In 2012, the global giant GE shouted the slogan "Industrial Internet" for the first time. Since then, China’s industrial Internet platforms have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The book "Ji·Zhi: From Digital Workshop to Intelligent Manufacturing" believes: "If the consumer Internet is a revolution that has already achieved fruitful results, then the industrial Internet is a revolution that is taking place, and it will surely inject huge impetus into the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry."
On April 20, 2021, the Henan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and the Provincial Department of Finance jointly issued the "Notice on the Announcement of the Assessment and Acceptance Results of the First Batch of Henan Province Industrial Internet Platform Cultivation Objects". The lifting logistics equipment industry industrial Internet platform constructed by Weihua Group, the mining equipment industrial Internet platform constructed by CITIC Heavy Industries, and the Tianxin Industrial Internet platform constructed by Tianrui Group Information Technology Company passed the assessment and acceptance and were officially recognized as Henan Province Industrial Internet Platforms.
Now that one year has passed, how are these three industrial Internet platforms developing? What are the achievements and shortcomings of the construction of Henan's industrial Internet platform? In the next step, how will Henan's industrial Internet platform take off?
On the first anniversary of the acceptance of the first batch of industrial Internet platforms in Henan, Dahe Daily and Dahe Financial Cube tried to find the next stop for Henan’s industrial Internet by interviewing companies and experts.
Dahe News·Dahe Financial Cube Reporter Wu Chunbo
In April 2022, inside the spacious factory building of Weihua Intelligent Industrial Park, mechanical welding arms have replaced the busy figures of workers. What achieves precise management of welding robotic arms and material handling is the "Industrial Internet Platform for the Lifting Logistics Equipment Industry" built by Weihua Group using big data means.
In fact, the influence of Weihua Group’s industrial Internet platform has far exceeded the geographical scope of the smart industrial park. According to Niu Li, project leader of Weihua Group's industrial Internet platform, whether at home or abroad, with signal support, as long as a machine fails, the big data center located in Changyuan Weihua Intelligent Industrial Park, Xinxiang, can promptly alarm and send out a failure signal.
Through this industrial Internet platform, Weihua Group has achieved full life cycle management of lifting equipment, and effectively reduced equipment management costs and equipment maintenance times.number and equipment failure rate.
Create a network for crane management
Platform services have covered 29 provinces and 13 industries
The Industrial Internet is a key infrastructure for the transformation of global productivity and an inevitable choice for my country to build a manufacturing power. It has become the commanding heights of a new round of industrial competition.
In October 2018, Weihua Group cooperated with Shugen Internet and China Unicom Henan Branch to create an "Industrial Internet Platform for the Lifting Logistics Equipment Industry" using Internet of Things and cloud computing technology to provide upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry with system solutions for equipment IoT. On January 29 of the following year, the first county-level 5G base station (China Unicom) in Henan Province was opened at Weihua Group. Weihua Group has become the first company in the global crane industry to adopt 5G technology.
Through this industrial Internet platform, Weihua Group has achieved centralized management of its products, united cranes from various regions to form a national and even global integrated system network, and carried out remote operation and maintenance, remote monitoring, remote fault diagnosis and other services. Based on industrial big data, it has realized fault warnings, increased the added value of products, and realized the transformation from manufacturing products to providing engineering contracting and remote operation and maintenance services.
According to reports, the current application of Weihua Group’s industrial Internet platform has covered 29 provincial administrative regions in China and Southeast Asia, with users involved in 13 industries including machinery, electromechanical, and petrochemical industries.
Weihua Group’s industrial Internet platform and big data application practice have won 6 provincial and ministerial level honors. The company has also become "the first batch of industrial Internet platform cultivation enterprises in Henan Province" and "pilot demonstration enterprise for the development of the big data industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology".
"We use the industrial Internet platform to monitor the working status of the crane in real time and detect faults in time. Through product data visualization, digital twins and historical data playback, we can accurately analyze and locate the cause of the fault. Through remote debugging of the equipment, we can eliminate the fault immediately and restore the normal operation of the equipment." Niu Li said.
In his view, Weihua Group can use big data technology to dispatch service engineers distributed across the country in real time to improve after-sales service capabilities and quality. A series of data accumulation will also provide an important basis for the company to improve product research and development capabilities and product quality, and continue to improve product greenness and intelligence.energy level.
Song Xiangqing, director of the Industrial Research Center of Beijing Normal University, said that empowering lifting products with industrial Internet technology and serving lifting product manufacturers will increase the added value of lifting products, improve product profits, and promote lifting equipment to become the core equipment of intelligent manufacturing logistics handling.
Empowering the post-hoisting service market
Promote the transformation and upgrading of the lifting industry to manufacturing service-oriented
In recent years, the government has supported the development and construction of industrial Internet platforms and has successively issued the "Industrial Internet Development Action Plan (2018-2020)" and the "Henan Province Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing and Industrial Internet (2018-2020)" to support the digitalization level of domestic industrial enterprises.
According to reports, Weihua’s original intention of building an industrial Internet platform is to use big data analysis, the Internet, the Internet of Things and other means to strengthen the full life cycle management of services, promote the rational use of hosts and the reuse of equipment residual values, improve the level of intelligent services, achieve sustainable development of the manufacturing industry, effectively reduce equipment management costs, reduce labor costs, reduce equipment failure rates, and provide market forecasts for industry research and development, sales, after-sales, etc.
As Weihua Group’s industrial Internet platform is promoted to the entire industry, the platform’s service targets have also been extended to lifting equipment manufacturers, end users, upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain, government regulatory authorities, etc., providing them with online management of lifting equipment, fault diagnosis, Intelligent after-sales operation and maintenance services empower the digital transformation of marketing, R&D, manufacturing, after-sales services, energy management and other businesses in the lifting industry, and use data to serve the digital transformation of lifting industry enterprises, promoting the lifting industry's "cloud use of data to empower intelligence" and realizing the comprehensive digitalization of enterprises.
In actual use, the value of the industrial Internet platform has also been gradually released. According to Niu Li, judging from the data currently connected to the platform, the improvement of after-sales service capabilities based on big data can reduce the equipment management costs of relevant enterprises by 10%, reduce the number of equipment repairs by 25%, and reduce the equipment failure rate by 30%.
"Before Jianlong Steel was connected to the platform, there were pain points such as low workshop automation, weak remote operation and maintenance capabilities, inconsistent management information, and high accident rates." A person in charge of Jianlong Steel told reporters that after accessing Weihua Group's industrial Internet technology to transform the workshop, the company realized an unmanned automated workshop.The efficient collaboration and precise management of the system ensures 100% consistency in logistics and information flow.
Another person in charge of the company told reporters that during the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control period, Weihua Group provided timely services to the company through the platform, ensuring the reliability of the crane's operation, greatly reducing the time for equipment failure processing, and providing a good guarantee for the company's resumption of work and production.
In his opinion, when a crane fails, the fault can be quickly eliminated through the platform's fault information query, remote control, and remote debugging functions. The operating parameters and important component information generated daily by the platform also remind companies to perform regular maintenance and replace wearing parts to ensure the safety of the equipment.
Song Xiangqing said that the application of the industrial Internet platform has broken the traditional service mode of the lifting industry, built a new post-service market system for the lifting industry, extended the value chain of the lifting industry, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of the lifting industry from manufacturing to manufacturing services.
Improve the "Crane Index" system
Create a new “chain owner” for industry digitalization
In October 2020, Weihua Group integrated the data information of manufacturing and sales enterprises in the Changyuan Crane Industry Cluster, used the Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data technology to analyze the working status of cranes, led the construction of the "Changyuan Crane Index Analysis Platform", and compiled the "Changyuan Crane Index".
The "Changyuan Crane Index" combines crane operation data from many places in China and reflects the operating rate and production activity of manufacturing factories. The compilation and release of the "Changyuan Crane Index" will play a positive role in promoting the industry's scientific understanding of the operating conditions of the crane industry and promoting industrial transformation and development.
In the next step, Weihua Group plans to start its digital construction from three aspects, create a new "chain owner" for the industry's digitalization, and promote the quality improvement of the industry's digital development.
First, use industrial Internet technology to empower the lifting logistics equipment industry, transform Weihua Group's advanced technology into industry service capabilities in terms of resource integration, cost reduction and efficiency increase, new technology research and development, and industrial big data application, and develop together with industry enterprises.
Second, improve the existing index construction model and construct a more scientific and representative crane index. Continue to carry out trial runs of the industry index, and further optimize the internal model parameters of the platform development industry index based on statistical macro data of industry development, and gradually realize forward-looking predictions of industry operations.
Third, maintain communication and contact with peers in the industry on the construction of industrial Internet platforms, jointly explore and study the development and application of the industrial Internet industry, dig deeper into data functions, establish key industry platforms, and provide data services for corporate strategic planning and industry policy formulation.
"Strengthening communication with the same industry is very important, which will help break the boundaries of different lifting manufacturers and further expand the service coverage of the industrial Internet platform." Song Xiangqing suggested that the government also needs to implement precise policies to reduce data transmission costs, guide more industry companies to access the industry's industrial Internet platform, scientifically improve platform functions, jointly create industry-recognized digital standards, improve industry communication efficiency and reduce development costs.
Song Xiangqing also suggested that the country should increase its efforts to cultivate technical talents related to industrial Internet platforms and improve application scenario innovation capabilities to accelerate the elimination of the "disconnect" between industry industrial Internet platform services and corporate needs, expand the depth and breadth of industry digital integration, and achieve high-quality development.
