Since the report of the 20th National Congress of the Party emphasized that “high-quality development is the primary task of comprehensively building a modern socialist country”, “high-quality” has become the main theme of the development of all walks of life, especially the manufacturing industry, which plays the pillar of the national economy.

In the eyes of many people, high-quality development should be linked with lofty industries, sophisticated technologies, national instruments, etc., and industry leaders are the main body of high-quality development. Undoubtedly, manufacturing leaders such as Haier are indeed the mainstay of Chinese manufacturing, but it cannot be ignored that more small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises with small ships and thin sails are like capillaries, providing the most basic “nutrients” for Chinese manufacturing.

They are the protagonists in the flood of digital transformation and the key to promoting high-quality industry development.

Small and medium-sized manufacturers are the hope of Chinese manufacturing

From the data point of view, smes contribute more than 50% of tax revenue, more than 60% of GDP, more than 70% of technological innovation, more than 80% of urban labor employment and more than 90% of the number of enterprises.

The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises has long been proven in developed countries. For example, although the German economy is not dominant, Germany’s exports have always been the world’s leading level. The secret is that Germany has a large number of highly competitive small and medium-sized enterprises, known as “hidden champions”, which form the backbone and backbone of German manufacturing and export trade.

In recent years, China has also emerged a large number of specialized new small and medium-sized enterprises and manufacturing individual champions. According to the latest data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China has cultivated more than 70,000 specialized and special new small and medium-sized enterprises, including specialized and special new “little giant” enterprises 8997. These enterprises have worked intensively in the industrial base and become the basic force to enhance China’s manufacturing competitiveness.

Small and medium-sized enterprises are full of vitality, good at innovation, flexible management, agile response, good growth, with many large enterprises incomparable competitive advantages, but their transformation and upgrading road is blocked and long. According to the “Digital Transformation Analysis Report of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” released by the China Institute of Electronic Technology Standardization, 79% of small and medium-sized enterprises in the preliminary exploration stage of digitalization, 12% of small and medium-sized enterprises in the application practice stage, and only 9% of small and medium-sized enterprises in the deep application stage.

Figure: The overall level of national digital transformation

Source: China Electronic Technology Standardization Institute

The national leadership is particularly concerned about the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Not long ago, the Premier of The State Council went to Shandong for investigation. At the crucial moment of the annual development link, the Premier came to Shandong, the largest province in the north, to focus on the real economy and the need to expand domestic demand and stabilize external demand. The selected “point” of the research focused on the real economy and expand domestic demand and stabilize external demand — Weichai, Goer, Haier and Hisense are the manufacturing leaders in Shandong and even the whole country, and Qingdao Jiaozhou Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone is an open hub in the new development pattern.

In the TV news report picture investigated by the Prime minister, there is a detail worth noting, that is, Haier has pushed the Kaos industrial Internet platform to the front. This is because helping small and medium-sized enterprises digital transformation is the mission and responsibility of the industrial Internet.

As the Premier hopes, enterprises can better adapt to user needs, carry out personalized customized services, create more competitive products, further explore domestic and foreign markets, and actively promote the industrial Internet to better empower small and medium-sized enterprises.

Taking the first step of the industrial Internet is actually very simple

The prospect described by the industrial Internet is good, but many small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises are often difficult to take the first step of transformation.

On the one hand, “cost” is a mountain on the head of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. For many small factories, spend hundreds of thousands, millions to buy a set of invisible software, or take several years to recover the cost of automation equipment, it is inevitable that meat pain, they need is small, light, spiritual solutions. On the other hand, the transformation of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises often lacks a mature methodology, even if they want to embrace digital change, they do not know where to start.

In the view of Helkaos COSMOPlat, taking the first step of the industrial Internet is actually not difficult. Kaos COSMOPlat according to the different needs of users, summed up the “five empowerment mode”, the first simple and then complex, from point to surface and then to the system. To be specific, first from the scene digitalization to solve the pain points and difficulties of enterprises; And then to enterprise digitalization, to help enterprises shape the industrial Internet gene; Then digitize the park to help build a digital industrial park; And then to the industry digitalization, to achieve industry upgrading; Finally, urban digitalization will be realized to help build the urban industrial brain and promote the high-quality development of the digital economy.