Tang Qijun Of Industrial Fulian: Double Wheel Drive To Create New Ecology Of Intelligent Manufacturing Of Industrial Fulian

As the flagship of Foxconn's transformation, industrial Fulian bears the heavy responsibility of the transformation and upgrading and innovation and development of the manufacturing industry. Based on the deep foundation of scale manufacturing, the strategic direction of industrial Fulian in recent years is very clear, that is, intelligent manufacturing + 5g industrial Internet.

"Intelligent manufacturing + industrial Internet cannot do without" three hard and three soft ". "Three hard" mainly refers to tools, materials and equipment; "Three Soft" mainly refers to industrial big data, industrial artificial intelligence and industrial app. " On September 27, Tang Qijun, deputy general manager of industrial Fulian, explained at the "2020 intelligent manufacturing industry annual meeting" sponsored by the 21st century economic report.

This is also derived from Foxconn's history. Foxconn's growth mainly has three stages: traditional manufacturing in 1988-1998, precision manufacturing in 1999-2008, and intelligent manufacturing in 2009-2018. Today, Fulian creates a new mode through the dual wheel drive strategy of "intelligent manufacturing + 5g industrial Internet".

When talking about how to land it, Tang Qijun said: "one is to provide a series of solutions through digitization, networking and intellectualization through the" fog cerebellum "; the second is to integrate the Internet platform at the cloud network end to enable it; the third is to clarify what the key problems in the manufacturing industry are, and then promote it for the purpose of solving problems; and finally, create a new ecology." He also said that the "lighthouse factory" of Fulian can improve the operation efficiency by 30% and optimize the manpower by more than 90%.

Intelligent manufacturing should be "calm"

On January 10, 2019, at the world economic forum in Davos, Foxconn Shenzhen Longhua factory was selected as the world's "manufacturing lighthouse factory", becoming a benchmark for flexible manufacturing and industrial Internet. It is understood that the entire production line almost completely adopts the fully automated manufacturing process, equipped with machine learning and artificial intelligence equipment automatic optimization system, intelligent self maintenance system and intelligent production real-time status monitoring system. At the same time, industrial Fulian will promote the overall solution of "lighthouse factory" to build a benchmark factory in various industries. At present, the construction of Lighthouse factory has been started in Jiaxing and other places.

However, it is not easy to endow the industry with external capabilities. The practice of industrial Fulian is: on the one hand, it should improve quality, increase efficiency, reduce cost and reduce deposit; on the other hand, while shifting its capabilities, it should cooperate with leading enterprises in the industry to establish industry models, and then expand in the industry.

On the recent media open day, Li Junqi, chairman of Fulian, talked about the practical experience of intelligent manufacturing, first of all, the integration of software and hardware platforms. "Every other line is like a mountain. When you enter a new industry, you should understand the characteristics of the industry, but the basic architecture is the same. For example, the sensors in the factory are the same, so there is room for replication." Li Junqi said: "we start with ot, start with manufacturing, and add communication networks. We are also doing 5g and 4G. We lack it and software, so we train our own people and invest in M & A. This is the integration of hardware and software."

He also said: "we should be calm, eat thoroughly, think about the path clearly, and solve the core problems. Then, we should take good care of ourselves, conduct experiments, and finally go out and change the industrial ecology. "

The construction of new ecology needs more basic technology. In recent half a year, industrial Fulian has been thickening its own technical barriers through mergers and acquisitions and equity participation. In April this year, Fulian made strategic investment in lingyunguang technology to promote the research and development of machine vision and artificial intelligence in the future lighthouse factory; in May, it signed a joint venture agreement with CITIC holdings, CITIC daika and China Resources Cement to help CITIC daika and China Resources Cement build lighthouse factories, and plans to jointly invest in the establishment of vertical service automobile parts, cement and building materials Industry specific industrial Internet platform company; in July, it became the largest shareholder of Dingjie software, which has rich software implementation experience in automobile parts, assembly manufacturing, IC design and other manufacturing industries; in the same month, industrial Fulian signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent cloud to jointly build a digital "lighthouse factory" benchmark for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry Develop digital solutions for various subdivision scenarios in the industrial field, and promote the application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain in the field of industrial Internet.

Seize the opportunity of new infrastructure construction

At the same time, the industrial Fulian is also facing challenges from the external environment, and the trade friction between China and the United States also affects the manufacturing giants. In the current situation of global economic uncertainty, how to cultivate new opportunities in the crisis and start a new situation in the changing situation has become the most important issue for each enterprise. Li Junqi said that Fulian is well prepared to cope with the wind and rain, future changes and seize opportunities. In addition to breaking through the core technology, it also has a global layout to help the domestic big cycle and double cycle development.

Tang Qijun said: "in 2019, industrial Fulian has 250000 employees, 8 intelligent factories and more than 3700 patents in the manufacturing field, with revenue exceeding 400 billion, and our business covers 11 countries. In 2020, in the context of Sino US trade frictions and global epidemic, Fulian will still achieve a good development situation. "

Although industrial Fulian was affected by the epidemic in the first quarter of this year, it rebounded in the second quarter, with an operating revenue of 96.600 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.87%. The net profit attributable to the shareholders of the parent company was 3.173 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 21.85%.

The only 5g + industrial base station designed by China Unicom, which is the only one in the world, is using 5g + industrial network as the core of the global industrial network.

In the field of science and technology services, Fulian proposes a new strategy of "partner of industrial value upgrading in the new infrastructure era", which will upgrade and optimize the three major sectors of science and technology services.

In 5g, cloud computing, industrial Internet and other important areas of new infrastructure, industrial Fulian is rapidly advancing. For the further integration and innovation of intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet and new infrastructure, Tang Qijun talked about four major paths: "first, take the lead CT capabilities contribute to the construction of domestic 5g and big data centers; second, cooperate with the government to establish and operate industrial Internet regional service platform; third, form strategic cooperation with industrial leaders with intelligent manufacturing and AI management systems of vertical industries; fourth, connect the industrial chain and broaden the ecological circle. "

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