"Unmanned Factory" produces 24 hours a day, "robot colleagues" take on heavy work, "transparent production line" monitors the operation data of the entire process, sit in the office and stare at the big screen and click the mouse, and you can direct factory production thousands of miles away... More and more industrial enterprises are presenting this scene.
This is a microcosm of the empowerment of manufacturing in China by industrial Internet . my country is building a modern industrial system and promoting new industrialization. At present, the industrial Internet platform system is being built at a faster pace, extending to 45 major national economic categories, with the industrial scale exceeding one trillion yuan.
Industrial Internet: Make the factory a smart-brained, quick-witted engineer
Three years ago, if I entered the 40,000 square meters of Sany Heavy Industry's Beijing pile machine factory, people would find that it was filled with the roar of machines and the pungent welding smell. More than 800 workers climbed up and down, covered in oil. The production capacity of this factory is 150 pile machines per month, and the production cycle of is 30 days.
Nowadays, workers can direct the robot to take care of most of the dirty, tiring and heavy work by just tapping the screen. From the sorting of a steel plate to the assembly of more than 10 tons of masts, all of which are automatically completed by the robot. The production pace of the "reborn" factory has accelerated significantly, with a monthly production capacity of 300 pile machines.
The current situation of Jiangling Automobile Toyama Factory is very similar: In the huge workshop, AGV unmanned transport truck robots are busy orderly on the established tracks, transporting spare parts to sites. The human, machinery, materials and other links in the factory have realized transparent management of energy data and entered a green and low-carbon production model.
The changes in these factory scenarios are all manifestations of the industrial Internet empowering the manufacturing industry.
Fast Xi'an Gaozhixin Company transmission parts digital production line, smart logistics cart is transporting items. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao on April 21, 2022
The Information and Communication Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology made an authoritative explanation on the current concept of industrial Internet: that is, to use the new generation of information and communication technology represented by 5G to build a new infrastructure, application model and industrial ecology that is deeply integrated with the industrial economy. Through the comprehensive connection between 5G technology to people, machines, objects, systems, etc., a new manufacturing and service system covering the entire industrial chain and the entire value chain has been built.
The industrial Internet is becoming a key support for my country's manufacturing industry's transformation from "Made in China" to "Intelligent Manufacturing in China". Make industrial equipment "connected", make production processes "clear", and make safety management "controlled".
"The scale of the industrial Internet industry has exceeded one trillion yuan." said Wang Jianwei, deputy director of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that at present, my country has built and opened 41.968 million 5G base stations, and the high-quality external network of the industrial Internet covers more than 300 cities across the country. The construction of the national industrial Internet big data center system is steadily advancing.
Chief Executive Officer of Shugen Internet Co., Ltd., Industrial Internet Platform Enterprise - He Dongdong said: "Industrial Internet is not as simple as allowing industry to 'surf the Internet'."
"Relying on the industrial Internet, 8 flexible work centers, 16 intelligent production lines, 375 production equipment, and thousands of water, electricity, oil and gas instruments in the factory are interconnected throughout the process." Wu Zhijie, manufacturing director of Beijing Sany Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd., said that through cooperation with Shugen Internet , the current factory is more like a smart-brained and quick-witted engineer, parametizing experience and embodying the spirit of modern craftsmanship .
He said that the industrial Internet integrates industrial production with computer technology and communication technology, and ultimately promotes a close connection between raw materials, equipment, production lines, and workers, suppliers, and users, optimizing efficiency and reducing costs.
The industrial chain is divided into three links: upstream, midstream and downstream
At present, my country has built more than 150 industrial Internet platforms with a certain regional and industry influence, the number of industrial equipment connections exceeds 79 million sets, and serving more than 1.6 million industrial enterprises.
Many industry insiders introduced that the industrial Internet industry chain is mainly divided into three links: upstream, middle and downstream.
——The upstream of the industrial chain includes the network layer and the equipment layer. The main task is to solve the current situation of a wide variety of industrial production equipment and inconsistent communication protocol , and to provide the platform with industrial data connection, conversion and data preprocessing functions. For example, three major telecom operators such as China Telecom , China Mobile, and China Unicom are actively creating communication solutions for the industrial Internet.
——Midstream includes the platform layer and the software layer. It mainly provides operating systems similar to Windows, such as the root cloud platform of Tree Root Internet, Haier 's COSMOPlat, Foxconn 's BEACON, Aerospace Science and Technology 's Aerospace Cloud Network, China Mobile's OneNET, Alibaba 's ET industrial brain, etc. At the same time, software companies such as UFIDA Network and Oriental Guoxin have applied existing mature software solutions to the industrial field. These Internet companies provide basic platform support for the industrial Internet.
——The downstream is mainly the application layer. For example, manufacturing enterprises such as Sany Heavy Industry and Haier Electric Appliances rely on the above information technology and system solutions for first-line production.
In the past five years, my country's industrial Internet has gone from scratch, and breakthroughs have been made in key technological shortcomings, and the industrialization process has been accelerating.
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the development of the industrial Internet and proposed to implement the industrial Internet innovation and development strategy in 2017. In November 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "512 Project Promotion Plan for the "5G+Industrial Internet"", proposing to build 5 industrial public service platforms, accelerate the pilot application of "5G+Industrial Internet" in vertical fields, and intranet construction and transformation covers 10 key industries, forming at least 20 typical industrial application scenarios, etc.
Wuhan China Optics Valley Science and Technology Exhibition Center "5G+Industrial Internet Achievement Exhibition". Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Zhizun on November 20, 2021
The 14th Five-Year Plan further makes clear arrangements for the industrial Internet, and the government work report has repeatedly required the development of the industrial Internet. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with relevant departments, issued the "Action Plan for Innovation and Development of Industrial Internet (2021-2023)", clarifying the development goals and key tasks of the industrial Internet.
Survey data from the Industrial Internet Industry Alliance shows that the penetration rate of industrial Internet applications in small and medium-sized enterprises has continued to rise in recent years, increasing by nearly 5 percentage points in the past two years. 83% of enterprises said that production and operation efficiency has been significantly improved after applying the industrial Internet.
shifts to a critical period of scale development
"At present, my country's industrial Internet development is in a critical period of initial exploration to a critical period of scale development." Wang Peng, a first-level inspector of the Information and Communications Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that at present, the industrial Internet has been fully integrated into 45 major national economic categories, helping to digital transformation and upgrading of major pillar industries such as manufacturing, energy, mining, and electricity.
Many industry insiders said that the construction cost of industrial Internet is high, and popularization among small and medium-sized enterprises is also facing problems such as insufficient awareness of enterprise digital transformation, lack of talents, technology and funds. He Dongdong said that the biggest challenge is how to deal with huge amounts of complex data. This requires the team to be well versed in technologies such as cloud computing , artificial intelligence , and need high-end talents. The cost of talent is the first threshold.
The next important task is to transform the digital construction of manufacturing into public capabilities for efficient access - to deposit technologies including cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, and integrate them into simple and easy-to-use specific applications, thereby empowering enterprises.
Wu Zhijie said: "The purpose of building an industrial Internet platform is to allow small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have a professional team to use the most advanced intelligent technology to improve manufacturing processes and carry out production innovation."
The development of "intelligent manufacturing" means that workers need timely and continuously learn and train. Wu Zhijie said that based on the application of industrial Internet platforms, the demand for skilled talents such as intelligent production lines, digital system operation and maintenance has grown rapidly, and manufacturing talents will undergo structural changes.
At present, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security have released new majors in the industrial Internet direction of Chinese higher vocational colleges and technical colleges. Some industrial Internet platform companies are also actively cooperating with major colleges and universities to accumulate industrial practice cases and experiences into talent training projects.
He Dongdong admitted that in the future, industrial workers will bid farewell to the role positioning of "screws" and need to learn and understand the skills of software development, programming, etc. in front-line manufacturing. A large number of professionally trained students will be very popular. "It can be expected that the treatment and working environment of manufacturing workers will also become better."
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