Digitalization helps high-quality development and builds a benchmark enterprise for transforming intelligent manufacturing.

Xintiangang is an outstanding representative in the wave of deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises and high-quality development and reform of state-owned enterprises. In just two years after the start of mixed reform, Xintiangang achieved profitability. In 2020, the annual profit increased to more than 4 billion, and the average income of employees increased by 30%, which became the benchmark for digital transformation of large iron and steel enterprises.

Outstanding achievements have been made in the mixed reform of Xintiangang, which is closely related to the successful digital transformation of enterprises. It covers the digital transformation of production, procurement, sales, logistics, quality inspection and environmental protection. It not only helps Xintiangang to achieve better production targets, reduce costs and increase efficiency, and enhance the well-being of employees, but also becomes a powerful engine to promote the sustained growth of corporate benefits through big data empowerment management.

Focus on business needs and build a blueprint for digital construction

Delong Group &; Guo Yubin, chief information officer of Xintiangang Group, said that Delong began to cooperate with Kingdee as early as 2009 and achieved good results in digital transformation. Therefore, at the beginning of the mixed reform of Xintiangang, Delong and Kingdee started deep cooperation and conducted an all-round investigation on the digital construction of Xintiangang.

Through the research group, it was found that although Tianjin Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xintiangang Group Tiangang Company") initially invested a lot of money in digitalization, there was a lack of necessary correlation between systems, and finally a digital island was formed between systems, and many systems were relatively old. For example, the original financial system of Tiangang Company of Xintiangang Group is not interoperable with the supply chain. There are three different financial systems for the whole group, and financial settlement is entered manually before entering the system. As a result, the original financial process of Tiangang Company of Xintiangang Group is not only inefficient, but also prone to human error. In addition, Tiangang Company of Xintiangang Group lacks the digital risk control management of logistics, and how to build a management mode of digitalization of the whole process and integration outside the factory is also an urgent problem to be solved in digital construction.

Guo Yubin believes that when building a blueprint for digital transformation, it is necessary for IT departments to integrate with factories, departments and offices in business and production sites to extract actual needs. "The biggest problem with digital transformation is that it can't find pain points and can't raise demand. Requirements should be based on the IT team's understanding of the site, familiarity with technology and business, and combine technology with production and management, so as to drive and guide production plants and business departments to ask questions. IT and business units * * * work together to build a business blueprint to achieve really good results. "

To this end, the digital information team of Xintiangang Group and Kingdee engineers often go deep into the front line of business together, stay in the factory 24 hours a day, go to the business office for field research during the day and communicate with business personnel at night. Guo Yubin introduced that Xintiangang has built an operation center integrating production, operation, safety, energy, measurement and environmental protection, and has taken the lead in using Kingdee Cloud in the steel industry. Sky enterprise-level PaaS platform, together with external ecological partner Kingdee, promotes the digital transformation of enterprises in all directions.

Two years of high-quality development, achieving a model of digital transformation.

The new sky just passed the golden butterfly cloud? The integration of industry, finance, production, supply and marketing created by Sky Platform has completely broken the original digital island, improved the management efficiency of enterprises and provided strong support for enterprises to achieve high-quality development.

According to Guo Yubin, after the digital transformation, the original financial efficiency of Xintiangang has changed from the original half-month settlement period to the current two-day settlement, and even the entire month's operating performance can be settled within one working day. "From the perspective of financial vouchers, there should be thousands or two thousand vouchers a month." The automatic settlement process not only improves the efficiency, but also greatly reduces the work pressure of the financial department and avoids possible mistakes. In addition, in the aspect of financial risk prevention and control, because the iron and steel industry generally adopts the form of advance payment, it is necessary to monitor the payment balance in real time. At present, the financial system of Xintiangang has realized the combination of industry and finance, which can reflect the payment situation to the business department in real time and avoid the occurrence of financial risks from the source.

Using the basic data of Sky platform, Xintiangang has achieved full coverage of the whole group and completed the construction of logistics platform from scratch. Real-time positioning data such as vehicle scheduling and vehicle trajectory outside the factory can be interconnected with data such as confirmation, weighing, sampling, quality inspection and on-site unloading of incoming goods, which not only reduces risks such as leakage in logistics, but also improves business efficiency. For example, the original weighing needs manual operation, and the process of loading and unloading a truck takes 3 to 5 minutes. Through the digital weighing system, not only the personnel demand is reduced, but also the data can be transmitted back to the platform in real time, and the weighing time is compressed to the fastest 10 to 15 seconds. The staff of Xintiangang said, "In the past, the coke return system of blast furnace had to be invoiced manually, and every link had to be weighed, which was very complicated. Now that there is a weighing system, punching cards with a punching machine makes the operation particularly convenient and simple. " Little by little, the change not only optimizes the business level as a whole, but also improves the convenience of employees' work from many aspects such as operation process and overall calculation.

Ding, chairman of Delong Group and Xintiangang Group, said, "Make more steel and refine it well". The digital transformation of Xintiangang is also around this goal, which realizes the data collection on the production site, and the real-time data of each production unit can be collected and uploaded. The operation center can monitor the visual data of production links in real time, such as the real-time data and real-time situation of blast furnace operation. Once data fluctuation is found on site, the operation department can make accurate scheduling in the first time. These data are also the basis for optimizing the production process. According to Guo Yubin, at present, the six plants of Xintiangang visually analyze and compare the comparable key indicators such as comprehensive cost, sintering solid consumption and steelmaking fuel ratio every day. The big ranking will show the gap between factories, thus supporting the management optimization and promotion of Xintiangang. At present, the cost of ironmaking and steelmaking in Xintiangang has been reduced by 22% and 26% respectively, the consumption of sintering solids has been reduced by 7. 1kg/ ton, the fuel ratio of blast furnace has been reduced by 12.2kg/ ton, and the total iron content in steelmaking has been reduced by 19.2kg/ ton.

Guo Yubin said that the achievements of Xintiangang's digital transformation are also reflected in environmental protection and energy consumption control. At present, the environmental protection management and control platform of Xintiangang has achieved comprehensive coverage, and as many as 130 air quality micro-stations will monitor PM2.5 and PM 10 that affect air quality in real time. Once the control platform finds problems, it will immediately intervene by deploying environmentally-friendly vehicles and other means to deal with environmental protection problems in the bud and realize green enterprises and green development. Energy consumption data of coal, natural gas and other enterprises will also be synchronized to relevant government departments in real time. Xintiangang has created an environment-friendly and green superior production environment, which makes employees feel a strong sense of pride and happiness. Guo Yubin said: "The environment has become beautiful, the indicators have improved, and the performance has improved. The chain reaction is that people's hearts are brighter. " Good performance has greatly increased the income of employees, and employees in each position are striving to become builders of Xintiangang, supporting the development of the enterprise with full passion and motivation.

Adhere to the digital road and build a benchmark enterprise for intelligent manufacturing.

On the road from "steel power" to "steel power", greening and intelligence will be the two major themes of innovation and development of steel industry. Guo Yubin believes that there are two major development directions in the steel industry at present: one is environmental protection and double carbon, that is, facing the peak of carbon dioxide emission and the goal of carbon neutrality, we will embark on a green and sustainable development path; The second is intelligent manufacturing, which will improve the level of intelligent manufacturing of steel and support the backbone of steel for manufacturing a strong country. Only by insisting on digital transformation can iron and steel enterprises conform to the development direction and achieve rapid growth.

Xintiangang hopes to integrate emerging technologies with steel manufacturing, and build an intelligent manufacturing benchmark enterprise by continuously deepening digital transformation. To this end, Xintiangang put forward five planning directions: First, the risk is continuously controllable, and from the perspective of intelligent manufacturing, the risk control must be the ultimate. In high-risk and problem-prone links such as procurement, sales, engineering, logistics and quality inspection, risk prevention and control measures are continuously increased from the aspects of platform, technology and equipment; The second is the true feedback of data. The digitization scope should cover personnel, equipment, technology and other aspects. Data should support all levels from managers to front-line employees, and support continuous improvement of management with real data. Third, the level of automation equipment has been continuously improved. At present, iron and steel enterprises have the characteristics of large equipment scale and strong continuity of production organization. Therefore, automation should include recording the models of automation equipment and automation process, so as to realize the continuous optimization and improvement of production control level. The fourth is to build a systematic management model of intelligent manufacturing. The future intelligent manufacturing should be extremely flat organizational structure and extremely efficient production organization mode. Fifth, through the "1+N" mode of intelligent manufacturing, that is, 1 industrial internet platform plus n application bases, the organization, process, business model, organization model, management model, business model and staffing model will be promoted to change and optimize.

Iron and steel enterprises are manufacturing enterprises, and the theme should return to the whole process of manufacturing. For iron and steel enterprises, to realize intelligent manufacturing, it is necessary to optimize the whole through business drive and technical support. Guo Yubin gave an example. Modern iron and steel production mode is centered on blast furnace. How to ensure the stable production of each blast furnace in each factory without fluctuation or as little as possible? With the support of intelligent manufacturing system, by building a professional platform digitally, all the data of more than ten blast furnaces can be compared in real time, and the best and best engineers can be gathered together to make professional diagnosis, professional pre-inspection and professional support for the production process of each factory, thus ensuring smoother and safer production.

Guo Yubin said that it seems accidental that Xintiangang can become a prototype enterprise of Kingdee in the steel industry, but it is inevitable. Since 200 1, the cooperation between Delong and Kingdee has lasted for more than 20 years. In 2009, Kingdee assisted Delong to realize the overall ERP application, which even created a precedent for the steel industry at that time. Kingdee has become a close ecological partner of Delong, both in technology and platform, and in the integration of technical teams of both sides. Xintiangang hopes to continue to join hands with Kingdee in the future, constantly explore new models of the steel industry in the direction of artificial intelligence and data management, build the ecology of the steel industry, and finally realize the value of the two enterprises.