"If only the top of the pyramid is the representative of intelligent manufacturing enterprises, and the low-end enterprises can not carry out transformation and upgrading, we must not be a manufacturing power." In the recently held "2018 Industrial Internet Conference", Ali cloud IoT general manager Kuwei said so.

Smart manufacturing is not just the preserve of big companies



"Our current industrial software development is relatively slow, and in the current environment the overall enterprise innovation is insufficient. Production costs are rising, the coordination of the supply chain is relatively inefficient, and a large number of garment enterprises end up in inventory, which is a typical problem of production and marketing." "Covey said.



In Kuwei's opinion, intelligent manufacturing is mainly manifested in three levels:



First, the optimization and improvement of the existing capacity. Over the years, the manufacturing industry has actually deposited a large number of industry leaders, so we need to further optimize and improve the existing precipitation capacity.



Second, intelligent manufacturing is not only the patent of large enterprises, but should be made the benefit of small and medium-sized enterprises;



Third, the industrial Internet platform is the most important infrastructure of the whole intelligent manufacturing, not to put it in a factory, industry, field, but in the whole society to see the production structure system, south should get through all walks of life, north with consumption, horizontal and talent, logistics, financial services to get through. Only in this way can we achieve the so-called flexible, on-demand production.



As far as the factory itself is concerned, the industrial Internet platform should be the operating system of the digital factory, in which the connection is the foundation, the data is the core, and the application is the key. Kuwei said that Ali hopes to collect all the data generated by the factory into the cloud platform easily through big data analysis through the Internet data, so that the data can generate value and solve all kinds of pain points in the factory.



What should the application of industry be? Kuwei said that the key task of the industrial Internet platform is to put the industrial software APP, the industrial Internet platform should be able to be integrated with the ISA-95 standard, so as to use the Internet data digital factory, to industrial APP management man-machine. So many years of precipitation of the industrial Know How is the foundation, is not backward, just need in the new era, with the thinking of the Internet cloud.



Kuwei said that the main characteristics of the platform are flexible, easy to use, efficient, open and safe, and Alibaba has put a lot of manpower and material resources into the top-level training and training in this regard. Virtually the entire Internet industry base is not solid, ali want to build such a reliable infrastructure, in cooperation with three types of partners, currently has more than 230 partners in guangdong, including hardware vendors, software developers and system integrators, only everybody together in collaborative, open to build, To truly turn the bright starry sky into a vast sea.



The difficulty of the industrial Internet is how to form "replication"



At present, Ali cloud industrial Internet has been three ground flowering.



On August 24, 2018, at the Yunqi Conference held in Chongqing, Ali Cloud announced that it will cooperate with Chongqing Nanan District Government and CIDI Research Institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to build the Feixiang Industrial Internet Platform. The "Feixiang" platform will be connected to 1 million industrial equipment within 3 years, helping 4,000 manufacturing enterprises in Chongqing to achieve "intelligent manufacturing".


On November 7, 2018, the SUPET platform, led by Ali Cloud and jointly built by Zhejiang SUPC and Zhijiang Laboratory, was officially released. So far, more than 200 ecological participants have entered the platform, and it has been selected as the first batch of National Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Project.



On November 22, 2018, at the cloud conference held in Guangzhou, Ali Cloud officially released the Feilong Industrial Internet Platform. The platform is based in Guangdong, radiates the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and helps Guangdong to build eight industrial Internet industrial clusters including new energy, electrical equipment and other industries. At present, CNOOC Development, Jingxin Communication, Hanlan Environment, Dison Thermal Energy and other Guangdong manufacturing enterprises have adopted Feilong platform.



When asked about the advantages of the Internet platform ali cloud industry, ali cloud IoT Zheng Xu intelligent manufacturing operations director to speak, actually the Internet industry, intelligent manufacturing, is a very large category, where every company can according to the traditional areas of expertise, cut into the Internet industry, intelligent manufacturing, every one is not the same as the breakthrough point. Traditional equipment manufacturers have their own advantages. Ali's advantage is that it has a large number of consumption clusters and access to production data, from production to order and transaction.



There is no denying that Alibaba is the industry leader in this regard, and this year's Singles' Day is the best proof.



However, in the view of Zheng Xu, the biggest difficulty in the development of the current industrial Internet is how to form "copy". The whole industry vertical is numerous, the same vertical industry business of different size requirements are also different, in this case, the demand for fragmentation, a lot of application solutions need to be configured, even need to customize, whether there is a certain standard, to guide the application of vertical industry development, each vertical industry to form a certain standard, It is urgent to make all platform manufacturers, application development manufacturers and landing manufacturers have certain standards, so as to achieve "replication".