5136-DNP-PCI Recently, I discussed the topic of industrial software with my friends, and talked about the basic model problem – that is, the topic that the industrial Internet can not be around, you must put the original basic model of the industry, those who have a lot of testing and verification road to go through, otherwise, it can not really help the manufacturing industry – just become 2VC or 2BT (subsidies) platform.
5136-DNP-PCI The content of this article is probably written in the summer, the title of the original is “Can the three non-industrial Internet platform support the future of manufacturing”, sent to a few friends to see, they all feel that it is better to be mild, want to be, it seems to have a large number of suspects, and then want to change the tone and tone, but sometimes writing things like this, When you write it in one go, if you change it again, you probably did not have the interest at that time, recently discussed the topic of industrial software with friends, and talked about the basic model problem – that is, the topic that the industrial Internet can not be around, you must put the original basic model of the industry, those a lot of testing and verification of the road to finish, otherwise, Can’t really do much for manufacturing – just become a 2VC or 2BT (subsidy) platform.
5136-DNP-PCI What are our standards for interconnection?
The World Economic Forum in 2014 in the industrial Internet promotion obstacles survey found that the first major obstacle is “lack of interoperability standards”, this problem is more typical, according to our repeated emphasis, if you do not have a unified specification and standard of data, that is, OPC UA (in distributed systems to achieve the description of objects) information modeling. So it means a lot of data read and write operations and engineering input, then, the 5136-DNP-PCI first step of the data connection problem will become no “economic”, therefore, the actual situation is that the nature of many industrial Internet companies may be more in the “guide table”, which is a physical work, in fact, you sound tall, but in fact is no technical content of the work, I must emphasize that no OPC UA can definitely achieve data connection, no one said that OPC UA must be adopted such specifications and standards, but OPC UA will be an inevitable road, that is, if you do not want to take the road of OPC UA, but in accordance with the most cost-effective design road. You may still end up designing OPC UA like this, you can call your own standards and specifications, it doesn’t matter.
5136-DNP-PCI Because if the economic problem is not solved, now a lot of manpower is invested in data connection, driver, interface debugging, think about the labor cost, especially from the IT engineer cost, this is definitely a disaster.
I think there are more than 200 so-called industrial Internet platforms in China, and I am really worried about their profitability, because traditional automation manufacturers actually have stable profit models, including software and communication platform providers such as Microsoft and Huawei. The current industrial Internet companies actually do not have the so-called technology, in fact, it is a platform that is “saved” on the basis of these existing factories – after all, do you think the platform is really so easy to develop ah?
5136-DNP-PCI With the help of open IT technology to save a so-called industrial Internet platform this thing, OT people can do, I think I am really rather euphemistic, according to Teacher Dai’s words, in fact, the manufacturing industry is still running without an Internet platform, therefore, in terms of current survival, for manufacturing enterprises, There may be no industrial Internet and that is fine – unless, as the industrial Internet platform claims, it can bring about real improvements in productivity and optimization.
The question about standards comes from the fact that many industrial Internet platform practitioners seem to have very little understanding of industrial communication, and the question of how many fieldbuses are constantly asked, and as for the formulation of specifications, OPC UA,TSN, few people understand, therefore, I think there is no communication specifications and standards, how these platforms interact with others. How do multiple industrial Internet platforms interact?