How to build a digital factory for manufacturing enterprises

How to build a digital factory for manufacturing enterprises

At the 13th Asian financial forum, it was revealed that "84% of efforts in digital transformation have failed". Although this sentence refers to the transformation of economic digitalization, digital chemical plants are also in this 84%.

The digital factory management system, which is often mentioned in the manufacturing industry, is a part of realizing intelligent manufacturing. Realizing the digitalization of factories is the aspiration of many businesses and the market that many industrial control manufacturers want to lay out. What is a digital factory system and what should a digital factory be like?

Management system of digital chemical plant

1、 Advantages of digital chemical plant

The so-called digital factory is the transformation and upgrading compared with traditional factories. In the management system of digital chemical plants, the Internet of things technology is often used to realize the interconnection among equipment, people and systems and eliminate the existence of "information islands". Traditional factories have a disadvantage, that is, high labor costs and poor efficiency. Moreover, "accidents" of factory equipment are common. To avoid hidden dangers of factory equipment and reduce the loss of equipment failure is the function of digitalization.

For example, the digital chemical plant system is to monitor all production equipment, collect and analyze data in real time, give early warning of possible failures of plant equipment and find the best solution. While keeping every equipment in the factory running in the best state, it reduces the input of labor costs and produces the best products.

2、 Digital transformation of domestic manufacturing industry

84% of the efforts of digital transformation failed, because most enterprises think that the digital transformation system is only a technical problem, so they invest in hardware and software on a large scale, but do not invest in the "digital training" of employees.

As for China's digital chemical plant, its development is still in its infancy, and it is inevitable to take many detours. It is reported that the digital transformation of domestic factories is facing three challenges:

First, the concept of digitalization has not been thoroughly understood and the overall planning is lacking;

Second, the narrow misunderstanding of efficiency can not be overcome

Third, the lack of skilled talents has led to the "virtual existence" of enterprise digitalization.

The realization of digital chemical plant needs the coordination of multiple departments. The strategy of top-level decision-makers is very important, and they should be able to guide the digitalization strategy of the entire manufacturing industry. To this end, the state introduced the top-level design scheme of industrial Internet in 2019 to promote the digital transformation of hundreds of thousands of enterprises.

3、 How to build a digital factory

China was not the first to propose digital chemical plants. Let's take a look at the concept of "industry 4.0" in Germany. Germany takes "intelligent manufacturing" as its development goal to build digital chemical plants, through a series of means such as information technology, extensive interconnection and information interaction. Make the factory's production more flexible and meet the differentiated and customized needs of consumers.

That is to say, the future digital chemical plant is based on the redesigned production process, supply chain management process, product redesign, and data collection, analysis and decision-making system.

Therefore, to build a digital factory:

First, it needs to enrich functions and application scenarios;

Secondly, meet the needs of information collection;

Thirdly, while realizing standardized production, certain flexible production should be retained;

Finally, the automation equipment is simple and practical, easy to popularize and the maintenance cost is low.

We often say that data collection and data application are two different things. In terms of factory data collection, we have made some deployment in PLC to collect production data and then send it to the cloud, which is easy to achieve. But in this process, garbage data is not rare. How to identify the value of data and how to apply data is one of the keys to digital transformation.

After the factory obtains internal data and solves production problems. The interconnection of factory and external data, that is, consumption data, is another part of building a digital factory. For this reason, we need a safe and reliable platform to realize data sharing, and finally meet the personalized and customized production of consumers, which is often referred to as intelligent manufacturing.

Shenzhen JDM Technology Co., Ltd. adheres to the principle of "customer first, technology first" and strives to build a dedicated digital chemical plant for customers.