Traditional container terminal automation, intelligent road, you play really?

The reason is that we are in the process of automation, intelligent transformation of traditional container terminals, these efforts are not affected by the epidemic and box volume, should be done or have to do ah.

On the automation and intelligence of traditional container terminals and the future of intelligence, I have written something before, in the process of doing these projects, has been wrestling with a devil - traditional container terminals those through the transformation of the transformation of the road is a righteous path?

Automation of equipment

Intelligent transformation of processes.

Fully automated terminals designed from the top down design scheme is completely different from the current, the transformation cost is huge

The difference between the current equipment and the fully automated terminal equipment, replacement is also required to face a huge investment

The operational efficiency of the fully automated terminals is open to question

So embarked on a path of exploration that no one has ever done before.

So it's gone down a path of discovery that no one has gone down before, looking for ways to find the technology to retrofit the equipment to automate the operations.

The optimization of operating equipment, operating equipment automation, which is all the traditional dock has been thinking about the problem, in the last decade, some ideas, the ability of the terminal began to toss the automation transformation, the first wave of 07 years 08 years began the intelligent gate, and then a wave of 13 years to open the intelligent cargo handling, 16 years began RTG remote control, QC remote control, automated dynamic locking station......

In 2008, through the smart gate, the traditional saw the hope of infinitely close to the automated terminal

In 2016, the intelligent cargo handling landed, and found that the automation process of the intelligent traditional terminal and the fully automated terminals are not much different, and in the intelligent cargo handling program is also basically the same, but began to find that the automation of traditional terminals to transform the program and automation of the original in the bottom of the difference, for example For example, the fully automated terminal has a transshipment platform with double-lift bridge cranes whose cargo handling recognition mode, automatic loading and unloading lock conditions and the checking conditions of seal presence or absence are all superior to the traditional yard's single trolley shore bridge. In order to eliminate the impact of equipment differences, to achieve consistent cargo handling functions, the traditional terminal will need better technical solutions to achieve the same function, or adjust some processes to increase the complexity of the operation or even sacrifice some efficiency to achieve the same function.

2018 RTG, QC remote control transformation, more and more found that the efforts of the latter is too difficult. Facing too many problems, there are two main categories:

The current equipment is not designed for automation, the ability to innately insufficient, the automation of the basic functions of the missing, such as the spreader's rope harness, anti-swing, etc.;

The overall infrastructure and layout is not designed for automation, to solve some of the problems that are not in the fully automated terminal. Most traditional dock yards are mixed flow, and it is unlikely that they will be changed to a fully automated dock a

1, safety issues, such as? Remote control RTG over the turn lane

2, the positioning of the outside collector in the field

3, RTG shuttle effectiveness

The recent popularity, everyone in the plane transport driverless, the problem is more obvious, inside and outside the collector mixing problem if not well resolved, then the driverless just to solve the unmanned problem of the plane transport, efficiency and safety may not see the benefits. safety may not be able to see the benefits.

Because this month was forced to pounce on the unmanned ECS system, looked at a variety of colleagues combed with the external collector mixed flow of operational scenarios, in the design of the ECS when the pain is incomparable, the internal cow full of face, can not help but sigh, fully automated terminal of the AGV way to TM perfect. The traditional terminal in the case of not changing the status quo of mixed flow, driverless, intelligent networked vehicles can only solve the problem of dependence on labor, to solve the problem of labor shortage during the epidemic, but the cost of labor, the overall cost may not have much advantage to speak of.

This is the pain and hardship of traditional dock migration to automation!

Let's face it, we're just not the same! In the face of fully automated dock, the traditional dock automation transformation is a small fight, the automation of the equipment transformation is a "will be on will be" of the road of no return, the so-called automation transformation program on the market are not product-level, the dock conditions are different, business is different, the degree of customization is also high, even if you break through the difficulties on the line, the latter part of the maintenance costs and difficulties are also very high. Maintenance costs and difficulties are also very high, but also faced with the risk of being tied to a supplier, so the automation of the traditional terminal transformation is really a "blossom see Buddha" cultivation door?

Under the wave of Smart Manufacturing 2025 and digital transformation, I believe there are two voices within the traditional terminal, one voice is: wait; the other voice is: let's try.

We can see that half of the port managers believe that automation is very important, but for the most important benefits of automation, more than half of them believe that it is the operation of the security, which is really the automation of the moment to solve the primary problem, in addition to this benefit, there is almost the number of managers have perceived automation to bring In addition to this benefit, a similar number of managers have perceived that automation brings "better operational management and consistency" and "reduced operating costs". In my opinion, whether these two benefits are obvious or not depends entirely on the starting point and the original intention of the automation transformation project. If automation transformation is regarded as a way to digitize operational equipment and business processes, and as a process of digital transformation of traditional enterprises, then the benefits of the two effects mentioned above will be even better, and it will be more and more likely to be visible.

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To solve the above problems, the first thing you need to know is the real-time status of the operational equipment, connecting all the production elements of the dock and keeping track of their changes.

Connect all production requirements so that the right data, at the right time, in the right way, is automatically delivered to the right people and machine algorithms.

And then to solve the problem of the end of the implementation, through automation transformation, so that the implementation of process standards unified, controllable, in the implementation of a single piece of equipment to eliminate uncertainty:

Through automation, to avoid the problem of inconsistency in human operation

Through automation standardization of the overall operating procedures, so that the process, data, operating procedures unified

Enables automated equipment to be predicted in time when executing operations so that it can? accurately predict the state of the business after a period of time, providing conditions for people or machines to adjust the decision-making program.

Automation, as a process of digital transformation, creates a digital-based parallel world for the enterprise, a virtual world that can be read by machines and algorithms, a virtual world that is enhanced by algorithms and AI. That's the other side of traditional dock automation.

I don't think automation of traditional docks is for any traditional dock, or crossing that river requires their own aptitude.

We summed up some experiences from the intelligent cargo handling, new generation of intelligent gates, intelligent disability inspection, unmanned driver of collector trucks and other projects for your reference:

The automation transformation is often faced with a large degree of customization, and these customized components and functions, in the later stage, will bring a less controllable maintenance costs, so, when doing customization, but also according to the productization of the thinking of the complete

The most important thing you can do is to make sure that you have the right tools for the right job, and that you have the right tools for the right job, and that you have the right tools for the right job.

In the implementation of the transformation program, try to make the program compatible with similar scenarios, so that party B as far as possible to reuse this program, and promote to other customers in the industry. Only party B will continue to promote this program, the application, the program can be continuously optimized, updated, the supplier's vitality will be stronger, in turn, will be the initial transformation of party A to feed the entire market to form a virtuous cycle.

Party A in the automation of the transformation should also be to avoid a supplier binding, Party A can do is through their own understanding of the business, the business into technical needs, to help suppliers to reduce the threshold of entry into the industry, reduce the supplier program design on the industry background of the dependence on the industry, so that can make more suppliers to enter. Party A must be an integrator in the early stage of the role of Party B thinking, until the real Party B can hold up the sky. Party A is also the evangelist, to help Party B to develop the application market.

The end of the automation transformation, for the Ministry of Engineering and Equipment, the end of the project, for Party B, the project is over, but for IT to say, everything has just begun, the new automation project is not to promote the degree of digitalization of the enterprise? Did the new automation project advance the digitization of the enterprise? Did it add some more dimensions to the enterprise's production processes?

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