Anshan Iron & Steel is moving towards "data butterfly change" and solving common problems in the industry with data application
What is the future development direction of digital transformation? It is through digital technology to drive the establishment of the entire industrial ecosystem and promote the change of traditional models and organizations. Specifically, it is necessary to do a good job of support and guarantee through digitalization and intelligence, that is, to make full use of the data in the two stages of informatization and digitalization. In Anshan Iron and Steel, "data butterfly change" is one of the key measures for digital transformation in the coming period.
Entering the "14th Five-Year Plan", Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Anshan Iron and Steel Group") fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, formulated the development strategy of "Digital Anshan Iron and Steel" around the three aspects of "industrial digitization, digital industrialization and data valorization", focusing on the construction of digital Anshan Iron and Steel Group at the three levels of group control, smart operation and smart factory. Anshan Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Anshan Iron & Steel"), as one of the core subsidiaries of Anshan Iron & Steel Group, has built a digital transformation development plan under the "Digital Anshan Iron & Steel" strategy, which is divided into three levels: new infrastructure, industrial Internet platform, and emerging model application from bottom to top, to carry out digital transformation.
Among them, the main body of the infrastructure level is the smart factory, which runs through each process around the three major bases of Anshan, Bayuquan and Chaoyang, and gathers the data of process, equipment, energy and operation control to the industrial Internet platform The operation control mode and customer service system have strengthened the integration and coordination between the marketing end and the manufacturing end, created the management concept of optimal cost, and established a new operation model.
As early as 2018, Anshan Iron and Steel took the lead in proposing the construction of "smart and transparent factory" in Bayuquan base, focusing on the two goals of "wisdom" and "transparency". Both of these aspects are inseparable from data aggregation and application, and inseparable from the full integration of data and business. The focus is on business driven, business value identification and scenario application, which is the starting point for finding, discovering and creating value. In addition, it is data support, data empowers application scenarios, and obtains value embodiment.
At present, Anshan Iron and Steel has experienced three stages of development in the process of digital construction: informatization, digitalization and intelligence. Informatization is the primary stage, and it is the electronic and data-based single business. Digitalization is an advanced stage, a global optimization of multiple businesses, and a data-oriented business-oriented process. The advanced stage is intelligence, which is an advanced process of exploring the application of big data and AI large models, giving full play to the value of data, and empowering typical scenarios. Scenario empowerment is a concrete manifestation of the value of data.
The relevant person in charge of the Digital Intelligence Development Department of Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. pointed out that technical support and business integration, and finding high-value application scenarios are the prerequisites for realizing digitalization to intelligence, and it is also the most important point for Anshan Iron and Steel to implement the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and Anshan Iron and Steel Group to build a world-class enterprise and promote digital transformation.
According to reports, Anshan Iron and Steel explores the construction of a big data platform for the iron and steel industry, the core of which is to focus on the integration of procurement, sales, customer service and manufacturing control, gather data from various business fields, build a full-factor, full-link data model and data value system, and form a new industrial Internet model driven by "process control + digital intelligence", "data empowerment and business efficiency".
At the factory level, Anshan Iron and Steel spent three years to open up the whole process data, established a whole process control system, integrated the data of process, equipment, energy, and operation control, and developed a mathematical model based on mechanism algorithm on the basis of gathering the data of the whole process of ironmaking, steelmaking, hot rolling, cold rolling, and galvanizing. At the level of operation and control, the information system of the three bases in all business fields has been upgraded and reconstructed to achieve production and marketing coordination and process coordination, and a new architecture system and new model have been formed in the industrial model.
With the in-depth application of a new generation of information technology, Anshan Iron and Steel has gradually used industrial big data to improve total factor productivity and resource allocation efficiency, effectively solve some common problems in the steel industry, and scientifically guide product research and development, manufacturing and quality improvement.
These common problems include: the "black box" problem of the whole process of steel production, the integration of process interface, the precise coordination and control of each process, the optimization and intelligence of decision-making, etc. Through data penetration, data integration and data driven, AI algorithms are introduced to realize the single process flow and global optimization, and a closed-loop system of data collection, modeling and feedback has been established.
In the ironmaking process, based on data governance tools, Anshan Iron and Steel has established a big data analysis and application platform, provided standard data asset services, established many mathematical models such as blast furnace batching optimization model and furnace visual analysis, effectively solved the problem of steel smelting process control, transformed blast furnace smelting from "black box" to "white box" data visualization, and turned "experience steelmaking" into "smart steelmaking".
In the hot rolling process, Anshan Iron and Steel has built a "virtual simulation" of the whole production line, which has completed the first step of digital twin and realized "virtual to real". In the future, through big data mining technology, based on the accumulated data, establish data correspondence, find rules, establish mathematical models, and gradually study in the direction of "virtual pre-reality", and finally serve product development and design, and quickly assist in the trial production of new products.
Anshan Iron & Steel has also cooperated with Liaoning Mobile and ZTE to build a "5G fully connected factory" with a 5G private network to achieve multi-scenario collaboration in the Bayuquan base, with full coverage of the Bayuquan base. At the Anshan headquarters, the world's first 4.9GHz industrial private network was built.
On June 27 this year, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council put forward further requirements for state-owned enterprises to accelerate the digital transformation, clarified the specific content of "five transformations and five modernizations", and focused on "R&D digitalization, intelligent production, operation integration, service agility, and industrial ecology" to support "change consciousness, organization, model, method, and culture", empower various business areas of enterprises, and drive the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the industry.
In the future, Anshan Iron and Steel will focus on these requirements, promote digital transformation, and deepen data application. Focusing on data-driven, technical support, process optimization, and organizational reform, we will realize the transformation from business digitalization to digital business innovation, form a new ecosystem, promote new industrialization, and achieve high-quality development.
Source: China Industry News Network
