Springs, hinges, pins, mirror legs and nose bridge and other eyeglasses accessories products are not big, the unit price from a few cents, it seems that it is not a big business. In Yuhuan, Zhejiang Kanghua Glasses Co., Ltd but the inconspicuous eyeglasses accessories business, to achieve an annual output value of 100 million yuan, the overall strength of the enterprise among the world's top three eyeglasses accessories industry.

Kanghua is not a young enterprise, was founded in 1978, the horn of reform and opening up, in 2023 ushered in the 45th anniversary of the founding of the factory.

In the second half of 1978, Gao Kehu, who wanted to work in a factory but could not, put together 1,500 yuan, pulled a machine from Jiangsu, and set up a factory to produce spectacle accessories.

Since then, in the past 40 years, Kanghua has also been focusing on doing research and development, production of various types of springs, hinges, temples, pins and nose beams and other eyeglasses accessories products, and all the way to catch up with the development of the industry, and gradually become a domestic leader in the eyeglasses accessories manufacturing industry, the world's top three.

It is understood that the degree of automation of Kanghua has reached about 80%, and it is the first enterprise in the industry to complete production automation.

From the love of the industry prompted Gao Kehu to lead the Kanghua has been running forward to do the best. "And for an enterprise to catch up with development, it must have its own things and cannot follow others."

In the 1990s, after completing the primitive accumulation, Kanghua began to layout a higher level of development.

In 1995, a drawing of foreign automation equipment at an exhibition prompted Gao Kehu's determination to build factory automation. As a result, Kanghua carried out a comprehensive planning and preparation for the construction of factory automation.

Glasses accessories manufacturing is a small industry, more than 20 years ago, there was no professional equipment manufacturer in China. After integrating various factors, Kanghua decided to cooperate with the machinery factory to develop the special equipment for the transformation of the road, and took the lead in the automation of glasses accessories manufacturing industry.

After three years of research and development, in 2003, the first prototype of automation equipment developed by Kanghua was born, and the research and development cost reached 1 million yuan. "I am very willing to use 1 million yuan to buy equipment instead of buying a car, which is for the enterprise to cultivate the development of backbone." Gao Kehu said.

In recent years, Kanghua in scientific research and innovation, machine replacement and other aspects of the very willing to spend money, an average of 8% of annual sales invested in research and development of new equipment, the implementation of machine replacement; 4% of sales invested in product research and development of special funds to achieve the annual innovation of product styles.

Around 2010, following the upgrading of factory equipment automation, Kanghua began to manufacture factory information technology transformation layout, automation and information technology fusion, so that the factory production is more intelligent, has introduced SAP, Siemens PLM, Pan Microsystems OA and HR systems, such as advanced management software, while building the Kanghua cloud computing platform, to enhance the company's information management level.

Gao Kehu introduced that through information management, the intangible assets such as "production wisdom of technical people" that originally followed people can be recorded in the form of process parameters and drawings, making production more efficient.

Through automated machine replacement, process innovation and other initiatives, Kanghua has made great progress in delivery speed and product quality, the production of products in the world's top eyewear brand Luxottica Tristar became an inspection-free products, while the price of the products is higher than the domestic similar products by 10-20%, and has gradually developed into one of the global eyewear industry glasses accessory giants.