Focusing on “intelligent transformation to network connection, digital integration and innovation”, on December 6, 2023 World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference opened in Nanjing. Yu Haibin, senior vice president of Zhongkong Technology, was invited to attend the Intelligent Manufacturing and Sustainable Development Forum of the conference, and gave a keynote report on “Thinking and Practice of Intelligent factories in Process Industry”. Yu Haibin, starting from the core needs and pain points of current process industry enterprises, focused on explaining the new model of “1+2+N” smart factory construction in Zhongcong, and shared the exploration and practice of Zhongcong technology in the construction of process industry smart factories.

Traditional factories are accelerating their transformation and upgrading to future smart factories

At present, with the increasing pressure of internal and external environment and global competition, process industry enterprises are facing many challenges in production and management, and at the same time, the new generation of scientific and technological revolution is promoting the manufacturing industry from industry 3.0 to industry 4.0 across, automation, industrial software, Internet platform and other infrastructure is improving. Yu Haibin said that different from the standardization of industry 3.0, Industry 4.0 focuses on focusing on personalized and scenario-oriented application practices, based on automation, taking digital transformation as the way, and taking intelligence as the goal, and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional factories to future smart factories.

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He further pointed out that the core of intelligence is a variety of industrial software applications based on the formation of digital transformation, combining a large number of industrial data, industrial knowledge, industrial mechanism, industrial model and industrial experience, which will greatly improve the level of digitalization and intelligence of enterprises, and create a smart enterprise characterized by “open integration and collaborative intelligence”.

“1+2+N” smart factory construction new model

Provide implementation path for future smart factory construction

Based on deep industry insight practice and product technology precipitation, Zhongcong Technology creatively proposed a new model of “1+2+N” smart factory construction, including “1 factory operating system, 2 automation: Production Process Automation (PA) and Business Operations Automation (BA), together with N industrial apps, provide a clear implementation path for building the smart factory of the future.

Yu Haibin introduced that the factory operating system has revolutionized the hierarchical standard of the factory, transforming the traditional multi-layer Purdue model architecture in which data and information need to be transmitted layer by layer into a flat architecture in which data interacts at the same level, thus breaking the data island and truly realizing the platformization and flattening of data. At the same time, on this basis will also produce more industrial APP applications, through the “factory operating system + industrial APP” technical architecture, will greatly accelerate the pace of enterprise intelligent development. In particular, he highlighted the potential of the combined use of mechanistic models and AI to unlock enterprise data productivity.