Introduction to the Weimin Institute
为民院简介
Proposal for the Establishment of the Shenzhen Weimin Reliability Systems Engineering Research Institute
Initiator: Kang Rui
In the historical process of achieving the “three transformations” in China’s manufacturing sector, innovation and quality are two enduring themes. Innovation is the inexhaustible driving force behind China’s manufacturing transformation, while quality serves as the steadfast cornerstone ensuring the sustainable development of Chinese manufacturing!
Manufacturing quality encompasses a rich array of meanings and implications. Among these, ensuring the safety and robust reliability of innovative product designs—a key engineering discipline—is largely unfamiliar to most Chinese manufacturing enterprises that initially started from reverse engineering.
Thirty-five years ago, to meet the growing demand for high reliability and safety in aerospace products, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics was among the first institutions worldwide to establish a specialty in Reliability Engineering and set up an independent College of Reliability and Systems Engineering, thus becoming a pioneering trailblazer in the history of higher education. I myself began teaching, conducting research, and providing social services in the field of Reliability Engineering in 1990. During this time, I have witnessed the evolution of China’s advanced manufacturing sectors—such as aerospace—whose demand for reliability engineering technologies has grown from nothing to something significant, and from weak to strong. Over the past decade, reliability engineering technologies have expanded beyond the aerospace and defense industries, becoming a strategic, overarching, and fundamental common need driving China’s development into a manufacturing powerhouse.
Electronic products—including electronic components—are now ubiquitous across nearly all manufacturing sectors, including aerospace, aviation, shipbuilding, telecommunications, automotive, medical equipment, nuclear industry, equipment manufacturing, rail transportation, and household appliances. Compared with advanced industrialized countries, China not only lags significantly in high-end chip technologies and other similar fields, but even in electronic components and products that we can independently develop and manufacture, there remains a noticeable gap in reliability levels when compared to foreign counterparts. Even more serious is the fact that most manufacturing enterprises have yet to identify effective technological solutions to address this issue.
As a reliability technology expert, throughout my many years of involvement in reliability technical consulting services for Chinese manufacturing enterprises, I have come to fully recognize—along with technical and management experts from both industry and academia—that reliability is a major, fundamental issue that is hindering the transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing sector. To address this issue effectively, we must rely not only on sustained government investment but also on the high level of attention paid by enterprises themselves.
To this end, I propose establishing the Shenzhen Weimin Reliability Systems Engineering Research Institute.
About Us
Shenzhen Weimin Reliability Systems Engineering Research Institute was initiated by leading private enterprises including Sunlord Electronics, JPT Optoelectronics, Invertek, Haon Group, and Qiaoheli. It has corporate members such as Hong Rong Yuan and Beijing Lanwei, and is supported by the research team led by Professor Kang Rui from the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Approved by the Shenzhen Civil Affairs Bureau, it is a privately-run, non-profit research institution whose supervisory authority is the Shenzhen Science and Technology Association.
Adhering to the vision and mission of “Serving Innovation, Empowering Technology, and Promoting Inclusive Chinese Intelligent Manufacturing,” the Institute for Reliability has joined forces with leading domestic and international institutions and expert scholars to create a public service platform for reliability technology and management tailored specifically for Chinese manufacturing enterprises. The Institute boasts strong technical expertise and a prominent industry position in China’s reliability field, bringing together over 60 experts and professionals from various sectors. Over the past three-plus years, it has provided services—including reliability engineer training, technical support, and the development of reliability management systems—to more than 50 companies and organizations, including Huawei, CATL, Sunlord Electronics, JPT, Invertek, Chery Automobile, CGN, Shenzhen Sound Technology, Meituan Robotics, Orend, Ningbo Dewei, Hongfa Relay, CRRC Haitai, Zhenghao New Energy, Huabao New Energy, Aetos, TCL, Qiaoheli, and the Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation. Additionally, the Institute has released 16 group standards for manufacturing reliability system engineering.
Vision
Service innovation technology for all China’s intelligent manufacturing
Mission
Promote the application of reliability theory based on confidence, and facilitate the implementation and rooting of positive, quantitative design methodologies
Build a platform for sharing reliability knowledge and empower one million Chinese engineers
Grasp industry development trends and enhance the enterprise’s capabilities in reliability systems engineering.
响应倡议单位：
深圳顺络电子股份有限公司
深圳市杰普特光电股份有限公司
深圳市英维克科技股份有限公司
深圳市豪恩科技集团股份有限公司
深圳乔合里科技股份有限公司
深圳市安宏基产业投资发展有限公司
