Made in China 2025 focuses on intelligent manufacturing, with power equipment being one of the top ten key areas. From September 23 to 25, the Small and Medium Motors Branch of China Electrical Appliance Industry Association and Shanghai Electric System Energy Saving Engineering Technology Research Center Co., Ltd. hosted the 2020 Advanced Technology Seminar on the Construction of Intelligent Manufacturing Digital Workshop in the Motor Industry (Phase II), and SIE Information was invited to share the theme of "Digital Factory 2.0 Exploration and Practice".

A digital factory refers to a new production organization method that simulates, evaluates, and optimizes the entire production process in a computer virtual environment based on relevant data throughout the product lifecycle, and further extends it to the entire product lifecycle. SIE proposed that manufacturing enterprises have entered the 3.0 innovation exploration stage after going from 1.0 chimney system application to 2.0 flat desktop integrated application in the past. To undertake the digital transformation of enterprise strategy is to upgrade from logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, trading, products, services and other aspects.

Electric motor enterprises have the characteristics of both mass production and customer customization, large demand differences, frequent changes, complex product structures and processes, need to manage material expiration dates, short production cycles, complex management, multiple suppliers, high supporting requirements, and difficulty in timely material supply. How to reasonably organize the design and production of various, complex, and customized products within a specified time, deliver high-quality products to meet customer needs while ensuring their own profits and achieving market value is a question that all motor companies need to consider.

Based on 15 years' exploration and accumulation of digital transformation of service enterprises, SIE Information believes that the first step to build a digital factory is to build a business driven by master data in the equipment manufacturing industry. Because the digital factory solution is a highly integrated automation and information technology overall solution, it unifies the management of various equipment at the bottom level of factory automation, and connects and interacts with information systems such as PLM and ERP at the top level through intelligent devices in the middle layer, achieving automation and intelligence from product design to production. By building a series of management applications such as supply chain planning system, workshop operation plan, external supply chain planning system, etc., high efficiency and humanization of operational management can be achieved.

SIE, as one of the most promising leading enterprises in the field of digital services for domestic enterprises, focuses on the application of new generation information technology, industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing, digital transformation technology and business model. The manufacturing operation management system SMOM independently developed by SIE is a set of information-based solutions based on the design concept of digital and intelligent factory, which provides enterprises with a supplier collaboration portal, an enterprise planning collaboration platform, a production and manufacturing execution management platform, automated data collection, equipment integration and monitoring management, product information tracing in the whole process, and intelligent operation management. It is a guarantee system for the business system of the enterprise's internal engineering, planning, logistics, production, and quality departments. By building a digital operation management platform with SMOM as the core, we aim to bridge the information silos between customer needs, procurement support, production and manufacturing services, order delivery, and operational units, and establish a standardized management system for enterprises with multiple product lines and business organizations. By integrating cross business processes/departments/regions/enterprises through information technology platforms, end-to-end integration and collaborative manufacturing can be achieved, enhancing the operational capabilities of the value chain.

The digitalization promotion of enterprises is divided into three steps

At the conference site, SIE also shared the promotion strategy of building a benchmark for intelligent manufacturing demonstration production line and digitalization of the whole factory. SIE divides the construction of the entire digital factory into three stages. The first stage is mainly to carry out intensive management, connect the overall business of the demonstration production line with the main business process of the DC factory, and carry out platform building+APS+MES+WMS+SCADA. This stage is mainly to build a basic framework and connect the whole process; The second stage is to achieve refined management, promote the DC factory production line and upgrade the AC/CM factory production line, and integrate and optimize the manufacturing business of related business units; The third stage is to model digital management decisions and upgrade digital operations.

Over the past 15 years, SIE has served more than 1000 well-known enterprises in the industry such as Midea, Huawei, Alibaba, Ping An, CIMC, China Unicom, Panasonic, TCL, etc. in the fields of enterprise digital transformation. It has accumulated rich experience in the exploration and practice of digital factory 2.0. Through the integration of fully integrated automation, manufacturing operation management, product life cycle management, etc., it helps enterprises sort out clear intelligent manufacturing blueprints and step by step implementation, so that enterprises can see the improvement of target benefits at each stage of building digital factories, and achieve intelligent manufacturing upgrading.