The number exceeded 300,000 in 3 years, showing explosive growth
Industrial App, Open the Blue Ocean of Industrial Internet
Our reporter Qiao Di
As a big manufacturing country, my country's industry and industry-related market space is huge, and the demand for software and information technology service applications in the industrial field is accelerating, which is promoting the penetration and integration of software into the industrial field.
In mid-December, the finals of the National Industrial App and Information Consumption Competition came to an end. The competition covered multiple fields, including raw materials, equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, etc. The competition provided a set of solutions for these key areas. In this competition A total of 69 projects have won awards to explore the problems encountered by enterprises in digital and intelligent transformation.
At the closing ceremony of the conference, Han Xia, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) pointed out that he hopes that all parties in the industry will be driven by technological innovation to speed up the improvement of industrial supply capacity; be guided by user needs and strengthen the construction of industrial development carriers; Use multi-party collaboration as a link to build an industrial App ecosystem; to improve policies as a guarantee, actively create a good development environment.
It is understood that industrial apps started late in my country, and just passed the embryonic stage in 2017. However, in just three years, the total number of industrial apps in my country has exploded to more than 300,000, and it is expected to reach a million scale by 2025 .
By 2030, the development and application process of industrial apps will be subverted by artificial intelligence technology, and industrial apps are ubiquitous in the industry.
Manufacturing is moving towards a new stage of data-driven
A new round of technological revolution represented by the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, etc. has swept the world. A new manufacturing system with information exchange and resource sharing is being built. The development of the industrial Internet drives the manufacturing industry to a new stage of data-driven development.
It is understood that Internet data mainly comes from Internet users and servers and other network equipment, mainly a large amount of text data, social data, and multimedia data, while industrial data mainly comes from machine equipment data, industrial information data and industrial chain related data .
At present, the manufacturing industry urgently needs to transform and upgrade from a low-value assembly and manufacturing economy to a high-value chain service-oriented economy. Products must not only meet the original functional requirements, but also stimulate added value such as industrial data to derive More value-added services.
Li Yong, an engineer of the Industrial Internet Platform of CITIC Heavy Industry Mining Equipment, told the Science and Technology Daily reporter that the biggest feature of industrial data is massive and disordered.
Only a single CNC machine tool can generate up to 400M data per second.
A simple factory, even if there are only 5 production lines, each production line has 10 stations and 10 equipment, the data output per second can reach 20G.
"Such a large amount of data has not played a real role in the hundreds of years of industrial development." Li Yong said that until 2012, the United States General Electric (GE) proposed the "industrial Internet" concept, which required , Production lines, factories, suppliers, products and customers are closely connected and integrated, and the value of industrial data has gradually gained attention.
As a major manufacturing country, my country's industry and industry-related market space is huge, and the demand for software and information technology service applications in the industrial field is accelerating, which is driving the penetration and integration of software into the industrial field.
It can be said that industrial apps are an important manifestation of the softwareization of industrial technology and the main way to release the value of industrial big data.
Yang Yuyan, deputy director of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that accelerating the cultivation of industrial apps and giving full play to the empowering, supporting, and copying role of software in the entire industrial field is of great significance for enhancing the value of the industrial Internet industry.
Accelerating landing in multiple application scenarios
The reporter learned that, compared to traditional industrial software, industrial App is an application software oriented to industrial scenarios. It has the characteristics of light weight, customization, specialization, flexibility and reuse. Users can analyze industrial scenarios according to different product manufacturing requirements. , Modeling, development and use of industrial apps.
Hao Jinghong, deputy director of the Henan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, introduced in an interview with a reporter from Science and Technology Daily that industrial apps are the ultimate export to realize the value of the industrial Internet platform, and are oriented to the entire life cycle of industrial products (design, production, experiment, use, The scenario requirements of security, transaction, service, etc. are to encapsulate the knowledge, best practices and technical know-how in industrial products and related technical processes into application software.
Users can realize the optimal configuration of specific resources by calling the industrial App.
Industrial App is based on the industrial Internet platform for co-construction, sharing and networked operations to support intelligent R&D, intelligent production and intelligent services in the manufacturing industry.
my country started late in the field of industrial Internet platform construction, while foreign giants have deployed early, and industrial apps have been applied in many scenarios.
For example, in terms of quality inspection, a steel mill cooperated with Intel to develop an app for steel quality inspection. By visualizing the production line, machine learning methods can be used to identify scratches and pickling instead of manual inspection, which improves the detection success rate and reduces In terms of failure warning, an industrial App for mechanical condition monitoring and failure warning developed by Uptake in the United States has successfully accessed more than 3 million engineering projects. The company's current valuation has exceeded US$2.3 billion.
The practice of many companies has proved that with the help of industrial Internet platforms, industrial models and industrial App applications are the best way to realize the digital transformation of industrial production and improve the level of intelligent manufacturing.
A few years ago, a considerable number of front-line workers were still engaged in repetitive, low-end inspections and overhauls.
At present, the implementation of intelligent manufacturing has caused a fundamental change in the work style and industrial content of these employees. They are gradually leaving the production line to enjoy a better job position and labor environment.
People's work will shift from directly controlling machines and production resources to controlling machines through industrial apps, or even industrial apps controlling machines themselves.
It is understood that the development of industrial apps is also closely related to industrial Internet platforms.
The industrial Internet platform is positioned as an industrial operating system and is an important carrier of industrial apps. The existence of industrial apps supports the intelligent applications of industrial Internet platforms. It can be said that the capabilities of the industrial Internet platform determine the capabilities of industrial apps.
The industrial Internet platform helps users quickly build customized industrial apps by building an application development environment, with the help of microservice components and industrial application development tools.
Industrial App runs on the Industrial Internet platform and generates big data. After the data is refined, extracted, processed, and summarized, digital industrial knowledge is formed. The digital industrial knowledge finally further improves the industrial App.
Industrial App development still needs to create a good ecology
GE predicts that by 2025, the Industrial Internet will create an economic value of US$82 trillion, and the Industrial Internet industry will usher in great development and explosion.
At the same time, the market scale of industrial apps will also gradually expand.
According to Yang Yuyan, as of the end of November, the number of industrial apps in my country has exceeded 300,000.
The reporter learned that although the number of industrial apps currently on the market is growing rapidly, there are few “boutique” industrial apps and “killer” industrial apps that really solve customer pain points and bring real value to customers.
The main problem is that the application development technology of industrial apps covers a wide range. At present, my country's industrial apps still lack unified development and testing methods, standards, and specifications. At the same time, the quality and safety assurance technical capabilities of industrial apps need to be strengthened.
Experts from Hanwei Technology Group's intelligent sensor industrial Internet platform introduced to reporters that with the help of the Internet, it will gather resources from application developers, software developers, service integrators and platform operators to create an industrial Internet with rich resources and multi-party participation. Application ecology is an important path to enhance the value of the industrial Internet industry, solve the difficulties of industrial App development, create a good development ecology, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the industrial Internet.
This first requires technical support to consolidate the foundation for the development of industrial apps.
Specifically, it includes the construction of an industrial App standard system, accelerating the development of key standards for industrial App interfaces, protocols, data, quality, and safety; building a general industrial App development environment; promoting the development and sharing of development tools; accelerating the construction of industrial knowledge bases; establishing industrial apps Evaluation and certification system, etc.
Second, we need to be ecologically guided and optimize the development environment for industrial apps.
It is necessary to effectively integrate the resources of government, industry, university and research, and establish a collaborative work system for governments, enterprises, and alliances, and an industrial App development consulting and evaluation service system.
Establish an industrial App transaction supporting system, a credit evaluation system, an intellectual property protection system and a knowledge achievement recognition mechanism to ensure the smooth operation of the App transaction ecosystem.
Build an open source developer community, establish a compound talent training base, and widely attract social capital to set up industrial investment funds, and use capital as a link to jointly develop and promote industrial apps.
In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the driving force and catalysis of the application.
Liu Jian, deputy secretary-general of the China Industrial Technology Software Industry Alliance, said that "the world's app is only used without breaking" and "no one uses it is a dead app."
Yang Yuyan also said that while promoting the development and application of industrial apps, it is necessary to guide industrial enterprises, platform operators, software developers, and system integrators to build an open industrial app ecosystem with development, circulation, and application as the main line.