According to the "14th Five-Year Plan for a Modern Energy System," the power grid must serve as the core platform to coordinate the large-scale development of new energy with the safe and stable operation of the power system. By advancing the digital upgrade of the power system, building new power system models, and deepening institutional reform, the plan aims to enhance technological innovation and intelligent O&M capabilities while strengthening power resource allocation. As a pillar of the national economy, the electric power industry must, while fulfilling its core role in supporting social development, build an intelligent and efficient warehousing and logistics system to boost its competitiveness. Given that power materials are diverse, have large demand volumes, and require timely supply, it is essential to scientifically plan warehouse layouts, optimize logistics architecture, and improve resource allocation efficiency to create a modern warehousing system that combines precise daily allocation with rapid emergency response, thus providing a solid material support foundation for the safe operation of the power system.

PART ONE-Pain Point Analysis of Warehousing Upgrades in the Electric Power and Grid Industry

• The extensive variety of materials: spanning power transmission and transformation equipment, emergency repair tools, safety protection gear, etc. - presents significant challenges in categorical management. This complexity often leads to storage inaccuracies, inefficient retrieval, and may potentially cause repair delays due to material misidentification.
• High-Priority Emergency Response Demands: Power equipment failures may trigger large-scale power outages, necessitating rapid deployment of spare parts for emergency repairs. Conventional warehousing models exhibit slow response speeds, struggling to meet emergency demands particularly during nighttime operations or in remote areas.
• Challenges in Distributed Inventory Management: The widespread geographical distribution of power infrastructure creates coordination complexities for regional warehousing centers. This often results in uneven inventory distribution across service zones, leading to suboptimal resource allocation and increased operational costs.
• Data Latency and Information Silos: Manual inventory auditing processes cause delayed data updates (typically 24-48 hours) with accuracy rates below 85%, insufficient for real-time dispatching decisions. Compounding this issue, fragmented material management systems across departments maintain isolated datasets, preventing effective cross-functional coordination.

• Physical Space Constraints: Approximately 65% of power grid warehouses are retrofitted from legacy facilities, introducing inherent design limitations: Dimensional constraints in length/width, Restricted floor load-bearing capacity, Height limitations. These structural parameters fundamentally constrain storage optimization potential.

PART TWO-Yufeng Intelligent Electric Power & Case Studies in the Electric Grid Industry

With a decade of industry expertise, Yufeng Intelligent has successfully delivered multiple smart warehousing projects in the power and grid sectors, empowering power companies to build intelligent warehousing systems.

Case one: Establishing an Integrated "Inspection-Storage-Distribution" Materials Base for comprehensive reserve and dynamic replenishment of engineering materials

Yufeng Intelligent, considering customer needs, industry characteristics, and material specifications, has developed an integrated solution comprising "four-way shuttle dense storage + bin stacker three-dimensional storage + WCS system + collaborative transportation with multiple logistics devices" to establish an intelligent storage and distribution operation mode for light and heavy materials at this power company.

Customer Pain Points and Solutions

• For diverse packaging forms such as wooden crates and cartons, Yufeng Smart employs a four-way shuttle-based high-density storage system that integrates storage and sorting. For scattered lightweight materials, container stackers are utilized in conjunction with light roller conveyor lines to achieve "goods-to-person" picking, further enhancing material automation, production line intelligence, and unmanned warehousing.
• Given the wide variety of power equipment materials and diverse storage requirements, the robotic arm system is equipped with 3D vision cameras. This innovation breaks through the limitations of traditional automated single-scenario palletizing/depalletizing, solving the industry challenge of handling bagged materials. By incorporating automatic quick-change mechanisms for various grippers, the system enables "one-to-many" efficient picking and palletizing tasks. This seamlessly integrates the four-way shuttle storage system with the container storage system, forming a unified intelligent warehousing solution.

• The Luoshu System and the Warehouse Control System (WCS) are deeply integrated. By enabling real-time tracking of material flow and location data, and integrating upper-layer command and communication systems, a three-tier collaborative mechanism spanning the decision-making, management, and operational layers is established. This significantly improves warehouse operation efficiency, accuracy, and safety, while comprehensively strengthening the material support capabilities of the national power grid.
• The system supports global sharing of inventory information, facilitating cross-regional material allocation and resource optimization. Planners can precisely monitor real-time inventory data, intelligently allocate resources based on demand gaps, and effectively reduce inventory scale while ensuring supply continuity. This minimizes capital occupancy, avoids duplicate procurement, and drives continuous optimization and dynamic equilibrium of inventory structures.

Customer Pain Points and Solutions

The Hebei Power Grid project involves the renovation of an old warehouse, adopting an integrated solution of "four-way shuttle + Automated Guided Vehicles AGV" combined with a Warehouse Control System WCS. This enables intelligent material sorting, automated storage, and urgent dispatch of emergency supplies. By deploying counterbalanced AGV alongside a four-way shuttle-based three-dimensional storage system, the solution significantly enhances cargo access efficiency and optimizes warehouse space utilization.

To address the region’s low-temperature challenges, Yufeng Intelligent designed a dedicated intelligent temperature-controlled charging station. This innovation not only resolves charging difficulties for automated equipment in extreme cold climates but also ensures year-round stable and uninterrupted operations, providing robust support for mission-critical power grid logistics.

Case 3: "Collection-Inspection-Destruction-Storage (CIDS)" Document Destruction Center – Bolstering Security and Confidentiality in the Power Industry

To address the need for a document destruction system compliant with national security standards, Yufeng Intelligent innovatively developed an "Destruction + Recycling" Smart Integrated Warehousing Solution for Shandong’s power grid. This system achieves closed-loop lifecycle management of critical documents, covering reception, inspection, destruction, and storage, effectively mitigating data breach risks and environmental hazards inherent in traditional document disposal processes. It reinforces information security defenses for the power system.

Solution Highlights:

• Anti-Scattering Conveying System: Specialized shredding lines ensure zero paper debris dispersion during destruction, maintaining a clean and safe operational environment.
• Intelligent Robotic Collaboration: Automated robotic arms and film-wrapping machines enable unmanned workflows for document transport, shredding, and compacted waste packaging.
• AGV Logistics Integration: AGV systems automate the transportation of destroyed materials from the shredding zone to the bonded storage area, eliminating manual handling.

The center’s establishment marks a milestone in the power industry’s adoption of full lifecycle digital management for classified documents, setting an innovative benchmark for secure and confidential systems across the national power grid.

Case 4: A state-owned power equipment enterprise - An efficient solution integrating storage, picking, and information management

Customer Pain Points and Solutions

• The power materials industry faces challenges with diverse product categories, irregularly shaped components, and susceptibility to loss of small items. Traditional warehouse operations suffer from inefficiencies that not only amplify management pressures but also compromise the timeliness and reliability of power material supply.
• Non-standardized Storage & Layout Issues: Inconsistent storage methods and unfixed placement zones waste storage space while complicating picking and allocation processes.
• Labor-Intensive Peak Periods: During business peaks, temporary manual labor is often required to maintain operations. Persistent reliance on traditional management models escalates control risks and operational complexity.

Project Benefits

• Optimizing Warehouse Resources & Enhancing Management Efficiency: By leveraging systems such as the Warehouse Control System (WCS) and Portable Data Terminals (PDA), enterprises can achieve comprehensive integration of storage resources. Digitizing core workflows—including inbound/outbound logistics, transfers, picking, and inventory audits—significantly elevates warehouse management precision and operational agility.
• Intelligent Transformation for Power Grid Warehousing: Against the backdrop of new power system development, intelligent warehousing has emerged as a critical breakthrough for enhancing service efficacy in the power grid industry. By deeply integrating innovative smart equipment with digital management systems, a flexibly adaptable warehousing ecosystem is established. This not only resolves pain points of traditional models but also lays a robust foundation for efficient material allocation and emergency response capabilities.
• Yufeng Intelligent’s Role in Digital Evolution: Aligning with the digital transformation needs of power grid enterprises, Yufeng Intelligent delivers tailored solutions to drive intelligent upgrades in warehouse management.By bridging intelligent hardware with scenario-based digital platforms, Yufeng Intelligent enables power industry clients to achieve dual optimization in operational resilience and strategic value creation.