The sound of steel rolling is roaring, the dust is flying in the air, and with the pungent smell, sweaty workers shuttle between the machines with steel splashes... When it comes to steel manufacturing, many people will have such a picture in their mind.
As a traditional industry, iron and steel production has long and complex process and it has long supply chain. Facing the challenges of high equipment maintenance cost, high invisibility of industrial knowledge, increased pressure on environmental protection and production restriction, it is urgent to carry out intelligent transformation around production control, supply chain management, equipment upgrading and equipment management.
At this time, Delong Group, a representative iron and steel enterprise in Hebei Province, took the first step to conduct the reform. In 2018, Delong Group began its digital transformation. Over the past four years, Delong Group has continued to make changes and completed wonderful transformation. Now, approaching the argon blowing station behind the converter in the steelmaking plant of Delong Group, the robot is measuring, sampling and determining oxygen in molten steel. The working time of single measurement is only more than ten seconds. After the continuous casting billet is pulled out, the high-energy beam spraying robot continuously acts on the continuous casting billet by the high-energy particle beam, and generates a separate "ID number". The smart camera in front of the heating furnace automatically captures, grabs and identifies the "ID number" of the continuous casting billet. It uses visual recognition technology to automatically capture, recognize characters, upload the system to check the information.
Intelligent camera in front of the heating furnace. Pictures provided by Delong Group
Ding Liguo, chairman of Delong Group and Xintian Iron and Steel Group, said that the production links of iron and steel enterprises are more complex in the manufacturing industry, and digital empowerment is more needed to solve many problems that people can't achieve or can achieve but the effect is not good. He has a sense of responsibility of never abandoning digital transformation. He said that “I think both state-owned enterprises and private enterprises need assessment, and people are inert. How to realize constraints and make no mistakes depends on reality. The only way to be true is to rely on numbers.”
At present, Delong Group has significantly improved its enterprise management refinement and information integration and utilization level, formed a set of smart manufacturing standards, built a number of smart production lines and smart workshops, and set up a number of smart manufacturing benchmarking enterprises. Security, logistics, weight inspection, quality inspection, engineering, procurement, sales and other business risks have been fully and effectively controlled. The ability to continuously optimize key links such as management, cost and indicators is formed. Supported by intelligent factory and intelligent equipment, Delong Group promote the reform of management mode, organization mode and optimization of human resources by process reconstruction.
High energy beam spraying robot. Picture provided by Delong Group
There is no turning back arrow when starting a bow, and there is no end to transformation. Not only Delong group, the digital, networked and intelligent transformation of traditional industries is gradually becoming the common choice of traditional enterprises in Hebei Province.
In the field of medicine in Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. has found another way to focus on innovation. Cai Dongchen, chairman of Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., said that we have cultivated the first Chinese local enterprise to obtain the full approval of U.S. FDA of the new drug Xuanning, and cultivated the third national class I new drug Enbipu in China with independent intellectual property rights. He said that among them, digitization is integrated in the whole process of product design, R & D and manufacturing. At the application level, it has greatly promoted the improvement of efficiency and quality.
In accelerating the integrated application of the new generation of information technology in the production and implementation process, Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group has gradually changed the traditional production mode and explored new production modes such as intelligent manufacturing, networked manufacturing and cloud manufacturing. Through nearly 10 years of exploration, Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group is gradually building the traditional manufacturing center into an intelligent manufacturing center. In the R & D stage, AI technology is integrated into drug design. The sample size of compounds screened in three months is almost equal to that screened in the past 15 years, and the R & D efficiency is greatly improved. In the production stage, it took about 1,200 people to produce 20 billion solid preparations and 20 billion capsules every year in the past five traditional workshops. Now it takes only 200 people to produce the same amount.
Cai Dongchen is full of confidence in realizing more accurate R & D and manufacturing of digital boost drugs. He said that in the future, new products built by digital technology will be more and more high-end, and the safety and efficacy of products will be more guaranteed. We will produce more and more accessible innovative drugs to benefit the people.
R & D Laboratory of Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group. Picture Provided by Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd
On the bank of Hengshui Lake, the Pearl of North China, Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Co., Ltd., the first winery established after the founding of new China, is located here. Before 2017, Hengshui Laobaigan mainly used U8 system, K3 system, salesman management system and other separated information islands. There was no integration and unified data between each system, resulting in the data of each system can not support each other, and the same data of different systems are often inconsistent.
Since 2017, Hengshui Laobaigan has invested heavily in capital and resources and cooperated with international SAP company, Deloitte company, domestic Bozhi company, Weaver company and other technology companies. At present, it has preliminarily realized the closed-loop management system of consumer purchase, dealer demand, manufacturer making demand plan, workshop production according to plan, warehousing and transportation to dealers, and realized the enterprise integrated operation platform with SAP system as the core and highly integrated CRM system, MES system, WMS system, OA system, quality traceability system, consumer operation system and other systems.
Liu Yanlong, chairman of Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Co., Ltd., said that "In cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, we now use the robot arm steamer loading technology, which not only replaces manual work, but also ensures the quality of drinks. At the same time, as the application of the big data in the management of sales, intelligence has been achieved from the receipt of the liquor in the workshop of the packing, through the bottling, boxing, warehousing and the final delivery to the distributors, to the collection and analysis of consumers' data.
Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Co., Ltd. intelligent three-dimensional storage. Picture Provided by Hengshui Laobaigan Liquor Co., Ltd
Traditional industries and emerging technologies collide, blending a picture of industrial digital transformation and upgrading. The leading group for the deep integration of informatization and industrialization in Hebei Province issued the key points for the integration of informatization and industrialization in Hebei in 2021, which pointed out that focusing on the transformation and upgrading needs of traditional industries and focusing on industry leading enterprises, we should deepen the application of new technologies such as 5G, industrial app, digital twin and artificial intelligence. We should promote new manufacturing models such as intelligent products, personalized customization, networked collaboration, intelligent manufacturing, service extension, digital management and integrated application. We should adjust and optimize the Hebei Industrial Internet innovation and development oriented catalogue, establish a provincial key project library, and cultivate 50 "manufacturing + Internet" key projects. We should guide enterprises to use the new generation of information technology to empower traditional industries and accelerate the pace of enterprise digital transformation.
