From industrial interconnection to industrial AI, the opportunity and mission of domestic industrial operating systems

As the name suggests, the civil Internet realizes the connection between people and the Internet and serves all aspects of people's lives. Since the birth of ARPANET in 1969 and the ubiquitous mobile Internet today, the network has quietly changed people's lifestyles, giving birth to new business models and innovative industries, and promoting the economic transformation of the entire society. Today, China has become the world's largest market for Internet development, with the world's largest and technologically advanced 5G network, the penetration rate of Internet applications increasing to 76.4%, and the birth of a generation of Internet applications such as WeChat, ByteDance, and Didi.

Similarly, on the industrial side, the development of the industrial Internet based on civil Internet technology is gradually changing the mode of industrial production, promoting the development of industrial digitalization, informatization and intelligence, and changing our production mode. In the era of ChatGPT's popular artificial intelligence, the combination of industrial Internet and artificial intelligence will also completely liberate human beings from complex labor.

From Nokia and Motorola, which are popular all over the world in the 2G and 3G eras, to Apple, Samsung, and Huawei, which dominate the world in the 4G and 5G eras, the development of smart phones has promoted the popularization of civil Internet applications, making it possible for general artificial intelligence to be widely used today. As a terminal form of artificial intelligence, the bottom layer of the evolution of smartphones is a fundamental change in the operating system. Today, Huawei is relying on the rise of HarmonyOS to regain its leading position in smartphones.

In short, only by promoting the application of the Internet and the application of artificial intelligence in the future through the operating system and getting rid of the situation of less "soul" can we grasp the right of autonomy and sustainable development in the future international competition. As if, as an industrial power, China's planning and layout in the operating system, especially the industrial operating system, is one of the important directions to achieve China's sustainable development in the future.

Traditional DCS, PLC and other controllers are just like feature phones in the 2G and 3G era. In order to develop from the traditional industrial interconnection to the "smart phone" carrying industrial artificial intelligence-intelligent controller, it is urgent to realize network interoperability, protocol unification and broadband, and it is urgent to realize the comprehensive replacement of new industrial operating systems in the industrial field.

Only by building an intelligent controller based on a new industrial operating system can we promote the development of China's new industrialization and carry industrial artificial intelligence. The first is to ensure national industrial security, the second is to promote the transformation of China's industry to digital and intelligent, provide a standardized general technology platform for digital factories and intelligent equipment, and build a new industrial software ecology, and the third is to undertake industrial artificial intelligence.

However, at present, there is a foreign monopoly in the domestic industrial operating system, and most of the domestic manufacturing giants use the control systems developed by automation giants such as Siemens, Fanuc, ABB, and Rockwell, and more than 80% or even 90% of the operating systems are not domestic. DCS, PLC and other controllers cannot carry out friendly human-computer interaction or software loading, and it is even more difficult to undertake the application of industrial artificial intelligence.

Since 2019, the United States has blocked and suppressed Huawei, and its spearhead has been directly aimed at the operating system, chips, and 5G. In the field of industrial operating systems, Dongtu Technology, a listed company, as the only enterprise in the domestic industrial Internet industry that realizes completely independent controllability and complete localization from operating systems, chips, industrial network communication equipment, and edge general controllers, has also been included in the "Entity List" by the United States.

As the "world's manufacturing factory", China has the largest and most complete industrial enterprise cluster and industrial chain, including many global manufacturing giants and millions of small and medium-sized factories. The battle for the dominance of the industrial operating system is related to the consolidation and strengthening of the competitive advantage of China's manufacturing industry, and the key foundation of industrial production.

Since 2006, the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have attached great importance to the development of domestic operating systems, and have repeatedly emphasized solving the problems of "stuck neck" and "lack of core and soul" in the country. Since its establishment, after 20 years of research and development and precipitation, Dongtu Technology, a Chinese enterprise, is constantly improving in combination with the national new operating system strategy, working with partners to jointly develop and build a new industrial operating system in China, and making great contributions to accelerating the promotion of new industrialization.

It is reported that under the personal guidance of Academician Zhu Guangya, the founder of two bombs and one star, Dongtu Technology Intewell Hongdao operating system has been developed after 30 years, and can replace the VxWorks operating system in terms of function and performance, and the product has passed the test of the Fifth Institute of Electronics of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with a 100% autonomy rate of kernel and some key codes, and in 2006, the Canadian Space Agency ranked third in the analysis and evaluation of the global embedded operating system, and in 2022, it obtained the highest level of industrial and automotive functional safety certification SIL4&ASILD。 Today, Intewell Hongdao operating system has been widely used and practiced in the fields of flight control, avionics, CNC machine tools, construction machinery, and intelligent manufacturing. Intewell Hongdao industrial operating system is currently the only operating system in China that has passed the four functional safety certifications of automobiles, industrial control, medical instruments and rail transit.

Only by adhering to the road of independent innovation can we be invincible in the fierce competition of science and technology and achieve the goal of long-term development. It is expected that Dongtu Technology will shoulder the mission, accelerate the pace of technological innovation and independent research and development, improve the scientific and technological strength and core competitiveness, solve the bottleneck problem in the industrial field, and create China's own industrial avenue in the industrial industry, just like Huawei in the smartphone operating system.

Source: China Industry News Network