[Outstanding Client] Energy Management System Standardization Supports Green, Low-Carbon, and Environmentally Friendly Practices — Hubei Jiaheng Industrial Company Implements Management Improvements

　　All along, United Intelligence Certification Company has been continuously introducing outstanding clients of standard implementation to everyone, sharing information, helping each other, and achieving win-win, multi-win, and all-win situations. Today, we introduce Hubei Jiaheng Industrial Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jiaheng Industrial Company").

Energy Management System Standard Implementation Certification

Achieving Low-Carbon, Green, and Environmentally Friendly Development

Jiaheng Industrial Company Implements Management Improvement

　　I. Company Profile

　　Jiaheng Industrial Company was established in 2010 and is affiliated with Canada Airisheng (International) Group. The current factory covers an area of 125 acres, with a building area of 40,000 square meters and more than 200 employees. The company mainly produces high-precision seamless cold-drawn steel pipes, cold-drawn cylinder pipes, honing pipes, and high-precision cold-drawn steel bars. The products are divided into four major categories: engineering machinery oil cylinder pipes, cylinder pipes, automotive pipes, and wind power bolt pipes, applied in automotive, engineering machinery, petroleum, wind power generation, and other fields. The company owns a complete set of various machining equipment, auxiliary equipment, inspection and testing equipment, and other advanced technical equipment, forming an annual production capacity of 70,000 tons of cold-drawn pipes (bars).

　　Jiaheng Industrial Company is a strategic partner of Hubei Xinye Steel. Xinye Steel provides technical and equipment support, and the main products have been supplied to many well-known domestic and foreign enterprises. The company has independent import and export rights for its products and provides processing of exported high-precision cold-drawn pipes for Xinye Steel, receiving high recognition from customers. It leads the domestic industry in this field, especially in oil cylinder pipes, where the market share has steadily ranked among the top domestically in the past three years.

　　In 2016, Jiaheng Industrial Company obtained the "Special Equipment Manufacturing License for Pressure Pipeline Components - Seamless Steel Pipes" issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation and passed the license renewal audit; in 2019, it obtained the type inspection certificate for special equipment for pressure pipeline components - seamless steel pipes. It has successively won honors such as National High-tech Enterprise, Municipal/Provincial Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise, Huangshi City Science Popularization Demonstration Enterprise, Integration of Informatization and Industrialization Demonstration Enterprise, May 1st Labor Award, Employee Home, etc.; in 2018, it was listed as a provincial pillar industry segmented field invisible champion - technology little giant enterprise. In 2020, it was awarded as a high-tech enterprise; in 2021, it was listed as a specialized and new little giant enterprise in Hubei Province.

　　II. Background and Purpose of Promotion

　　Jiaheng Industrial Company passed the quality management system certification in 2012 (changed to automotive industry quality management system in 2014) and passed the environmental/occupational health and safety management system certification in 2014. To promote the company's low-carbon green development, enhance management capabilities, and apply for and create a green factory, the company officially applied for energy management system certification in 2023.

　　Jiaheng Industrial Company is not a national key energy-consuming unit but actively responds to the national overall requirements for ecological civilization construction and development. Adhering to the concept of sustainable development, it proposes the energy management policy of "law-abiding innovation, energy saving and consumption reduction, low carbon and environmental protection, continuous improvement," promoting management improvement and long-term development, gaining initiative in fierce market competition. At the same time, it creates conditions for building a green factory.

　 　III. Main Measures for Management Improvement

　　1. Improving planning and establishing a promotion model for the system: starting from top-level design, proposing high-standard requirements. Previously, standard implementation certification was assisted by external consulting companies to plan and establish the system, then handed over and guided the company to proceed and operate according to a "template," followed by external audits for certification. This time, the energy management system first established a standard implementation leadership group led by the top management, set energy policies and goals, clarified the responsibilities of group members, and had the group members personally plan and establish the system, changing the previous insufficient participation of all employees, superficial system operation, and passive promotion and implementation during the certification process.

　　2. Training first, learning while doing, promoting the learning and understanding of standard knowledge. The company actively promoted multi-level training in various ways, at multiple levels, and different promotion stages. All employees received training on energy system standards, energy consumption indicator systems, energy-saving and consumption-reduction measures, and integration of multiple management systems, eliminating employees', especially management backbones', doubts and fears about passing energy system certification, strengthening everyone's awareness and understanding of effective system operation.

　　3. Leveraging professional guidance to improve professional capabilities. In aspects such as energy baseline setting, energy data collection, energy review, energy performance parameters, monitoring, measurement, analysis, and evaluation of energy performance, most of the company's key personnel initially had almost no professional knowledge. Professionals provided professional guidance and training, instructing corresponding personnel to understand before acting. The energy management system learned to build itself hands-on rather than mechanically assisted.

　　4. Promoting integration among systems. From planning and establishing system documents, the energy management system certification proactively integrated existing systems, such as organizational environmental management, target management, program management, operation planning and control management, document management, etc., avoiding the phenomenon of "two skins" from the source.

　　IV. Main Achievements

　　The establishment, operation, and continuous improvement of the energy management system have begun to show results, forming a virtuous cycle.

　　1. Improvement of team management capabilities. The company's corporate culture and atmosphere over the years have been a learning and innovative organization. Every Saturday (at least half a day) is fixed learning time, focusing on professional business study. In the planning, establishment, and operation of this energy system, employee participation exceeded 85%. Direct participants further disseminated training to all employees, gradually promoting and enhancing everyone's system awareness and capabilities.

　　2. Enhancement of all employees' energy and green environmental protection awareness. All employees have gained a new understanding and cognition of national energy management laws, regulations, and standards, the company's energy consumption, full-process energy control, energy statistical analysis, and related knowledge, promoting awareness of low-carbon environmental protection and improving the company's energy performance. They can actively and consciously integrate energy control and continuous improvement into their own work.

　　3. Improvement of integration and fusion among various management systems. Training deepened understanding and cognition of commonalities among management systems, effectively integrating systems such as target management, program and measure management, emergency management, responsibility management, personnel capability and awareness management, process management, etc. The integration of quality, energy, environment, and occupational health management systems streamlined repetitive process management tasks and promoted systematic and comprehensive process management capabilities.

　　4. Enhancement of enterprise competitiveness. Through routine energy-saving monitoring, energy audits, energy efficiency benchmarking, internal audits, organizational energy consumption measurement and testing, organizational energy balance statistics, management reviews, self-assessments, energy-saving technological transformation, and energy-saving assessments, the effectiveness of continuous improvement of the energy management system has been continuously improved. The energy management system certification has provided various concepts and methods, also promoting and enhancing the company's cost management, environmental protection management, and more, greatly enhancing enterprise competitiveness.

　　V. Insights

　　The energy management system starts from the entire process of the system, follows the principles of system management, and establishes a complete and effective documented energy management system within the organization by implementing a set of complete standards and specifications. It focuses on establishing and implementing process control to continuously optimize the organization's activities, processes, and their elements, achieving the energy management policy and commitments and reaching the expected energy consumption or usage targets. How to accelerate healthy and rapid development in an environment where market changes are increasingly complex and product updates are rapid? The energy management system certification of Jia Heng Industrial Company has given us a good inspiration:

　　1. Leadership role and full participation of all employees are the most effective means to ensure effectiveness and efficiency, and the basic principles to guarantee the success of standard certification. Enterprise managers are the primary participants rather than bystanders; full staff training ensures everyone is familiar with, understands the standards, and participates in continuous improvement, effectively avoiding the phenomenon of "two skins" during the system establishment, implementation, and promotion process.

　　2. Closely follow national policy guidance and promote advanced and anticipatory management. Jia Heng Industrial Company is not a key national energy-consuming unit but actively responds to the national concept of low-carbon, environmentally friendly, and green development. It proactively advances the certification of the energy management system ahead of time and actively plans for green factory certification. The goal is to promote the improvement of enterprise management and enhance the company's competitiveness.

　　3. Actively apply the thinking and methods of the management system. Based on the company's positioning and product characteristics, it actively seeks change and actively introduces and promotes the certification of the energy management system. Internally, it focuses on standardizing various management systems and product quality; externally, it focuses on national macro policies and customer service management, identifying and seizing key control points of enterprise management, adopting effective control measures suitable for the current management status of the enterprise, and continuously deepening the standardized management of the business process with the help of management system tools to ensure that the final product quality reaches the industry-leading level, ultimately winning the company's core competitiveness.

　　In summary, management improvement enhances the company's ability to solve management problems from three dimensions: personnel awareness, management philosophy, and adherence to system management principles. The "small enterprise" has established a "big quality concept," supporting high-quality product development and management improvement, laying a good foundation for the next step of creating a green factory.