Recently, the boom of China's industrial Internet has surged, and various industrial Internet platforms and industrial apps have sprung up. In recent years, the manufacturing boom has been repeated, from 3D printing to robotics, from industry 4.0 to smart manufacturing, from “machine substitution†to “industrial cloudâ€.
In the face of these enthusiasm, I have written several articles in the "Cold Thinking" series. This article will interpret the concept of industrial Internet and the relationship between related terms, hoping to help readers to objectively and rationally view the current industrial Internet boom and find a breakthrough in application.
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How to understand the industrial Internet?
Industrial Internet refers to the network of industrial interconnections, not the industrial Internet.
Within the enterprise, it is necessary to realize the interconnection between industrial equipment (production equipment, logistics equipment, energy measurement, quality inspection, vehicles, etc.), information systems, business processes, products and services of enterprises, personnel, and realize enterprise IT network and industrial control network. Interconnection to achieve vertical interconnection from the workshop to the decision-making level;
In the enterprise, we must realize the horizontal interconnection between upstream and downstream enterprises (suppliers, distributors, customers, partners); from the dimension of product life cycle, we must realize the design, manufacturing and service of products, and then recycle and recycle. The interconnection of the entire life cycle. This is in fact in line with the three integrations proposed by Industry 4.0.
The online dictionary Techopedia in the IT field gives an explanation for the Industrial Internet:
Industrial Internet combines smart machines or specific types of devices with embedded technology and the Internet of Things. An example is the provision of intelligent technology for machines and vehicles, including M2M (machine-to-machine interconnect) technology, enabling manufacturing equipment and other devices to transfer data to each other. The Industrial Internet is also used in transportation projects such as unmanned (or autonomous) driving cars and intelligent rail transit systems.
â–² IT field online dictionary Techopedia
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What is the relationship of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT)?
Industrial Internet of Things refers to the application of the Internet of Things in industry. The Industrial Internet covers the Industrial Internet of Things, but extends further to enterprise information systems, business processes and people.
The concept of the industrial Internet is actually similar to the Internet of Everything (the combination of people, processes, data and things, making the network connection more relevant and more valuable). The concept has similarities, which is equivalent to industrial enterprises. Everything is connected.
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What is an industrial internet platform?
What is the relationship between the industrial Internet platform and the industrial cloud platform?
The Industrial Internet Platform is a platform for developing and operating various industrial Internet application functions. Industrial cloud platform refers to the cloud platform in the industrial field, including IAAS (infrastructure service), PAAS (platform service), SAAS (software service). The purpose of the industrial cloud platform is to evolve industrial software into A cloud service (SAAS) that provides customers with a platform (PAAS) that can configure or redevelop software functions, and store data and information systems in the cloud, making industrial enterprise application information systems more convenient and more conducive Management (for example, server and desktop virtualization), so the industrial cloud platform is essentially an IT platform.
The industrial Internet platform is an extension and extension of the industrial cloud platform. It not only supports all the functions of the industrial cloud platform, but also supports industrial IoT applications and realizes the integration of IT and OT.
At the IAAS and edge (device side) layers, the Industrial Internet platform needs to implement data collection, transmission and storage from the device's control systems, sensors, wearables, cameras and meters;
At the PAAS layer, the industrial Internet platform needs to be able to support more complex algorithms, such as image analysis using deep learning techniques, analysis of quality data using SPC methods, performance simulation of digital twins of devices using simulation techniques, and utilization of GIS data. Positioning the vehicle to trace the logistics and transportation process;
At the SAAS layer, a rich APP should be provided to split the original industrial software firmware into a number of relatively independent plug-ins that can be plug-and-play on the PAAS platform. Therefore, the industrial Internet platform is much more complicated than the industrial cloud platform.
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What is the relationship between industrial internet and smart manufacturing?
The core of the industrial Internet is interconnection, which is one of the key enabling technologies for manufacturing enterprises to achieve intelligent manufacturing. According to the intelligent manufacturing pyramid model proposed by e-works, the enterprise promotes intelligent manufacturing including four levels and ten scenarios.
â–²Intelligent manufacturing four levels, ten scenes
The first layer is to promote the intelligent and intelligent services of products to realize the innovation of business model. At this level, the industrial Internet can support enterprises to develop smart connected products and provide intelligent services based on the Internet of Things;
The second layer is how to apply intelligent equipment, deploy intelligent production lines, build intelligent workshops, and build smart factories to realize the innovation of production mode. At this level, industrial Internet technology can help enterprises realize M2M, from equipment networking to production line. Data collection, from intelligent monitoring of the workshop to paperless production;
The third layer is intelligent R&D, intelligent management and intelligent logistics supply chain to realize the innovation of enterprise operation mode. At this level, the main role of Industrial Internet is to realize information integration within enterprises and supply chain integration between enterprises;
The fourth layer is intelligent decision-making. At this level, the role of the Industrial Internet is to achieve integration and real-time analysis of heterogeneous data.
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What is the relationship with industrial big data?
Industrial Internet platforms need to manage massive and heterogeneous, structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, including data from a variety of devices, already serviced products, information systems and social media, for industrial enterprises, these Data is industrial big data. It needs a professional platform to store, analyze and display these data. Through data driving, it can realize the functions of monitoring, controlling and optimizing products, manufacturing processes and equipment. Such a platform is an industrial big data platform. It should be said that the industrial big data platform is a subset of the industrial Internet platform.
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What are the actual application scenarios?
At present, the most realistic application scenario is that equipment manufacturing enterprises use the industrial Internet platform to perform remote state monitoring and even predictive maintenance of already serviced products.
For example, FANUC works with Cisco to provide ZDT (Zero Downtime) services to FANUC robot customers; the root-rooted cloud-based root cloud platform enables location and remote monitoring services for mobile devices such as construction machinery. Working time statistics, fault warning, finding and correcting customers' dangerous operating habits, etc., can also help customers realize service e-commerce; Dongfang Guoxin's industrial Internet platform realizes equipment monitoring and energy consumption for steel industry, wind power industry and boiler industry. Analysis and other applications; the company cooperated with the Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company to realize the fault warning during the tunneling process of the shield machine.
Another typical application scenario of the industrial Internet is based on the interconnection of internal equipment of the enterprise to realize the monitoring of the production equipment of the workshop. Midea has established the Digital Twin in the air-conditioning production workshop to monitor the status of the equipment in real time. A research team at Huazhong University of Science and Technology collects real-time currents consumed by machine tools in a manufacturing company in Jiangsu Province to capture subtle fluctuations to determine whether it is a precursor to tool breakage, thus eliminating the need for companies to change tools and extend tool life. The current industrial Internet applications are mainly in the category of industrial Internet of Things.
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What is the current maturity of the Industrial Internet?
The industrial Internet covers a wide range of fields, and it is actually very difficult to interconnect various software, hardware, machinery, and products with business processes and personnel.
The Industrial Internet is a great vision, but achieving this vision requires a long process and a healthy ecosystem. The concept of industrial Internet is very big. Many cloud platforms with different functions are promoting themselves as an industrial Internet platform, which makes it difficult for enterprises to distinguish.
Summary of this article
Generally speaking, although the current industrial Internet boom is surging, the application of industrial Internet in China is still at an early stage, and the understanding and understanding of the industrial Internet are not uniform.
The existing industrial Internet platforms in the market can only support certain single-point applications or specific functions, and there is also a lack of an industrial Internet platform based on multi-tenancy. Integration between platforms involves many standards and security issues. According to the current development trend of “Hundred Flowers Blossomâ€, it is bound to form many “cloud islandsâ€.
In this industrial Internet boom, some manufacturers over-hyped, and even appeared like "180,000 jin of wheat per mu". For manufacturing companies and industrial software companies, it is neither realistic nor necessary to turn all industrial software into APP. Manufacturing companies have applied many IT systems, and it is impossible to transfer all applications to the industrial Internet platform.
In addition, there are many challenges in achieving interoperability between APPs on different industrial Internet platforms. Manufacturing companies to promote industrial Internet applications, but also need to carefully sort out their own needs, analyze investment income, do not blindly advancing. To achieve industrial Internet applications, for the user enterprise, for the industrial Internet platform developers, operators, APP developers, the entire industry chain, there is still a long way to go!
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