ChangzhouMay 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In China’s automotive air conditioning compressor industry, Changzhou Comprey Automotive Air Conditioning Co., Ltd. is a formidable player: it is the only enterprise in the country to master three major compressor technologies—rotary vane, piston, and scroll. A national-level specialized and innovative “Little Giant,” a Jiangsu provincial demonstration smart factory… Behind these honors lies a solid production capacity of 1.2 million units annually.
But Comprey is well aware: automated production lines have been built, and the line MES system is in place, yet the “last meter of on-site execution” remains a blind spot—how to dispatch on the floor? How to manage anomalies? How to flexibly switch between multiple varieties and small batches? Faced with explosive orders from the new energy sector, old methods are no longer sufficient.
Thus, Comprey chose Zongjie Intelligent.
Not because Zongjie Intelligent is well-known, but because the “approach” of the Devork OBF Smart Factory is entirely different: it avoids piling up large-screen dashboards or stitching together data silos. Instead, it uses OBF single-box flow technology to enable every box of materials, every process, and every piece of equipment to truly “speak for itself and collaborate automatically.” In particular, Devork’s proprietary “hardware-software integrated dynamic control technology for production processes” precisely addresses the pain points of Comprey’s new plant—what is needed is not a more complex system, but an “intelligent brain” that can go directly from blueprint to the shop floor.
At the kickoff meeting, Zhang Jiping, Chairman of Zongjie Intelligent, stated that Comprey is not just another customer for Zongjie Intelligent, but a strategic partner in jointly defining the smart manufacturing benchmark for the automotive air conditioning compressor industry. The implementation of the Devork OBF Smart Factory is only the first step. In the future, we will leverage AI agents as the engine to explore more cutting-edge smart manufacturing scenarios at Comprey, building an AI smart factory that “can think and evolve”.
Duan Hongwei, General Manager of Comprey, emphasized that this project is a key support for Comprey to achieve its strategic goals and fulfill the annual slogan “Join hands to climb the peak of quality, innovate to win the future.” This is not a simple system launch, but a comprehensive upgrade of production, management, and operational models—a core digital and intelligent foundation for the company’s high-quality development. At the same time, he mobilized both project teams to form a deeply integrated project community. In Comprey’s smart manufacturing leap, there are no bystanders, only practitioners who continuously break through their own limits.
In the future, from raw material unloading to finished product outbound, Devork OBF will run through every workstation like a neural network. Rotary vane, scroll, piston… no matter the type of compressor, it can be efficiently produced through flexible scheduling.
This is not an ordinary digital and intelligent upgrade, but a tough battle centered on the Devork OBF Smart Factory’s journey “from blueprint to reality”. When the “Little Giant” of the automotive air conditioning compressor industry meets the “Key Little Giant” of discrete smart manufacturing, Comprey’s smart manufacturing model will undergo an innovative paradigm upgrade.