First, the origin of industrial operating systems
As the "world's manufacturing factory", the mainland has the largest and most complete industrial enterprise cluster and industrial chain, including many global manufacturing giants and millions of small and medium-sized factories. However, the manufacturing plants of these enterprises are generally hindered in promoting the process of digitalization, networking and intelligence: 1) the system software customization degree is high, the cost is high, and the cycle is long, which troubles the decision-makers of industrial enterprises; 2) Due to the lack of top-level design, the construction of "chimney" system has caused information islands and data "haze" problems; 3) The system software threshold is high, the openness is poor, users cannot participate, and it is difficult to accumulate industrial knowledge. Where is the road to "smart" manufacturing of industrial enterprises?
The construction of smart factories is mainly to realize two automations: production process automation and operation management automation. Through the second-level and millisecond-level data in the production process, Factory Automation (Factory Automation) is realized, so that industrial production can be intelligently perceived, intelligently controlled, intelligently operated, and intelligently maintained. Through hourly and day-level slow data, business automation (Business Automation) is realized, and through horizontal, vertical and end-to-end integration of data, it fully realizes independent operation and excellent operation of product R&D design, planning and scheduling, manufacturing, quality, marketing, supply chain, etc.
In 2018, Landro released the supOS industrial operating system V1.0 version, which set off a wave in the industry, so that the industrial operating system has become a new category into the territory of industrial intelligence, and as the first industrial operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China, it has entered the field of vision of many industrial enterprises. The creation of the supOS industrial operating system inspired the evolution of smartphones, we think of a factory as a mobile phone, it is smart, it has an open operating system, attracting smart people around the world to develop a large number of APP for people to use, so that more and more users begin to choose more suitable for their own needs, more "smart" smartphones.
Now, our factory is the same, it needs an open industrial operating system, this system can connect various equipment and information systems downward, gather all data into a "unified base", up can open up a variety of application systems, all kinds of ecological enterprises can create a rich industrial APP on the system, so that our industrial enterprises can choose what they need, where they need, so that our factory can become a smart factory, the factory of the future. The release of the supOS industrial operating system also marks the beginning of the exploration of a new smart factory construction path based on "industrial OS + industrial APPs", and by the end of 2022, Landro has completed the construction of more than 4,100 smart factories.
Second, build a three-level industrial operating system
As the core engine and foundation of the comprehensive digital transformation of industrial enterprises and the government's digital economy reform, the industrial operating system provides a basic platform and tool empowerment for human-machine material collaboration in factories, supply chain collaboration between factories, industry index development research, and industrial chain capability improvement research. The specific form of industrial operating system can be divided into three levels: factory operating system, industry cloud operating system, and industrial brain operating system according to the service object and service content.
Among them, the factory is the core unit of the manufacturing industry, just as the cell is the most basic component of human beings, it plays a vital role in the process of high-quality industrial development. Therefore, when the industrial operating system is embedded in the group enterprise, manufacturing plant, and production unit in the factory, it can be figuratively called the factory operating system.
The development and growth of industrial enterprises will drive and affect the upgrading of the entire industry, and the enrichment of industrial enterprises producing the same variety of products will form specific subdivided industries. Therefore, when the industrial operating system empowers common products and common technologies for different industries, it can develop into a vertical industry cloud operating system.
The production and operation of industrial enterprises require the coordinated support of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry and are supervised by relevant national departments. The entry of industrial enterprises into parks, the development of regional block economy, and the overall upgrading of industrial chains are becoming important means for local governments at all levels to boost the real economy. Therefore, when the industrial operating system is diagnosed and empowered by different industrial clusters and different industrial chains, it can be developed into a three-dimensional industrial brain operating system.
Factory operating system
The use of traditional industrial software solutions to build smart factories will inevitably bring many "chimney" vertical systems, which are relatively closed and the cost of interface customization is high, resulting in difficult business coordination in the production, management and operation processes of the factory, causing contradictions between customer personalized needs and standardized product supply.
If we install an intelligent factory operating system for each factory, the factory operating system can separate and sink the modules, processes, and components common in traditional industrial software to the platform, forming a large number of "presets", and exposing these capabilities to developers based on a unified technical architecture to facilitate application development and integration. Thousands of software developers will provide personalized services for factories, the application of smart factories is gradually accumulated and enriched, industrial enterprises can have more industrial APP choices suitable for their own development, to meet the personalized demands of industrial enterprises, so that the traditional factory pyramid data transmission mode, transformed into flat, equal, to achieve the integration and sharing of data of various business systems, each factory can build a new intelligent model of "factory OS + industrial APPs", turning traditional factories into smart factories. Make factory production and management smarter and more efficient.
Industry cloud operating system
The construction of industry cloud operating systems can effectively empower micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in vertical industries, solve common problems in the industry in a low-cost manner, and realize the benefits of digital transformation empowerment. For example, the block economic phenomena such as auto parts, metal processing, socks, bags, pearls and other block economic phenomena enriched in Zhejiang can solve the transparent problems of data collection, order and manufacturing collaboration, supply chain and delivery in the process of enterprise operation and management through the industry cloud platform, and improve the digital management and operation level of industrial enterprises.
The supOS industrial operating system provides powerful basic capabilities and expansion capabilities for the construction of industry cloud operating systems, and general basic tools such as BPM workflows, report tools, model tools, visualization tools, big data services, etc. The configurable development capability helps customers respond quickly to individual needs, and users can flexibly adjust according to actual usage. At the same time, supOS provides openAPI, multi-language SDK and other support, greatly reducing R&D and customization costs, and improving user-side response and service efficiency.
Industrial Brain Operating System
The construction of the industrial brain operating system can effectively integrate government data and industrial enterprise data, help governments at all levels grasp the industrial development trend, predict the industrial development trend, monitor industrial risks, evaluate the quality of industrial development, rationally layout industries, and guide investment promotion; Cooperate with factory operating systems and industry cloud operating systems to form multi-level linkage applications, with government empowerment and service enterprises as the goal and digitalization as the means to solve the problems of scattered government service resources and difficulty in achieving accurate service for enterprises. Provide scenario application services such as normative guidance, standards and norms, policies to benefit enterprises, trade promotion, resource elements, scientific and technological innovation, financial services, talent services, enterprise burden reduction, industry analysis, enterprise benchmarking, and enterprise portraits, so that enterprises can obtain high-quality government services.
Relying on supOS as the base of the industrial brain operating system, as the basic platform for the construction of industrial brain in Zhejiang Province, it provides industrial general PaaS platform services, and has played a backbone in the construction of industrial brains such as chemical brain, chemical fiber brain, clothing brain and other industrial brains for data processing, data governance, data visualization and other tool sets, industry common industrial APP and industrial APP low-code development tools.
Third, build an open source system for industrial operating systems
The mainland manufacturing industry has the characteristics of many subdivided industries, fields, rich products, and diverse manufacturing modes, and the construction of industrial software empowerment system with industrial operating system as the core is inseparable from the joint participation of platform operators, industrial software developers, system service providers, scientific research institutions, industrial enterprises and other parties. Gathering the crowd, cohesive innovation, unified open source and open industrial operating system ecological construction will help to enrich industrial apps in different industries and fields, so as to achieve high-quality empowerment of industrial enterprises.
Landro is exploring the open source of the supOS industrial operating system. Based on supOS construction of open source standards in the direction of connection protocol, data application, development tools, etc., it provides enterprises and developers with open communication, software collaborative development, supply and demand docking, expert consultation, open source licensing agreement and intellectual property protection and other comprehensive services. In the open source community, developers can quickly obtain relevant code, tools, etc., based on the visual, configured low-code development environment, through drag-and-drop to quickly generate industrial APP, improve development efficiency, reduce development costs, at the same time, supOS provides three industrial APP integration and transformation methods, the integrated and transformed industrial APP will converge to the Landzo App Store.
In the future, Landro will also explore the establishment of an industrial operating system open source foundation to provide ecological participants with services such as software intellectual property management legal framework and technical guidance, provide daily operation and governance support such as capital and finance, incubate industrial ecology and high-quality industrial APP applications in batches, and build a symbiotic and win-win ecosystem.