How manufacturing enterprises build their own digital factory

How manufacturing enterprises build their own digital factory

At the 13th Asian Financial Forum, it was amazing that "84% of the efforts in digital transformation failed". Although this sentence refers to the transformation of economic digitalization, digital factories are also among the 84%.

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

Digital factory management system

1、 Advantages of Digital Factory

The so-called digital factory is the transformation and upgrading compared with the traditional factory. In the digital factory management system, the Internet of Things technology is often used to realize the interconnection between equipment, people and systems, and eliminate the existence of "information islands". The disadvantage of traditional factories is that they have high labor costs and poor efficiency. In addition, "accidents" of plant equipment are common. To avoid hidden dangers of plant equipment and reduce the loss of equipment failure are the functions to be realized by digitalization.

For example, the digital factory system is to monitor all production equipment, collect and analyze data in real time, give early warning and find the best solution for possible faults of factory equipment. While keeping each equipment of the factory running in the best condition, reduce the labor cost and produce the best products.

2、 Problems of Digital Transformation of Domestic Manufacturing Industry

84% of the efforts of digital transformation failed because most enterprises believed that the digital transformation system was just a technical problem, so they made large-scale investment in hardware and software, but did not invest in the "digital training" of employees.

As for China's digital factory, its development is still in its infancy, and it will inevitably take many detours. It is reported that the digital transformation of domestic factories faces three challenges:

First, the concept of digitalization is not thoroughly understood, and there is a lack of overall planning;

Second, the narrow misunderstanding of benefits cannot be eliminated;

Third, the lack of skilled talents leads to the digitalization of enterprises.

The realization of digital factory requires the coordination of multiple departments. The top decision-maker's strategy is very important to guide the digital strategy of the entire manufacturing industry. To this end, the country 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

It is not China that first proposed the digital factory. Let's take a look at the concept of "Industry 4.0" in Germany. Germany aims to build a digital factory with "intelligent manufacturing" as its development goal. Through a series of means such as information technology, extensive interconnection and information interaction. Make the production of the factory more flexible to meet the differentiated and customized needs of consumers.

In other words, the future digital factory 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 of all, it is necessary to enrich the functions and application scenarios;

Secondly, meet the demand of information collection;

Thirdly, while realizing standardized production, we should retain a certain degree of flexible production;

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

We often say that data collection and data application are two different things. In terms of factory data collection, we make some deployment in PLC to collect production data and send it to the cloud, which is very easy to achieve. But in this process, garbage data is not rare. How the factory distinguishes the value of data and applies 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, namely consumption data, is another part of building a digital factory. To this end, a safe and reliable platform is needed to realize data sharing, and finally meet the needs of consumers' personalized and customized production, which is now often referred to as intelligent manufacturing.

Shenzhen Jingdayu Technology Co., Ltd. adheres to the principle of customer first and technology first, and strives to build a dedicated digital factory for customers.