“Every person on the assembly line/is a spinning screw/a puppet in a shadow puppet show/can’t help but dance with absurd and bizarre positions/turn pain, turn tears, turn time/but can’t turn the shadow of poverty and desolation.”

Excerpted from Zhou Qizao – “I Twist Screws on the Assembly Line”

INNPM01 Fifteen years ago, Shen Guohui, who just went to Galanz (now the founder of Mushroom Internet of Things) was sent to the production line for internship, and the production line workers he saw were in such a state: “A person working on the production line can find less sense of existence, because the production line is very ruthless, like a machine, all actions listen to the command, it seems that there is no soul.”

These years, young people do not enter the factory, rather than boring, step-by-step assembly line work, they are more willing to brave the wind and sun to send takeout, from this point of view, the mighty industrial revolution is actually in the liberation of human beings themselves.

INNPM01 If it rises to a higher level, China’s industrial enterprises have also reached a critical period of improving quality and efficiency, and the profit margin of China’s top 500 manufacturers has fallen from a high of 5% in 2010 to about 2% in recent years.

The root cause behind this is that the road of extensive development in the past has become narrower and narrower.

The upward breakthrough is to achieve automation, information and intelligent upgrades, the industrial Internet is to make these three upgrades in some areas superimposed, bringing huge gains the key, but this process may take longer than we expected.

“Stir-fry hot, eat cold”

INNPM01 In the field of industrial Internet, there is a very embarrassing phenomenon in the Chinese market: “stir-fry hot, eat cold”.

The hot side is the national and local relevant governments, relevant institutions and many industrial Internet enterprises, enthusiasm is high, and actively promote; The cold side is the industrial enterprises, the general acceptance is not high, the landing is not easy.

This aspect is related to the characteristics of the industrial Internet itself.

INNPM01 Unlike the consumer Internet, which connects supply and demand in short chains, the industrial Internet is a long chain. What the industrial Internet wants to transform is this long chain hidden in the deep, where each link has the space for efficient improvement. This process of coordination and transformation must be complex and long.

In addition, the industrial Internet needs the deep integration of technology and industry know-how, and the entry barriers of each industry are very high, and the core process links of many industries are difficult to enter.

In fact, the complexity of the industrial application environment is not only reflected in different industries have different characteristics, but also reflected in the industrial production environment is more complex, more interfering factors, even in the same industry, in different enterprises have different difficulties, different process production lines to face different problems.

On the other hand, before most small and medium-sized enterprises achieve intelligence, they still face many pain points in basic informatization, such as industry and finance are not integrated, data is not interconnected, island problems, and control is not refined enough. Industry insiders believe that these three points cannot be solved, and the phenomenon of industrial Internet “frying hot and eating cold” will not disappear.