When it comes to "twins", people will inevitably think of twins, but how to understand "numbers" when they are added? In the familiar science fiction book "Three-Body Problem", science fiction movies "Iron Man" and "The Wandering Earth 2", there are digital twins. In reality, digital twin technology is gradually penetrating into various industries and quietly entering people's production and life. Driven by the wave of science and technology, digital twin technology is becoming the key to the pursuit of new quality productivity in various industries with its powerful data analysis and simulation capabilities. Recently, the reporter walked into Xi'an Tali Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tali Technology"), a national high-tech enterprise and the only technology manufacturer focusing on industrial digital twins in Northwest China, to see how they use digital twins to decode new industrial productivity.
Tali Technology is a hyper-converged visualization platform for unattended natural gas stations built through digital twin technology
Digital twins
In recent years, with the progress and wide application of a new generation of information technology such as the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, the manufacturing industry is developing in the direction of intelligent manufacturing, and digital twins are increasingly mentioned. So, what exactly is a digital twin? The reporter has learned from various sources that the concept of digital twin first originated in the United States and is used for the health maintenance and protection of aerospace vehicles. After 2017, the concept of digital twin has been gradually enriched, and the core is to establish a virtual digital body that maps with the physical entity in real time.
For the understanding of this concept, Wang Junliang, one of the founders of Tali Technology, gave a more vivid explanation: "Digital twins can also be understood as digital twins. In layman's terms, it is a virtual 'twin brother' tailored to the real physical world. Everything that happens in the real world can be clearly perceived through the digital world, just like looking in a mirror. At the same time, virtual scenes are used to reverse control and predict what may happen to physical entities in the future. ”
It is understood that Tali Technology, founded in 2017, is the earliest technology manufacturer in Northwest China to focus on industrial digital twins. "At the beginning of the company's establishment, we defined the development direction as industrial-grade digital twins, which is also the most difficult area to break through. However, we believe that all the breakthroughs in key technologies in the future must be at the industrial level. Through data integration and business collaboration, it truly helps users achieve in-depth improvements in security, O&M, cost, and efficiency. Only by improving the technological capabilities of the new round of industrial revolution can we truly enhance the value of our own entrepreneurship. Wang Junliang said bluntly.
It is adhering to this original intention, over the years, Tali Technology has taken "AI + digital twin" as the core technology, adhered to leading industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, and used a new generation of information technology to help enterprises supplement the chain in the short board industry, extend the chain of advantageous industries, upgrade the chain of traditional industries, and build chains of emerging industries, and make every effort to build a modern industrial system, accelerate the cultivation and development of new quality productivity, and enhance new momentum for the high-quality development of industrial enterprises.
Through several years of hard work, Tali Technology has made breakthroughs in technology research and development and scenario application in the industrial field, formed a number of technologies and products with fully independent intellectual property rights, more than 100 intellectual property rights, participated in the formulation of five national standards in the field of industrial digital twins and two local standards in Shaanxi Province, and became a leader in industrial-grade digital twins.
"Twin forks"
The natural gas station is "meticulous" In the natural gas station of Nuoda, I saw that the inspection robot was inspecting and collecting various data in real time, such as temperature, pressure, flow, etc. Sitting in front of the computer screen, the staff can monitor the production site in all directions, view and understand the real-time production parameters, and of course, monitor the pipeline for leaks......
There is no staff, but you can have all the information, and you don't need to be on duty, but you can find hidden dangers at the first time. This is the first unmanned natural gas station in Northwest China built by Tali Technology through the digital twin system - Shaanxi Gas Xi'an Weiyang Distribution Station.
In the office of Tali Technology, Wang Junliang used a computer to demonstrate to reporters in detail the comprehensive operation and management of unmanned natural gas stations. The reporter saw on the digital twin natural gas station platform that the "twin replica" natural gas station is almost exactly the same as the physical station, and it is restored in equal proportions. From a screw cap to all the equipment pipelines, the entire station is presented on the screen in the form of a three-dimensional digital base, and visual interaction is realized.
The reporter followed Wang Junliang's explanation to "walk" around the digital factory, and could clearly feel the production changes brought by the digital twin - the visualization platform of the unmanned natural gas station built by the digital twin technology can realize remote operation, automatic inspection, geological disaster monitoring and risk analysis, real-time early warning, comprehensive integrated management and other functions. These features can greatly improve the efficiency and safety of pipeline operation and maintenance, reduce hazardous manual operations, enhance work automation, and allow managers to monitor and operate the station more safely.
"Full" perception of station information, "deep" analysis of station status, and "fast" response to station events...... Tali Technology empowers station management with digital, builds a visual twin platform for gas station safety supervision, digitizes all elements of natural gas stations, manages the whole life cycle of equipment, realizes the "data" of hazardous chemical prevention and control, and better escorts the safety of gas transmission.
The application cases of physical enterprises also strongly support the important value of digital twins. It is understood that in 2022, in a large natural gas plant, Tali Technology successfully helped customers predict the possibility of major risk accidents more than 20 days in advance through the digital twin system, and successfully prevented the occurrence of accidents, helping customers avoid hundreds of millions of yuan in losses.
Today, Tali Technology has become the first company in China to achieve predictive risk analysis in the field of natural gas, and its technical achievements have solved the two core problems in the field of oil and gas after expert evaluation and appraisal, and have reached the international advanced level.
Build a new business format for digital twins
Empowering the new digital scenario of the industry Gas stations are only a partial application of digital twin technology. In recent years, Tali Technology has focused on the application of digital twins in subdivided industries such as energy and chemical industry, and continued to expand the depth and breadth of digital twin applications in various fields, helping the digital transformation of the entire industrial chain, making data alive and intelligence easier.
Since the beginning of this year, Tali Technology's new mine major risk identification and disposal system has been launched in more than 10 mines, which is the first large-scale application of AI technology + digital twin technology in this scene of mines, which can give real-time alarms and deal with major risks in mines.
"In the past, managing a mine required a lot of manpower. Now, with the use of digital twin technology for scenario modeling, two or three staff members can grasp the status of underground equipment and personnel in the entire mining area, and promote the transformation of the mine safety governance model to pre-prevention. Wang Junliang said.
It is understood that in the field of smart mines, Tali Technology has 3D point cloud scanning and high-precision digital modeling around the underground roadway, and the error value can be accurate to 0.2 cm, real-time monitoring of mine production safety, real-time monitoring of major mine equipment, real-time analysis of alarm data and other aspects are at the domestic advanced level.
Digital twins are good at making data dynamic and dimensionally enriched, and realizing two-way real-time interaction between the physical world and the digital world. At present, digital twin technology has been widely used in various industries and fields. The "intangible" digital twin is gradually showing the value of "visible" data.
In January this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "2023 Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Factory Unveiling Unit Publicity List" and the "2023 Intelligent Manufacturing Excellent Scene Publicity List".
"Digital twin technology provides strong technical support for the digital transformation of the industry, which can effectively solve the pain points of the industry and help enterprises reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve quality. Wang Junliang said that based on the self-developed software and hardware hyper-converged digital twin system, Tali Technology has created a new generation of visual, manageable and controllable smart digital twin system, and is committed to building a new format of smart digital twin to help enterprises plant the "digital" soil for industrial upgrading.
【Reporter's Comments】Let the "twin of all things" shine into reality
When the door of the virtual is pushed open, the anchor point built by technology also brings more possibilities for iteration and upgrading to reality. As small as a screw or as big as a city, digital twin technology will bring the "twin of everything" into reality, and will also bring a revolutionary change to our lives.
Where new technologies are, productivity is there. For many industries, digital twin technology is the future, but also an opportunity and a challenge. New requirements have been put forward for the innovation and development of enterprises and the digital and intelligent upgrading of the industry.
With the continuous progress of technology and the continuous expansion of application scenarios, we are more and more convinced that the new generation of information technology, as an important embodiment of new quality productivity, will play an important role in the new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, become an important driving force to promote the development of the digital economy and industry, and will also become a new generation of armor to protect the "lifeline of the city".
Text/Xi'an Newspaper All-Media Reporter Cheng Jing Photo/Provided by the interviewee