In recent years, China's manufacturing industry is facing the dual pressure of the return of manufacturing industry in developed countries and the rapid catch-up of late-developing countries, and it is urgent to accelerate transformation and upgrading, enhance the level of competitiveness and efficiency, and achieve high-quality development. There are many enterprises in China, the development ability is very different, and a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises are still in the exploration stage of transformation and upgrading.
With the in-depth development of China's intelligent manufacturing 2025, the industrial Internet has risen to become China's national strategy. As a product of the deep integration of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing industry, the industrial Internet plays an important role in accelerating the transformation and upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises. However, how to choose the right path and more effectively promote the development of the industrial Internet for small and medium-sized enterprises is still an important challenge facing the government and enterprises.
The industrial Internet platform can link the whole industrial system, the whole industry chain, and the whole value chain, and is the key infrastructure supporting the development of industrial intelligence. Based on the "Xinde Industrial Internet Platform (XD-IIP)" independently developed by Boming Xinde system, Boming Xinde has established an industrial ecological chain based on the network, the platform as the hub, the data as the element, and the security as the guarantee, which can correspondingly provide four aspects of empowerment for small and medium-sized enterprises. One is the platform, which has the unique sharing characteristics of the platform economy; the second is the characteristics of the Internet of Things, which can network the production equipment including products; the third is the characteristics of enterprise interconnection, which can coordinate upstream and downstream of enterprises; and the fourth is the characteristics of big data, which can improve the ability and level of intelligent manufacturing. These four characteristics have different degrees of effect on small and medium-sized enterprises.
1. Platform features: help small and medium-sized enterprises to make up for information classes at a lower cost and faster speed
Although a single large enterprise can also build an industrial Internet for its own use, there is no doubt that the development of the industrial Internet through the Internet platform is the main direction. The industrial Internet platform can concentrate the software that each enterprise needs to invest separately in information upgrading and digital transformation, and pay according to the use, and the enterprise can also reduce the corresponding hardware and personnel investment, and reduce the deployment cost, testing cost and operation and maintenance cost of the enterprise IT management system. Now many enterprise software, such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), for small and medium-sized enterprises, the price is very expensive, but after these software is deployed to the platform, new access users can pay according to the use, the relative cost can be reduced a lot.
The industrial Internet platform can accelerate the time of enterprise informatization transformation and reduce implementation costs. Internet platform will make the entire enterprise IT system become more agile, enterprises alone to deploy MES, ERP and other information systems, often need half a year, a year, or even longer, and the Internet platform based on the "cloud" architecture can make the software more flexible, the traditional software a lot of common things, such as data management has become the basic function of the platform, can be completed by the platform, these enterprise information systems have become lightweight applications on the Internet platform, the requirements for enterprise information capabilities greatly reduced , the deployment speed is greatly accelerated.
The industrial Internet platform can also solve the interface and collaboration problems between different information systems, and can automatically communicate data between different systems in the enterprise. For traditional enterprises, how to open up the information island between different information systems has always been a difficult point in the integration of "two informatization". The industrial Internet platform can pre-integrate the industrial APP, and the data between different Apps can be circulated and can be connected, so that small and medium-sized enterprises can choose different information systems according to their own needs, at different times, such as using ERP first, then USING, and then using other systems, and the new system can be easily integrated with the original system. It has greatly improved the efficiency of informatization of small and medium-sized enterprises and reduced the difficulty of informatization.
Through the industrial Internet, these lightweight, platform-based software applications can solve the problem of information upgrading in the initial stage of many small and medium-sized enterprises at a very low cost, such as entrepreneurs can know the production status, order situation, warehousing situation, personnel situation and so on at any time.
2. IoT characteristics: help small and medium-sized enterprises tap production potential and improve operation and management efficiency
An important feature of the industrial Internet is the Internet of Things, which includes the interconnection of production equipment, the interconnection of enterprise products, and even the interconnection and sharing of production equipment between different enterprises. According to the different characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprise equipment, Shun Tak industrial Internet platform can provide different levels of equipment interconnection, high standard device connection can include the industry, parameters and underlying connection of the device, and then control the operation of the production equipment, and then carry out high-level applications such as digital twins, low-standard equipment connection can be as simple as just knowing whether a device is working, and the status of work (such as standby or work).
Device networking has a number of important roles for businesses. First of all, the utilization efficiency of existing assets can be improved and the operational potential of existing equipment can be maximized. For example, the Internet platform can collect a variety of indicators for each machine, the online rate of the equipment, the up-and-run rate, and the operating rate, so as to calculate the overall utilization rate of the entire machine. With these simple data, combined with some on-site observations, it is possible to analyze the reasons why different machines are not efficient, thereby increasing the production capacity of the enterprise without investment.
Second, the operation and maintenance cost or input cost of the equipment can be reduced. For example, the energy cost of equipment use can be reduced, many equipment can greatly reduce energy use by improving efficiency and energy management, and some higher standard digital equipment can also be combined with in-depth data analysis of equipment health management for timely maintenance, improve the quality of the process by optimizing process parameters, reduce defective or scrap rates, etc. Some devices that cost a lot but have little time to use can also save business investment if they are shared.
Finally, device connectivity may become a service value growth point for enterprises. There have been many cases that show that enterprises have become an important direction for enterprises to transform their products into service-oriented manufacturing by transforming their products to obtain more product after-sales information and provide better services to customers.
3. Characteristics of enterprise interconnection: help small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out upstream and downstream collaboration
The Internet platform can realize the connection and collaboration between enterprises on the platform, which is an important feature similar to the consumer Internet. China's consumer Internet development is leading the world, and the consumer Internet platform has accumulated a large number of users, which can produce huge scale and synergy effects. Compared with the consumer Internet, enterprises need to share and collaborate with upstream and downstream enterprises in production operations, which can greatly reduce inventory results and improve production efficiency.
In the future, the modern manufacturing system will inevitably achieve timely and efficient information exchange between upstream and downstream enterprises, for example, after the downstream enterprises receive the order, they can allocate the required raw materials and spare parts in all aspects of the upstream industrial chain for the first time, and the collaborative supply of this spare parts is very complicated, especially in the case of customized production, supply chain management has become the basic ability of modern enterprises.
4. Big data characteristics: help small and medium-sized enterprises to improve intelligent manufacturing capabilities
By building a powerful big data analysis capability, the Shun Tak Industrial Internet platform can build various models in various fields of production and operation of enterprises on the basis of accumulated data, including the operation optimization model of a single device, the collaboration model of the production line, or the marketing model, the cost model, and so on. The most basic model of process parameters, which is often also the most important implicit knowledge (Know-How). Big data will indeed accelerate the narrowing of the gap between industrial Know-How, many companies in some key processes turned out to be teachers have accumulated many years of experience, these experiences are difficult to say, not clear, often rely on personal long-term accumulation and the inheritance of masters and apprentices, but now rely on data accumulation and thereby established model analysis, at least shorten the gap. For example, a process process, how to improve product quality, you can now rely on different combinations of various parameters, rely on big data capabilities, and sometimes combine artificial intelligence technology to continuously feedback and correction, and quickly narrow the original gap. An important way of intelligent manufacturing is to rely on big data modeling for data-driven, although the traditional MES, ERP and other systems also have certain analysis functions, but they are not supported by massive data.
Therefore, by collecting a large amount of field data or equipment data, combined with big data capabilities, and incorporating previous mathematical models and performance simulations, the capabilities of intelligent manufacturing can be improved. In addition to such production models, Shun Tak Industrial Internet Platform can also build and accumulate many application models, such as financial risk management and control models, cost accounting models, intelligent forecasting models, and make these models into industrial APP, which can be conveniently applied by small and medium-sized enterprises.
Beijing Boming Xinde Technology Co., Ltd. has insisted on continuous deepening in the field of integration of new generation information technology and industrial Internet for many years, and the practical application scenarios of Shun Tak industrial Internet platform have been continuously extended, and more than 50 related patents and products with independent intellectual property rights have been obtained, and the cumulative number of customers has exceeded 500, including a number of large central enterprises and listed companies, as well as more than 30 urban government departments, and gradually developed into a leading enterprise in the field of industrial Internet platform.