At present, the wave of building the industrial Internet and realizing intelligent manufacturing is sweeping the world, and major industrial countries around the world have participated in the competition of the new industrial revolution. So, what is the relationship between Industrial Internet and smart manufacturing? In general, intelligent manufacturing is the development goal and method, and the Industrial Internet is a feasible path to achieve the goal.
The decline of the demographic dividend gave birth to the Industrial Internet
At present, China's demographic dividend has begun to fade. In the future, labor will become an increasingly scarce resource, and expensive labor costs will change the ecological environment of my country's entire industry and manufacturing industry.
The Industrial Internet was born under this background.
Even when the demographic dividend is fading away, the Industrial Internet can still ensure that the manufacturing cost is the same as before, or even lower.
It is precisely because of this that the country has given it a lot of support and established the Industrial Internet Industry Alliance (AII).
AII has made its own definition of Industrial Internet:
Industrial Internet is an industry and application ecology formed by the comprehensive and deep integration of the Internet and a new generation of information technology and industrial systems. It is a key integrated information infrastructure for the development of industrial intelligence.
Industrial Internet and Intelligent Manufacturing
In the definition of AII, we can clearly see the close connection between the Industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing.
Industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing have their own focus on the surface, one focuses on industrial services, the other focuses on industrial manufacturing, but the essence is to realize intelligent manufacturing and intelligent services, specifically personalized customization and service extension.
Industrial Internet is mainly provided by industrial platforms with customized services for enterprises, helping enterprises to go to the cloud, which is the development model and realistic path to realize intelligent manufacturing.
Intelligent manufacturing is the ultimate goal of global industry, allowing factories around the world to achieve intelligent automation.
In recent years, driven by the national supply-side reform policy, demand in the industrial sector has continued to recover.
The recovery of these downstream industries will also continue to promote a new round of technological and industrial revolutions.
However, due to multiple factors such as increasing demand for material quality, rising labor costs, and rising upstream material costs, the difficulty of profitability for companies is also increasing.
Therefore, this status quo is also forcing companies to continue to move closer to intelligence.
Therefore, enterprises need to carry out industrial transformation, and intelligent manufacturing is the next outlet for industrial manufacturing.
And smart manufacturing is dedicated to achieving the intelligence of the entire manufacturing value chain, and the industrial Internet is the key infrastructure for smart manufacturing.
Industrial Internet with a huge market
According to data from AII, the direct industry scale of my country's industrial Internet in 2017 was about 90.3 billion US dollars (approximately 570 billion yuan).
From 2017 to 2019, the scale of the industry is expected to grow at an average annual growth rate of 18%. By 2020, the output value of the Industrial Internet will reach 225 billion U.S. dollars (1.420 billion RMB).
In addition, according to incomplete statistics, in 2017, there were more than 170 financing incidents related to industrial Internet platforms, with a financing amount of about 20 billion yuan.
Research institutions also generally believe that the long-term development of the Industrial Internet is good.
Back to the Industrial Internet itself, since it is closely related to intelligent manufacturing, the focus is also on the three aspects of network, data, and security.
Network is the foundation, data is the core, and security is the guarantee.
AII believes that the network is the supporting foundation for industrial system interconnection and industrial data exchange, data is the core driver of industrial intelligence, and security is the guarantee for the application of network and data in industry.
But it should be noted that the Industrial Internet is not the same as smart manufacturing. The Industrial Internet supports smart manufacturing, and smart manufacturing helps companies achieve business goals.
Promote the transformation of traditional enterprises
At this stage, the Industrial Internet is still in its primary application stage, and most of it is a combination of device IoT plus analysis or business system interconnection plus analysis.
In the future, with the continuous deepening of technology, complex analysis and optimization can be realized on the basis of the full interoperability of the Internet of Things and platforms, thereby continuously promoting the innovation of enterprise management processes, organizations and business models.
Judging from the current development status, the Industrial Internet allows enterprises to use this platform to realize intelligent production, realize networked collaboration through enterprise interconnection, realize service extension through product interconnection, and meet the needs of personalized customization on the basis of precise docking.
The goal of intelligence is not just a single machine or a single production line for intelligence, but the intelligence of the entire production process. By arranging sensor equipment, supporting wireless communication technology, building an industrial cloud platform, realizing the whole process collection from production to management , Forming a closed loop, scientific analysis and application of data.
As a result, promote the transformation of traditional manufacturing enterprises to production and service-oriented.
Today, the industrial Internet revolution has begun. In the past ten years, Internet technology has been applied to the process of industrial production, and with the continuous development of the Industrial Internet, industrial Internet-related industries will also develop rapidly.
From this, we can see that the Industrial Internet is the basis for the realization of intelligent manufacturing. The Industrial Internet is the core driving force of today's industrial revolution. The realization of intelligent manufacturing requires the Industrial Internet to create a new industrial ecosystem.
In the future, in the process of transforming to intelligence, companies that have completed the conversion will have more advantages.
Intelligent unmanned factories will no longer be virtual scenes in sci-fi movies in the future, and the combination of industrial Internet and intelligence will help companies move in this direction faster.
