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who feel the back say the elephant is like a wall; those who feel the tail say the elephant is like a rope…… Then, no one refused to accept each other, and the quarrel was endless. Something like this is happening in the construction of today’s industrial Internet. Some equate the industrial Internet with digital workshop intelligent factory, that unmanned factory is the highest level of industrial Internet; Some put the focus of the industrial Internet on remote monitoring, which is basically the basic outline of 5G+ industrial Internet; Some think that building a platform to aggregate the factor data on the business chain and optimize it is roughly the epitome of the industrial Internet. The above mentioned, can not be wrong, but it is not comprehensive. Lack of vision, poor thinking, and partial generalization are common problems in the construction of industrial Internet today, which greatly affect the efficiency of industrial Internet and seriously weaken the due value of industrial Internet. This is also the reason why some chairmen and general managers often lament that “the industrial Internet is just so, and the input is disproportionate to the output”.

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The industrial technology optimization brought by big data artificial intelligence + the communication capability sublimation brought by the Internet is the essence of the industrial Internet. Industrial Internet is the superposition of industrial technology revolution and network technology revolution, is the integration of OT(operation technology), IT (information technology), CT (communication technology), it brings about the integration of intelligent manufacturing and intelligent services. In practice, we must not let the factory walls block our industrial Internet construction thinking. The types of construction scenarios involved in the industrial Internet are very rich and global. If you have to talk about the inclusion of this global scene, I am more willing to recommend the 4F scene combination.

The so-called 4F, refers to the Factory (factory), Field (field), Fleet, Facility (facility) scene combination. The following talks about some experiences in the construction content and value orientation of each “F”.

In the Factory (factory) scenario, the product and production process are the core, focusing on improving quality, increasing efficiency and reducing cost. For example, the washing machine company of “Lighthouse factory” Hefei United States in the production process, product quality and cost control, highly creative to launch a series of digital solutions, in the past three years, the cumulative cost of a single unit has decreased by 28%, the cost of a single energy consumption has decreased by 50%, and the per capita efficiency has increased by 51%.

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In the Field scenario, the user and the supply chain are the core, and the data interaction with the demand side and the cooperation between the supplier side are emphasized. For example, the Three Squirrels company in Wuhu uses its cloud platform to connect with users at one end and discover data about users’ tastes and preferences. One end connected to nearly a thousand suppliers, according to the user’s preferences data design production supply. With data as a link, the outside scene of the enterprise is dancing, and the enterprise has exceeded 10 billion in 7 years.

In the Fleet scenario, the scientific and reasonable matching of tasks and equipment groups is the core, and the efficiency collaborative optimization is emphasized to improve the turnover level. Due to the rapid development of digital technology, the value of the “long tail effect” is becoming more and more prominent, and the resulting task orders are changing more and more rapidly. Many companies do not adapt to this, looking to a fixed set of equipment portfolio, the result is inefficient. Anhui Seiko Intelligent Company is a digital empowerment company that helps enterprises focus on tasks, clarify the physical combination of equipment and machines, and design scientific and reasonable internal logistics and other businesses. In practice, it is showing very remarkable application value.

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In the Facility scenario, the continuous and stable operation of equipment is the core, focusing on improving the ability of digital automation and improving the predictive maintenance ability. Anhui Conch Cement is the world’s leading cement enterprise, not only leading in scale, but also the first benefit. How did you do that? To maintain the continuous and stable operation of equipment by digital means is a magic weapon. The company brings together a number of digital monitoring enterprises such as Rongzhi Rixin, Jinxing Electromechanical, etc., to prevent problems before they happen, solve problems before failures occur, and achieve no downtime of key equipment throughout the year.

Of course, there may be more scenes, but these four scenes can give a relatively comprehensive account of the connotation of the industrial Internet, the full connection of the full elements of the industrial Internet, the whole industrial chain, the whole value chain, and the change of the manufacturing mode, production organization mode, and industrial form after the connection.

The key is that in concrete practice, the 4F scenario should be comprehensively focused. It is necessary to make a global design of 4F scenarios for the enterprise itself. Then the data of each scene is fully connected. In terms of data penetration and data utilization after penetration, a new model of efficient development is formed. Regarding these new development models, the relevant departments of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have given categories, which are divided into digital management, intelligent manufacturing, network collaboration, personalized customization, service extension and platform design. In practical practice, many efficient sub-models can be extended from this, and Anhui has recently summarized the twelve models with fine grain degree. New technologies inevitably lead to new models. Science and technology is the first productive force, and the new model of industrial Internet based on the new generation of information technology is bound to become a fighter in productivity.

Developing the industrial Internet is like playing Go. It is necessary not only to have the “hand tendon” of the key link, but also to have the “vision” of the overall plan, and the win or loss is determined by the overall value.