20,000 units for the first time, and the self-operated revenue exceeded 10 billion yuan, and the domestic market share ranked among the top two in the industry. In that year, XCMG excavators won major awards such as the Xuzhou Mayor's Quality Award, the first prize of the China Quality Association Quality and Technology Award, and the National Machinery Industry Quality Award. These awards not only testified to the strong strength of XCMG products and the unique charm of the XCMG brand, but also demonstrated XCMG excavators' determination to move into the high-end market and build a world-class excavator brand.