Infiltrate 40 key industries, and the level of digitalization continues to improve——
Industrial Internet accelerates innovative applications
“Since this year, the digitalization level of my country’s manufacturing industry has continued to improve. There are more than 1,800 ‘5G+Industrial Internet’ projects under construction across the country, and more than 12,000 application cases in the 4th’Blooming Cup’ competition.” Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Director Luo Junjie said that the integration and innovative application of the Industrial Internet in key industries of the national economy is accelerating its expansion.
According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology a few days ago, as of the end of August this year, the penetration rate of enterprise digital R&D design tools and the numerical control rate of key processes reached 74.7% and 54.2%, respectively. There are more than 100 industrial Internet platforms with certain industry and regional influence, connecting industries. The total number of equipment reached 76 million units (sets).
Revolutionizing manufacturing production methods
The “Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Effect Report (2018-2021)” recently released by the China Industrial Internet Research Institute shows that my country’s industrial Internet application innovation is becoming more and more active, and it has penetrated into 40 key points including steel, machinery, electricity, transportation, and energy. Industries, forming application models such as platform-based design, intelligent manufacturing, networked collaboration, personalized customization, service-based extension, and digital management, transforming the production mode and corporate form of the manufacturing industry.
“Industrial Internet has changed the traditional design and R&D methods.” Lu Chuncong, Dean of China Industrial Internet Research Institute, introduced that platform digital simulation and other functions provide software tools for design, and perform complex engineering and product structure and performance through the construction of digital twins. Optimize to improve R&D efficiency while reducing costs.
After Huawei has applied the industrial Internet platform design for 3 years, the time to market for high-end products has been reduced from 70 to 20 months, mid-end products have been reduced from 50 to 10 months, and R&D losses have been reduced from 25% to 6%; Shanghai Overseas Gaoqiao Group uses the 3D model collaborative management system to shorten the modeling time of complex equipment from the original one day to half an hour, and the model integrity and accuracy are significantly improved.
The industrial Internet platform can collect various data on the production site in real time, optimize the management and control level of equipment monitoring, diagnosis, and execution, and promote the transformation of production methods to intelligence. In the “black lamp factory” of Boss Electric’s Maoshan Intelligent Manufacturing Base, the 5G network uploads workshop production equipment parameters to the industrial Internet platform, combined with edge computing and other technologies, reducing the number of workers required for 24-hour production from more than 200 to 2 ; COMAC has integrated 5G, VR, etc. with the industrial Internet, and carried out data-driven product, equipment, tooling, logistics and other whole-process management and control, and increased production efficiency by more than 20%.
“Although my country’s industrial Internet is developing rapidly, there is still a gap compared with the world‘s advanced level.” Lu Chuncong told reporters that on the one hand, the industrial basic capabilities including digital infrastructure and high-end industrial software and hardware are relatively weak; on the other hand, , Deep-level application promotion still needs to be strengthened.
To this end, Lu Chuncong suggested that the construction of new industrial Internet infrastructure should lead the digital transformation of enterprises, promote the development and industrialization of new technologies and new products such as 5G industrial chips and modules, and edge computing, and accelerate the scientific and technological achievements in the industrial Internet field to reality. Productivity transformation.
Affordable and good for small and medium-sized enterprises
Small and medium-sized enterprises are most sensitive to the market and have the strongest willingness to innovate. In recent years, they have begun to embrace the Industrial Internet. However, the “platform on the cloud” requires the purchase of sensors, industrial-grade 5G modules and other terminal equipment and intelligent software systems. The initial capital investment is relatively large, and the return on investment is difficult to quantify. It is difficult for SMEs to bear the pre-use costs and trial and error risks of the Industrial Internet.
How to make the Industrial Internet affordable and well used by SMEs? Li Ziwen, an associate researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Technological Economics of the China Academy of Macroeconomics, believes that inclusive policy support for small and medium-sized enterprises should be increased, and the application of industrial Internet and digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises should be included in the National Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development Fund and special projects for small and medium-sized enterprises. Within the scope of financial support such as funds, regions with conditions are encouraged to establish regional industrial Internet industry funds and risk compensation funds.
Li Xianjun, an associate researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also believes that when the industrial Internet is introduced to non-high-tech industries, consideration should be given to deducting relevant expenses as R&D expenses.
To support small and medium-sized enterprises “on the cloud and on the platform” also lower the threshold for using the Internet. Li Ziwen suggested that we should vigorously support the development of the industrial intelligent equipment industry, accelerate the process of hardware research and development and industrialization, provide small and medium-sized enterprises with low-cost, high-quality, easy-to-maintain, and upgradeable intelligent equipment; and continuously improve the industrial Internet public service platform system.
Accelerate the cultivation of compound talents
The Industrial Internet is the product of a new generation of cross-border integration of information technology and manufacturing. It requires compound talents who are not only familiar with production, operation and manufacturing processes, but also capable of R&D, design, and operation of software and hardware. At present, the problem of the shortage of industrial Internet talents is prominent, and the quality of the existing talents urgently needs to be improved. The operators and employees of manufacturing enterprises lack the thinking concepts and skills in the fields of industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing.
Li Ziwen believes that to make up for the shortcomings of industrial Internet development talents, on the one hand, we must strengthen the discipline construction of the industrial Internet and related fields; on the other hand, we must strengthen the industrial Internet vocational skills training. Support enterprise managers and technicians to participate in industrial Internet vocational training, and improve the knowledge structure and skill literacy of practitioners at different levels.
Lu Chuncong gave a specific plan: to provide a batch of basic skills training services for digital transformation for small and medium-sized enterprises, and to create a digital resource service platform of “Internet + vocational skills training” by combining traditional training with digital training. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the support for the introduction of outstanding talents, and encourage employers to flexibly introduce intellectual resources of experts at home and abroad. Lu Chuncong said, “Building an industrial Internet talent system is a systematic project that requires long-term strategic determination to meet the needs of enterprises for digital transformation talents in stages.”
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