In 2018, the world economic forum launched the global manufacturing “lighthouse factory” selection project to select the demonstrators of “Digital Manufacturing” and “globalization 4.0”. So far, 90 factories from 22 industries in the world have won this award, of which 31 are located in China, accounting for more than 1 / 3, ranking first in the world.
While actively using digital technology to realize transformation, “Lighthouse” also extends the scope of digital innovation beyond physical factories. Through its own “lighthouse experience”, China’s “Lighthouse”, represented by CAOS cosmoplat, is empowering enterprises in the same industry and even across industries, showing its great potential and leading temperament in the field of digital innovation and intelligent manufacturing, and providing beneficial experience for the development of global manufacturing industry.
benchmarking demonstration leads the future manufacturing industry
The latest research of the world economic forum and McKinsey in the global “lighthouse factory” network project shows that with the advancement of the fourth industrial revolution, technological innovation in manufacturing industry will continue to bring significant economic and social benefits. By 2025, the fourth industrial revolution is expected to create value of up to $3.7 trillion. Among them, “lighthouse factory”, as a leader, will take the lead in industrial reform.
In 2018, the list of the first batch of “lighthouse factories” was announced. With the empowerment of CAOS cosmoplat, Haier central air conditioning interconnection factory became the only local enterprise selected in China, opening the prelude of China’s “Lighthouse” to the world.
From the first to the 31 largest in the world today, the “quantitative change” of China’s “lighthouse factory” has also become a vivid proof of the “qualitative change” of manufacturing transformation. Taking Haier Tianjin washing machine interconnection factory selected as the “lighthouse factory” last year as an example, under the empowerment of CAOS cosmoplat, the factory integrates 5g, IOT, automation and advanced analysis technology, which improves the product design speed by 50%, reduces defects by 26% and reduces unit energy consumption by 18%, showing the great role of digital innovation in promoting the upgrading of manufacturing industry and providing specific guidance for more enterprises to explore their own transformation path.
experience sharing and cross industry empowerment
As a global intelligent manufacturing application model, the technological, strategic and mode innovation brought by “lighthouse factory” is not limited to the factory. In fact, all enterprises in the world can find useful reference from the “lighthouse experience” in the process of transformation to digital and sustainable development.
Taking CAOS cosmoplat as an example, in the process of helping Haier’s three factories to be selected as “lighthouse factories”, the platform also extracted and precipitated its own “lighthouse experience”. In 2021, cross industry empowerment Tsingtao Brewery Company Limited(600600) , creating the first “lighthouse factory” in the global beer and beverage industry.
With the help of industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing technology, the Tsingtao Brewery Company Limited(600600) factory with a history of more than 100 years has realized a comprehensive “renovation”. The barriers among customization platform, supplier can making platform, manufacturing platform and sorting platform have been broken through, and data has become the “baton” driving production and sales. The delivery time of customer orders and new product development time have been reduced by 50%, and the share and revenue of customized beer have also increased by 33% and 14% respectively.
The successful practice of cross industry empowerment also brings greater imagination space for industry intelligent manufacturing applications. As more and more enterprises accelerate their layout in the digital field, the “lighthouse experience” created and accumulated by Chinese pioneers such as CAOS cosmoplat is also gradually moving towards thousands of industries, providing guidance for the transformation and development of more enterprises.
innovating “going to sea” to create a global ecology
The value chain and ecosystem created by digital empowerment will not stop at geographical boundaries. Based on the cross industry empowerment of Haier and Tsingtao beer to build four “lighthouse factories”, CAOS cosmoplat is also embracing the global digital ecosystem and sharing its new technologies, models and formats accumulated in practice with the global manufacturing industry.
Take American general electric appliance (GEA) as an example. With the empowerment of CAOS cosmoplat, in 2020, under the influence of the epidemic and the overall decline of the American home appliance industry, GEA’s revenue increased by 10% against the trend and its profit doubled. In addition, the platform also promoted the implementation of mass customization mode in New Zealand Fisher & Paykel, Europe candy and Japan Sanyo, which achieved good results and injected new momentum into the transformation and development of enterprises.
As a country with all the industrial categories listed in the United Nations Industrial Classification, the integrity and uniqueness of China’s industrial environment and industrial scene are unparalleled. Therefore, the digital innovation and practice from Chinese enterprises will provide reliable experience and innovative methods to solve the practical problems in global industrial transformation. For example, in exploring the field of 5g technology innovation and application, CAOS cosmoplat has achieved a breakthrough from building the world’s first intelligent + 5g interconnected factory to building the world’s first 5g + intelligent manufacturing fully connected Industrial Park, contributing a number of typical models and application scenarios with pioneering and demonstrative significance to the integrated application of 5g + industrial Internet, which will accelerate the actual production of new technologies.
In addition to the first “lighthouse factory” in the beer and beverage industry, Chinese enterprises have created the world’s first “Lighthouse” record in battery, heavy industry and other industries. They mark the new height of China’s intelligent manufacturing in the world, and encourage more enterprises and industries to join the exploration and practice of digital technology.
