Changsha Economic Development Zone bravely broke into the "no man's land" of intelligent manufacturing, explored and discovered a new way of "leading learning" and "learning leading", from intelligent products - intelligent factories - intelligent services to a unique intelligent manufacturing construction.
Rednet Moment Correspondent Huang Zi Ou Yaqi Changsha reported
"Yongmei Pioneer" - the first full-featured and intelligent mining TBM in the domestic coal mine jointly developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Group and Henan Energy and Chemical Group, with an excavation diameter of 5.03 meters, can simultaneously complete rock breaking, support, slag and guidance operations, with good construction safety, fast excavation speed, high quality of lanes, conducive to environmental protection and high comprehensive benefits, in Changsha Economic Development Zone Iron Construction Heavy Industry Second Industrial Park acceptance of the line. Accelerate the upgrading of China's coal mine equipment to a new height.
Coincidentally, in the Changsha Economic Development Zone, the SWE215ERC intelligent excavator launched by Shanhe Intelligent uses the large bandwidth and low latency characteristics of 5G technology to realize remote communication between the control terminal and the excavator through the 5G network, and can realize the construction of unmanned excavators located thousands of kilometers away from home.
As a park with a large number of well-known construction machinery enterprises in Sany Group, Iron Construction Heavy Industry, Shanhe Intelligence, Zhonglian Gongqi and Hengtian 95, Changsha Economic Development Zone is a well-deserved "construction machinery capital". With the urgent need to build a high-end equipment manufacturing industry gathering place, Changsha Economic Development Zone takes intelligent manufacturing as the core, and after several years of exploration, has found a unique intelligent manufacturing construction new way of "leading learning" and "learning leading", from intelligent products - intelligent factories to intelligent services. This practice is affectionately called "brave no man's land" by industry insiders.
The intelligent excavator launched by Shanhe Intelligent uses 5G technology to control the construction of unmanned excavators located thousands of kilometers away without leaving home.
The first full-featured and intelligent mining TBM "Yongmei Pioneer" in China coal mines was accepted and rolled off the production line in the Second Industrial Park of Iron Construction Heavy Industry in Changsha Economic Development Zone.
Borrowing: leading learning, product intelligence
As we all know, Changsha Economic Development Zone is an important industrial town, and construction machinery, automobile manufacturing, parts and electronic information are the "two main and one special" industry in the park. The first two are both 100 billion-level industries.
After 2017, Changsha Economic Development Zone proposed a "trinity" collaborative promotion mechanism, clearly taking intelligent manufacturing as the traction, implementing intelligent transformation and exploration of intelligent, informatization and digital development paths for enterprises in the park, so as to build a national intelligent manufacturing demonstration zone.
Yanfeng Automotive Trim System (Changsha) Company through the addition of intelligent logistics equipment, robot integrated automation put into use and the establishment of AGV automatic guidance logistics system, not only improve the factory turnover rate, reduce the inventory of finished products, reduce the unit manufacturing cost by 23%, the product pass rate reached more than 98%, and the process to achieve unmanned handling.
There are barriers in the industry, and ideas can be connected.
In the practical exploration, the construction machinery enterprises dominated by Sany found that although they are classified with the automobile industry in different categories of equipment manufacturing, the intelligent road of the automobile industry goes further and better. Well-known car companies such as SAIC Volkswagen and Bosch Changsha often use smart factories as the carrier, the intelligence of key manufacturing links as the core, the end-to-end data flow as the basis, and the netcom interconnection as the support, and truly realize intelligent manufacturing.
With the convenience of "close neighbors", the construction machinery industry has devoted itself to "learning to drive", from creating intelligent products, to building intelligent factories, to providing intelligent services, and step by step to realize the transformation of intelligent equipment from "stupid and thick" to "smart and new".
Bosch Changsha is famous for the province's first Industry 4.0 production line.
Through digital modeling, Lens Technology optimizes the production process of the longcrystalline furnace and realizes 100% traceability of the quality and processing parameters of the longcrystalline furnace.
Digging the road: lay dots to the beginning of the information intelligent factory
After allowing enterprises to taste the sweetness of product intelligence, Changsha Economic Development Zone began to think about a new problem: the pursuit of product intelligence, do not take intelligent technology for enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency, is this what enterprises really need?
After a large number of research and visits, the park decided to further expand the intelligent transformation and help enterprises build smart factories.
For the famous black light factory and 4.0 factory in the automotive industry, in addition to further helping them achieve all-round transformation, the park also organizes construction machinery and electronic information enterprises to visit and learn, understand the standards, and study the mode.
Bosch Changsha is famous for the province's first Industry 4.0 production line. Compared with traditional production lines, the "Industry 4.0" production line has 10 to 15 percentage points higher equipment utilization and a return on investment of 20-30% higher.
In recent years, Bosch Changsha has intensified its intelligent transformation and upgraded nearly 20 original manual and semi-automated production lines. The ubiquitous data acquisition technologies such as intelligent sensors, vision systems, and RFID radio frequency identification on the new production line have enabled the factory to realize the traceability of the whole life cycle of the product and intelligent logistics, shortening the production cycle while improving labor efficiency and product quality by more than 20%.
Aiming at the intelligent factory standard of the automobile industry and concentrating on information exploration, Sany "Lighthouse Factory" came into being. In the final assembly area of Sany No. 18 plant, the digital management concept is integrated into all parts of the final assembly process. The staff of the Changsha Economic Development Zone Industrial Development Center said, "The biggest feature of the No. 18 plant is from the layout of dots to all-round informatization. ”
As the "fist product" of Lens Technology, sapphire glass, the key to its raw material production is "long crystal technology" - artificial synthesis of sapphires through long crystal furnaces. In the past, long-crystal furnaces relied on labor, which was not only inefficient, but also had high production losses. Through digital modeling, Lens Technology optimized the production process of the long crystal furnace, realized the traceability of the quality and processing parameters of the long crystal furnace, reduced the overall energy consumption of the factory by 6.2% in 2019, and reduced the electricity cost of the enterprise by nearly 10 million yuan / year.
"Referring to the excellent cases in the automobile enterprises, we have gradually established a unique intelligent manufacturing factory model in the park." Yang Xi, head of the Zhongnan Base of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, introduced, "For example, sany lighthouse factory, its focus is on assembly process management and production quality management; Shanhe Intelligence and Lens Technology are more focused on digitalization, architecture and production of digital models to improve production efficiency." ”
In the final assembly area of Sany No. 18 plant, the digital management concept is integrated into all parts of the final assembly process.
The root cloud platform created by Tree Root Interconnection has connected more than 690,000 industrial devices and created 20 industry cloud platforms.
Tuolu: Fly the general 5G + industrial Internet Non-ordinary intelligent services
In 2020, with the surging boom of "new infrastructure", Changsha Economic Development Zone proposed a "new trinity", on the basis of the original, and new technologies (5G + artificial intelligence + blockchain) + industrial chain " integration and promotion.
The main person in charge of the park management committee said that it will support Sany Group, Bosch Changsha, Shanhe Intelligent and Xiangjiang Cable to build the first batch of "5G + Industrial Internet" benchmarking projects in the park. Support enterprises of about 30 million yuan, drive enterprises to invest about 250 million yuan, strive to build 4 national projects, 2 provincial projects, create 70 practical and usable "5G + industrial Internet" application scenarios, formulate no less than 4 industry or national standards, cultivate no less than 10 local emerging technology service providers, drive enterprise output value to increase by about 15 billion yuan, and increase tax revenue by about 300 million yuan.
At present, changsha economic development zone has achieved basic 5G network coverage in the core area of key enterprises, airports and other important transportation hubs. It is expected that the total number of 5G base stations that can be opened by the end of December will reach 1590, achieving full coverage of the campus-wide 5G network.
Some people will ask: what does 5G mean for industrial enterprises?
The key: low latency.
The result: reduced costs, high performance.
Sany's famous "Excavator Index" is a success story. All kinds of equipment of Sany Heavy Industry throughout the country through 5G and other high-speed communication technology, continue to send real-time data to the headquarters, and through the collection of this information, Sany can not only judge whether the equipment is started, but also further grasp the operation of the equipment, in the data abnormalities, but also to the customer to send risk tips.
Born from Sany's industrial Internet solution service provider, Tree Root Interconnection, its root cloud platform has connected more than 690,000 industrial equipment, created 20 industry cloud platforms, and empowered 81 sub-sectors. At the 2020 Expo, Tree Root Interconnection demonstrated an innovative and low-cost device access solution based on the root cloud platform, which can realize equipment acquisition and performance analysis at low cost and without difference by applying intelligent hardware electrical signals + intelligent AI algorithms on the edge side, and obtain key working conditions such as machine and equipment shutdown, boot, operation, and equipment OEE.
"Being able to connect" is precisely the basis for enterprises to realize the comprehensive connection of people, machines, materials, laws and rings, and ultimately reduce costs, increase efficiency, energy saving, and exert the value of digital transformation.
"The intelligent factories built by enterprises have their own emphases, but their core is to reduce costs and increase efficiency." Yang Xi said, "From learning to practice, from practice to innovation, the 'two masters and one special' enterprises in the park have grown in mutual reference. In particular, construction machinery industry enterprises, see deeply, go far, aim at the long-range coordinates, and break into the no-man's land in the industry field. ”
Perhaps, this intelligent manufacturing exploration tour that occurred in changsha economic development zone is a flashback article. It starts from the result of intelligent products, explores the construction of intelligent factories is the process, traces back to the source of intelligent services, and forms a new paradigm of intelligent manufacturing.
The scenery of no man's land is in the near future, and we can see it together.