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Industrial Internet helps digital transformation of refractory and welding industries

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Yuan Lei, General Manager of Tangshan Yinglai Technology Co.

Currently, the Industrial Internet accelerates the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, accelerates the process of globalization and changes in the economic landscape. "The 14th Five-Year Plan points out the direction for the transformation of traditional industries, proposing "to build a modern infrastructure system that is systematic, efficient, practical, intelligent, green, safe and reliable" and highlighting the development of high-end, intelligent, green and service-oriented.

Represented by the refractory industry, the current traditional manufacturing production faces several pain points. First, the labor intensity, product quality is poor. Now the traditional manufacturing industry also exists in a large number of human-computer interaction, the production line needs a lot of artificial participation, labor intensity is very high. Manual participation leads to product quality is difficult to ensure, the industry average product yield is only about 70%, while the working environment is also very poor. Second, data distortion, poor real-time. The siloing of data is very serious, each process and link, the data are independent to record, and manual registration of information often leads to recording errors. These data have lagged a few days or even half a month when they reach the management, so the decision makers will have bias in the production decision-making process. Third, the labor force structure is poor, high employment costs. According to relevant statistics, in China's traditional manufacturing industry, 40-60 years old accounted for nearly 70% of the personnel, the level of education is generally low, most of the employees are concentrated in junior colleges and high schools. In addition, the decline in the number of employees and the wage level to form a scissor gap. Consumer Internet has attracted a large number of 18-35-year-old strong labor force, triggering the traditional manufacturing industry for the huge demand for people, but even if the wage level rose year by year, the problem of recruitment difficulties is still significant.

At present, the pain points of manufacturing enterprises should be targeted, with "intelligent" and "digital" empowered production. Last year, we realized the first fully intelligent refractory production line design, construction, and put into production, the production of all aspects of the digital upgrading, the realization of the whole process of each machine and equipment data extraction, transmission, storage, presentation and analysis. This year, we carried out benefit analysis with our customers and found that the effect of cost reduction, efficiency and quality improvement is remarkable. First, the cost reduction, before the same capacity of the workshop needs 28 workers, now down to 4, while the product qualification rate increased by 20%. Visual products on the production line for online monitoring, product qualification rate increased significantly. Secondly, increase efficiency, through the production line optimization of energy consumption by 10%, raw material utilization rate increased by 10%, while the management of quality has been greatly improved. For example, in production, the customer's raw materials workshop in a raw material touched the warning line, he completed a large number of timely procurement, and since then the raw material in two months in a single ton rose close to 500 dollars, compared to the cost savings of close to 3 million.

In the welding industry, also facing some pain points. First, the overall supply chain is not standardized, resulting in very poor welding accuracy, second, even with the use of robots, robots are mostly "teaching reproduction" mode of operation, the deviation of the weld often need to be repeated teaching robot trajectory, the workload is large. Third, different robots are completely independent of the system, the lack of underlying application program development, data collection and utilization is difficult. Based on this, we have built a laser seam tracking system to achieve real-time information collection and tracking of the weld seam during the welding process, and at the same time, we can collect all the motion data of the model in real time, so as to realize the transition from automatic welding to intelligent welding.

I think the future of industrial big data, is the use of 5G technology to build the production data management system platform, it should be a "pro" platform, applicable to different industries, different enterprises at different stages of development. It is an organism, just like a person, digital technology such as 5G, cloud storage and cloud computing as its brain to carry out computing; equipment group control system is similar to the nerve, do data transmission, robots plus visual products for in-depth data collection, is its hands and eyes. To build the industrial big data organism, the intelligent equipment, big data, the Internet organic combination, and resistant materials, welding and other traditional industries in depth integration, and further help the industry transformation.

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