Industrial Internet , as a market of hundreds of billions, is also the most valuable business in the entire Internet of Things field.
"It is estimated that the scale of my country's industrial Internet industry will reach 480 billion yuan in 2019, bringing nearly 2 trillion yuan to the national economy." Chen Zhaoxiong, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said at the Industrial Internet Summit.
At the same time, under the policy guidance and industrial promotion of my country's industrial Internet in the past two years, a large number of industrial Internet platform manufacturers and solution manufacturers appeared in 2017 and 2018. Taking Guangdong Province as an example, Su Shaolin, director of the Guangdong Communications Administration, said at the summit, "Last year, Guangdong added more than 80,000 new public cloud enterprise users, doubled compared with 2017."
Despite this, my country's industrial Internet development is still in its primary stage of exploration, or in the "Warring States Period", there is still a certain bubble in the market. Next, we will inevitably face a process of elimination and regeneration in the early stages of consumer IoT.
According to industry insiders, a group of existing industrial enterprises or platforms are likely to die in the next two years. At the same time, the concepts and applications of the industrial Internet will gradually become clear, and more sound phenomenal enterprises will emerge or grow. How
can empower physical industries through the platform and industrial APP to grow into a phenomenal enterprise in this field. The strategies determined by each enterprise based on its own advantages are different. Leifeng.com specifically uses the Internet giant Huawei , home appliance giant TCL, and industrial giant Advantech as examples to analyze the current development ideas of the industrial Internet.
Huawei: From the "ICT" of the Internet to the "AI" of the industrial Internet
Intelligence is changing all areas of industry, and it is also an inevitable trend of the future industrial Internet.
CTO of Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Zhang Yuxin believes that there are three stages of industrial intelligence:
The first stage, and the digitalization of industrial production. "We need to connect equipment, information and data. Among them, information collection needs to be achieved through the digitization of the enterprise production system."
in the second stage, using these data to discover problems in production. That is, perception and recognition are achieved through numbers.
stage 3, solve (discovered) problems through multi-domain knowledge and optimize production. In addition, this problem can also be applied to the production system and optimized the production system.
As a giant company in the communications field, Huawei has previously had many years of industry experience and technology accumulation in the ICT field. In industrial Internet applications, it has built cloud-edge and edge solutions by collaborating end-network cloud capabilities. "Our AI can be laid on cameras or placed on edge nodes to manage many cameras, making many cameras without artificial intelligence have certain artificial intelligence capabilities. If more complex collaboration or computing capabilities are needed, they can be placed in the cloud."
In addition, Huawei's specific product/technical layout in the field of industrial Internet includes: EI industrial intelligence, ModelArts one-stop AI development platform, intelligent data lake, and FusionPlant industrial Internet platform.
Among them, in 2018, Huawei released the FusionPlant industrial Internet platform. The platform architecture is mainly composed of four layers: edge computing, network inside and outside the factory, trusted IaaS layer, and industrial PaaS layer, which mainly solves the problems of information silos, network security, low production intelligence, and visualization between processes and frameworks.
TCL: The integration of IT and OT is the key to the industrial Internet
If you want to successfully promote the industrial Internet, a very important point lies in the integration of IT and OT.
Since the product line of home appliance giants is a traditional industrial product line, it is one of the main entities that need to realize the industrial Internet, that is, the production line of its own needs to realize the industrial Internet. Therefore, when home appliance giants are planning to build industrial Internet and building industrial Internet platforms, there is a common feature: first solve the problem of self-use, and then serve the outside world.
Haier . This is how beautiful it is, and so is TCL.
In September 2018, TCL incubated its own industrial Internet solution supplier - Gechuang Dongzhi. Gechuang Dongzhi has been established less than a year ago, and few people know that it is relatively more familiar to another TCL company - Huaxing Optoelectronics .The first thing to solve for the emergence of Gechuang Dongzhi is to give the industrial Internet to Huaxing Optoelectronics.
Speaking of Huaxing Optoelectronics, He Jun, vice president of TCL Holdings and CEO of Gechuang Dongzhi Technology Co., Ltd., said, "To a certain extent, I am very satisfied that my (Huaxing Optoelectronics products) yield level reached 97%, which is definitely ahead of China and can rank in the top three in the world. Currently, there are 20,000 equipment in the workshop and 2 million equipment parameters. But when I saw that in 2019, I was under great pressure, and the external market competition was fierce, and the supply side far exceeded demand. I must further improve product quality, improve yield, and reduce costs. But for me, relying on the traditional IT team in the past, it is far from meeting the requirements."
For TCL, it faces two problems:
first, and the opening of multiple systems. For example, when there is a problem with product quality, when analyzing the impact of the equipment parameters on the entire quality, the equipment parameters need to be extracted and input into the equipment management system first. OT engineers mainly rely on production experience and traditional economics and statistics to analyze it, and cannot do real-time analysis. This is a problem.
Second, it is necessary to collect a large amount of process data, equipment process parameters, and environmental parameters. Previously, more result data were collected in industrial production.
IT department can only do standardized data analysis and system construction. Therefore, the biggest challenge we face is that our OT team can only rely on manual experience and traditional statistics to do analysis. If more accurate analysis is to do more accurate analysis, the integration of the existing IT team and the OT team is required.
He Jun summarized the experience of TCL and Gechuang Dongzhi in integrating IT and OT into the following three points:
First, let the OT team quantify and standardize the logic of OT business so that the IT team can understand;
Second, the integrity and comprehensiveness of data are more important in how to convert OT data into IT information in the industrial site, that is, the industrial characteristics dataization;
Third, change the engineer's way of thinking and change his skills, that is, cultivate cross-border talents. "It is difficult to cultivate cross-border talents. The key is to integrate talents. We must integrate industrial automation talents, operational technical talents, and information talents. The key in the integration process is not the cultivation of the IT team. The key is that we need to empower today's OT engineers, that is, we need to modernize and intelligent the OT team. The key is that we need a new model to transform today's OT engineers."
Advantech: SRP is delegated to the industry
If Huawei is an Internet company, TCL is a home appliance company, Advantech is a typical industrial company. Since its establishment in 1983, Advantech has been working on industrial control machines and automation products. However, it is worth noting that Advantech is an industrial enterprise that paid attention to the Internet of Things earlier. Cai Qinan, general manager of Advantech Technology (China) Industrial Internet of Things Business Group, said, "Advantech has been on the road of (industrial Internet)."
In November 2018, Advantech released its WISE-PaaS 3.0 industrial cloud platform . Based on this platform, and together with this platform, it is also defined as Advantech's strategic business, "software and hardware integration (solution) SRP." At the same time, Advantech took the lead in establishing the Solution Ready Package (SRP) Partner Alliance.
Regarding the WISE-PaaS 3.0 industrial cloud platform, Cai Qinan explained that this cloud platform has three major features:
first, some software is open source;
second, the cloud platform integrates device connection, device visualization, intelligent analysis and computing functions;
third, the top is the part created by partners, because the platform can be used in various industries, Advantech has carried out strategic cooperation with various industries. "In the AI SRP part, we adopt a model of co-creation of partners."
According to Leifeng.com, in August 2018, Advantech held a SRP Partner Alliance meeting to demonstrate its phased achievements in co-creating SRP with partners in China, and proposed that it is expected to launch 30 sets of SRPs in 2018 to go public. It is reported that cooperative enterprises in multiple scenarios such as urban cloud, smart water services, and new energy have been identified.
strengthens their respective advantages and integrates industry capabilities
As mentioned above, although the industrial Internet is a market of hundreds of billions, it is expected to have an industrial scale of 480 billion yuan in 2019. In fact, the industrial Internet is still in its early stages, and it is necessary to remove the bubble and find the right position.
At the same time, Leifeng.com also noticed that although various types of enterprises have different starting points based on their own corporate attributes and corporate advantages, they all use the platform as a carrier to solve industrial intelligence and form industry solutions.
The industrial Internet and the consumer Internet of Things are somewhat similar - fragmentation. In the process of empowering the entire industry, in addition to algorithms and platforms, industrial APPs have also become the current policy orientation and focus of enterprise development. They are also the carrier for industrial Konw how to truly extract models and ultimately serve the entire industry.
As for whether the industrial Internet will have great success like the Internet era, or will there be their own phenomenal enterprises in different fields, this is at least not a question that needs to be considered now.
