"How to cultivate and develop new steel productivity?
As a new keyword, "new quality productivity" was written into this year's "Government Work Report", and "vigorously promoting the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerating the development of new quality productivity" was listed as the top ten tasks in 2024.
In 2024, the mainland steel industry is in a critical period of structural transformation, and the pressure to improve quality, efficiency and reduce costs continues to increase. For the steel industry, which is currently in the critical period of transformation and upgrading, how to cultivate and develop new steel productivity and promote the high-quality development of the industry will become the key work of the industry for a long time and a common topic of concern for the industrial chain.
New Tiangang
Improve quality with "wisdom" and move towards "new".
Sun Shi, Minister of Digital Information Technology of Tianjin Xintiangang Decai Technology Cold-rolled Sheet Co., Ltd., pointed out in an interview with the all-media reporter of Industrial Internet World/"Communication Industry News" that from informatization to industrialization, and then to the data center, big data, and industrial Internet platform, the development of new quality productivity in the steel industry can not only reduce costs and increase efficiency, but also improve the production efficiency of enterprises.
As a member of the group, the cold-rolled sheet company has witnessed the great changes before and after the mixed reform of Tianjin Xintiangang Group. Today's cold-rolled sheet companies realize real-time monitoring of the whole process of vehicles, personnel, equipment, energy consumption and other data. Through the analysis and processing of the back-end big data platform and visual scheduling, production data monitoring and analysis, energy consumption control, personnel behavior control, etc. are realized, effectively reducing operating costs, equipment failure rate, and greatly improving work efficiency. Among them, the decision-making efficiency has been increased by 57%, the operating cost has been reduced by 25%, the data accuracy has been improved by 67%, and the statistical efficiency of the report has been increased by 30%, and the overall manufacturing and management level of the factory has made a qualitative leap.
Tianjin Xintiangang Decai Technology Cold Rolled Sheet Co., Ltd.
Sun Shi said that in addition, AI predictive maintenance has also been innovatively introduced in the core production process of cold rolling to achieve real-time intelligent early warning. The introduction of AI predictive maintenance can realize online intelligent diagnosis, make the operation status of equipment fully controllable, and greatly reduce the difficulty of inspection, further ensure production safety and reduce production loss.
In the next step, starting from the company's logistics, production and marketing, raw material procurement, financial costs, spare parts procurement, equipment management, energy management, data collection and safety and environmental management, etc., through network collaborative manufacturing, precise operation control, digital R&D and manufacturing, New models such as large-scale customized production, on the basis of the existing business and system of Xintiangang cold rolling, combined with business optimization suggestions and smart factory construction paths, grasp the main line of lean, automation, digitalization and intelligence, implement field-wide transparency, implement value-oriented intelligent applications and innovative applications, and build an advanced digital factory for new Tiangang cold rolling, and maintain the proportion of construction investment at 15% of the total annual revenue in the future.
5G + Industrial Internet
Accelerate the pace of digital transformation
Traditional iron and steel enterprises generally have industry pain points such as large and scattered industrial data, high data security risks, weak visual monitoring, and high employment costs. The development of 5G and industrial Internet will get rid of the status quo of "coarse and dirty" in traditional industries and move towards the modernization mode of intelligent production.
As an important plate base in North China, Xintiangang Decai Technology Group Cold Rolled Sheet Co., Ltd. seizes the opportunity of 5G, joins hands with Tree Root Interconnection, innovates industrial digital applications with a forward-looking vision, builds a two-way empowerment ecology of the industrial Internet and the steel industry, accelerates the pace of digital transformation, accelerates the construction of a green, intelligent and efficient smart factory, and adds wings to the take-off of the real economy.
The "5G + Smart Factory" of the cold-rolled sheet company uses the "5G + Industrial Internet" technology to fully interconnect "people, machines, materials, methods and environments" to achieve a comprehensive upgrade. Tree Root Internet has built application scenarios such as 5G+ ultra-high-definition video security, 5G+ large-scale data collection, 5G+ refined energy management and control, cloud computing big data infrastructure platform, visual command and dispatch system, and full data asset management innovation system. With the "Root Cloud" platform of Tree Root Internet as the new foundation for digital transformation, the two parties will focus on digital asset management, production plan priority, enterprise application data governance, etc., to accelerate the digital transformation of the cold-rolled steel industry.
The digital application also benefits the park management, and the tree root interconnection installs a smart brain to the park, so that the trajectory of all personnel and vehicles entering the park in the park can achieve full-dimensional closed-loop management. The "5G+ smart factory" has brought visible management improvements in the application of the park, and the development of the smart ecosystem not only makes the park applications interconnected, but also the intelligent transformation of the integration of industry and finance is also the only way. Under the empowerment of the whole value chain of tree root interconnection, through the information integration and integration platform, Xintiangang Decai Technology Group will integrate the management of the whole link of financial business, make the data visible and controllable, break the "black box" of the enterprise, seamlessly collaborate, let the data flow freely, realize intelligent management, and comprehensively help the group's business and financial management level to a new level, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the enterprise.
The "5G + Smart Factory" of the cold-rolled sheet company uses the "5G + Industrial Internet" technology to fully interconnect "people, machines, materials, methods and environments" to achieve a comprehensive upgrade.
RootInternet focuses on building a "root cloud" platform with the industrial Internet operating system as the core, providing a new foundation for the digital transformation of industrial enterprises. Intelligent manufacturing is the deep integration of new technology and manufacturing, in the management and transparency of iron and steel enterprises, iron and steel enterprises need to promote the dynamic and seamless integration of the industrial chain in R&D, design, procurement, production, sales, quality, after-sales service and other business links, with the help of the application of new technologies, eliminate information barriers, promote the integration and interoperability of IT and OT data, and with the help of digital information technology to promote the transformation and upgrading of iron and steel enterprises, to achieve high-end, intelligent and green transformation.
It can be said that in the construction of the digital factory, in order to maintain the continuity of the plan, Tree Root Internet has made a five-year plan for the new Tiangang Decai Technology Group. From the first phase of the digital factory project to the current second phase of construction, from the rigor and functionality of the product implementation are completed step by step according to the plan, compared with the service providers in the industry who have the ability to carry out the construction of the digital factory, Tree Root Internet has obvious advantages in terms of product, implementation, delivery, follow-up service and price.
Therefore, the key to accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces lies in cultivating and forming new industries, mastering more key core technologies, and breaking through development bottlenecks. Through Industry 4.0 and other means, we will link up with upstream and downstream enterprises, explore new formats of industrial chain extension and linkage, and gradually build a unique steel industry ecosystem.
Tapping into "low-carbon value"
Promote the green transformation of the steel industry
At present, digitalization and greening are two important trends in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. Iron and steel enterprises have entered the era of low profits, and it is necessary to comply with the policy trend, increase efforts to promote green, low-carbon and high-quality development, and accelerate the intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry, which is an important track to accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.
According to Sun Shi, with the empowerment of tree root interconnection, the energy utilization rate of the "5G + smart factory" of the cold-rolled sheet company has been improved. Real-time monitoring of the production environment and production equipment parameters, optimization of the internal energy consumption management system of the factory, 15% increase in energy utilization, and help save enterprise costs.
Overall, the steel industry should still take the road of green, low-carbon and sustainable development, and actively promote the three major steel transformation projects with innovative technologies and methods. "Capacity replacement", "ultra-low emission" and "extreme energy efficiency" are the three major steel transformation projects covering the whole industry. In terms of green development, iron and steel enterprises can use the characteristics of 5G large connections to collect energy consumption and pollutant emission data of each production link, identify the links with serious problems, and carry out process optimization and equipment upgrades, reduce energy consumption costs and environmental protection costs, and achieve clean and low-carbon green production.
With the "Root Cloud" platform of Tree Root Internet as the new foundation for digital transformation, the two parties will focus on digital asset management, production plan priority, enterprise application data governance, etc., to accelerate the digital transformation of the cold-rolled steel industry.
Undoubtedly, the proposal of new quality productivity has pointed out the main direction for the steel industry to build a high-quality development pattern. On the one hand, the steel industry will focus on cultivating and developing new steel productivity, and promote the high-quality development of the industry with new quality productivity. With the emergence and development of greener, smarter and more technological products and enterprises in the future, the living space of iron and steel enterprises that rely on traditional development methods and lack of core competitiveness will be greatly compressed, and it is the general trend for "new look" to gradually replace "old look".
On the other hand, emerging industries such as 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), new energy, and a new generation of information technology, which represent new quality productivity, will better empower the steel industry, promote the deep integration and development of industries, and more original and disruptive scientific and technological innovation achievements will be widely applied to the transformation and upgrading of the steel industry, becoming a new driving force for the higher-quality development of steel.