On November 24, IMPACTS Wisdom & Control Future Industry Co-Creation Conference was successfully held in Hangzhou. Cui Shan, chairman and president of Zhongkong Technology Co., LTD., delivered a keynote speech entitled “Exploration and Practice of Process Industry Intelligent Factory”.

The transformation and upgrading of traditional factories to future smart factories has become a necessity for process industrial enterprises

With the increasing pressure of internal and external environment and global competition, the current process industry enterprises are facing many challenges in the fields of production and management. For example, the energy consumption of factories is large, and the “double carbon” requirements are increasingly strict; The process is complex and difficult to optimize; It is difficult to recruit workers; Supply chain coordination difficulties; Massive accumulated data assets urgently need to be mined and applied, and a large number of information data islands cannot be broken through. The effectiveness, timeliness, and so on of business decisions need to be improved……

Therefore, the traditional production, operation and management of enterprises need to undergo revolutionary changes, based on automation, to digital transformation as a way, to intelligent as the goal, to achieve the transformation and upgrading from traditional factories to future smart factories, has become the process industrial enterprises just need.

Among them, 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. These applications gather industry wisdom and make full use of various advanced technologies, which will greatly improve the digital and intelligent level of enterprises. Create a smart factory characterized by “independent operation and excellent operation”!

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

Based on 30 years of technology accumulation and industrial practice, Zhongcong creatively proposed a new model of “1+2+N” smart factory construction, including “1 factory operating system, 2 Automation – Process Automation, production process automation, production process automation, production process automation.” PA) and Business Automation (BA), along with N industrial apps, provide a clear implementation path for building the smart factory of the future.

At the PA level, Zhongcon provides customers with subsystems in five areas: safety priority, quality improvement, intelligent autonomous operation, energy saving and low carbon, and equipment health, helping enterprises to achieve independent operation of the production process.

At the BA level, Zhongcon provides customers with subsystems from product research and development management and process design, production and operation, supply chain management, sales and service, support and guarantee in five areas, so as to help enterprises achieve excellent operation in the whole life cycle.

“PA+BA” intelligent enterprise architecture will vertically run through the process industrial enterprises from millisecond level and second level control to minute level and hour level management decisions, and then to day, week and month business decisions, and horizontally run through the whole process and life cycle management from raw materials to products, so as to achieve the production process and enterprise operation up and down, left and right connectivity, collaborative intelligence.

Cui Shan said that the new model of “1+2+N” smart factory construction, with its real value created for customers, has been recognized by more and more enterprises, and has been applied to a large number of leading enterprises in the industry, and is rapidly copied and promoted to the process industry industries, and has been applied more than 4,000 sets. In the project of 10 million tons of oil refining and 1 million tons of ethylene of petrochina Guangdong Petrochemical Co., LTD., Sinochem helped it realize the new mode of coordinated production control and intelligent operation of integrated refining and chemical operation, the operation frequency decreased by 95%, and the stability rate of the device reached 99%. In Xingfa Group, the smart factory construction goal of one-click start-stop, unmanned inspection, unmanned operation, and unmanned record has been achieved, and the cumulative black screen operation time has exceeded 130 days, greatly reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Zhongcong three new products released

At this conference, Cui Shan officially released three impressive products on behalf of Zhongcong: the whole process Intelligent Operation Management and Control System (OMC) 2.0, the Process Industrial Process Simulation and Design Platform (APEX) 2.0, and a new product – the whole device intelligent perception platform PRIDE1.0.

Full Process Intelligent Operation Management and Control System (OMC) 2.0

“The whole process Intelligent Operation Management and control system (OMC) as the control base, like the human brain, analyzes various production conditions and issues optimization instructions, so as to achieve autonomous response, autonomous management and autonomous operation of the factory,” Cui said. The Whole Process Intelligent Operation Management and Control system (OMC) for the smart factory realizes the integration of control, safety, optimization and management. Since the release of OMC 1.0 in 2022, it has been widely recognized in domestic and foreign markets. Through continuous innovation, the new OMC 2.0 fully covers the complete loop of operation management and control composed of “identification, evaluation, decision and execution”, realizing more comprehensive identification, more in-depth evaluation, more intelligent decision-making and more efficient execution, showing the three typical characteristics of extreme interconnection, virtual and real intelligent control and global optimization.

Process Industrial Process Simulation and Design Platform (APEX) 2.0

Process Industrial Process Simulation and Design Platform (APEX), as the “heart” of the smart factory, plays a crucial role in the digital and intelligent process of the smart factory in the future. APEX 2.0 develops the simultaneous solution technology for large-scale equations to quickly obtain globally coordinated optimization solutions, realize design optimization, operation optimization, and operation optimization, and bring new and optimal results to customers from the dimension of the whole life cycle. As a core basic industrial software, Zhongcon is also very open to the growth of the process industrial Process simulation and Design platform (APEX), and this year ZhongCon has joined many ecological partners to start a new round of research and development projects. In the future, Zhongcong welcomes more and more partner enterprises to join in, create sharing, win-win cooperation, and create a world-leading industrial software. At the same time, APEX 2.0 will further enhance the core competitiveness of customer success, identify current production bottlenecks, explore potential benefits, and help the process industry to a new height.

PRIDE 1.0, the central control intelligent sensing platform for all devices

The Perception of all Readable Instruments, Devices and Equipments platform PRIDE1.0 (Perception of all Readable Instruments, Devices and Equipments) is a major breakthrough in the field of intelligent perception of process industrial equipment.

The all-device intelligent perception platform PRIDE1.0 is based on the equipment management experience of CCC in the process industry. By establishing a standard data information model, it comprehensively solves the problems of inconsistent data acquisition standards and data islands for various on-site dynamic, static, electrical, instrument and control equipment, forming a “network” and “a layer” of equipment interconnection, and realizing intelligent perception of the whole field equipment. Cover every corner of the factory.

Based on the three characteristics of “intelligent perception”, “accurate prediction” and “decision support”, PRIDE1.0 can comprehensively carry out accurate health diagnosis and risk prediction of equipment. Meanwhile, it applies big data, deep learning algorithm and expert database to realize “multi-department” joint consultation and “artificial intelligence” fault analysis and diagnosis. Provide intelligent decision support for subsequent professional maintenance plans, so that all equipment, instruments and electrical appliances in the factory are always in the best running state.

Cui Shan pointed out that the factory operating system, as a “data base”; The whole process intelligent operation management and control system (OMC), as the “control base”; Process Industrial Process Simulation and Design Platform (APEX) as a “simulation base”; The all-device intelligent perception platform PRIDE, as the “perception base”, is the four core product base of the “1+2+N” mode smart factory new model, and the 5T technology + four core product base will provide the most powerful support for the realization of the “1+2+N” process industry smart factory in the future.

Continuous innovation of technology and products is our commitment to customer value creation! Zhongcong sincerely appreciates every customer’s trust and support in the past 30 years. Zhongcong will continue to take innovation as the engine, take professionalism as the cornerstone, create value for every Zhongcong customer with a full range of services, and go all out to help customers succeed! CCC will continue to work closely with partners to promote each other and move forward side by side, jointly meet the challenges of The Times, share development opportunities, and create a better future for process industry!