Digital Tech Transforms Mfg. Logic
Digital technology, as a new type of general-purpose technology, is reshaping the industrial ecosystem and demonstrating a strong driving force for the development of new qualitative productivity.
The next step is to urgently break the industry and regional restrictions on data circulation, and to unblock the bottlenecks and key points of data flow.
The deep integration of digital technology and manufacturing industry is reshaping the industrial foundation.
Since 2018, the shipment volume of photovoltaic modules of Orient Daylily Company has always been among the top ten in the world, selling to more than 50 countries and regions globally.
However, production is cumbersome.
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In a photovoltaic production workshop of Orient Daylily in Chuzhou, Anhui, thousands of devices are roaring and operating, processing hundreds of tons of materials every day, involving 13 production processes, and producing 2.2 million photovoltaic cells.
Photovoltaic panels are fragile and require a stable transportation environment.
Previously, material transportation required workers to manually carry in protective suits.
But manual work not only has safety hazards, but the cost is also prone to be high.
How can all equipment be fully connected and networked to ultimately achieve intelligent transportation?
Orient Daylily found Tencent Cloud and Rui Lian Zhi Zao to study a digital transformation plan, moving the workshop equipment to a unified cloud platform.
At the same time, the development of application modules is modularized, making maintenance and repair easier, and greatly reducing the risk of downtime.
Through algorithm scheduling, hundreds of AGV carts have replaced manual material handling, reducing the workshop logistics handling cost by 50%, and increasing the operation efficiency by 30%.
Orient Daylily can achieve 7x24 hours non-stop, non-production.
After that, there is still a greater digital imagination space for Orient Daylily's photovoltaic intelligent applications, photovoltaic digital twin factories, and integrated source-network-load storage.
The change of Orient Daylily is not an isolated case.
On September 5, the "Report on Digital Technology Boosting the Development of New Qualitative Productivity - Analysis of Ten Industry Practice Cases" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") was released at the 2024 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference.
The "Report" points out that digital technology is the power engine for cultivating and developing new qualitative productivity, showing the path and prospect of Chinese enterprises' digital technology application.
This "Report" was jointly written by the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, Tencent Research Institute, and Tencent Cloud.
The data given in the "Report" estimates that every 10% increase in data flow volume can drive GDP growth by 0.2%.
For example, in the manufacturing industry, data-driven production process optimization can reduce downtime by 30%-50% and increase production efficiency by 20%-25%.
Wang Yiming, Vice Chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said in his speech at the conference that the digital economy has increased its penetration and is effectively overcoming the "Solow Paradox", becoming the core driving force for the development of new qualitative productivity.
According to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the scale of China's digital economy has increased from 16.2 trillion yuan in 2014 to 53.9 trillion yuan in 2023.
The proportion of the digital economy in GDP has also risen from 25.1% to 42.8%, and the contribution rate of digital economic growth to GDP has reached 66.45%.
How can more Chinese enterprises leverage digital technology to release greater new qualitative productivity?
This forum has answered.
How can digital technology empower corporate transformation?
China is a data power.
The "National Data Resource Survey Report (2023)" shows that the total data production volume in China in 2023 reached 32.85ZB, the total data storage volume reached 1.73ZB, and the total computing power reached 230EFLOPS, ranking second in the world.
With the issuance of documents such as "Opinions on Building a Data Basic System to Better Play the Role of Data Elements" and the "Data Elements ×" three-year action plan (2024-2026), the ultra-large-scale data resources are becoming a strong support for the development of new qualitative productivity.
Can data on the cloud help enterprises produce better?
Cai Yi, Vice President of Tencent Cloud, said that it is inevitable.
In the past, many enterprises discarded data, but now they are constantly realizing the role of data.
"Ningde Times wants to improve the efficiency of batteries and deploys the cloud, continuously storing quality inspection data from production sites such as Fuzhou and Germany, and collecting and summarizing them into cloud-edge-end solutions.
After the data is trained, the algorithm is distributed to them.
After the algorithm is trained in one place, it radiates to all places."
Cai Yi also cited the example that the mechanical equipment of Sany Heavy Industry can be on the cloud, and through agents, it can be seen where the equipment is and how it is leased out for easy operation to see the status of the mechanical arm.
After collecting data, it can be seen what equipment the customer has bought and when to change parts.
The "Report" introduces that in the field of smart cars, NIO Automobile and Tencent cooperate, using ultra-large-scale hybrid cloud infrastructure to enhance its own intelligent driving and operational capabilities.
NIO can quickly expand the computing power pool to a maximum of one million scale, the application upgrade time is reduced from hours to seconds, the total cost of the computing platform is optimized by 40%, and the operational efficiency and resource flexibility efficiency are effectively improved.
In the retail industry, the Jingdezhen ceramic industry is generally a "traditional family workshop", scattered, small, chaotic, high cost, few business opportunities, and insufficient talents.
Jingdezhen Taobo City tries digital operation, creating a "cloud mall" to help ceramic enterprises expand online sales.
Not limited to the manufacturing industry, the "Report" cites the example that the AI doctor large language model intelligent pre-consultation system of Shenzhen People's Hospital has been able to achieve "waiting for consultation is consultation".
The system can intelligently parse the images of inspection and examination forms uploaded by patients through OCR technology, and highlight abnormal data indicators.
The accuracy of the medical record summary is as high as 87%.
Through digital technology, medical staff can view the pre-consultation report at any time, realize one-click reference to EMR before diagnosis, switch to display the pre-consultation report, view the inspection form, search historical pre-consultation reports, view the complete dialogue and user feedback, etc., liberating doctors from a large amount of boring and heavy basic work, and creating more in-depth communication and communication space between doctors and patients.
The "Report" points out that using new Internet technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries in an all-round and full-chain manner will improve total factor productivity and play the role of digital technology in economic development in terms of amplification, superposition, and multiplexing.
On the one hand, China's digital technology innovation is rapidly transforming into new qualitative productivity.
In 2023, the scale of China's digital industry reached 10.09 trillion yuan, accounting for 18.7% of GDP; on the other hand, the scale of China's industrial digitalization reached 43.84 trillion yuan, accounting for 34.77% of GDP.
The "Report" points out that the continuous advancement of digital transformation, the continuous emergence of advanced production models such as industrial Internet, industrial Internet, lighthouse factories, digital twins, shared manufacturing, and discrete manufacturing, and the digitalization of the service industry such as smart cities, smart transportation, platform consumption, online education, digital medical care, remote office, and digital government affairs is providing more convenience for the public's production and life.
Wang Yiming believes that digital technology, as a new type of general-purpose technology, reshapes the industrial ecosystem and has already shown a strong driving force for the development of new qualitative productivity.
Wang Yiming said that data, as a new type of production factor in the era of the digital economy, has high liquidity, low copying costs, and increasing returns, becoming an important part of new qualitative productivity.
Accelerating the cultivation of the data factor market, establishing property rights attribution identification, market trading, rights and interests distribution, and interest protection systems, plays an important role in promoting the efficiency of factor allocation and total factor productivity.
Li Feng, Director of the Innovation Development Research Department of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said to "Finance" that data, as a new type of production factor, is the foundation of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, and has quickly integrated into various links such as production, distribution, circulation, consumption, and social service management, profoundly changing the way of production, life, and social governance, and becoming an important element in the development of new qualitative productivity.
Li Feng said that the development of new qualitative productivity should integrate new technologies, new factors, and traditional production factors, optimize the combination of laborers, labor materials, and labor objects, greatly improve total factor productivity, and form an advanced productive quality state characterized by high technology, high efficiency, and high quality.
The innovative combination of factors can bring about a new quality of development that is different from the past, expand the creative effects of new technologies, new models, and new industries, reduce the destructive effects of traditional production paradigms being replaced, and enhance the new momentum of economic development.
According to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization, China's patent applications and authorizations in digital fields such as the next-generation information network industry, electronic core industry, emerging software and emerging information technology services, the Internet and cloud computing, big data services, and artificial intelligence are all at the top of the world.
China has also become an important contributor to the global open-source ecosystem, with the second-largest source code contribution in the world.
The research and development progress of cutting-edge technologies such as quantum computers, brain-computer interfaces, low-orbit communication, and intelligent networking is also accelerating.
Mei Guanqun, Director of the Innovation Development Research Department of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, pointed out that the core of new qualitative productivity is technological innovation, and the innovation of digital technology is an important field of technological innovation.
Data itself is a new type of production factor that can empower the upgrading of traditional industries and form some new production models, such as industrial Internet, industrial Internet, including the living field, online consumption, etc., digital technology can re-shape and reshape various fields of the economy and society.
Li Feng said that traditional industries using artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and other new generation information technologies and intelligent manufacturing technologies can rapidly popularize industrial robots, automated assembly lines, and create intelligent factories, "dark factory" production models, etc.
Therefore, it is necessary to make great efforts to cultivate and expand emerging industries, layout and build future industries, and also to transform and upgrade traditional industries with the results of scientific and technological innovation, promote the short board industry to supplement the chain, the advantage industry to extend the chain, the traditional industry to upgrade the chain, and the emerging industry to build the chain.Li Feng stated that currently, the value of data elements is increasingly reflected in reducing production costs, improving production efficiency, and enhancing the standard of living.
Promoting the marketization of data elements will be beneficial in fully leveraging China's vast scale of data and rich application scenarios, activating the potential of data elements, better playing their role, and strengthening the internal momentum of new quality productivity.
Li Feng suggested using data elements as a driving force to promote the deep integration of the digital economy with the real economy.
At the same time, it is necessary to break the industrial and regional restrictions on data circulation, unblock the bottlenecks and choke points in data flow, and facilitate smooth data circulation in all aspects of production, distribution, circulation, and consumption.
In addition, it is important to improve the national data management system and mechanism, build a property rights system and market system that is conducive to the protection of data security, effective utilization, and compliant circulation, accelerate the formulation of market infrastructure policies such as data assets, data transactions, and data labeling, maximize the potential of data value and usage value, and speed up the formation of new quality productivity.