At Conch Group's plant in Wuhu, Anhui, unmanned mining trucks shuttle along haul roads while a central control room displays real-time kiln temperature, airflow and coal consumption - a fully digital, intelligent transformation into a smart, garden-like green factory.
Conch, with Huawei, built the building-materials industry's first AI large model, 'Conch Cloud-Work.' Built on vision, prediction and NLP foundations, it has landed 40+ mature AI applications across production optimization and quality control, forming a 'central training - edge inference' system. A clinker-strength prediction model forecasts 3-day and 28-day strength with over 85% accuracy, shifting control from after-the-fact lab tests to real-time tuning.
A global optimization model cut standard coal consumption; a 5,000 t/day line saves over 4,500 tonnes of CO2 a year. Conch also runs the world's first cement-flue-gas CO2 capture and purification demo.
