The MES large screen displays the key production data in the workshop in real time, the equipment in the factory area can be detected and analyzed in real time, and the positioning and load information of the intelligent forklift can also be transmitted back in real time...... Walking into the tin branch of Yunnan Tin Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yunnan Tin Branch) located in the Mengzi Economic Development Zone, there is "intelligence" everywhere you look.
Aerial photography of Yunxi Tin Industry Branch
This is the epitome of Honghe Prefecture's vigorous promotion of economic structural transformation and upgrading. In recent years, Honghe Prefecture has focused on intelligent manufacturing, taking digital connectivity and green transformation as the starting point to improve the intelligent and digital level of enterprises in R&D, design, production, management and service, and continuously reshaping traditional advantageous industries such as tobacco and tin.
As the world's largest tin smelting enterprise in terms of production capacity, Yunxi Tin Branch accelerates the deep integration of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing, builds a "digital smart factory" with 5G empowerment, and promotes the digital transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry.
Intelligent operation center of Yunxi Tin Industry Branch
How "smart" can such a "digital intelligence factory" be? The reporter found the answer in the company's intelligent operation center. The integrated information platform is like the intelligent "brain" of the factory, and it is also a part of the overall architecture of its "1+1+1+N" digital intelligence factory. Thanks to the application of digitalization, the data of the whole process of tin smelting production is no longer an "information island", and the "brain" is connected with the equipment and robots on the production line to analyze and accurately control the production and operation, process parameters, equipment status, material flow, energy consumption and other production links.
"We have integrated more than 20,000 real-time operation point data of more than 500 production units, and built a '1+1+1+N' digital intelligent factory architecture composed of a 5G private network, a data middle platform, a smart operation center and N innovative applications in the production process, which has moved the entire tin smelting production system to the big screen in a three-dimensional form, realizing 'one screen view of production, one network management of the whole plant', helping managers at all levels to schedule resources more accurately, respond quickly and make scientific decisions. Zhong Hua, deputy director of the equipment and information management department of Yunxi Tin Industry Branch, introduced that through this intelligent system, the factory has fully realized digital management from material acceptance, batching, roughing, refining and by-product recovery, flue gas treatment and other links to tin product warehousing, improving operation and management efficiency by nearly 20% and reducing manpower investment by nearly 40%.
How "efficient" can such a "digital intelligence factory" be? Follow the smart "brain" and walk into the various production links of the factory to find the answer.
The melting point of tin is about 231.9 degrees Celsius, and in the tin smelting process, the temperature usually needs to reach above the melting point of tin to make the tin liquid and easy to process and extract. Therefore, in the memories of the older generation of tin smelters, the workers always wore thick protective clothing, endured unimaginable high temperatures, and carried out production operations by the scorching furnace. Today, the 5G+ furnace life monitoring system, through 5G connection to the front-end equipment and computing platform, realizes real-time temperature supervision and collection, real-time analysis of abnormal temperature, positioning and early warning, and the staff can remotely monitor, greatly improving the safety and efficiency of production.
The robot arm is constantly busy on the production line
In the intelligent warehousing center, the industrial robot arm is busy on the production line, the 5G+AGV autonomous transportation system is the precise navigation of unmanned forklifts, the 5G+ intelligent warehouse system, 5G+ intelligent inspection and distribution and 5G+ overhead crane remote control, which realizes the flexible handling, autonomous transportation and unified management of goods, and each production line only needs 1 person to guard the large screen in the centralized control room to complete the work efficiently and improve the storage efficiency.
5G+AGV autonomous transportation system
There are many similar innovative applications, and a set of data confirms the efficiency of this 5G "digital smart factory": the comprehensive operating cost is reduced by 18%, the product development time is shortened by 20%, the production efficiency is increased by 18%, the automatic production data collection rate is increased to 85%, and the annual equipment utilization rate is increased to 98.3%...... It has set up a new benchmark for the "five world's best" industry with "the largest production capacity, the strongest technical equipment, the best energy conservation and environmental protection, the highest degree of digitalization, and the best comprehensive benefits".
"Tin smelting is realizing the rapid change from 'human control' to 'numerical control', from 'manufacturing' to 'intelligent manufacturing'. Lei Sheng, deputy manager of Yunxi Tin Branch, said that he will continue to optimize the existing MES system, carry out AI visual recognition, smart logistics, laboratory automation and other projects, and build the Tin Branch into a "lighthouse" factory in the industry.
Automatic conveyor belt in intelligent warehouse center
At present, the problem-solving move of cultivating and empowering traditional industries with new quality productivity has increasingly become a new engine to promote the high-quality development of Honghe's economy. In recent years, Honghe Prefecture has continued to improve the level of scientific and technological innovation, empowered intelligent manufacturing with the construction of industrial Internet and the digital transformation of enterprises as the starting point, and issued a series of policies and measures such as the "Three-year Action Implementation Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy in Honghe Prefecture" to support the digital transformation of enterprises in an all-round way. The digital transformation benchmark represented by Yunxi Tin Industry Branch has played an important demonstration and leading role, allowing more traditional industries in Honghe to rely on the new generation of information technology revolution and industrial transformation to reshape their advantages, continue to carry out "digital butterfly transformation", and promote the rapid transformation, strong upgrading, and quality and efficiency of Honghe's industry.
Reporter: Che Anda, Duan Wenrun, Li Yarong, text/photo
Editor-in-charge: Wang Jingni
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