Digital transformation is becoming a core strategy for manufacturing companies

Digital TransformationIs becoming a core strategy for manufacturing companies

In recent years, China's manufacturing industry competition in the direction of increasingly fierce development, economic downward pressure, production costs, labour costs, making manufacturing enterprises began to pay attention to the digital transformation, with the help of new technologies to improve production efficiency, strengthen product innovation and management capabilities, and thus gain a competitive advantage. With the increasing popularity of the Internet, the rapid development of computing power, the rapid development of storage capacity, the Internet of Things technology is widely used, the sensor technology is widely used, industrial software continues to evolve, in this case, the collection of data with a good technical basis, the storage of data with a good technical basis, the transmission of data with a good technical basis, the presentation of data with a good technical basis, the analysis of data with a good technical basis, data with a good technical basis, data with a good technical basis, data with a good technical basis, the analysis of data with a good technical basis, data with a good technical basis. The data collection has a good technical basis, the data storage has a good technical basis, the data transmission has a good technical basis, the data presentation has a good technical basis, the data analysis has a good technical basis, the data optimisation has a good technical basis. In this context, the momentum of digital transformation of the manufacturing industry is unstoppable.

Under the new situation, manufacturing enterprises, in order to achieve the purpose of conformity, is with a driving and proactive attitude, accelerate organizational change, business innovation and process re-engineering actions, so as to promote the digital transformation process of R & D, production, management, service and other key aspects of the digital transformation process, and then achieve the desired goals of each link, that is, the R & D system openness, intelligent production methods, product and service personalisation, organisational boundaries, elasticity, value network ecology. Flexibility of the R&D system, intelligent production methods, personalisation of products and services, organisational boundaries, ecological value network, and ultimately a new type of enterprise form, which is typically characterised by advanced digital technology as the core element, an open platform as the basic support, and a data-driven approach. According to the research results from IDC, as many as 84.9% of Chinese manufacturing enterprises are carrying out different degrees of digital transformation, digital transformation has become the core of manufacturing enterprise strategy.

For enterprises engaged in manufacturing, digital transformation covers all aspects, but traditional manufacturing enterprises are still facing many difficulties in achieving digital transformation, according to a research report issued by Accenture, 80% of Chinese enterprises are using digital technology to make the operation of the enterprise more efficient and promote business growth, however, only about 4% of enterprises have actually unleashed the potential of digitalisation. However, only 4% or so of enterprises have actually released the potential of digitalisation. In view of this situation, Dr Huang Pei, CEO of e-works, feels that enterprises can start from the following aspects to deepen the use of digital technology, which can give manufacturing enterprises a significant competitive advantage:

1) The transformation of the business model, pay by service performance of this new business model based on the application of digital technology, enterprises are no longer selling products, but the sale of products to use the service. To achieve Pay by use, enterprises must first realise the digitalisation of products, and on this basis, build a cloud platform that can realise the monitoring of the operating status of products, and then realise predictive maintenance, so as to establish a cloud platform for the operation and monitoring of products.

2) to achieve the transformation of the service model, enterprises rely on the development of APP products and services, to achieve customer self-service, and then enhance the efficiency of the service, such as the United States, can provide smart home whole-house intelligent solutions and can monitor all kinds of smart home products.

3) R & D mode of transformation, in the new product development, digital technology has a very wide range of applications, such as simulation-driven design to reduce the physical test, through the product lifecycle of the R & D data and process management to improve the reuse rate of parts, and thus improve R & D efficiency, reduce R & D costs, and reach the off-site collaborative R & D, and even through the Internet to collect customer demand for the product to achieve crowdsourcing design in the R & D process. It can even collect customers' demands for products through the Internet and realise crowdsourcing design in the R&D process.

4) The transformation of the enterprise operation mode, there are many digital transformation scenarios in the operation process, these scenarios can help enterprises to reach a refined management, such as to promote business process management, this management needs to run through a number of information systems, but also to promote a wide range of mobile applications, the data required by managers at all levels as well as the failure of early warning information to the mobile terminal, so as to achieve the visualisation of the business operation process.

5) machining process manufacturing model transformation, MAZAK, Makino machine tools, fast, FANUC and many other outstanding enterprises, has been widely used in which the flexible manufacturing system that is FMS, in order to achieve the full automation of different mechanical parts processing, in the FMS system, can be seen with a high degree of automation, but in fact the more important another category is that the entire FMS system in the planning and scheduling, logistics scheduling, tool management, machining programme configuration and so on. However, the more important aspect is that the whole FMS system achieves comprehensive digital control in terms of planning, logistics, tool management, machining programme configuration, and so on.

6) The decision-making mode is changing in a different direction. By promoting the digital transformation process, enterprises can have a huge amount of operational data of many kinds, carry out the governance and analysis of these huge amounts of different kinds of data, and at the same time combine the results of the data analysis with the enterprise's management style, which can effectively play a role in improving the management standard and optimising the operational effectiveness of the enterprise. The role of

According to the current presentation, manufacturing enterprises in the digital transformation of the actual situation, for individual consumers in the industry, such as home appliance industry, home industry, mobile phone industry, automotive and other industries in the enterprise, with a great pressure of digital transformation, and the transformation of the rapid; however, for enterprise customers in the industry, such as equipment manufacturing, energy, parts and components industry, the pace of its digital transformation is relatively slow. e works think that regardless of the type of belonging to what kind of industry, each enterprise needs to promote digital transformation. - works think that regardless of the type of belonging to what kind, what kind of industry, each enterprise needs to promote digital transformation. But the enterprise digital transformation, not simply just technical things, it is more about the strategic level of the key, it must be based on their actual situation, to plan the layout of the digital transformation strategy, but also to build up their own digital transformation roadmap, and to move forward steadily, so that we can reap the benefits of the actual operation of the good results.