8-Story Old Factory, 1.5-Meter Narrow Aisles, and Carburetor Grease Everywhere? See How This Enterprise Achieved a "Counterattack" Using Robots!

Amid the wave of manufacturing transformation and upgrading, many legacy factories share a common set of awkward challenges: aging hardware, spatial limitations, and dirty, messy environments. Not only does this harm the corporate image, but it also creates hidden safety hazards. Today, we want to share a real-world case study from Fuding, Fujian—Fujian Fuding Jieliwan Motorcycle Parts Co., Ltd.—and see how they used intelligent solutions to completely resolve their long-standing workshop cleaning dilemma.

"Growing Pains" of a Legacy Enterprise

As a well-known local manufacturer of motorcycle components centered around precision carburetors, Fujian Fuding Motorcycle Parts Co., Ltd. found that its original old factory area could no longer meet its development needs. However, the new facility still retained several "stubborn ailments" inherited from the older site.

What challenges were they facing?

• Multi-story operations are difficult: The factory building has 8 floors, with each single floor covering 2,000 square meters. Vertical transit relies entirely on elevators, making manual transport of cleaning equipment extremely inconvenient.

• Extremely restricted space: Workshop aisles are only 1.5 meters wide and constantly cluttered with sundries, preventing large cleaning equipment from entering and leaving numerous blind spots for manual cleaning.

  

• The "tough nut" of oil stains: Due to the processing nature of carburetors, thick machine oil and grease accumulate on the floors year-round.

• High safety risks: In the past, workers had to repeatedly scrub floors with mops. This was not only low in efficiency, but left large amounts of oil residue behind, putting workers' safety at risk on slippery surfaces.

With a forward-looking vision, management understood that achieving an intelligent workshop starts with "intelligentizing" environmental cleaning. Thus, a transformation of the factory floors began.

Core Pain Points: Why Traditional Cleaning "Failed Repeatedly"

In our communications with Jieliwan, we found their pain points to be highly typical:

• Efficiency pain points: With 2,000 square meters per floor and 8 floors in total, a few cleaning staff members armed with mops would end up exhausted by the end of the day, yet the oil stains remained just as bad the next day.

• Safety pain points: "It rains outside, it rains inside the workshop; the ground outside is dry, the workshop floor is an ice rink." Slip hazards caused by oil stains are a major tabu in safety production.

• Standard pain points: Achieving modern, smart workshop standards requires floor cleanliness as the very first visiting card, something traditional methods clearly failed to deliver.

  

The Breakthrough Solution: Thor GT + Elevator Control System's "Dimensional Reduction Strike"

To address this factory's unique working conditions (narrow aisles, cross-floor operations, heavy grease), we tailored an intelligent cleaning solution featuring our flagship product: the Thor GT Industrial Cleaning Robot.

Targeted Solutions:

• Compact profile, flexible navigation:

  Targeting the 1.5-meter narrow aisles and cluttered environments, the Thor GT relies on its compact body design to shuttle flexibly through tight spaces, perfectly adapting to the complex layout of older factories.

• Elevator control system, cross-floor operations:

  This is a major highlight of this project. We equipped the robot with an intelligent elevator control module. The robot can autonomously call elevators, enter and exit them, and execute fully automated cross-floor cleaning across all 8 floors—truly liberating human labor without requiring anyone to follow and transport it.

• Deep degreasing, powerful stain removal:

  Ordinary clear water is useless against the heavy grease of carburetor workshops. We paired the robot with a dedicated, heavy-duty degreasing agent and its high-pressure brush disk system to perform a deep "scrubbing" of the floors, rooting out stubborn grease accumulated deep within tile crevices.

Results Witnessed: Data Doesn't Lie

After deploying the Thor GT for a period of time, Jieliwan’s workshop environment underwent a dramatic transformation. Let's look at the numbers:

• Cleaning efficiency increased by 65%: Robots replace human labor and never tire, swiftly completing cleaning work that previously took hours.

• ✨ Cleanliness improved by 80%: The floors recovered their original color, bidding farewell to the black, greasy mud.

• Oil residue rate dropped from 60% to 10%: A qualitative leap that completely eliminated the safety hazards of slippery floors and protected employee personal safety.

Customer Voice:

"What used to give us the biggest headache was the oil all over the floor—no amount of mopping could clean it completely, and we were always worried workers would slip. Now, using this robot, it can take the elevator upstairs to work by itself, and even clean out the crevices in the aisles. This is what a modern workshop is supposed to look like!"

— A Jieliwan Project Lead

From "mopping floors with mops" to "intelligent robotic cruising," their change is not just an upgrade in cleaning methods, but a microcosm of management thinking shifting toward intelligence and human-centric operations.

If your factory is also struggling with heavy oil stains, multiple floors, and labor shortages, give the Thor GT industrial cleaning robot a try. Let technology safeguard your safe production!