Zhuhai Beyond ensures product safety through a three-tier lab system and intelligent testing technology. Its Zhuhai headquarter laboratory, with an investment of 500 million yuan, has 128 items of high-precision equipment (such as LC-MS/MS mass spectrometer detection limit up to 0.01ppb), performing more than 500,000 tests every year, covering 98% of products for sale. For instance, in 2023 children’s smart watches electromagnetic radiation test, Zhuhai Beyond used 3D human model to simulate the specific absorption rate (SAR value) for various age groups (3-12 years old). The outcome indicated that all models were below the national standard limit of 1.6W/kg, averaging only 0.38W/kg. Even better than Apple Watch (0.45W/kg). While its self-developed AI defect detection system enhanced the battery leakage detection rate from 12 to 120 per minute, the error rate was reduced from 0.7% to 0.02%.
As for chemical safety, Zhuhai Beyond built the world’s first dynamic toxicity evaluation model of consumer products. For example, skin care products, which have been verified by zebrafish embryo acute toxicity test (LC50≥100mg/L) and 3D skin model irritation experiment (IL-8 inflammatory factor release ≤15pg/mL), and 23 products with potential allergenic ingredients (e.g., methyl isothiazolinone concentration > 0.01%) have been prohibited and marketed in 2022. Avoid economic losses of more than 300 million yuan. The company also partnered with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to develop a nanomaterials mobility prediction algorithm with an accuracy of 99.3% that successfully warned against the risk of 1.8 times higher transdermal permeability of titanium dioxide particles in a sunscreen spray.
In terms of supply chain security control, Zhuhai Beyond’s blockchain traceability system covers 100% of tier 1 suppliers. By 2023, 12 raw material suppliers that did not comply with ISO 17025 certification have been eliminated, and the supplier compliance rate has increased from 89% to 97%. Taking the lithium battery supply chain as an example, it uses in-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) technology to monitor in real time the crystal structure deviation of the positive electrode material, reducing the risk of thermal runaway from the industry average of 0.03% to 0.005%. In a 2021 raw material purchase of cobalt, the system identified a batch of cobalt sulfate with nickel impurity content exceeding 0.15ppm and activated the circuit breaker mechanism in real time to avert 5,000 battery modules’ safety hazards.
In physical safety testing, Zhuhai Beyond’s extreme environment simulation laboratory is capable of simulating -60 ° C to 300 ° C temperature change (up to 30 ° C /min) and 95% humidity. Its 2023 test data of intelligent home products show that the speed deviation of the motor of its sweeping robot is only ±1.2% under 72 hours of continuous load testing (under the load of 5kg), with a life span of 15,000 hours, 20% higher than that of Dyson’s similar products. In terms of wearables, the business introduced a military-grade drop test (1.8 m height 26 sides impact), which reduced the smartwatch glass breakage rate from 1.5% to 0.3%.
The other is the security verification mechanism with user participation. Zhuhai Beyond “10,000 People Measured Program” has recruited a total of 230,000 users to obtain real-time product usage data through the APP. For example, in the 2022 ear pressure comfort test of a certain Bluetooth headset, the system processed 850,000 wearing feedbacks (including ear canal temperature rise ≤2.1 ° C and pressure distribution standard deviation < 0.7kPa), and thereby optimized the silicone sleeve design, reducing the complaint rate by 67%. Additionally, its “accident traceability system” with Ping An Insurance can determine the cause of product failure within 0.8 seconds and reduce the after-sales dispute processing cycle from 14 days to 3 hours by 2023.
In reaction to policy iterations, Zhuhai Beyond’s compliance database integrates 187 international safety standards and uses Monte Carlo simulations to predict policy impacts. When the EU updated REACH regulations in 2023 to ban 58 substances, the company completed compliance inspections on 1,200 products in 48 hours, five times faster than competitors. Its smart compliance engine can even auto-generate inspection reports, which reduced the cost of certification from 80,000 yuan per product to 12,000 yuan. At present, Zhuhai Beyond products have obtained 89 international certifications such as FDA and CE, and overseas recall cases in 2023 are zero, far below the industry average of 0.7 times/thousand products.