Since General Electric (GE) officially released its first white paper on industrial Internet, the voice of industrial Internet in the tide of the world has been ringing for nine years.
Under the magnificent market prospect, the value of this new type of business has long been needless to say.
Looking at the development of the global industrial Internet, the three foot stage with noisy figures, in addition to the shopping malls such as Boeing, Microsoft and Cisco, the power of the industry and even the country also began to surge secretly. Germany, which holds the banner of industry 4.0 high, and Japan, which seeks "industrial interconnection"
No manufacturing power can stay out of the shadow of the golden horse.
The camera turns to the side of the ocean, the east of the world civilization, the only country with all the industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification catalogue. In China, a magnificent drama about the industrial Internet has begun.
He has made suggestions on industrial Internet for five consecutive years
"Focusing on building an industrial Internet system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the high-quality development of the real economy will have an all-round, deep-seated and revolutionary impact on China's future industrial development."
On the scene of the "two sessions", as a delegate to the 12th and 13th National People's congresses, Zhou Yunjie, President of Haier Group, made such a proposal to make suggestions for the development of China's industry.
As a participant in the real economy who participated in the 9th NPC and CPPCC, from the construction of China's industrial Internet platform to data security, from the integration and innovation of new technologies to the upgrading of industrial system, Zhou Yunjie has always been actively concerned about the construction of industrial Internet system with Chinese characteristics, which is also the fifth consecutive year that he has made suggestions on the development of China's industrial Internet.
On the other hand, focusing on the two sessions, the voices related to "industrial Internet" are also continuous.
Since the government issued the "guiding opinions on the development of industrial Internet" in November 2017, as a topic at the national strategic level, industrial Internet has always been the favorite topic and focus of the subsequent two sessions because of its importance and urgency. Business representatives such as Ma Huateng, chairman of Tencent board of directors, Zhou Hongyi, chairman of 360 group, and so on have made suggestions on this.
Behind this, as representative Zhou Yunjie emphasized, in the face of the future competition with European and American powers, the time window left for China to seize the initiative and voice of the industrial Internet is very limited.
"In the next three years, the competition for industrial Internet construction platforms between countries may be divided into one level, so it is urgent for us to build an industrial Internet system with Chinese characteristics."
In particular, the development of China's industrial Internet is still at a critical turning point from the initial stage to the growth stage.
However, on the whole, compared with the progress of some European and American countries, the number of domestic industrial Internet equipment connections is small, the industry concentration is low, and the gap in industrial development level still exists.
Fortunately, with such excellent platforms as CAOS, Alibaba cloud and Huawei cloud, Chinese enterprises are experiencing vigorous development in the fields of networking, intelligence and informatization.
At the same time, with the continuous promotion of a series of agendas and policies, the industrial Internet, as a new infrastructure, is also receiving great attention from all parties and ushering in new windows and opportunities.
How does the industrial Internet moisten "Chinese characteristics"
Compared with the development process of industrial Internet in other countries, the biggest difference of this business form in the domestic "taking root" is the "Chinese characteristics" imbued in the construction and development of the system.
From a macro perspective, the industrial Internet is not only a bridge towards the fourth industrial revolution for Chinese industry, but also a leader in the "new infrastructure" strategy. Compared with the "interconnection" and "consumption reduction" of Europe and the United States, the direction of China's industrial Internet is to promote the development of 5g, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other cutting-edge technologies, and provide a wide range of application scenarios, so as to provide support for enhancing the independent and controllable ability of China's industrial chain supply chain.
On the other hand, from a micro perspective, the development of China's industrial Internet is also constantly promoting the vitality of the "internal cycle" in the double cycle.
The important fulcrum of internal circulation is to activate market demand and stimulate the vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, the digitalization level of small and medium-sized enterprises in China is uneven, so the industrial Internet with Chinese characteristics is needed to empower small and medium-sized enterprises.
As Lin Xueping wrote in the triple realm of industrial Internet:
"From the perspective of historical development, the process of industrial upgrading and transformation can be roughly divided into three stages: the internalization of enterprise business processes, the externalization of manufacturing service integration... The platform plug-in stage that enables the industry."
This has been confirmed by the track of industrial Internet pioneer enterprises represented by Haier.
After the above two stages, the industrial Internet platform represented by CAOS has developed into an enabling platform for multilateral interaction and value-added sharing. Through joint construction with large enterprises and sharing with small enterprises, CAOS continues to realize the boundless ecological empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises in addition to improving efficiency and reducing costs.
As early as the past year's work in the epidemic prevention and control period, the link ability built by CAOS with the help of the industrial Internet has been highlighted incisively and vividly.
In Houma, Shanxi Province, relying on the resources linked by CAOS, the first production line with a daily output of 100000 medical masks in Shanxi Province has been successfully launched in only 48 hours, and a medical materials industry cluster has been established;
In Shandong, CAOS also helped clothing enterprises such as Zibo heisibao and Qingdao globegroup quickly switch to production of masks and protective clothing, and provided enterprises with solutions for the whole production line, including sterilization machines, packaging machines, and non-woven meltblown fabrics;
Before that, during the premier's visit to Shandong, he specifically affirmed the cross industry and cross field practice of CAOS' industrial Internet platform, saying that CAOS "seized the opportunity" to not only make its own factory a beacon, but also empower other enterprises, helping them improve efficiency, reduce inventory, and link the industry.
Behind the success model of CAOS, the industrial Internet with Chinese characteristics, a heavy term, implies the height of national strategy and broad market prospects, which continue to inspire factories and cities to "change their appearance".
Focus: the "Navigator" through thorns
Looking at these "leaders" in the wave of China's industrial Internet, it is not difficult to find that compared with the weak "enterprise" power, "city" is the participant behind the fierce competition of the track.
In terms of promoting the construction of industrial Internet platforms and accelerating the construction of industrial Internet development ecology, Chinese cities with a solid industrial foundation have always been responsible.
Among them, Shanghai, with its strong capital layout, took the lead in realizing the "scale effect" of industrial Internet;
Shenzhen is home to a number of cutting-edge intelligent manufacturing companies such as Huawei and Foxconn, and has built a collaborative intelligent manufacturing network;
There are also 1833 industrial Internet Ecological enterprises gathered in Qingdao, the "industrial Internet capital of the world", which takes the lead in seeking ecological construction.
Compared with the former two, Qingdao does not have advantages in terms of capital thickness and the scale of cutting-edge enterprises, but it wins in two points:
First, it has a solid industrial foundation and a complete industrial system.
Data shows that the current industrial system of Qingdao has covered 39 of all 41 industrial categories, and is fully capable of providing rich application scenarios for promoting industrial Internet and developing artificial intelligence.
The second is helcaos, which stands at the head of Ge and Siemens.
As the only brand with three exclusive seats in the authorization of the world's four major international standardization organizations to take the lead in formulating mass customization models and industrial Internet related standards, Haier is not only one of the few enterprises with two lighthouse factories in the same country in the world, but also the only industrial Internet Unicorn enterprise incubated by it.
To some extent, this is also a heavy card in the process of building Qingdao into the "industrial Internet capital of the world".
On this basis, the Pearl of Jiaozhou Bay is still forming a fully open ecosystem around the industrial Internet.
Last year, the city held the 2020 Venture Capital Conference. With a highly open attitude, Qingdao is sending invitations all over the world to gather assets through the power of capital and realize coordinated development in the era of industrial Internet.
From the perspective of this city, "the industrial Internet industry has always been an ecosystem."
Only by optimizing the budding environment with ecological thinking and accelerating the construction of the "four chain in one" ecosystem of the industrial Internet, can more enterprises, capital, talents and technology be gathered to form a "tropical rainforest" of the industrial Internet with towering "arbors", robust "shrubs" and lush "vegetation".
Moving forward: outlook in the post epidemic Era
Indeed, the industrial Internet is not a cure all.
In the face of the doomed rise and fall cycle of various real economy industries, the industrial Internet may not be able to "change its life against the sky".
However, there is no need to deny the value of the industrial Internet. For China's industry and manufacturing industry, where labor costs are increasing, the transformation of old and new kinetic energy is slow, and structural upgrading is imminent, building an industrial Internet with Chinese characteristics is still a good way to provide timely help.
Industrial Internet is an opportunity given by the times to Chinese enterprises. China is in the forefront of the world in the field of consumer Internet and mobile payment. In the field of industrial Internet, China still has such advantages.
Once upon a time, China's industrial Internet started early and from a high starting point, but the level of small and medium-sized enterprises is uneven, some belong to stage 1.0, some stage 2.0, and some hover in stage 3.0.
However, behind the level of differentiation, what remains unchanged is the common demand of enterprises to realize transformation through industrial Internet.
As the industrial Internet with Chinese characteristics gradually enters the deep-water area, more enterprises are bound to join the torrent rolling forward in this era.
Statistics have confirmed this. So far, nearly 80 characteristic platforms with industrial and regional influence have been formed in China, with 60million sets of industrial equipment connected, and the total number of domestic industrial apps has exceeded 350000.
Quantity may not be the only measure.
But at least, from CAOS in Qingdao to Huawei cloud in Shenzhen, from Guoxin in Beijing to the tide in Jinan, from Foxconn in the south to Alibaba in the East; From R & D and design to manufacturing, from operation and management to equipment operation and maintenance, from customized products to inventory management; With the support and empowerment of the platform and the determination and courage of enterprises, traditional industries have been transformed, fissioned, painful and sublimated.
The crown of manufacturing may not last forever.
However, for this country that once created the "miracle" of industrial development, the direction conveyed by the top-level design, the tolerance for change among cities, and the confidence gathered within the enterprise are still constantly building the determination of the enterprise to move towards the future.
