Original title: under the spring tide of Industry 4.0, how does USI export "Lighthouse Factory"?
Under the background of global industry 4.0, some manufacturing enterprises have taken the lead in relying on innovative science and technology applications to create "the most advanced factories in the world".
At the same time, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and McKinsey have launched the global "Lighthouse Factory" network project in recent years to find and select such advanced manufacturing projects around the world every year.
Among them, Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd.") in Shenzhen's "flexible assembly operation intelligent factory", that is, their "lights-out factory" is one of the successful qualified members in this selection. In January 2019, it was selected by the World Economic Forum as the "lighthouse factory" list.
At this stage, Industrial Fudi is carrying the industrial Internet dream of Foxconn Group (hereinafter referred to as "Foxconn"), not only to implement the overall solution of the lighthouse factory, it even proposed to build 10 "lighthouse factories" solution benchmarking in different industries at the forum on the second anniversary of their listing, so as to export Foxconn's decades of precipitation in the manufacturing industry in many directions.
So how do we replicate or work when we apply Foxconn's manufacturing experience and capabilities to other industries?
Liu Zongchang, chief data officer of USI, said:
"when the lighthouse factory is doing it, in fact, the cycle of each project will be very long. When building a lighthouse factory, first, they start from the head customer; second, whether it is the previous cycle of planning this project with the customer, or being familiar with each other's business cycle, and the delivery cycle will actually be relatively long. "
"therefore, in the first year, they are more likely to turn their programs into this kind of marketing activities, slowly start to carry out 01delivery and set a benchmark, and then slowly stabilize into some product lines, and then improve the efficiency of this kind of project delivery."
Recently, Lei Feng has simply sorted out the recent work results of USI from the perspectives of the work progress of building 10 "lighthouse factories", how to export Foxconn's experience and ability in manufacturing, and "surfing" Industry 4.0. I'm here to share with you.
Build 10 "lighthouse factories"
According to public information, USI currently has eight light-out factories across the country, with production and R & D bases in 11 countries, including more than 20,000 R & D personnel.
At present, USI has three major technology service sectors, including the overall solution of the lighthouse factory, from the planning, design, detailed design of use cases and general package implementation of the lighthouse factory; in addition, there is the introduction of the entire operation system and personnel training. there are hardware and software integration solutions in different scenarios, and 1bn industrial Internet platform provides services on the supply chain.
Among them, the "flexible assembly operation intelligent factory" selected as "Lighthouse Factory" brings together supply chain intelligent decision-making, surface mount intelligent manufacturing platform, fully automatic flexible assembly production line, AI intelligent inspection and diversion system, production big data decision center and other units.
At the forum on the second anniversary of the listing of USI, Liu Zongchang revealed that the company is cooperating with head customers in auto parts, residential industry, building materials and other industries to export "lighthouse factories". It is planned to build an overall solution benchmark for 10 lighthouse factories in 2020.
According to public information, in the first half of 2020, they signed a project cooperation framework agreement with CITIC Holdings, CITIC Daika and China Resources cement to jointly fund the establishment of an industrial Internet platform company, and the parties intend to take the lead in building CITIC Daika and China Resources cement sealing Company's "Lighthouse Factory" project.
In the residential industry, Industrial Fulian has worked with Seagull to build a digital workshop system, from MES to on-site intelligent applications, related solutions have been delivered in factories such as Zhuhai and Guangzhou. In addition, through the construction of 5G-based residential industry collaborative design and manufacturing industry Internet platform, the organic integration of advanced management, technology and information technology, intelligent equipment and other technologies.
Liu Zongchang said:
"Industrial USI will rely on its own uniqueness to provide enterprises with full-station digital transformation and the building of lighthouse factories, not only consulting planning, scheme design, but also implementation. USI replicates and shares its experience in the electronics industry. "
According to official information, the project progress of USI's different "lighthouse factory" customers varies from industry to industry, but overall, it has initially reached the annual target in terms of quantity. For example, they have worked with head customers in auto parts, rail transit, residential industry, building materials, tobacco and other industries. at the same time, the soon-to-be-delivered "Lighthouse Factory" is raiding the selection of the "Lighthouse Factory" at the Summer Davos Forum.
How to replicate Foxconn's industrial Internet?
In April 2020, USI announced that it is strategic to invest in Lingyunguang technology to promote both sides to jointly realize the landing of machine vision and artificial intelligence in the future "lighthouse factory" and the research and development of cutting-edge technology. at the same time, it has further improved the products, technology and ecology in the areas of "new infrastructure" such as 5G, big data center, artificial intelligence and industrial Internet.
According to the general impression of the outside world, USI has formed a complete supply chain and intelligent manufacturing capacity of the global 3C electronics industry. So, how do they lead other advanced manufacturing models in the field of non-3C electronics manufacturing, Liu Zongchang said:
"Industrial USI has not only made achievements in the field of 3C electronics, but also integrated vertical industry resources earlier, integrating many upstream and downstream industrial chains, such as metal processing, surface treatment, thermal technology and other manufacturing experience. For example, in the iron and steel industry, USI has mastered some casting, forging, welding, and so on, which can actually be done to the outside world. "
As for vertical areas such as tobacco and cement, which were previously less exposed, Lei Feng.com learned that they thought they were quite consistent in their understanding of the basic concept of manufacturing. Industrial Union is not only based on the already familiar range, if new industries, such as tobacco and cement, have a higher gross profit and belong to high-value industries; moreover, some industries used to be relatively closed and traditional, but the transformation potential is good, and so on, USI will also do it decisively.
When the lighthouse factory hits the ground, it is a process of continuous maturity. Talking about export intelligent manufacturing solutions, Liu Zongchang said:
"since it is going to different industries, there must be barriers, which will take time to resolve. At the same time, building a lighthouse factory is actually a kind of integration of capabilities. In the whole part of intelligent manufacturing, we actually get the most difficult or "pearl" first. When working as a lighthouse factory, we agree with the World Economic Forum's approval for the selection of lighthouse factories, because the factories it evaluates are standard and value-oriented. "
Lei Feng learned that when the lighthouse factory is doing, in fact, the cycle of each project will be very long. When building a lighthouse factory, first, they start with the head customer, and second, whether they plan the project cycle with the customer or are familiar with each other's business cycle, the delivery cycle will actually be relatively long. therefore, in the first year, they are more likely to turn their plans into this kind of marketing activities, slowly start to carry out 01st delivery and set a benchmark, and slowly stabilize into some product lines in the back. And then to improve this efficiency.
It is understood that the "Lighthouse Factory" is delivered by the internal team of Industrial USI, in which the consulting team has more than 40 people, while the entire delivery team is about hundreds of people. Because the project delivery is a very long service cycle, according to the preliminary blueprint, it will take about 3 to 5 years as a whole, including people who understand top-level design and consulting capabilities, as well as core solution architects. There are also project managers responsible for development landing and strong capabilities, as well as providing customers with some organizational empowerment, such as management consulting and talent development.
It is expected that a lot of benchmarking will emerge in 2021, such as the success stories of their customers and the certification of new lighthouse factories at home and abroad by the World Economic Forum. At present, USI also proposes the role of partner in the upgrading of industrial value, hoping that Party An and Party B can establish in-depth cooperation.
"Surfing" Industry 4.0
According to Markets and Markets, the global smart manufacturing market will grow to US $299.19 billion in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.9% from 2018 to 2023. According to McKinsey, the industrial Internet will generate as much as $11.1 trillion a year by 2025.
At this stage, USI adopts the two-wheel drive strategy of "intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet" to export scientific and technological services to the outside world.
First of all, in the aspect of intelligent manufacturing, it mainly exports the overall solution of the lighthouse factory to carry out end-to-end services.
Moreover, at the industrial Internet level, they mainly provide technological services. Liu Zongchang said:
"first, create an end-to-end intelligent manufacturing solution to achieve a complete vertical application scenario of process optimization, fully integrated into a 'lighthouse factory', and output the overall solution of the 'lighthouse factory'."
"secondly, introduce a scenario-based solution with a combination of hardware and software to improve the speed of application promotion and replication."
"third, launch the industrial Internet platform of '1N1', work with industry partners to create industry application and service ecology, and provide more targeted services for the industry."
Industrial Internet mainline, related to the entire manufacturing services, such as testing, proofing, industrial design and other services. The goal is that if the future customer has a good product or idea, he can find all the elements that support the platform to become a reality on the rich cloud platform.
In the whole electronic manufacturing, all aspects of it include professional manufacturing services, for example, some people need a large number of manufacturing services such as SMT, or sheet metal processing services, and the corresponding suppliers and resources can be found above.
At this stage, the "Lighthouse Factory" is becoming the new operation and main business model of USI. On the one hand, by optimizing the production process and management system of the factory, it can bring practical benefits of improving quality, increasing efficiency, reducing cost and reducing storage; on the other hand, USI packages and precipitates it as an overall solution for external output, bringing new technology service revenue for the company.
In terms of organizational transformation, they also specially set up the "Lighthouse College", which focuses on the integrated needs of AT, OT, DT and PT, devotes itself to the training of industrial big data and industrial artificial intelligence talents, and helps enterprises build an echelon of talents for omni-directional digital transformation to support the construction, implementation and sustainable operation of the lighthouse factory.
Copying the experience and achievements of "Industrial Union" in the industrial Internet not only requires patience, but also requires the support of various software and hardware, professionals and other aspects.