"Many factories in China today have first-class production lines, second-rate products, and third-rate prices. There must be something wrong."
Min Wanli told China Business News that leading companies in many industries have imported from abroad The advanced production line, but the "IQ" of the production line has not improved, just follow the operation manual Xiaogui Cao Sui. As the digital infrastructure is on the agenda, he hopes that this industrial intelligent transformation can achieve the participation and benefit of all people.
Among them, digital technology will in the future run through the circulation and sales links from upstream design to manufacturer to downstream, and Min Wanli's entrepreneurial direction is to use technology and capital to improve the digital capabilities of the factory .
Leave Alibaba to start a business
Min Wanli was the vice president of Alibaba Cloud, the chief scientist of Alibaba Cloud Machine Intelligence and was responsible for leading the Alibaba Cloud artificial intelligence ET brain project. After leaving in 2019, she established Shenzhen Kun Zhan Technology Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen North Peak Investment Consulting Co., Ltd. hold 49% and 99.9% of the shares respectively.
"After completing the work in industry, agriculture, and urban brains in 2018, I already have a judgment: the future battlefield of cloud intelligence and cloud computing is in the industry, not in the Internet. The power of cloud computing is how much The capabilities of tens of thousands of computers are integrated in a second to penetrate the massive amounts of data and see the value behind them.” He believes that this kind of true value generation is the commonality of the industry, and he wants to use a new mechanism to integrate Such a possibility quickly transformed into the reality of the entire industry and industry.
Of course, many technology companies in this field are already experimenting, including Alibaba, Pinduoduo, Suning and other e-commerce platform gene-based companies. The basic approach is to use e-commerce platforms as the center and install cameras to confirm factories. The operating rate is then matched to different types of orders based on the platform company’s understanding and ability of upstream manufacturers. As for the digitalization attempts of manufacturing enterprises themselves, they are based on the integration of OT (operating system) and IT (information) systems, such as Rockwell and other foreign companies.
If only accurate matching is achieved during distribution, the ability of the manufacturer will be fixed in a certain type, and it may also cause a company to have a monopolistic centralization position, leading to the so-called beneficiary of the benefits of digital transformation It is a certain company or several companies. In the long run, if the internal strength of manufacturing companies is not improved, they will become a vassal of the centralized Internet platform.
The manufacturing industry needs to be self-improving. The inner strength is to make the production line smart, so that the designer can keep pace with the times and understand consumers, instead of getting sales reports through a certain platform. There are too many consumer demands hidden behind the sales report. For those who want to produce shoes and design shoes, if they cannot hear the demands of consumers, but only see the sales indicators, it is certainly not a healthy model.
“So there will be C to M, and there will be an integrated, powerful brand integrating production, manufacturing, sales, and marketing on the M side.” Min Wanli said that there will be multiple The result of the company’s participation. What he hopes is to "make this company's production line think proactively and increase its thinking power, not just increase its responsiveness".
From the idea of doing
But how to find such a factory?
Min Wanli pays attention to the industry in the physical manufacturing industry whose overall production efficiency and profit rate are obviously low, but will not disappear. "The low profit margin indicates that the overall industry pressure is high. As long as we find out who is in this long-term industry, we are anxious at this moment, willing to think and have expressed to act, we will send a technical team for in-depth contact. ”
In the past, industrial production focused on scale and safety, and implemented a post responsibility system. However, no one connects different posts together for analysis, coordination, and parameter debugging, causing everyone to take care of themselves, and the machine production line It is not as smart as the design, to actively tell them how to coordinate, which leads to first-rate production lines, second-rate products, and third-rate prices.
" Quite a lot of manufacturing companies have good congenital conditions. They have information systems and data. We can use the methodologies we have used in other industries to find out the problems in this company.Make precise acupuncture points for the questions. There are dozens of processes, and I may be able to make it better with just two processes. I choose two from dozens of processes. This is wisdom. "
The implementation of the program requires the solution to be based on the existing decision-making system and data flow, and then embedded. "You can't overthrow all the existing things in others, how to cut in, the least damage, the least resistance, and the fastest effect , This requires a very strong method of design, to find the access point, a bit like a brain-computer interface, you can't let this person's mind go, but you have to connect the interface. "He said.
Improving the production efficiency of leading companies in the upstream manufacturing industry is like entering the digital age of genetically modified engineering. They are obviously also a good investment target.
"The advantage of a large platform is that The time gave me an endorsement, which allowed me to knock on some doors and find opportunities for me to try. Once I have tried more, gained experience, and gained methodology, I needed an organization that was more focused, sharp, agile, and executed. "Min Wanli has expectations for the future-this is also the convenience of the two-line drive of technology and capital in this entrepreneurial venture: it may be that manufacturing companies have further contact with their technological demands, or they can follow up and judge this. Is this company worth investing in?
