Changzhou Tractor and Machinery Engineering Technology Research Center was established in 2010 with the approval of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Department. The supporting unit, Changzhou Dongfeng Agricultural Machinery Group Co., Ltd., is a large agricultural machinery enterprise dedicated to independent research and development and production of tractors and various agricultural machinery. It was recognized as a high-tech enterprise in 2009. In 2014, it was approved as a national recognized enterprise technology center.
The center aims to upgrade modern agricultural equipment such as high-horsepower wheeled tractors, energy-saving and environmentally friendly medium-sized tractors, supporting agricultural machinery, combine harvesters, riding high-speed transplanters and other modern agricultural equipment and forward-looking technologies that are key to national development. It cooperates extensively with colleges and universities and domestic and foreign scientific research institutions to build a full range of technical research and development platforms such as product development, process development, pilot workshops, testing and testing, and technical information management. It is market-oriented and carries out research and development of key research projects, gradually forming a transformation mechanism for scientific and technological innovation results, promoting close connection between scientific research and production, and gathering scientific and technological talents for agricultural equipment, making the center one of the most innovative corporate research and development centers in the field of agricultural machinery in China.
The center is formed by integrating the company’s original technical center, product trial workshop, and product test center. It implements the director responsibility system and has set up a central office, product development department, process development department, and trial test center. The center covers an area of 4,500 square meters and a building area of 3,000 square meters. It has 295 employees, including 17 senior professional titles, 86 intermediate professional titles, 5 senior technicians, and 6 technicians. The center has relatively complete trial production and testing facilities, and has a batch of instruments and equipment such as the world’s advanced P40C gear measurement center, three-coordinate measuring instrument, three-dimensional laser cutting machine, horizontal machining center, and vertical machining center. Since 2015, the center has added precision horizontal machining centers, vertical machining centers, CNC high-speed end face cylindrical grinders, intelligent composite machining machine tools, five-axis CNC grinding centers, traction load vehicles, tractor PTO test benches, CVT TCU hardware and underlying program development software and other trial production and testing equipment. It has strong R&D capabilities for tractors and machinery.
Through a comprehensive analysis of the current status and development trends of the agricultural machinery industry at home and abroad, we have determined that the key development in the future will be technical equipment that ensures the sustainable development of agriculture and energy conservation and environmental protection. With energy-saving and environmentally friendly agricultural power, planting, harvesting machinery and other equipment as the focus, we will develop agricultural machinery automation, informationization and intelligent technical equipment to improve product production efficiency, safety and comfort. The specific goals are: tractors will develop into high-end products such as high horsepower, continuously variable speed, power shift and intelligent control; agricultural machinery products will aim at the full mechanization solution of agricultural production, and become a comprehensive agricultural machinery supplier. We currently have 67 valid patents, including 10 invention patents.
