Under the wave of intelligent transformation, manufacturing enterprises are exploring their own paths of transformation. Royalstar, a national brand once known to every household for its slogan "Royalstar, the trend of the times," is now diving into the "trend of the times" of intelligent manufacturing and the Internet of Everything. Nostalgia cannot keep an old brand firmly on its feet; only through vigorous transformation can it keep pace with the dual upgrades of industry and consumption. Royalstar is committed to advancing three major transformation strategies: the industrial transformation from a traditional home appliance manufacturer to an IoT enterprise, the mechanism transformation from an employment-based relationship to a partnership-based one, and the value transformation from pursuing profit to creating value. Today, Royalstar has evolved from a traditional home appliance company into an intelligent multi-category home furnishing enterprise, carving out an innovative path that keeps up with the times. Voice assistant Xiaoda, intelligent clothing care machine, smart door lock, voice-controlled clothes rack... Recently, reporters visited Royalstar's Sixth Industrial Park in Hefei, Anhui, and experienced the charm of a series of smart home products at the Royalstar Group's Smart Whole-Home Experience Center. "Hello, Xiaoda. Open the curtains." Inside the experience center, as soon as Yang Qiwu, Vice President of Royalstar Group, finished speaking, the living room curtains slowly opened; with a stretch of his hand, the balcony clothes rack automatically rose and lowered; entering the kitchen, the placed intelligent combustible gas leak sensing device could not only sense concentration and alarm but also connect to a robotic arm to automatically close the main gas valve and open the window. Talking about these smart home products, Yang Qiwu spoke with ease. He then led reporters to another part of the experience center, pointed to a "refrigerator," and smiled as he asked reporters to guess its use. "This is actually a clothing care machine, a second-generation intelligent product recently developed by our team." Yang Qiwu told reporters that Royalstar's second-generation clothing care machine has just been launched, featuring functions such as sterilization and mite removal, medium-temperature drying, ironing and shaping, and aromatherapy deodorization, providing all-around care for clothing. "If clothes get stained with hot pot or smoke smells, putting them in the care machine can remove the odor, which suits modern people's needs very well." From 1994 to 1998, Royalstar washing machines ranked first in national sales for four consecutive years, and the slogan "Royalstar, the trend of the times" was widely known. However, in recent years, under the impact of the intelligent wave, traditional manufacturing enterprises have been exploring transformation paths. In an interview, Yang Qiwu stated that for Royalstar, transformation is necessary, requiring more effort. Currently, Royalstar is also channeling all its internal strength into developing smart homes, focusing on providing customers with whole-home intelligent solutions. "We have created a whole-home scenario brand, Pinguan E Home. Scenario intelligence is not only the general trend for whole-home furnishing but also the strategic high ground for the future smart home industry, contributing technology-customized scenario solutions to the industry's development. Simply put, based on the needs of users' living scenarios, we implant corresponding smart systems such as security, audio-visual, lighting, cuisine, and care, and output overall whole-home living scenario solutions." Yang Qiwu said. Talking about future life, Yang Qiwu sighed: "The future is an intelligent era of the Internet of Everything, and future family life will also be scenario-based. Through overall planning and one-stop solutions for living spaces, our home life will become more convenient and higher quality. We are currently building Pinguan E Home offline experience stores precisely to bring the concept of scenario-based living better to the mass market." From a hardware foundry in Hefei in 1954, to the Hefei Washing Machine Factory after restructuring in 1981, and then to the production of over 2 million washing machines in 1998, ranking first in industry production and sales for four consecutive years, the Royalstar brand has gone through 67 years, experiencing ups and downs amid the changes of the times, and keeping pace with the times through continuous innovation. Talent is the driving force for enterprise innovation. In recent years, Royalstar Group has built a "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" platform of "old brand + new makers," gathering innovative forces to accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading and the cultivation of emerging industries. A large number of makers have gathered under its banner to jointly build smart homes. The smart home products developed by the group are all researched and produced by maker teams. Pan Baochun, Chairman of Royalstar Group, introduced that since officially exploring "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" in 2016, the group has planned the intelligent whole-home system and ten product ecosystems and ten functional ecosystems around the "Royalstar" brand, established a project library of over 400 projects, and absorbed corresponding maker teams, providing development guidance to the teams. Currently, there are over 160 maker teams and small micro-enterprises, such as those for air energy and heating floors, driving employment for nearly 3,000 people. These small but beautiful entrepreneurial teams inject intelligent "blood" into traditional bedrooms, bathrooms, balconies, and garages, jointly supporting Royalstar's smart home ecosystem. Why is Royalstar Group's "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" platform so popular? It is understood that the group adheres to the mechanism transformation from employment-based to partnership-based relationships, not only building platforms and investing but also providing phased, precise support to teams, offering guidance on development direction and necessary assistance. As one of the makers, Yang Qiwu, who is over forty, realized his entrepreneurial dream here. After joining Royalstar's "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" center, he led nine other makers to jointly be responsible for the system development of Royalstar's smart home. Yang Qiwu explained the group's support to the team with his own experience: "Smart home integrates hardware home products with software systems to achieve remote control and product linkage. With the support of Royalstar's vast hardware product system and the team's full autonomous management, the team can focus on software systems and quickly integrate hardware resources." The "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" platform can both empower makers and allow the "old brand" to be reborn, achieving a win-win situation. It is understood that in March 2015, the first batch of products from Yang Qiwu and his team was officially launched on the market, and within a month, sales exceeded 10 million yuan. Now, Yang Qiwu and his team have created over 100 smart home product series, many of which have become hot sellers in the market. Based on these achievements of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, Royalstar Group continues to leverage the driving role of the platform, successively being awarded the "National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base" by the General Office of the State Council and achieving leapfrog development. Pan Baochun, Chairman of Royalstar Group, once said: "In the past, doing business was to a certain extent about making money, which was tiring. Now we want the enterprise to become valuable through technological progress and enhanced core competitiveness." Following Yang Qiwu, reporters came to Royalstar's Science and Technology Innovation Platform Laboratory. "Eight functional laboratories, including physical performance, combustion, chemistry, and environment laboratories, have all been built and put into use." Yang Qiwu introduced to reporters that a 'smart manufacturing' enterprise cannot do without R&D capabilities. The enhancement of R&D capabilities not only improves the enterprise's self-value but also benefits society. "We are currently conducting a withstand voltage test on the intelligent clothing care machine to test the product's safety." In the safety regulation laboratory, test engineer Zhang Yang was busy in front of a machine. He told reporters that they usually target domestic and international smart home topics, conducting continuous experiments to research key technological innovation issues in the industry. Yang Qiwu stated that the group, leveraging the development advantages of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation," has established this innovation platform laboratory to concentrate efforts on exploring the trinity and integrated development of "artificial intelligence + smart home + prefabricated decoration." Nowadays, intelligence occupies an increasingly important position in the smart home field, and smart home products are continuously "flying into ordinary people's homes," all of which cannot be separated from the efforts of the R&D personnel behind them. In the R&D department, the core department of Royalstar Group, employee Xu Qing was testing a software. After joining Royalstar Group in 2015, he successively participated in the development of the "Zhixiangjia" app and the intelligent assistant Xiaoda. Talking about R&D, Xu Qing told reporters: "We started from scratch, crossing the river by feeling the stones. At that time, the smart home industry was in its infancy, with no experience to draw on. There were always technical difficulties one after another, requiring countless experiments, and only then did we achieve the current mass production. At that time, I had a strong determination to make some achievements in the smart home industry." Only innovators are strong. "Over the years, the enterprise has increasingly valued technological innovation, product innovation, and business model innovation, driving the formation of the intelligent whole-home system with the IoT technology of intelligent hardware + system software." Yang Qiwu introduced that in the next step, Royalstar will continue to connect creative design inspiration with people's aspirations for a better life, research and produce a series of humanized and down-to-earth products, and provide users with thoughtful whole-home smart design solutions. Under the wave of intelligent transformation, manufacturing enterprises are exploring their own paths of transformation. Royalstar, a national brand once known to every household for its slogan "Royalstar, the trend of the times," is now... 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