Under the continuous influence of the global epidemic, China’s manufacturing industry rebounded faster than expected.
The National Bureau of Statistics recently announced that the manufacturing PMI recorded 50.3 in December 2021, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over November, and was in the expansion range for two consecutive months.
At the same time, the global manufacturing PMI fell by 0.8 percentage points to 55.3%, and the global manufacturing growth slowed down, but the gradual recovery of China’s manufacturing industry is encouraging.
How to find a solution in the recovery is very important. Digitization is becoming the key to reducing costs and increasing efficiency in the industry. Through digital transformation, China’s FAW, Dongfang hope, Putian iron core and other manufacturing enterprises have found a way to break through under the new situation.
“In 2021, the sales volume of Hongqi will reach 300000 vehicles. Such a high production capacity can continue. In addition to the normal production line expansion, the realization of intelligent production also depends on the digital intelligence factory.” Tian Chao, general manager of Qiming Information Technology Co.Ltd(002232) smart office application department, a holding subsidiary of FAW, told China business daily.
For enterprises focusing on manufacturing, R & D and sales of power transformer core, Wu Weiwei, deputy general manager of Putian core, needs to solve the problems of low digitization of traditional manufacturing industry and cross organizational and regional coordination of the group company. “We need a digital base to get through the digitization of production and business, and lead enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency”.
data fusion
After the outbreak of the epidemic, manufacturing enterprises, especially those in the global supply chain, have experienced turbulence for all to see. On the one hand, the cost of labor and raw materials is rising, on the other hand, the order is unstable, and the demand for refinement of delivery date and quality control is more prominent. Reducing cost and improving efficiency has become the inward demand of enterprise digital transformation.
Putian iron core currently has more than 300 people, with an annual production capacity of 150000 tons, serving more than 200 customers around the world.
“At present, Putian iron core has passed workshop automation, and the per capita output value of phase I plant has reached 4 million yuan, and that of phase II plant has reached 8 million yuan.” Wu Weiwei told reporters. Putian iron core’s digital idea is to efficiently connect people, equipment and systems, connect and integrate production links, equipment testing and sales data, and realize “cost reduction and efficiency improvement” visible to the naked eye.
In the production process, it was difficult to adjust the work order at the operation end according to the production site. Materials and production equipment were abnormal during the execution in the workshop, and the front-line employees were unable to make adjustments. After data fusion through nailing, mobile office has become very convenient. Now employees can operate order changes on their mobile phones or even at home.
The timely detection and adjustment of batching and equipment is also very important to Putian iron core. The selected materials must reach a performance comparison with the final product. “If the material performance is too good, the cost will be too high. If the material performance can not meet the demand of product delivery, the product must be reorganized, which is bound to cause a waste of material cost”. It is very valuable to carry out timely detection, data synchronization and remote control in the production process.
“Abnormal information sometimes occurs in the production process. The execution instructions of the equipment are directly operated at the back end by nailing to ensure the smoothness and consistency of on-site operation”. According to Wu Weiwei, through the data integration between people and end, the order delivery efficiency has increased by 50%, the labor cost has decreased by 50%, and the equipment maintenance cost has decreased by 80%.
“Data fusion is the key for manufacturing enterprises to reduce production costs, improve production efficiency and increase substantive profits.” Academician Li Peigen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering told reporters.
“In reality, enterprises often have numerous information chimneys and data are not really integrated. For enterprises, to improve efficiency and innovate, data needs\’ multi link \’integration, from design link, manufacturing link, assembly link to sales link and so on.” In the view of Academician Li bacon, “product innovation, personalized customization, optimization of equipment operation in the factory, and even strategic investment all need data fusion.”
digital base
In the process of digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises, a unified and safe digital base becomes very important.
Oriental hope is a group company headquartered in Pudong, Shanghai, with more than 300 subordinate enterprises and more than 30000 employees. The business segment of the group includes Sinochem, which is a typical traditional manufacturing enterprise. However, the main businesses of Sinochem include power, electrolytic aluminum, alumina, photovoltaic and other subdivided fields, and the main industrial parks are scattered in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Henan and Chongqing.
“There are great differences in industries, and the definitions of standards are also different. For example, there will be differences in the definitions of materials on the financial side and the production side, resulting in different statistical results in different dimensions, which can not provide an important basis for management,” Hou Qiqi, general manager of Dongfang hope products, told reporters, “The solution to this problem encountered by ordinary enterprises or manufacturing industries is to build some solutions for single business scenarios, such as a series of digital projects. However, it can not solve the fundamental problem in essence. As these projects are used more and more for a long time, it will also lead to new problems of data linkage and data flow, and the iterative upgrading of these projects will cause non-profit losses to the business chain Great harm. “
Dongfang hopes to choose a digital base with high adaptability for the company. In 2017, Dongfang hopes to introduce nails at the entrance of the mobile end; In 2018, the base integration of exclusive nails was launched.
“The construction of digital projects is inseparable from the unified architecture support. Our architecture includes from IOT access layer to SaaS layer (software as a service), then to PAAS layer (platform as a service, mainly including business middle stage, data middle stage and technology middle stage), and then to the top-level SaaS application.” Hou Qiqi found that the digital project has been promoted step by step, and the unified architecture has solved the problem of repeated construction by enterprises, saving a lot of costs.
“To realize data-driven and data integration, we must need a platform”. Li bacon believes that the deepening application of digital technology and intelligent technology in the manufacturing industry needs a really easy-to-use platform. A good platform should be able to support low code development, so that business experts can quickly build various application systems according to actual needs. Previously, Siemens acquired mendix mainly because of its low code capability, which makes it easier to develop various industrial apps.
It is worth noting that with the promotion of the cloud nail integration strategy, the manufacturing industry has become the third track of nail after government affairs and education. Ye Jun, President of nailing, made it clear in an interview that “I hope nailing will become a base and become the only way to solve the comprehensive industrial digital transformation of all walks of life in China.”
“Nailing is software. We have never been more concise than wechat. China doesn\’t need another chat software today, but it lacks another software that brings changes to the digital transformation of the industry. We are willing to become bloated in order to make the industry not bloated.” Ye Jun said.
(source: China business network)
