"People's Daily" likes! The industrial Internet promotes the transformation and upgrading of the industrial chain

On September 22, the "People's Daily" devoted nearly half of its pages to the article "Industrial Internet Promotes the Transformation and Upgrading of the Industrial Chain", through the changes in the transformation and upgrading of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain of Sany Group's "No. 18 Factory" and the industrial chain, and told that the "Root Cloud Platform" of Tree Root Internet provides assistance for opening up the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and transforming and upgrading the traditional manufacturing industry by providing real-time data collection of equipment, product life cycle management, big data analysis and other services.

In the "No. 18 Factory" of Sany Group in Changsha, Hunan Province, in the huge workshop, the intelligent welding robot can automatically identify materials for welding, and the heavy-duty unmanned vehicle is fully loaded with materials to pass through the plant...... Under the command of the intelligent system, hundreds of robots work together.

What "threads the needle" for the equipment is the "root cloud platform" built by Tree Root Internet Co., Ltd. with the industrial Internet operating system as the key. It can provide factories with services such as real-time equipment data collection, product life cycle management, and big data analysis. In "Factory 18", the "root cloud platform" matches the optimal parameters for each process, each model and even each tool according to the data fed back by thousands of sensors in the factory to optimize the production process.

In addition to factories like "Factory 18", the "Root Cloud Platform" also provides assistance in more fields to open up the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and transform and upgrade the traditional manufacturing industry.

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. "Managers can see the picking status, job errors, job performance, and the utilization rate of each equipment on the production line. What's more, the order needs of our major customer, Sany Group, can be closely connected with our production capacity through this electronic data interchange system to guide 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. "In the upstream industrial chain of construction machinery in Hunan, although we have a place, we are also facing the pressure of transformation." Tan Yuqi said.

The pressure comes from how upstream suppliers keep up with the rhythm of downstream enterprises. "The rapid changes in the needs of users in the end market have put forward requirements for industry leaders such as Sany, which are then transmitted to us upstream suppliers." Tan Yuqi said frankly.

In 2020, Jiahong Machinery took the opportunity of moving to a new site to set up the old factory as a pretreatment rough processing workshop, and opened the new factory into an intelligent manufacturing finishing workshop, and a batch of automated CNC equipment became the main production force.

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 a new one: real-time data synchronization and flow to realize the visual management of the workshop business process; Realize the management of warehouse materials in and out of the warehouse by scanning the code, so that the quality problems can be traced back to the production history and material batch; Improve the comprehensive utilization rate of equipment, fully release production capacity, and reduce operation and maintenance costs; Electronic quality inspection to prevent false detection and missed detection......

"At present, the intelligent rate of 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 access electronic quality inspection records to check product quality, and mutual trust has also been improved. Tan Yuqi said that after digital upgrading and transformation, the annual output value of Jiahong Machinery has exceeded 300 million yuan.

Wang Jinxia, senior vice president of Tree Root Internet, said that at present, it has developed from a single enterprise competition in the past to industrial chain competition, and it is necessary to integrate the supply system to cope with rapid market changes.

In 2021, Sany Group relied on the "Root Cloud Platform" to promote the interconnection of the industrial chain and realize the interconnection of more than 1,000 devices from more than 200 suppliers. Implement system electronic data interchange (EDI) interconnection, realize the system interconnection of more than 200 suppliers, 744 suppliers inventory sharing, and 51 suppliers scheduling sharing. "Thanks to digital transformation, the delivery cycle has been shortened, and the upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain have achieved improvements in inventory and cash occupation." Wang Jinxia said.

Solve the common problems of the manufacturing industry

A few years ago, Sany GroupcraneWang Jinxia was deeply impressed by the optimization of the production process of a key piece of equipment in the department.

"At that time, the company was faced with 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 machine." Wang Jinxia said, "We used the latter, using the method of visual artificial intelligence recognition to judge the production process of the equipment. Sure enough, it was found that in a certain action, it was necessary to improve the feeding and unloading methods of workers on the production line, so as to effectively improve the operation efficiency. ”

"If it is a CNC machine, the 'root cloud platform' can collect data from the controller of the equipment, and if it is a traditional machine, it can also obtain key information by installing a data acquisition module." Wang Jinxia said that in view of the development status of different types of enterprises in the industrial chain, the "root cloud platform" currently has different solutions.

In Jiahe County, Chenzhou, the foundry industry has fully appreciated the advantages of digital transformation. In 2021, Jiahe County's casting output accounted for 40% of Hunan Province. While the industry is developing and growing, the shortcomings of the park, such as the high level of energy consumption and the weak foundation of informatization, have become the main problems restricting development. Due to the lack of information management and control tools, production operations mainly rely on manual records, low production efficiency, many errors, and the regulatory authorities cannot achieve global and accurate control of the company's energy consumption, environment, safety and other data.

"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 shows the real-time energy consumption level of the heating furnace and air compressor. In the past six months, according to the suggestions provided by the energy management system, Jiang Bin has arranged for enterprises to stagger peak electricity consumption and maintain equipment with poor energy efficiency in a timely manner, reducing the monthly comprehensive electricity bill by more than 5%.

The "Root Cloud Platform" energy management application can monitor the energy consumption of the factory and the operation safety of the equipment online, and assist the park to guide the enterprise to allocate electricity for production and optimize energy consumption. "The first batch of 10 pilot enterprises reduced consumption by an average of 6.5% month-on-month." Li Jianjun, Secretary of the Party Group of Jiahe County Science and Technology and Industrial Information Technology Bureau, said.

At present, the manufacturing mode of the foundry industry is dominated by small batches and multiple varieties, and the downstream demand changes rapidly. "If we follow the manual dispatch production method in the past, once the parameters of one link are wrong, the entire batch of castings will be scrapped." Jiang Bin said that the "root cloud platform" has opened up the whole link of "sales-production-work reporting-quality inspection" of the enterprise, reduced human error, and increased the comprehensive production efficiency by 10%.

Today, the "Genyun Platform" has provided industrial Internet services for nearly 1,000 industrial enterprises in dozens of industries such as equipment manufacturing, iron and steel metallurgy, automobile and spare parts, and electrical, and has been selected into the "List of Cross-industry and Cross-domain Industrial Internet Platforms" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for four consecutive years.

New technologies give rise to new businesses

"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 and Technological Development Zone, introduced that the files include product quality certificates, strength calculation books, installation and use instructions, drawings, etc., which should be kept with the pressure vessel for life until it is scrapped.

In the past, each machine and its file were "islands", and the yield, status, and maintenance of each equipment were different. Nowadays, these physical archives are gradually being supplemented and upgraded by electronic archives using blockchain technology.

"The industrial Internet connects the furnace, the machine tool, and the upstream and downstream." For example, Yang Jiangao said, "Just like high-pressure gas cylinders, through the application of blockchain technology, gas cylinder manufacturers leave archives at the time of production, and how much each bottle is filled is recorded by the machine." The equipment we produce, the customer can also trace the information. ”

At the same time, the popularization and application of blockchain technology and industrial Internet has also given birth to a number of new businesses.

Anti-counterfeiting of construction machinery aftermarket accessories is a headache for many manufacturers. "The traditional anti-counterfeiting code technology, because the data is edited in advance, once the anti-counterfeiting logo is copied, it is difficult to play a role." Wang Jinxia said.

In recent years, through blockchain technology, it is possible to realize the real-time "on-chain" of parts circulation data. "One thing, one code, one certificate, not only the accessories themselves can be traced, but each process of circulation forms the data on the blockchain, and every circulation process is clear to achieve anti-counterfeiting in the true sense." Wang Jinxia said.

"Together with Changsha Bank, we have optimized the credit model for certain manufacturing sectors." Wang Jinxia said that the start-up rate, operating rate, failure rate, electricity consumption, etc., are accurate and real-time enterprise operation information. The use of industrial Internet and blockchain technology to obtain these available information, after big data analysis, can provide enterprises and banks with more scientific credit rating, credit loans more accurate.

He Dongdong, co-founder and CEO of Tree Root Internet, said that through a series of new technologies, enterprises have integrated the needs and capabilities of manufacturing enterprises, created a general industrial Internet operating system, and built a rich application ecology, which will improve the efficiency of digital transformation in different industries, and reduce the threshold and cost, which will contribute to the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.

Content source: People's Daily