What are the application fields of industrial Internet?

Abstract: Industrial Internet is a brand-new industrial production mode, and it is the infrastructure for the integration of information and communication technology and industrial economy. At present, there are six typical application modes of industrial Internet: platform design, intelligent manufacturing, networked collaboration, personalized customization, service extension and digital management. What are the application fields of industrial Internet? Let's have a look. 1. What are the application modes of industrial Internet?

The application of industrial internet convergence has promoted the emergence of a number of new models and formats, and achieved remarkable results in improving quality and efficiency, reducing costs and being green and safe. Six typical application modes, such as platform design, intelligent manufacturing, networked collaboration, personalized customization, service extension and digital management, have been initially formed.

1. Platform design: Relying on the industrial Internet platform, gather design resources such as personnel, algorithms, models and tasks to realize high-level and efficient lightweight design, concurrent design, agile design, interactive design and model-based design, change the traditional design methods and improve the quality and efficiency of research and development.

2. Intelligent manufacturing: It is a new generation of information technology such as Internet, big data and artificial intelligence that accelerates the innovative application in the manufacturing field, realizing the online connection and real-time interaction between production factors such as materials, equipment and products and users, and gradually realizing the substitution of machines for human production. Intelligentization represents the future development trend of manufacturing industry.

3. Networked collaboration: It is to promote enterprises and partners in the supply chain to share all kinds of information resources such as customers, orders, design, production and operation through cross-departmental, cross-level and cross-enterprise data exchange and business interconnection, so as to realize networked collaborative design, collaborative production and collaborative service, and further promote resource sharing, capacity trading and optimal business allocation.

4. Personalized customization: it is a manufacturing service mode that aims at the personalized needs of consumers, and realizes the deep participation of users in the whole product life cycle through accurate acquisition and analysis of customer needs, agile product development and design, flexible and intelligent production and accurate delivery service, and realizes the low-cost, high-quality and high-efficiency personalized design, production, sales and service of products.

5. Service extension: it is a new industrial form of integrated development of manufacturing and service, which means that enterprises extend from the original manufacturing business to high value-added links at both ends of the value chain, from processing and assembly to "manufacturing+service", and from simply selling products to selling "products+service", including equipment health management, product remote operation and maintenance, equipment financing lease, Sharing Manufacturing, internet finance and so on.

6. Digital management: It means that enterprises optimize, innovate and even reshape business activities such as strategic decision-making, product research and development, manufacturing, operation management, market service, etc., and build a new data-driven and efficient operation management model by opening up the core data link and running through the whole scene and process of manufacturing.

2. What are the application fields of industrial Internet?

At present, the industrial Internet has extended to 40 categories of the national economy, involving major manufacturing fields such as raw materials, equipment, consumer goods and electronics, as well as key industries of the real economy such as mining, electric power and construction, achieving a wider, higher and deeper development and forming a mixed application practice.

1. Iron and steel industry: it is a pillar industry of the national economy, with long manufacturing process, many processes and continuous production links. It mainly faces the pain points of difficulty in increasing efficiency in production and operation, serious overcapacity, energy saving and emission reduction, high pressure of green and low carbon, and low level of intrinsic safety. Enterprises such as China Baowu, Angang and Maanshan Iron and Steel Group actively explore typical application scenarios such as production process optimization, multi-process collaborative optimization, multi-base collaboration and integration of industry and finance by using industrial internet. On the one hand, they promote production efficiency, quality and benefit through in-depth data analysis, on the other hand, they realize coordinated response and comprehensive decision-making of multi-regional, multi-link and multi-business systems, and realize new value creation and new kinetic energy cultivation through model innovation.

2. Construction machinery industry: as an important industry in the national economy, it provides necessary machinery and basic tools for construction, manufacturing, mining and other industries. It has the characteristics of complex and diverse products, discrete production processes and complex supply chain, but it also faces industry pain points such as low production efficiency, weak product operation and maintenance ability and serious homogenization competition in the industry. Sany Heavy Industry, Xugong Group, Zoomlion and other leading construction machinery enterprises actively apply industrial Internet to speed up the process of enterprise digitalization. Predictive maintenance and remote visual management of equipment through industrial internet not only reduces the equipment operation and maintenance cost and improves the efficiency of dynamic allocation of production resources, but also extends the service modes such as supply chain finance and financial leasing, realizing "manufacturing+service" and bringing new growth space.

3. Home appliance industry: It has the characteristics of fast technology update, short product development cycle and high product homogeneity. At present, it mainly faces the core demand pain points, such as unsatisfied personalized demand, high production accuracy and efficiency requirements, long order delivery cycle, insufficient quality control and heavy inventory turnover pressure. Gree, Haier, Midea, TCL and other light household appliances enterprises rely on the industrial Internet to carry out application exploration such as mass customization, product design optimization, quality management, production monitoring and analysis, and equipment management, so as to improve user interaction experience, quality first-time qualification rate and production efficiency, save equipment operation and maintenance costs, and meet customers' individual needs.

4. Electronic information industry: it is a knowledge-intensive and technology-intensive industry, with many kinds of product segmentation, short production cycle and fast iteration speed, which requires high quality control, standardization of management and agility of market response. China Electric Power Branch, Huawei and ZTE have explored typical applications such as equipment visual management, product yield improvement, inventory management optimization, whole process scheduling optimization and multi-factory collaboration through industrial internet. On the one hand, they improve the efficiency of quality management, equipment fault diagnosis and product inventory management through new technologies such as machine vision and big data analysis, on the other hand, they realize enterprise-level decision optimization and agile response to demand through the construction of interconnected factories.

5. Mining industry: it is an industry that digs and develops natural energy or converts natural resources into fuel and power. At present, it mainly faces the pain points of resource shortage, great pressure of safety supervision and environmental protection, real-time supervision of equipment, and high requirements of refined management. Mining enterprises such as Shanxi Lu 'an Xinyuan Coal Mine, Shaanxi Coal Group Xiaobaodang Coal Mine, Shandong Sanshandao Gold Mine and Inner Mongolia Baiyunebo Rare Earth Mine use the "5G+ industrial Internet" to carry out intelligent mining and production control, environmental monitoring and safety protection, and underground inspection. Free people from dangerous and hard working environment and promote green and safe production in mining industry.

6. Power industry: Integrate "5G+ Industrial Internet" into the whole process of power generation, transmission, substation, distribution and use, form a new control and monitoring network, optimize process technology, greatly reduce carbon emissions, reduce the uncertainty of clean energy grid connection, improve the access ability of electric vehicles, microgrids and other subjects, and reduce the costs of upstream and downstream enterprises and energy users. China Huaneng, China Southern Power Grid, State Grid, Zheng Tai Group, TBEA and other enterprises and institutions on the power generation side, power grid side and power consumption side have carried out explorations one after another, and formed typical application modes such as early warning of power generation side equipment, energy saving and efficiency improvement, power grid side scheduling optimization and integrated management and control in the whole process, service quality improvement of power consumption side and power consumption strategy optimization, which respectively realized early prediction and active maintenance of equipment failure, measurable power data and reduced power consumption cost.

7. Construction industry: It has the characteristics of long project construction period, large capital investment, complex management of project stakeholders and strong mobility of personnel. With the support of the comprehensive application of technologies such as industrial Internet and BIM, it will be industrialized, intelligent and green in the future. Enterprises such as China Construction Technology, Guanglianda, Sany Construction Engineering, Beijing Jianyi, etc. use the industrial Internet to explore applications such as digital collaborative design and integrated delivery, construction collaborative management of virtual and real integration, and intelligent manufacturing of assembled buildings, so as to realize virtual execution and optimization adjustment in the whole process of construction projects, and greatly improve design efficiency, construction quality, cost schedule control and safety construction level. On the other hand, in order to meet the building's own energy consumption optimization, safety emergency, access control and other needs, some leading construction enterprises have carried out application exploration such as energy consumption management, asset monitoring operation and virtual exercise through the industrial Internet to realize intelligent and safe operation.