2.2 The industrial Internet platform has obvious advantages over the traditional industrial IT architecture
Under the traditional industrial IT architecture, data is fragmented and information is isolated, which cannot flexibly and quickly respond to new demands. The essence of traditional industrial automation and industrial software is to solidify the production operation and management process through hardware and software systems, so as to establish a vertical manufacturing system. Under this system, subsystems responsible for different business links or processes are isolated from each other, forming a large number of chimney systems and fragmented information. It can not meet the new requirements of enterprise overall planning, decision optimization, efficient management and flexible and rapid response under the new situation. In addition, the high price of traditional industrial automation equipment and industrial software brings great cost pressure to many enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, enterprises are in urgent need of a platform product that can break the information island of all links and develop industrial applications at a low cost. Industrial Internet platform has become a good solution to solve this pain point.
Compared with traditional industrial IT architecture, industrial Internet platform has great advantages in technical architecture, industrial data, application and value model. In terms of technical architecture, traditional industrial IT architecture is a large closed system, vertically coupled architecture and local deployment, which has a long development cycle and high upgrade cost. The industrial Internet platform adopts the cloud native deployment mode of edge + cloud, platform, layered and micro-service architecture, agile development and low upgrade cost. In terms of industrial data, the industrial Internet platform has stronger management, application and integration capabilities for data collection, which solves the pain points of limited data sources and data islands under the traditional architecture. In terms of industrial application, the industrial Internet platform solidifies experience and knowledge into platform resources through industrial mechanism model, big data analysis model, knowledge graph, etc., to improve the industrial application ability. Meanwhile, it changes the traditional “pass along” industrial knowledge inheritance approach, based on the industrial mechanism model and micro-service component converged on the platform. Engineers can develop industrial apps with lower cost, higher efficiency and more expansively, and solve the restriction of relying on a single talent in the innovation and development of enterprises. In terms of value mode, the industrial internetworking platform can realize the interconnection and sharing of resources, and improve the data value exponentially. Compared with the traditional industrial IT architecture, the industrial Internet platform is the inevitable direction of digital and intelligent transformation of industrial enterprises in the future.
Third, what is the current level of development of Chinese industrial Internet platforms?
3.1 Development history: Originated from cloud platform, it has experienced rapid development since 2015
The industrial Internet platform originated from the cloud platform of industrial enterprises. After 2015, the country vigorously promoted the industrial Internet and ushered in rapid development. In 2009, Alibaba took the lead in cloud platform research, and gradually cooperated with leading enterprises in manufacturing, transportation, energy and other fields, becoming an important driving force for industrial enterprises to build cloud platforms. After 2010, Tencent and Huawei successively opened and released cloud platforms, together with the concept of industrial Internet, which laid a good foundation for the development of industrial Internet platforms. After 2015, as the national policies began to vigorously promote the development of industrial Internet, especially in 2017, The State Council issued the Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Development of Industrial Internet by “Internet + Advanced Manufacturing Industry”, which further established the strategic development position of industrial Internet. Domestic enterprises such as aerospace cloud network, Sany Heavy Industry, Haier and so on have laid out the industrial Internet platform, China’s industrial Internet platform ushered in rapid development.