Han Cloud, which leads the “double-span” industrial Internet platform of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2020, is becoming the vanguard of the “new infrastructure” wave.
Editor’s note: This article is from the micro-channel public number “Tech Planet” (ID: tech618), Author: Jianing Yu.
Recently, the 2020 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the cross-industry and cross-field industrial Internet platform. This year, the Hanyun industrial Internet platform, which has received high attention and wide recognition from the industry and abroad, is on the list. It was successfully selected again after last year. Prior to this, Hanyun ranked third on the 2020 Industrial Internet New Infrastructure Pioneer List. In the world’s first annual award in the field of industrial intelligence, “Zhanlu Award”, Hanyun is also on the list of winners of the Industrial Internet Innovation Award.
As early as 2018, Hanyun was rated as a national industrial Internet platform by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In 2019, XCMG Information Hanyun Industrial Internet Platform completed a round of 300 million yuan financing, led by Hillhouse Capital, and SAIF Asia Investment Funds, China Power Fund, China-Singapore Sunac, etc. participated in the investment. And the new affirmation that Hanyun gained this year means that it has become the vanguard of this wave of “new infrastructure”.
01. Connected with 830,000 high-value equipments, born with “manufacturing genes”
The Hanyun Industrial Internet platform was established by the equipment and machinery manufacturer XCMG. It has already stepped out of XCMG’s scope. The third party accounts for 65% of the 830,000 high-value equipment connected, and has empowered 70 subdivisions. It is in a leading position in construction, non-ferrous metals, equipment manufacturing, and commercial vehicles industries.
As of June 2020, there are more than 600 industrial Internet platforms in the country. In the industrial Internet track where hundreds of birds are competing, Hanyun, which is born with its own “manufacturing” gene, has a unique advantage. In the past few years, it has been on the industrial Internet platform. The ranking continues to rise.
“Hanyun Industrial Internet platform originated from the manufacturing industry. We are more familiar with the mechanism, knowledge map, and application scenarios of the manufacturing industry itself than other companies. In the process of promoting the industrial Internet, we have helped companies solve many difficulties and pain points. At the same time, at the connection level, we are also very familiar with industrial protocols. When encountering equipment from different manufacturers, brands, and different ages, we can quickly convert the data on the equipmentConnect here. “The founder and CEO of XCMG Information, Zhang Qiliang, summed up the unique value of the Hanyun platform in the industrial Internet landscape.
Zhang Qiliang, founder and CEO of XCMG Information
Hanyun positions the Industrial Internet as a new generation of infrastructure, and raises the three levels of Industrial Internet, Internet, and Cloud to the height of factors of production, production relations, and productivity, and concentrates on layout at each level and advances together.
On the equipment side, Hanyun has inherent advantages that other platforms do not have. Since its establishment in 1943, XCMG has always maintained its leading position in China’s construction machinery industry, and is the company with the most complete product varieties and series in China’s construction machinery industry. As early as 2017, the Internet of Things is one of XCMG’s main business sectors. There are many self-developed Internet of Things terminals that integrate key IoT hardware technologies of positioning, low power consumption, wide applicability, and large transmission.
Nowadays, XCMG Information Hanyun has launched intelligent data collection terminals for various equipment such as construction machinery, logistics and transportation, chemical equipment, machine tools and light industry. It has 690 industrial protocols, and through large-scale and deep-level data collection , And the protocol conversion and edge processing of heterogeneous data, construct the data foundation of the industrial Internet platform.
On the basis of powerful device connection, data collection and edge computing, Hanyun can make fine “portraits” for general-purpose equipment such as machine tools and instruments, thereby providing full life cycle management services based on the equipment itself. Such as equipment health diagnosis, remote monitoring, equipment operation management, etc.
With the help of Hanyun, a slow-down company in Jiangsu constructed a dynamic portrait of machine tool operations to achieve transparency in the production process, optimize production site process routes, equipment use, plan arrangement, quality management and other processes, and machine tool maintenance costs It can save 3 million yuan each year, and the planned achievement rate of production orders has increased by 8.3%.
December 2020, C3.ai was listed in the United States, the stock price soared by more than 140% within two days, and the market value exceeded tens of billions of dollars, crowning the most expensive technology stock in the United States. This technology company may be a little stranger to China, but it has captured important global customers such as Shell Petroleum and Microsoft. According to the description of C3.ai, its core technology is to use artificial intelligence and big data to quickly design business logic models for specific industries to respond to the complex needs of different customers.
Similarly, in the industrial Internet field, the feature extraction, generalization abstraction, and knowledge precipitation capabilities of cross-industry and cross-domain general mechanism models also constitute the core competitiveness of a platform. At present, there are 4 categories and more than 2500 industrial mechanism models on the Hanyun Industrial Internet platform, which can be used to help customers with industrial knowledge precipitation.
Corresponding to this is the powerful knowledge map of the Hanyun platform, and it is also the first industrial knowledge map of the equipment manufacturing industry, which can realize the sharing and openness of tens of thousands of industrial equipment, process knowledge, operation guidance, and equipment maintenance data in the platform .
02. What are the new possibilities of 5G+ Industrial Internet?
The reason why the Industrial Internet has ushered in a boom in recent years is that the 5G network with low latency, high bandwidth, large connections, and high reliability is undoubtedly the most powerful “catalyst”. In Zhang Qiliang’s view, the emergence of 5G will upgrade the past static data connection to a full data, full process, and element connection. 5G+ Industrial Internet will also make unmanned operation, remote operation and maintenance, and multi-machine collaboration possible, which will give birth to many new formats and industries, and accelerate the transformation of manufacturing to digital, intelligent, and networked.
Last year, XCMG Hanyun signed a strategic framework agreement with China Unicom. Based on China Unicom’s 5G network and the capabilities of Hanyun’s industrial Internet platform, it provides customers with end-to-end solutions to better meet customers’ pain points, difficulties, and The situation of complex application scenarios.
With the blessing of 5G, Hanyun also actively promoted business innovations that it wanted to do in the past this year, such as launching 5G remote control of excavators and road rollers, and various unmanned modes to apply to constructionField.
Hanyun 5G remote operation platform
In the past, a major obstacle for smart factories was the construction and transformation of wired networks, which was a “dead knot” that cannot be avoided in information management. Now, with the support of China Unicom’s network capabilities, Hanyun can help factories to quickly upgrade their smart factories by deploying 5G directly. Not only that, for large-scale projects in remote areas such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, Hanyun can also help them communicate with the outside world by setting up 5G, and speed up the management of construction equipment and construction progress. In the future, Hanyun will also drive the collaboration of unmanned mines and mining equipment based on 5G.
In 2018, the State Council issued the “Guiding Opinions on Deepening the “Internet + Advanced Manufacturing” Development of Industrial Internet”, which clearly stated that by 2025, millions of industrial apps will be cultivated and millions of enterprises will be clouded. The quantity and quality of apps directly determine the breadth and depth of the scenarios covered by an industrial Internet platform. Only with a sufficient number of industrial apps can various platform services have the possibility of landing.
According to Zhang Qiliang, there are currently more than 11,000 industrial apps on the Hanyun Industrial Internet platform, covering production safety, energy saving and emission reduction, quality control, supply management, R&D and design, manufacturing, operation management, warehousing and logistics operation and maintenance Services and other scenarios.
About the Hanyun Industrial Internet Platform, more than 30,000 developers have been brought together to share the platform’s models, tools, algorithms and other resources. In addition, Hanyun holds online and offline activities every year, participates in industrial Internet and industrial APP development competitions, and further accumulates the number of APPs through cooperation with universities.
Zhang Qiliang introduced how developers in the Hanyun ecosystem can develop valuable industrial apps based on platform data and AI capabilities. Some developers will comprehensively judge the driver’s driving based on the driver’s eyes, mouth shape, sitting posture, etc., while assisting with vehicle speed, reference objects and other data.Driving habits to ensure the safety of engineering, logistics and other vehicles. It is with multi-dimensional ecological support that such industrial apps are not “itching innovation”, but directly attacking the pain points.
03. After the epidemic, the industrial Internet is becoming the active choice of enterprises< /span>
During the epidemic this year, global audiences witnessed the speed of China’s infrastructure madness through live broadcasts, and also witnessed the remote dispatch capability of Hanyun’s industrial Internet platform. According to Zhang Qiliang, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, he received a request from the emergency headquarters. On the third day of the new year, more than 70 construction equipment were dispatched through the platform to rush to support the construction of Vulcan Mountain. After the epidemic eased, the Hanyun Industrial Internet platform helped more than 8,000 companies successfully resume work and resume production, and helped 620,000 people who applied for resumption of work and production, playing an important role in coordination and resource coordination.
The outbreak of the epidemic not only allowed Hanyun’s industrial Internet platform to show its talents, but also made the industrial Internet an active choice for enterprises, rather than passive acceptance. During and after the epidemic, many companies began to have breakpoints in their supply chains, production ends, and sales ends, which made entrepreneurs pay more attention to the industrial Internet’s mode of interconnecting all elements and the entire value chain. Because many of these breakpoints are due to the failure of personnel to arrive at their posts normally, companies are aware of the urgent need for automation, unmanned, and online collaborative management.
“It turned out that we had to talk about what the Industrial Internet is in the process of advancing the Industrial Internet, but this problem was solved after the epidemic. The Industrial Internet has gone from the hot words and rumors in the mouths of the past few years to rooted in the pain points and difficulties of enterprises. Steadily advancing, this path is very correct.” Zhang Qiliang told reporters.
Under this background, what he is thinking is that under the domestic large-cycle and double-cycle model, the industrial Internet can drive Chinese companies to reduce costs and improve efficiency through digital and intelligent methods, and the epidemic is just accelerating. This process.
In an interview in 2019, Zhang Qiliang revealed that small and medium-sized enterprises are becoming the “new bright spot” in industrial interconnection. In 2018, 60% of customers were large enterprises and state-owned enterprises, and the number of small and medium-sized enterprises in 2019 has reached 52%.
The quiet changes in customer types are largely due to the changes in Hanyun’s promotion model. “It turns out that we are using large-scale enterprises to drive innovation and small and medium-sized enterprises to follow up innovation to go to the cloud and platform. We hope that in the future, The model of industrial clusters and industrial collaboration is used to promote our industrial Internet platform.” Zhang Qiliang said.
In fact, Hanyun has already started such an attempt in 2020, establishing a non-ferrous industry cluster in Guangdong Province. By realizing the interconnection of data between large and small enterprises, jointly respond to the risk of price changes, thereby solving the problem of coordinated development of the entire industry.
Every industrial Internet platform has a dream of becoming an industrial Internet operating system. Hanyun is no exception. In the future, it will work with more partners to solve difficult problems in manufacturing and industrial enterprises.
“We have only one goal: to build the world’s most valuable industrial Internet platform through the efforts of the next five to ten years.”