Wang Haibin, Executive Vice President of Siemens (China) Co., Ltd. and General Manager of Siemens Greater China Digital Industry Group. Data map
Digitalization is becoming an important engine for the sustained and rapid growth of China's digital economy with its tangible and tangible value and great achievements. On the one hand, the integration and innovation of digitalization and cutting-edge technology will provide fundamental momentum for enterprises to save energy, reduce emissions, and achieve the "double carbon" goal; on the other hand, from traditional manufacturing to broader industry fields, the value of digitalization is shaping business Fission empowers thousands of industries to accelerate towards flexible, efficient, high-quality and sustainable development, releasing new vitality for economic development.
China's digitalization process has entered a comprehensive and deepening stage
Starting in 2010, automobile parts manufacturer CITIC Dicastal cooperated with Siemens, and has since taken a solid step in digital transformation. From the initial single-machine digitalization attempt to the complete delivery of two digital factories in the United States and China, relying on the Siemens digital enterprise platform, CITIC Dicastal has achieved full integration of the digital enterprise value chain. In 2020, the two parties began to explore in fields such as industrial AI, with a view to exploring the application potential of cutting-edge technologies in industrial scenarios.
As early as 2016, COFCO Great Wall’s wine brewing factory in Yantai, Shandong Province built an information system management platform for the entire wine industry chain based on Siemens Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to make production more intelligent and efficient, and achieve It provides full digital coverage from the farm to the dining table. In the future, COFCO Great Wall will use its wine brewing factory in Shacheng, Hebei Province as a pilot to gradually deploy Siemens’ intelligent IoT solutions customized for the food and beverage industry.
Of course, digitalization is not just for big companies. In recent years, Siemens has cooperated with local governments such as Zhongshan in Guangdong, Chengdu in Sichuan, and Taizhou in Zhejiang to establish innovation and empowerment centers to integrate resources and serve local industrial clusters, especially small and medium-sized enterprises in local characteristic industrial towns. We hope to promote this model in more cities so that more companies can enjoy the dividends of digitalization.
What is even more surprising is that in the journey of practicing digitalization, we not only feel the tangible value that digitalization continues to output in the traditional manufacturing field, but also see that it has broken through the inherent "circle" and is in the traditional manufacturing field. Unleashing energy across a wider range of industries. Take the catering industry as an example. At present, many catering companies have realized the reconstruction of the supply chain system and store operation model after applying Siemens digital solutions, as well as efficient and fully automatic closed store operations. While reducing labor costs, they can complete the entire dish process. It can be traced and greatly improve its management level, dish quality, operational efficiency and profitability.
Data inspires the huge potential of digitalization
As China’s digitalization process continues to deepen, Siemens has been exploring how to use its own innovative technology and digital capabilities to inject new ideas into the advancement of Chinese enterprises. power. Today, Siemens uses digital enterprise solutions and cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and edge computing to help Chinese companies effectively unleash the huge potential of data, break down traditional barriers between different fields, and create sustainable and flexible production new opportunities.
Siemens artificial intelligence + edge computing helps GAC Passenger Vehicle Yichang Factory strive for excellence in welding quality.
With the help of Siemens’ predictive maintenance software SiePA based on industrial big data analysis, the data in China Resources Cement’s Tianyang production base in Guangxi can be fully mined and utilized. With the support of artificial intelligence technology, the equipment operating status prediction and early warning module and the intelligent troubleshooting and diagnosis module in the SiePA system are "two-pronged", which can not only predict potential failure risks in factory operations, but also help staff diagnose the cause of the failure and guide them. Repair and maintenance to effectively control risks, reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Out of the ultimate pursuit of quality, GAC Passenger Cars applied Siemens' unique industrial artificial intelligence software to the core work station of the workshop to achieve welding quality prediction during the production process. In the future, GAC Passenger Cars will continue to take advantage of artificial intelligence and join hands with Siemens to innovate in areas such as predictive maintenance of the core system of the welding station and optimization of the paint shop process.
Science and technology innovation drives a win-win situation of environmental and economic benefits
The path to benefit always keeps pace with the times. Since mankind entered the era of industrial civilization, while gaining abundant material wealth, problems such as ecological imbalance, climate change, and shortage of natural resources have also arisen. Global environmental governance has become a new proposition of this era. This has also inspired us to think deeply about how to create a development path that combines environmental, economic and social benefits. Technological innovation represented by digital technology is the golden key to unlocking this problem.
Siemens and Swire Coca-Cola’s most valuable innovative MIS system will be promoted to Swire Coca-Cola’s 18 factories and nearly 100 production lines in mainland China.
Working with Siemens, Swire Coca-Cola Hangzhou’s digital production line was successfully implemented. The manufacturing information system (MIS) tailor-made by Siemens will be promoted to Swire Coca-Cola's 18 factories and nearly 100 production lines in mainland China. The linkage of this system with other systems in the production line can achieve annual power savings of approximately 10 million kilowatt hours in all Swire Coca-Cola factories and reduce 7,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Similarly, Siemens’ innovative digital technology plays a huge role in China’s steel industry’s first unmanned stockyard project and special steel smart factory project jointly built with HBIS Group, which not only achieves The improvement of production efficiency, quality and precision control has greatly improved the environmental pollution and dust emissions of the steel industry.
Bozhong Seiko’s standard charging and swapping station applies Siemens’ fully integrated automation system and digital solutions.
Bozhong Precision Technology Co., Ltd., headquartered in Wujiang District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, relies on Siemens’ advanced fully integrated automation system and power swap digital solutions to achieve smart, efficient and safe new energy power swaps. Reliable and affordable. As of mid-2021, the charging and swapping stations delivered by Bozhong Seiko, which applies Siemens' innovative technology, have been distributed in 21 provinces across the country, and can reduce carbon emissions by more than 15 million tons throughout the year.
"Anything that can be done with concentrated effort will be invincible; anything that can be done with collective wisdom can be achieved." As a technology company, Siemens stands at a key node in global environmental governance and is willing to join hands with Chinese companies Explore the value of science and technology, and grow together to become drivers and contributors of technology, allowing digital technology to show greater vitality in the "double carbon" era.
The author is Executive Vice President of Siemens (China) Co., Ltd. and General Manager of Siemens Greater China Digital Industry Group