China‘s home furnishing industry has been in extensive development for a long time now and traditional manufacturing is far from enough.

With the introduction and widespread debate on the concept of ‘new quality productivity, the direction for upgrading in the home sector has become clearer. From ‘cheap’ to ‘high-quality’, from ‘manufacturing’ to ‘smart manufacturing’, from ‘mono’ to ‘diversified’, the development of home furnishing industry to create advanced productivity has been a priority.

Recently, OKIN participated in the ‘National Intellectual Property Leading Enterprises’ assessment and was awarded the title, as a comprehensive independent research and development enterprises. Through new technology leadership, independent innovation, design transformation, and scientific and technological achievements, OKIN is further strengthening the leading role of innovation by bringing a new level to the internal intellectual property development as a driving force to a new growth momentum of the home furnishing industry.

The ‘gold’ of the knowledge economy! OKIN was awarded first prize as ‘National Intellectual Property Leading Enterprise’

Nowadays, China’s home industry is no longer in the ‘one solution fits all” era. Competition in the industry became more diversified, and with the rise of the knowledge-based economy intellectual property assets become an important strategic stake for brands.

Intellectual property is the new ‘gold’ for modern enterprises in the development of the knowledge-based economy era, leading enterprises to diversify their innovation ability and promoting sustainable industrial upgrading.

OKIN participated for the first time in the‘National Intellectual Property Leading Enterprises’ evaluation and won the title, demonstrating once again that our brand is a leader in the market and the importance of knowledge and technology innovation in the industry.

As one of the highest honors given by the state to enterprises in intellectual property management, the title of ‘National Intellectual Property Leading Enterprise’ refers to the enterprises that belong to the key industrial fields of the country and the region and that undertake the major key industrial development projects of the country and the region, have independent intellectual property capacity, actively carry out intellectual property protection and application, and establish a comprehensive intellectual property management system and mechanism.

OKIN has always focused on powering the brand development with intellectual assets and maximizing the value of its intellectual property rights with innovation and research and development with proper intellectual property management system, leaping towards the development of new quality productivity.

(1)   Grasping the core code of technology patents

Technology patents have always been one of the core competitiveness for linear drive enterprises. As a global leading brand in the field of linear drive, OKIN breaks through the traditional limitations, with 5 R&D centers in China, Germany, Hungary and other countries. Focused on independent innovation, we count a total of more than 1,500 patents, including more than 900 invention patents (more than 900 patents active, from which more than 400 invention patents), 298 trademarks and 42 software copyrights.

(2)   Building strong support for science and technology innovation

Only high standards lead to high-quality innovation. OKIN took the lead in setting up a high-level national laboratory accredited by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) as the ‘strong support’ behind scientific and technological innovation, and became the first enterprise in the industry to be accredited by the CNAS.

At the same time, in order to drive technological innovation and broaden the field of application, OKIN successfully accredited a postdoctoral workstation in 2022, accelerating the independent research and development work in China, and cooperating with various R&D centers around the world to cultivate the market according to the characteristics of the development of different regions.

(3)   Improvement of intellectual property management system

From the introduction of the patent search system in 2020, the certification of our intellectual property management system in 2021, building the intellectual property management system in 2022, and then obtaining the National Intellectual Property Leading Enterprises recently, OKIN has gradually formed an intellectual property management system with 5 major structures as the main system and 34 related programs as the supplementary system.

The complete intellectual property management system allows OKIN to actively explore more efficient, smarter and environmentally friendly actuators, and to promote the in-depth integration of linear drive technology with smart manufacturing and the smart home, smart office and smart medical care fields.

The core technology moat of knowledge assets: From differentiation to disparity

The arrival of the new quality productivity era of home furnishing has led the whole industry to move forward continuously in the direction of technology-driven, efficiency-priority and independent innovation, and experience is priceless.

As a leader of the upstream industrial ecosystem, OKIN continuously empowers the healthy development of the industry with technical support in the fields of functional sofas, smart sleep, office lifting, and medical care!

Through independent innovation and iterative technological upgrading, OKIN not only leads with technology, but also stands out for the meeting the diversified needs of customers by using product segmentation scenarios to provide one-stop systems solutions.

From providing technical support to providing solutions, OKIN is also moving from differentiation to disparity.

As a global linear drive technology giant, OKIN concentrate on the R&D and innovation of important components for motorized mechanisms, focusing on product strength, segmentation of target population and coverage of multiple scenarios to expand the product and technology portfolio to answer the needs of different groups of people.

OKIN has developed Zero-wall sofa mechanisms to give users the possibility to better utilize home spaces, with small home users in mind.

Single drives can be used to provide more comfort in finding the right position for each user and provide assistance getting in/out of the sofa, not only for elderly, but also for pregnant woman and people with mobility problems.

The development of sensor technology has been applied to safety systems, achieving great results in anti-pinch systems for furniture – when the sensors come into contact with foreign forces, they automatically stop and invert the movement of the motors, providing more safety for families with children and pets.

Through technology matching and methods innovation, OKIN, answer the rapid growth of the market by providing diversified, smart and personalized one-stop solutions for different categories such as functional sofas and smart beds. At the same time, we apply drive technology to traditional household goods to make them functional and even smart by combining it with voice systems, sensing technology, as well as smart APPs.

Accurately positioning customer needs and forming differentiated advantages in technological innovation, from single product technology to the complete service chain of complete one-stop solutions, to achieve differentiation.

In addition to independent innovation and technology research and development, OKIN also leads/participates in the formulation of "People's Republic of China Light Industry Standard (DC Electric Actuator)", "Linear Drive for Smart Home", "Permanent Magnet DC Brushed Motor for Smart Home", "Smart Bed Ergonomics Technical Requirements and Evaluation Specifications", "Zhejiang Manufacturing Group Standard (Electric Adjustment Device)" and other group standards to promote the overall standardized development of the industry.

From the global linear drive field giants to now become the leading/participating in the development of industry standards, Germany OKIN to knowledge assets to lead the forefront, from the implementation of standards, leading standards and then to the implementation of standards, behind the strength of the precipitation for many years and a strong R & D base of innovation.

From a global giant in the field of linear drive to now becoming the leading/participating unit of industry standards, OKIN, with its intellectual assets, is at the forefront - from the implementation of standards to leading standards to the implementation of standards, all based on the strong innovation and R&D experience that have been our backbone for many years.

‘Intellectual property’ increases ‘assets’: OKIN seizes the digital intelligence trend

The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy" issued by the State Council emphasizes industrial digitalization and the development of digital industries, and points out that the added value of the core industries of China’s digital economy accounts for 10% of gross domestic product (GDP), and that the digital transformation of industry has become an important growth point in the future.

Under the trend of digital intelligence, smart home and office products are heating up. As an important role in the technical support behind it, OKIN sees that the industry needs more integrated, localized and systematic supporting solutions, accelerate the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements to promote high-quality development, empower technology iteration and upgrade with a complete intellectual property management system. The ‘intellectual property’ can increase the ‘assets’ and drive the development of new quality productivity!

As an important behind-the-scenes force behind the smart home, smart office and smart health care fields development, in 2023, we opened the DewertOkin Industrial Park in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, with a construction area of more than 170,000 square meters and an annual output of 25 million sets of linear drive systems.

With abundant technology and talent, the advantages of innovative resources are taken as an important support for its intelligent creation, leading OKIN to empower the smart home industry to develop in a more advanced, more diversified and more professional direction, and boost China's home furnishing industry from "manufacturing" to "quality manufacturing" and "smart manufacturing" going forward.

With the independent innovation strength of ‘National Intellectual Property Leading Enterprise’, OKIN has been continuously exerting its own intellectual property value advantage, pinpointing the diversified needs of customers to the greatest extent possible, and providing one-stop intelligent solutions, which also represents OKIN's determination to the development of the smart industry.

The smart drive products of OKIN can be connected to a variety of mainstream ecosystems, enabling multi-device linkage of lighting, functional sofas, motorized beds, and APP/voice control systems, to use technology to create warm smart spaces.

At the same time, OKIN has introduced smart drive technology in the fields of home, office and medical care, integrating a variety of new technology applications such as APP voice control and health monitoring system, seizing the intelligent digital outlet, and transforming innovative technology services into a steady stream of endogenous power.

With customized production, smart manufacturing, and connected homes becoming the trend, creating new quality productivity and achieving high-quality growth will become the key to the transformation of China's home furnishing industry.

The intellectual assets based on technological innovation, intellectual property value, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements will become one of the core competitiveness of enterprises in the era of transformation and refined operation of the home furnishing industry.

OKIN was awarded ‘National Intellectual Property Leading Enterprise’ with the strong capability of comprehensive independent research and development, which is not only the foothold of independent innovation and high-quality development in the future, but it will also be a new starting point to lead the industry's push towards new quality productivity!