Data, like water, electricity and gas, has become an indispensable element resource for development.
On February 17, China’s “counting from the east to the west” project was officially launched, 8 National Computing hub nodes were started, and 10 national data center clusters were planned.
This is another major project launched by China after the “South-to-North Water Transfer”, “west to East power transmission” and “west to East Gas Transmission”.
Digital economy is profoundly reshaping the global economic pattern.
Digital industrialization and industrial digitization weave the longitude and latitude of digital economy. Experts generally believe that digital industrialization is the means and industrial digitization is the purpose.
Industry digitization, industry and manufacturing are the main battlefield, industry is the foundation of a country, and manufacturing is the foundation of a powerful country.
At present, this magnificent digital transformation is sweeping China’s real economy, like a spring breeze, blowing to the factories and workshops of industry leading enterprises and warming the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
In the spring of science and technology, there will be a new “sting”.
Hubei is no exception.
01 digital transformation to push Hubei to a level of 5 trillion
In 2021, Hubei’s high-quality development accelerated, and the total economic volume reached 500294 billion yuan, ranking seventh in the country, handing over a heroic answer sheet of rebirth.
2021 will be an extraordinary and challenging year for Hubei, and it will be a decisive year for the revitalization after the epidemic.
Those who do not seek easy things will succeed, and those who do not seek refuge will enter. Taking stock of the answers of “wonderful throughout the year”, the tide of digital economy is surging.
In 2021, Hubei’s digital economy will accelerate its development, reaching a scale of 2 trillion yuan. The added value of high-tech industries above Designated Size in the province exceeded trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 101965 billion yuan, an increase of 16.9% over the previous year.
New infrastructure has become an important engine to drive a new round of economic growth. Hubei is ahead of schedule in layout and the construction of computing infrastructure is advancing by leaps and bounds, ranking first in Central China. There are more than 80 data centers in the province, with 145000 racks, accounting for 38% of the total scale of the six central provinces.
The leading function of high-end industries has been significantly enhanced. The grand framework of “51020” has been accelerated, with a total of 392 new R & D institutions in Hubei, basically covering all cities and prefectures.
Among them, Guanggu (East Lake New Technology Development Zone), located in Wuhan, has become the innovation pole core of the butterfly transformation of Hubei digital economy.
Now, on both sides of the Optical Valley Science and innovation corridor, Chinese and foreign enterprises embarking on the journey of digital intelligence transformation of industry and manufacturing industry are leading Hubei’s digital economy and promoting energy.
02 starts the digital journey, and manufacturing enterprises need pioneer guidance
In this digital wave, upgrading and transformation has become the general trend of the development of Hubei’s manufacturing industry. All kinds of manufacturing enterprises with different scales and backgrounds will be the main force to promote the wave to its peak.
However, how to carry out intelligent transformation and digital transformation has also become an urgent problem for these enterprises.
Due to the late start and lack of experience of digital transformation of some manufacturing enterprises in Hubei Province, they still stay in the initial stage of transformation. For further planning in the future, we still need to learn from the useful experience of pioneer models.
In the hinterland of Guanggu Kechuang corridor, No. 1, fozuling Third Road, is located a developing “lighthouse factory”. It is constantly providing green and innovative digital products to help Hubei move towards digital transformation in housing, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industrial fields.
This factory comes from Schneider Electric, a world top 500 enterprise with nearly 200 years of development history. Since its landing in Hubei more than ten years ago, Schneider Electric has set an example for the digital transformation of Hubei.
Walking into the Wuhan factory of Schneider Electric, the breath of intelligence came to our face——
Glancing at the TV screen, the progress of each production line is clear at a glance; On the glass closed production line, tireless robot hands quickly pick up the parts sent from the assembly line accurately and quickly insert them into the detector without error – if the product is qualified, it will automatically enter the next process, and if the product is unqualified, it will be picked out; The raw materials and finished products are transported along the two-dimensional, circular or intelligent tracks in an orderly way, and the raw materials and finished products are transported along the three lines
Since 2014, Schneider Electric has “tailored” its Wuhan plant and formulated an intelligent transformation scheme. Based on Schneider Electric’s ecostruxure architecture and platform for the industrial field, Wuhan factory completed digital upgrading in 2018, becoming Schneider Electric’s first star smart factory in China.
Before the transformation, Wuhan factory and other enterprises faced the same obstacle, that is, most of the distribution systems are traditional mechanical distribution systems, which can not generate data, and are isolated from each other, facing the limitations of isolated islands that are difficult to break through.
In response to this bottleneck, Schneider Electric has given full play to the three advantages of lean operation, software information platform and automation technology by integrating it and ot technology, so as to maximize the data value and eliminate the information island between systems, so as to break the “black box” of management. On the basis of high transparency and visualization of enterprise energy consumption, end-to-end and whole life cycle, Comprehensively improve efficiency, complete the optimization of production, energy efficiency and asset management, and finally realize intelligent manufacturing.
After the transformation, the management agility and production efficiency of Wuhan factory have been significantly improved, the operation has been transparent and visual, and the product quality problems have been reduced by 15%. At the same time, the world’s leading automatic production line in the factory has also realized 24-hour continuous operation.
At the same time of digital transformation, Schneider Electric also runs green intelligent manufacturing through all links of Wuhan plant operation, making the plant more green and low-carbon on the basis of intelligence.
With a high degree of automation, efficient optimization of production and operation processes and improvement of energy efficiency to a new level, Schneider Electric Wuhan factory was not only rated as a national “green factory” by the Ministry of industry and information technology, but also rated as a developing “lighthouse factory” by the world economic forum, ranking among the “pioneers” of the world’s top manufacturing industry, setting a leading demonstration for the transformation of manufacturing industry in Hubei Province.
03 digital wave plays the “song of the Yangtze River” in the new era
The numbers are surging and Jingchu echoes.
According to the report of Hubei provincial government, in 2022, the province will continue to implement the digital economy leap project, promote the deep integration of digital technology and real economy, give birth to Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co.Ltd(300832) , new business forms and new models, build a highland of digital economy, and the added value of core industries of digital economy will increase by more than 20%.
It is not difficult to see that the transformation of manufacturing industry has ushered in bright prospects again. However, on the road to digitization and intellectualization, we should still be calm, stick to it and actively learn from the experience of example.
Accenture, a world-renowned consulting firm, has predicted that the intelligent transformation of China’s manufacturing industry may take another 20 years.
However, we are glad to see that Schneider Electric’s leading technologies and products have been widely used in projects such as Three Gorges hydropower, sanning chemical, DPCA, Baowu iron and steel, Optics Valley Biological City, Shanghai New World Co.Ltd(600628) group, Wuhan poly Cultural Plaza and so on.
Sanning chemical, located along the Bank of the Three Gorges, is a large chemical enterprise integrating coal chemical industry, phosphorus chemical industry and fine chemical industry. Since its establishment for more than 50 years, it has been playing the role of escort for the people of Hubei Province.
However, due to the characteristics of high energy consumption in the chemical industry, with the country moving towards the goal of “double carbon”, energy conservation and emission reduction and increasing efforts to protect the ecological environment, a transformation and upgrading of sustainable development has become the only way for the development of chemical enterprises. Based on the existing business, how to optimize the production and operation process, improve efficiency and save resources has become the focus of chemical enterprises.
Suning chemical takes green, environmental protection, safety and intelligence as the development goal and reached strategic cooperation with Schneider Electric in 2019. Schneider Electric has provided a series of digital solutions for sanning chemical industry and opened the whole life cycle digital transformation of production management and project operation and maintenance.
Finally, sanning chemical achieved a 5% reduction in energy consumption and a 30% increase in production efficiency. It set a benchmark for green development in the chemical industry and made a big step towards the goal of building a “century old store”.
Looking at the land of Jingchu, the wave of digital transformation has played the “song of the Yangtze River” in the new era. With the empowerment of excellent enterprises such as Schneider Electric, the expedition to the sea of stars is expected to be greatly shortened.
