Have you joined this intellectual feast about Industry 4.0?

Date:2020-04-20 21:47:57

           Five computers and five large screens hanging above, can you imagine that this displays the control room of a coal chemical enterprise? In my impression, the control rooms of traditional enterprises are like a large screen displaying the status of various instruments in the process control system. However, nowadays, the process control system is only a part of the factory's "brain", and digitalization has linked all aspects of the factory's design, planning, engineering, production, and service together!

      This is not a concept showcase, but rather an Industry 4.0 navigation project being implemented by Sedin Engineering, one of the top 50 Chinese engineering companies in the coal chemical industry. At the 2016 Siemens Industrial Forum, which opened on July 12th, Zhou Enli, Deputy Chief Engineer of Siding Engineering Company, spoke on behalf of the client and said, "Based on Siemens technology, Siding's digital factory solution has helped coal chemical enterprises further improve engineering and operational efficiency, reduce operating costs, and improve quality

At the time of project delivery, customers no longer receive stacks of drawings, but design databases, simulation environments, 3D virtual reality environments, etc. A digital virtual factory will be delivered to customers together with the real factory.

Is Industry 4.0 still far away?

Actually, this is just a touching corner at the 2016 Siemens Industrial Forum. The 1500 square meter digital enterprise real-life exhibition area points out a technological route to the vision of "Industry 4.0" for customers.

        This production line doesn't seem particularly special, but in fact, the blood flowing in its veins is "digital": this platform covers all stages of product design, planning, engineering, production, and service. Here, we can see the three core contents of "Industry 4.0": using the Temcenter collaboration platform to achieve horizontal integration, from NX to TIA Botu, process design to automation engineering, forming seamless engineering; Connect all automation control and execution devices through the Profinet network to form vertical integration.

Coffee Digital Factory

            Can drinking a cup of coffee also experience digitalization? you 're right! Come and take a look at the coffee machine digital factory in the industrial software exhibition area. This small factory includes a seamless integrated platform from research and development to manufacturing, closed-loop online quality management, as well as advanced manufacturing and testing technologies such as 3D printing, robot automatic assembly, and the Internet of Things. Delicious coffee has also benefited from digitalization!

Chengdu Digital Factory VR Experience

            What? Has Siemens Chengdu Digital Factory also been moved to Siemens Industrial Forum? It turned out to be a VR experience! But looking at this scene, it's really lifelike. A large production team worked intensively and meticulously at the Chengdu factory for several days, just to give the audience a good eye and see how digitalization can help a manufacturing company achieve a ppm (parts per million defect rate) of less than 10.

The intellectual feast of Industry 4.0 has arrived!

           On July 12-13, the "2016 Siemens Industrial Forum" was grandly held in Beijing. This summer party can be regarded as a high-end and all-round "intellectual feast" in the global industrial field, attracting more than 2000 customers, experts, and partners from various industries to participate. The guests had a lively discussion around the theme of "Towards Industry 4.0- Leading the Digital Enterprise Process", with "Digital Enterprise" becoming the core topic. Today, industrial enterprises are facing multiple challenges from productivity, efficiency, time to market, and quality. Transparency of enterprise data can help them continuously optimize productivity and efficiency. Siemens has coined the name "Digital Twins" for a consistent data model that runs through all stages of the product lifecycle. Through "Digital Twins," virtual and real worlds are perfectly integrated, helping enterprises achieve the integration of the entire value chain and digital transformation.