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5 integrations that smart factories cannot do without

Jan 11, 2019 Leave a message

5 "integrations" that smart factories cannot do without

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To realize a smart factory, we need an effective combination of the four elements of intelligent manufacturing (intelligent products, people, materials, factories), and also integrate customer integration, intellectual integration, vertical integration, horizontal integration, and value chain integration. The integration of these five aspects brings together the value of manufacturing and produces greater value.


1. Customer integration customer is the center of intelligent manufacturing, is the realization of customer integration, is the starting point of intelligent manufacturing, organic integration of customer needs through certain intelligent technology, will certainly double the value of manufacturing.


There are two situations for customer integration:

The first scenario is a large number of differentiated needs. Although each demand is different, the total demand is large. This is the scope economy, creating value through diversification;


The second scenario is the common concentration in individualized needs. This situation is economies of scale and value.


In the intelligent manufacturing system, customers are an intelligent element. They have smart phones and tablets. Through the mobile network, they can effectively integrate customers into the intelligent manufacturing environment.


The process of integrating the customer into the intelligent manufacturing system should be: through the O2O tools (such as the subway, the mall and the ubiquitous QR code), the customer is attracted to the corresponding website, download the APP, and the customer signs up and enters the APP. An interactive community. In this community, customers can order products, offer advice, see products in production, change demand, post a usage experience, or communicate and share experiences with other customers. Customers can invite friends and family to join the community, which will multiply the customer base. For customers who like different products, they can also create a more targeted segmentation community space, while customers are integrated into the product creation process. Such a process is the integration of customers, making scattered demand an organic whole, driving manufacturing innovation.


Therefore, customers should be the beginning of smart manufacturing.


2. Intellectual integration Zhang Ruimin said: The world is the R&D department of the enterprise, and the world is also the human resources department of the enterprise. The development of the Internet and mobile Internet enables enterprises to integrate the intelligence of the world and form the strongest brain of the enterprise. It can integrate big data resources around the world, analyze and study various trends; integrate the world's most authoritative experts to lead the trend; can integrate the world's best producers, and work hard.


3. Vertical integration inside the smart factory, through the vertical integration, the sensors, all levels of intelligent machines, industrial robots, intelligent workshops and products are organically integrated, while ensuring that this information can be transmitted to the ERP system, horizontal integration, and End-to-end value chain integration provides support.


This vertical integration constitutes a networked manufacturing system within the factory. This networked manufacturing system consists of many modules, including models, data, communications, algorithms, and so on. In the production process of different products, the modular network manufacturing system can reorganize the topology of the module as needed, so that it can meet the needs of personalized product production.


This integrated networked manufacturing system can be seen as a huge intelligent machine system, the module can be seen as his program unit, and the process of changing the topology is the process of reprogramming, but all the activities are automatically completed. . According to the instructions issued by different products, the networked manufacturing system can organize the production as needed.


Vertical integration has three characteristics: ensuring that signals from different levels of equipment and sensors are transmitted to the MES and ERP levels, providing data support for horizontal integration and end-to-end integration; to meet the variability of intelligent manufacturing, to develop modularity and reusability Sex is important; a functional description of the intelligent system. The vertical system is actually a smart factory system.


According to the international model, a vertical system of a plant consists of a three-tier structure: Process Control System (SFC), Production Execution System (MES), and Resource Planning System (ERP). The smart factory is the three layers of up and down, each layer is modularized to form an intelligent platform; at the same time, the production data center is constructed. In this way, data flow between intelligent product nuclear intelligent devices can be realized, thereby realizing automatic data collection, automatic data transmission, automatic data decision making, automatic operation and operation, and automatic fault handling.


4. Horizontal integration Horizontal integration refers to the integration of intelligent systems in various manufacturing stages, including the configuration of materials, energy and information within a company (such as raw materials, production processes, product materials, marketing, etc.) ), also includes the configuration of value networks between different companies. Horizontal integration, vertical integration, and value chain integration form the intelligent manufacturing network.


Horizontal integration Through the new technologies such as the Internet, Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, mobile communications, etc., the distributed intelligent production resources are highly integrated, thus building the integration between smart factories based on the network.


Horizontal integration is also the foundation for value chain integration. Without horizontal integration, there is no value chain integration.


5. Value chain integration The production process of a product may include multiple value chain links such as product demand determination, product design, product planning, product engineering, production, sales service, etc. Each link may have different enterprises completed. The so-called value chain integration is to integrate the products in one enterprise or multiple enterprises from the demand analysis to the full value chain of the sales service to ensure that the personalized products can be realized.


In the production of traditional products, end-to-end value chain integration is generally achieved through the data interfaces of CAX, SFCMESERP and other systems. In the intelligent manufacturing system, it will be realized through the seamless integration of the underlying layer through CPS, and the data interaction is realized through vertical integration between CPS and SFCMESERP.


The significance of value chain integration is that he can ensure that even the only personalized products that are produced can be accurately and efficiently produced throughout the value chain. At the same time, value chain integration connects horizontal integration and vertical integration to maximize end-to-end value, thus maximizing customer satisfaction.


It can be said that value chain integration is the way to achieve customer value, horizontal integration and vertical integration to ensure the maximum realization of this value. Together they form a smart manufacturing system.


Through these five integrations, the intelligent elements distributed in various links are linked to form a network system that can create value. These value networks continue to add value through nodes and connections.

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