The cement tank truck that comes to pick up goods takes less than 30 minutes from entering the factory, loading, to automatically weighing and leaving the factory through an unmanned weighing room. If someone enters the dangerous area or the conveyor belt stops running, the system will automatically alarm. Early warning, diagnosis, and treatment of equipment failures have been achieved, resulting in a significant reduction in inspection and maintenance costs......A picture of intelligent production is presented in front of us when entering Shijiazhuang Quzhai Cement Co., Ltd. located in Luquan District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

A cement manufacturing enterprise achieves such results thanks to the implementation of a digital smart factory project. Fan Shaojie, the executive vice general manager of the company, said that they have applied advanced digital technologies such as next-generation mobile communication, industrial internet, and big data analysis to the traditional cement industry. They have built intelligent mining systems, smart card systems, equipment online monitoring and intelligent diagnosis systems. They have combined various tools, materials, and energy in the production and management process, achieving digital and intelligent management, effectively improving efficiency, saving costs and promoting the environmental protection.

This is a vivid scene of traditional industries in Hebei Province accelerating their digital transformation. Deepening the integration of new generation information technology and manufacturing industry, helping to promote new industrialization, is an important way to promote the integration of digital economy and real economy, and advance high-quality development. Focusing on enterprises’ “promoting inclusive cloud service support policies, deepening the integration and application of big data, and increasing support for enterprise intelligent transformation”, Hebei Province continues to improve the industrial internet policy system and actively promotes the “100,000 enterprises going to the cloud” plan.

Relying on the digital empowerment of the industrial internet, Hebei Province has achieved positive results in the digital development of industries, and a group of industrial enterprises have successfully achieved digital, networked, and intelligent transformation. Fu Zhenbo, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of Industry and Information Technology Department of Hebei Province said that a total of over 85,000 enterprises in Hebei Province have gone to the cloud through the implementation of a series of action plans such as "100,000 enterprises going to the cloud", digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, 5G applications “leading”, new industrialization and information integration. The cloud coverage rate of industrial equipment is 20.6%, and the CNC rate of key processes is 61.6%.

Since the beginning of this year, Hebei Province has vigorously implemented projects such as innovative development of industrial internet and digital transformation of supporting and strengthening excellence, continuously deepening the integration of new generation information technology and manufacturing industry, and accelerating the digital, networked, and intelligent transformation of traditional industries. Hebei will focus on large-scale industrial enterprises in traditional advantageous industries such as steel and iron, equipment manufacturing, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and building materials, cultivate a number of provincial-level industrial internet construction projects, and promote the application of new models like personalized customization, platform-based design, intelligent production, and digital management. Hebei will also push forward the acceleration of the application of new generation information technology in small and medium-sized enterprises, providing digital support for their development towards specialization, precision, and innovation. It is expected that there will be 100,000 cloud enterprises in Hebei Province by 2025.