"People's Daily" likes it! Industrial Internet promotes industrial chain transformation and upgrading
On September 22, "People's Daily" used nearly half of the page to publish the article "Industrial Internet Promotes Industrial Chain Transformation and Upgrading", through Sany Group's "No. It tells about the "root cloud platform" of the root interconnection, which provides services such as real-time data collection of equipment, product life cycle management, and big data analysis, to provide assistance for opening up the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and transforming and upgrading traditional manufacturing industries.
In the "No. 18 Factory" of Sany Group in Changsha, Hunan, in the huge workshop, intelligent welding robots can automatically identify materials for welding, and heavy-duty unmanned vehicles are fully loaded with materials to travel through the factory...Under the command of the intelligent system, hundreds of Robots work together.
It is the "root cloud platform" built by Shugen Internet Co., Ltd. with the industrial Internet operating system as the key that "threads the needle and thread" for the equipment. It can provide factories with services such as equipment real-time data collection, product lifecycle management, and big data analysis. In "Factory No. 18", the "Gen Cloud Platform" matches the optimal parameters for each process, each model and even each tool based on the data fed back by thousands of sensors in the plant to optimize the production process.
In addition to factories like "Factory No. 18", the "Root Cloud Platform" also provides assistance in more fields to connect the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and transform and upgrade traditional manufacturing industries.
Promote enterprise digital collaboration
On the terminal screen in the office, Tan Yuqi, general manager of Changde Jiahong Machinery Co., Ltd., is watching the beating of orders, production line data and inventory data. "Management personnel can intuitively see the picking status, operation errors, operation performance, and the utilization rate of each equipment on the production line. More importantly, the order demand of our major customer Sany Group can be Through this electronic data exchange system, it is closely connected with our production capacity and guides us to arrange production." Tan Yuqi said.
Before 2017, Jiahong Machinery was a traditional machinery manufacturing enterprise with an annual output value of about 50 million yuan, and was a supplier of leading construction machinery enterprises such as Sany Group. "Although we have a place in the upstream industrial chain of construction machinery in Hunan, we are also facing the pressure of transformation." Tan Yuqi said.
The pressure comes from how upstream suppliers keep up with the pace of downstream enterprises. "The needs of users in the end market are changing rapidly, which puts forward requirements on industry leaders such as Sany, and then transmits them to upstream suppliers like us." Tan Yuqi said frankly.
In 2020, taking advantage of the opportunity of relocating to a new location, Jiahong Machinery will set up the old factory as a pretreatment roughing workshop, open up the new factory as an intelligent manufacturing finishing workshop, and a batch of automated numerical control equipment will become the main force of production.
With the help of the "root cloud platform", the enterprise has access to the supplier's equipment interconnection solution, and the production mode is also new: real-time data synchronization and circulation, realizing the visual management of workshop business processes; realizing warehouse material entry and exit management through scanning codes, ensuring quality Problems can be traced back to production history and material batches; improve the comprehensive utilization rate of equipment, fully release production capacity, and reduce operation and maintenance costs; electronic quality inspection to prevent false inspections and missed inspections...
"At present, the intelligentization rate of the production line equipment in the new factory is about 90%. Because the interface is unified, the data can be mutually recognized, and it is very convenient to connect with the needs of downstream customers. Downstream customers can directly retrieve electronic quality inspection records to check product quality. Mutual trust has also improved." Tan Yuqi said that after digital upgrading and transformation, the annual output value of Jiahong Machinery has exceeded 300 million yuan.
According to Wang Jinxia, senior vice president of Shugen Internet, at present, competition among single enterprises has developed into competition in the industry chain, and it is necessary to integrate the supply system to cope with rapid market changes.
In 2021, relying on the "Root Cloud Platform", Sany Group will promote the interconnection of the industrial chain and realize the interconnection of more than 1,000 devices from more than 200 suppliers; promote the interconnection of system electronic data interchange (EDI) to realize the interconnection of more than 200 supplier systems, 744 suppliers share inventory and 51 suppliers share production. "Thanks to the digital transformation, the delivery cycle is shortened, and the upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain have improved in terms of inventory and cash occupation." Wang Jinxia said.
Solve the common problems in the manufacturing industry
A few years ago, Wang Jinxia was deeply impressed by the optimization of the production process of a key piece of equipment in the crane department of Sany Group.
"At that time, the company faced two choices. One was to buy another piece of equipment, but it was expensive, and the other was to optimize the production efficiency of the original one." Wang Jinxia said, "We adopted the latter, using visual artificial intelligence to identify, Judging the production process problem of the equipment. Sure enough, it is found that in a certain action, the way workers on the production line enter and discharge materials needs to be improved, thereby effectively improving the operation efficiency."
"If it is a numerical control device, the 'root cloud platform' can collect data from the controller of the device; if it is a traditional machine, you can also obtain key information by adding a data acquisition module." According to the development status of various types of enterprises, the "Root Cloud Platform" currently has different solutions.
In Jiahe County, Chenzhou, the foundry industry has fully experienced the advantages of digital transformation. In 2021, Jiahe County's casting output will account for 40% of Hunan Province's total. While the industry is developing and growing, shortcomings such as high energy consumption levels and weak informatization foundations in the park have become the main problems restricting development. Due to the lack of information management and control tools, production operations mainly rely on manual records, with low production efficiency and many errors, and the regulatory authorities cannot achieve overall and precise control of energy consumption, environment, safety and other data of enterprises.
"The energy consumption of No. 1 furnace is normal, and the energy consumption of the whole plant is normal..." Jiang Bin, general manager of Jiahe Hongsheng Foundry Co., Ltd., opened the energy management application on his mobile phone, and the graphic data showed the real-time energy consumption level of the heating furnace and air compressor . Over the past six months, according to the recommendations provided by the energy management system, Jiang Bin has arranged for the company to use electricity at off-peak times and maintain equipment with poor energy efficiency in a timely manner. The monthly comprehensive electricity bill has been reduced by more than 5%.
The "Root Cloud Platform" energy management application can monitor the energy consumption of the factory and the safety of equipment operation online, and assist the park to guide enterprises in the deployment of production electricity and energy consumption optimization. "The first batch of 10 pilot enterprises reduced consumption by an average of 6.5% month-on-month," said Li Jianjun, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Jiahe County Science and Technology and Industrial Information Technology Bureau.
At present, the manufacturing mode of the foundry industry is mainly based on small batches and multiple varieties, and the downstream demand changes rapidly. "If we follow the manual production method in the past, once the parameters of one link are adjusted incorrectly, the entire batch of castings will be scrapped." Jiang Bin said, "Genyun Platform" has opened up the company's "sales-production-report-quality inspection" link, reducing human error and increasing overall production efficiency by 10%.
Today, the "Genyun Platform" has provided industrial Internet services for nearly a thousand industrial enterprises in dozens of industries such as equipment manufacturing, iron and steel metallurgy, automobiles and spare parts, and electrical, and has been selected as a "cross-industry and cross-field industrial Internet platform" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for four consecutive years. platform list".
New technology spawns new business
"Our company has a special person responsible for managing and maintaining the files of pressure vessels." Yang Jiangao, deputy general manager of Dingli Technology located in Changsha Economic Development Zone, introduced that the files include product quality certificates, strength calculations, installation instructions, drawings, etc. Keep it with the pressure vessel for life until it is scrapped.
In the past, each machine and its files were "isolated islands", and the yield, status, and maintenance of each device were different. Today, these physical files are gradually being supplemented and upgraded by electronic files using blockchain technology.
"Industrial Internet connects furnaces, machine tools, and upstream and downstream." Yang Jiangao said, "Just like high-pressure gas cylinders, through the application of blockchain technology, gas cylinder manufacturers retain After the file is saved, how much each bottle is filled is recorded by the machine. The equipment we produce can also be traced by customers.”
At the same time, the popularization and application of blockchain technology and industrial Internet has also spawned a number of new businesses.
Anti-counterfeiting of spare parts in the construction machinery aftermarket is a headache for many manufacturers. "In the traditional anti-counterfeiting code technology, because the data is edited in advance, once the anti-counterfeiting mark is copied, it is difficult to play a role again." Wang Jinxia said.
In recent years, through the blockchain technology, it is possible to realize the real-time "on-chain" of accessories circulation data. "One item, one code, one certificate, not only the accessories themselves can be traced, but every process of circulation forms the data on the blockchain, and every circulation process is clear, realizing anti-counterfeiting in the true sense." Wang Jinxia said.
"We have jointly optimized the credit model for certain manufacturing industries with Bank of Changsha." Wang Jinxia said that the operating rate, operating rate, failure rate, electricity consumption, etc. are accurate and real-time business operation information. Using the industrial Internet and blockchain technology to obtain the available information, after big data analysis, can provide enterprises and banks with more scientific credit ratings and more accurate credit loans.
He Dongdong, co-founder and CEO of Shugen Internet, said that through a series of new technologies, enterprises integrate the needs and capabilities of manufacturing enterprises, create a general-purpose industrial Internet operating system, build a rich application ecology, and facilitate the digital transformation of different industries Efficiency will be improved, and thresholds and costs will be reduced, which will contribute to the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
