IBM helped clients win the "Trusted AI Case" award from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

　The case of Yanfeng Automotive and Universal Technology using IBM's intelligent automation products was selected as an "Excellent Case of AI Native Technology and Application"

　　Recently, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) solicited and announced the results of the "Trusted AI Cases", and the case jointly created by IBM, Yanfeng International Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yanfeng Automotive") and Suzhou Global Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Universal Technology") based on IBM intelligent automation software was selected as an "Excellent Case of AI Native Technology and Application". This award is a testament to IBM's collaboration with customers to create and promote the implementation of AI technology, and will also provide valuable reference for industries and enterprises that are actively exploring AI applications.

　　The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the selection body of the award, was approved to build a key laboratory of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for the evaluation of key technologies and applications of artificial intelligence in 2017, and began to build a "trustworthy AI" evaluation system in 2018, which has now become the most authoritative evaluation system for artificial intelligence in China. In 2023, CAICT launched the collection of AI native technologies and application cases, with the aim of selecting representative implementation cases that have achieved good economic and social benefits through the actual deployment of AI native technologies and products, and have certain replicable and generalizable implementation cases.

　　With the new wave of enterprise digital intelligence transformation set off by ChatGPT, many enterprises are actively exploring how to adopt AI with high quality, scale and security to achieve innovation and breakthroughs. However, this is easier said than done, and many enterprises face challenges when implementing AI, the first obstacle being the complexity of data. The IBM Institute for Business Value's "Harnessing the Opportunities of AI and Automation" report reveals that data, AI, and automation are interdependent, and that without data there is no AI, and AI is the foundation of automation. The award-winning IBM clients, Yanfeng Automotive and Universal Technology, are industry pioneers who address business challenges head-on with a data-first strategy and empower business development with AI and automation technologies, providing a successful demonstration of AI applications in the manufacturing industry.

　　Yanfeng Automotive: Putting data first and realizing digital transformation across the entire AI lifecycle

　　The global automotive industry is moving from the traditional industrial era to the digital era, and the traditional automotive value chain is facing reconstruction. The auto parts manufacturers involved in it are facing the problem of how to survive and develop in the Red Sea. At the same time, the accelerated application of AI technology is also setting off a new wave of digital and intelligent transformation in the automotive industry. In the face of new opportunities and challenges, Yanfeng Automobile, a global auto parts supplier, has partnered with IBM to jointly explore the path of data-first digital intelligence to achieve cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and innovative development.

　　In the past few years, Yanfeng Motors and the IBM team have created a benchmark for the use of AI technology to achieve digital transformation in the domestic automotive industry and even in the field of intelligent manufacturing, from realizing the automatic transformation of external and internal orders, solving the problem of high-speed data transmission on the global factory floor, replacing open source tools with enterprise-level tools to achieve high-availability data extraction, and then using AI-enabled solutions to realize the capacity measurement and planning of core production equipment.

　　· AI-enabled real-time data extraction – With Event Streams, an enterprise-grade data extraction solution in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration-Event Streams, you can easily achieve highly available data extraction and solve the operational bottlenecks caused by the open-source data extraction tool Kafka.

　　· AI-enabled high-speed transmission of massive data - By quickly deploying the small but beautiful IBM Cloud Pak for Integration – Aspera, we build an enterprise-level file transfer solution to realize the high-speed transmission of massive data between branch production workshops and headquarters, and real-time grasp of parts inventory usage in many workshops distributed in more than 240 factories around the world, laying a solid data foundation for intelligent inventory and forecasting.

　　· AI-enabled efficient order management – IBM Watson Discovery's powerful natural speech learning capabilities are used to build AI models that turn into smart brains to automate order management and automatically convert a large number of external general orders that originally needed to be manually processed into internal orders.

　　· AI-empowered R&D innovation – By deploying IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM), an end-to-end, fully integrated R&D management solution, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) enables development management of the entire lifecycle from early design to final vehicle inspection and certification, and realizes scalable and scalable integrated management of R&D processes, greatly improving R&D efficiency and quality.

　　Yanfeng's digital and intelligent transformation has implemented AI-enabled data transmission and extraction, AI applications, automated workflows, etc., realizing digital innovation transformation based on the full life cycle of AI, and achieving quantifiable economic benefits. Through this transformation, Yanfeng Motors can extract multiple real-time production data from the system and provide it to the MI Kanban system of each factory for query and display, breaking through operational bottlenecks. The newly constructed enterprise-level high-speed data transfer solution has increased the file transfer speed of Yanfeng Automotive by an average of 10 times, laying a solid data foundation for intelligent inventory and forecasting. At the same time, Yanfeng has applied AI-enabled applications to increase the accuracy rate of order classification from 85% to 97%, greatly reducing rework time.

　　Universal Technology: Build an enterprise application integration platform and business process management platform to move towards intelligent automation

　　With more than 50 years of experience in chain R&D and manufacturing, Universal Technology is the leader of the domestic chain industry and a national high-tech enterprise integrating chain R&D, manufacturing and sales. In recent years, digitalization and intelligence have become an important means of global technology transformation and upgrading, and the company has successively developed and deployed multiple IT systems such as MES, ERP, WMS, quality inspection system, supplier management system, etc., to serve various business processes of enterprises.

　　With the rapid development of high-tech business and the intensification of competition, Universal Technology urgently needs to realize the close cooperation and upstream and downstream linkage of multiple links and business roles from product design, production, logistics, sales, etc., to build a unified modern business process management platform to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Through workshops, IBM helped Global Technology sort out the difficulties of business, system integration and process connection, tailor solutions and IT system architecture, and explore the best path for digital transformation and upgrading on the basis of maximizing the reuse of current systems.

　　· Realize the interconnection of information systems and realize the first step towards intelligent automation. The internal management process of the manufacturing industry is complex, and various information systems are often established in the process of rapid development, and these chimney-like system architecture will lead to inefficient business link flow process, related risks cannot be quickly identified, and the order delivery cycle is long. In order to build an advanced intelligent business process management platform, Universal Technology first needs to realize the interconnection of multiple systems across different business processes, connect the IT systems used by different job roles in different processes, and realize seamless connection between various business links, rapid warning, and visualization and traceability of the whole process.

　　Universal Technology uses App Connect, an enterprise service bus component in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, to build an agile and lightweight application integration platform based on the enterprise service bus in the manufacturing industry, which solves the problem of chaotic interfaces between systems, realizes agile and lightweight application integration, not only realizes the connection of multiple application interfaces, analyzes and processes multiple data formats, but also provides information synchronization and asynchronous transmission capabilities. High stability and easy scalability, as well as good statistics, analysis and monitoring capabilities.

　　· Realize the linkage of business processes up and down, and improve operational efficiency with automated process management. In the past, the execution of business processes of Universal Technology mainly relied on offline communication, and there were information breakpoints between different departments, resulting in high communication costs from order to delivery, and it was often difficult to deliver on time. At the same time, production management mainly relies on experience judgment, temporary procurement of raw materials often occurs, there are problems of cost risk management, and procurement progress tracking is not timely. Due to the company's lack of feedback supervision on the actual status of the order-to-production to delivery, there is no feedback on abnormal situations.

　　Universal Technology uses IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (BAW) to integrate business systems and management system process approval information to achieve comprehensive visibility and comprehensive management of business processes. The platform is based on a hybrid cloud base, which makes it easy for customers to switch between different underlying infrastructures, and also simplifies the unified management of Universal's applications, data and business processes in a hybrid IT environment.

　　As a typical industry leader in the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the digital and intelligent remodeling of Universal Technology does not stop at the optimization and integration of IT systems, but further moves towards the intelligent automation management of processes. This in-depth reshaping of business systems and processes has helped Universal Technology to achieve hyper-automation of digital production processes, which has really improved operational effectiveness. Through the transformation, the part production plan that used to take 5 days to complete manually in Excel at Universal Technology can now be completed in just a few hours with fully automated calculations, thus reducing the planner's workload by 80%. Thanks to the fully digital review of defective products, the improved digital process has greatly improved the efficiency of inspectors and clerks, reducing the workload by 60%. In addition, the data-driven integration of procurement, supply and marketing has increased its order fulfillment rate by 50%.

　　At present, the state has proposed to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces and promote high-quality development. China has a large number of traditional advantageous manufacturing industries, and there is an urgent need to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional advantageous industries and continue to develop 'upward to new'. After 40 years of development in China, IBM has not changed its original intention, relying on leading technology products, end-to-end consulting services and global management experience, IBM and partners to help Chinese enterprises accelerate the implementation of advanced technologies and create new quality productivity in the AI era.

　　About Yanfeng Automotive

　　Yanfeng International Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. ("Yanfeng Automotive") is a global automotive supplier that redefines the way people play, work and play in the car by providing interior and seating solutions that meet the needs of today's and tomorrow's drivers. Headquartered in Shanghai, the company has 9 R&D bases in 20 countries around the world, more than 4,200 R&D teams, more than 240 factories and technical centers, and a total of more than 55,000 employees worldwide, providing global OEMs with the design, development and manufacture of auto parts products. Through product innovation and forward-looking research, Yanfeng will help automakers explore the future, bring better human-vehicle interaction experience to global automotive consumers, and actively promote the evolution of the automotive driving experience.

　　About Universal Technology

　　Founded in 1970, Suzhou Global Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Global Technology") covers an area of 250,000 square meters, with a construction area of 130,000 square meters and more than 2,000 sets of various production equipment. The company has a state-level enterprise technology center, has participated in more than 30 national and industry standard discussions, presided over or participated in the formulation and revision of standards 8 times, the products have been awarded by the State Council, and undertook the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's high-power ship transmission chain industry strong foundation project. In recent years, it has developed emerging high-tech sectors such as intelligent systems and industrial application software, and the secretariat of the Product Digital Design and Manufacturing Branch of China Mechatronics Technology Application Association is located in the headquarters of the group company. In more than 50 years of hard work, "Global People" has always adhered to the enterprise spirit of "refinement, efficiency, innovation and transcendence" and the work style of "careful design, lean manufacturing, and fine service". Inherit the spirit of craftsmen, transmit power, and wholeheartedly provide satisfactory products and high-quality services to customers around the world.

　　About IBM:

　　IBM is the world's leading provider of hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and enterprise services, helping customers in more than 175 countries and territories gain business insights, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain a competitive advantage in their industries from the data they own. More than 4,000 government and enterprise entities in critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM hybrid cloud platforms and Red Hat OpenShift to digitally transform quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, industry cloud solutions and enterprise services provide our clients with open and flexible options. A long-standing commitment to corporate integrity, transparent governance, social responsibility, a culture of inclusion, and a spirit of service is the cornerstone of IBM's business.