Networked collaboration, personalized customization, and numerical control of key processes

　　Traditional manufacturing industry rejuvenated (Online China)

　　Our reporter Peng Xunwen, "People's Daily Overseas Edition" (Edition 08 on January 07, 2022)

　　The traditional manufacturing industry is transforming and upgrading in platform design, intelligent manufacturing, networked collaboration, personalized customization, etc.; time-honored brands are actively embracing digital revitalization... Recently, 8 departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "14th Five-Year" Smart "Manufacturing Development Plan" proposes measures to promote the digital transformation, network collaboration, and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry.

Experts said that the booming digital economy provides new opportunities for better smoothing the internal and external cycles of the industrial economy.

　　AI helps heavy industry machinery "elephant dancing"

　　What kind of "chemical reaction" will occur when the Industrial Internet meets heavy industry machinery?

At Sany Heavy Industry's Beijing Piling Machine Factory, which covers an area of ​​about 40,000 square meters, changes are taking place: the machines are roaring and welding is splashing, but there are few workers. There are more than 10 processes such as loading and unloading, sorting, forming, welding, and spraying. The processes are all completed by AI robots, the labor productivity is increased by 85%, and the production cycle is shortened from 30 days to 7 days, realizing the "elephant dancing" of heavy industry machinery.

　　However, "elephant dancing" is not easy.

Piling machinery is heavy equipment. For example, the longest among 170 kinds of drill pipes is 27 meters and weighs 8 tons, and the heaviest among more than 20 power heads is 16 tons.

Dong Mingkai, Dean of Sany Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute, introduced that in order to move a heavy and long workpiece, two automatic navigation vehicles have realized synchronous handling and automatic loading and unloading.

With the help of visual sensing technology and AI algorithms, intelligent industrial robots are deeply applied in the fields of adaptive welding of large equipment and high-precision assembly.

In the background, the "root cloud platform" built by Shugen Interconnection collects nearly 36,000 data points in the factory day and night, and "calculates" the optimal parameters for each process, each model, and even each tool. .

In September 2021, the plant was selected into the new list of "Lighthouse Plants" in the global manufacturing sector released by the World Economic Forum.

　　More and more smart factories like Sany Heavy Industry are appearing, thanks to the vigorous development of China's 5G technology and digital economy in recent years.

According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently, China has built 1.396 million 5G base stations, cultivated more than 150 large-scale industrial Internet platforms, and "5G + Industrial Internet" has formed 20 typical application scenarios in ten key industries.

Up to now, the numerical control rate of key processes and the penetration rate of digital R&D design tools in industrial enterprises above designated size have reached 55% and 74.4%, respectively.

　　"The digital technology and industrial system with the industrial Internet platform as the core can not only gather technical resources such as data and software, help open innovation, realize breakthroughs in the short-board of the industrial chain such as manufacturing technology, materials, and craftsmanship, but also connect manufacturing and services. , Product and market barriers, promote the industry to accelerate the extension of service, and open up new development space." said Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

　　A journey of intelligent manufacturing of down jackets

　　"Can this sleeve be shorter by 1 cm?" "Can the waist be enlarged a bit?" Customer Xiao Chen recently tried to ask customer service when buying a down jacket on an e-commerce platform of Bosideng.

The customer service answered very quickly: "No problem!" And it only takes 15 days to customize, and you can buy it at the original price of the tag.

Customers can customize their own down jackets according to their personal needs such as size and color, which is derived from the intelligent transformation and digital transformation that Bosideng has vigorously carried out in recent years.

　　For traditional industries, the promotion of intelligent manufacturing has become an urgent issue.

The "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Intelligent Manufacturing Development" proposes to build an intelligent manufacturing system that integrates virtual and real, knowledge-driven, dynamic optimization, safe and efficient, and green and low-carbon.

The "Notice on the Implementation Plan for Rejuvenating Industrial Economic Operation and Promoting High-quality Industrial Development" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also proposed to promote the digital transformation of the supply chain and operation management of traditional offline businesses.

　　The promotion of smart manufacturing requires vigorous advocacy by local governments. Suzhou Industrial Park has adopted measures such as formulating "Several Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Manufacturing Industry" and launching the "Intelligent Manufacturing Partnership Program" to provide financial rewards for enterprises' smart transformation and digital transformation projects. And policy support.

Up to now, it has promoted 1,461 smart-to-digital conversion projects, has nearly 600 enterprises related to the industrial Internet industry chain, and has achieved full coverage of 5G signals.

Wang Xuejun, director of the Economic Development Committee of Suzhou Industrial Park, said that the park has initially formed an intelligent manufacturing support industry chain including platform service agencies, professional service providers, related communication equipment and industrial automation manufacturers.

　　To promote smart manufacturing, it is also necessary to stimulate the endogenous power of the company's green development.

In the textile workshop of Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group, an online quality inspection robot is shining white light to perform quality inspection on rows of spun bobbins.

Machine replacement not only saves labor, reduces equipment energy consumption, but also improves production efficiency and reduces the defective product rate by 30%.

　　Hand in hand with e-commerce to make time-honored brands "fashion"

　　"Domestic watches are too trendy now. The barrel-style dial, sports style, the strap can be replaced according to the outfit, and the bonus DIY lucky bracelet. These details are very suitable for young people." Received a new one from Seagull. After the watch was released, the user Xiaoyu immediately “posted” the order on the Dewu APP and won many users’ likes.

Not long ago, Seagull Company exclusively sold the first brand new trendy watch series specially designed for young people in Dewu APP. The trendy design style quickly attracted many young consumers to place orders.

　　One is a time-honored brand in the watchmaking industry, and the other is a new e-commerce where young consumers gather. The cooperation between the two has opened up a path to promote the innovative development of time-honored brands.

The relevant person in charge of Dewu said that through in-depth cooperation in various links such as consumption big data and dynamic trend research, flexible new product design and supply, first launch channels and resources, the two parties have released the commercial potential of the time-honored brand, and are forming demand-driven supply and supply. A virtuous cycle model of the supply chain that creates demand.

　　The "Notice on the Implementation Plan for Rejuvenating Industrial Economic Operation and Promoting High-quality Industrial Development" proposes to implement the "1+N" industrial chain supply chain connection project in key areas, promote the integration and innovation of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the industrial chain, and promote the industrial chain The supply chain is integrated and developed.

　　How to promote the smooth connection of the industrial chain and supply chain?

E-commerce platforms are required to exert traction.

The Haro Travel Platform, which focuses on two rounds of travel, recently initiated the establishment of an industrial investment fund with a total scale of 3 billion yuan, which aims to attract manufacturing partners such as lithium batteries, semiconductors, and communications through a combination of production and investment, and promote the two rounds of manufacturing along the green , Low-carbon, digital transformation and upgrading.

Li Kaizhu, CEO of Harbin Travel, said: "We hope to lead an industry or a large group of industrial chains to make progress together and contribute to our own social value."

　　Li Peigen, director of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, traditional manufacturing companies have realized that they should build a good supply chain ecology as much as possible. Smart supply chains are an important direction for future digital transformation of enterprises.