As an important platform connecting industry, IT, and OT, the industrial Internet is the key foundation for the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and the key infrastructure for promoting new industrialization. By significantly reducing the capital cost and technical threshold for small and medium-sized industrial enterprises to use data to empower intelligence, the industrial Internet has become an important path and driving force for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises.
However, the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises has the prominent problems of "not wanting to transfer", "not daring to transfer" and "not going to transfer", which is the pain point and difficulty of the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry. On November 2, at the 2023 6th China (Huangshi) Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Conference held in Huangshi, industry experts and business representatives deeply analyzed and answered this question. The industrial Internet has achieved remarkable results in promoting the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises Taking Huangshi, Hubei Province as an example, Huangshi, as a pilot city for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Hubei Province, has made outstanding achievements in promoting the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises and the development of the industrial Internet industry in recent years. Huangshi is the cradle of modern China's national industry, known as the "ancient bronze capital", "steel cradle", "mining and metallurgical hometown" and "cement hometown". Huangshi is a regional central city of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River approved by the State Council, an advanced manufacturing base, and an important growth pole of the Wuhan metropolitan area determined by the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. Huangshi has been selected as one of the first batch of digital economy demonstration cities in Hubei Province and a pilot city for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Hubei Province. It is reported that starting from this year, Hubei Province will arrange 100 million yuan every year to support the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in pilot cities, covering all cities and prefectures for three years. Hubei Province also issues 50 million yuan of cloud coupons to small, medium and micro enterprises every year to support enterprises to go to the cloud. The industrial Internet has become an important starting point for Huangshi City to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and help the high-quality development of the economy. In recent years, Hubei Province has deeply implemented the industrial Internet innovation and development strategy, solidly promoted the deep integration of 5G + industrial Internet and the real economy, and comprehensively supported the construction of a strong manufacturing province, a strong network province, and a digital Hubei. At present, Hubei's industrial Internet has achieved a leap from building a system and increasing traffic to promoting applications, and has accelerated the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, Huangshi City has 345 innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and 198 provincial-level specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises, including 24 national-level specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprises. Huangshi took the lead in Hubei Province in releasing a three-year action plan for the innovation and development of the industrial Internet, cultivating and introducing more than 10 professional enterprise digital service institutions, providing SMEs with solid services and high-quality platforms for digital transformation, and helping SMEs develop with high quality. "Chain" transformation drives the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises The "chain" transformation of upstream and downstream SMEs through the leading enterprises and chain owners of the industrial supply chain is an effective way to promote the digital transformation of SMEs, and has also become one of the key policy directions. Industrial chain collaboration is the fastest growing link for small and medium-sized enterprises to meet their needs for digital transformation in the future. Li Peigen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that in the future, the competition between small and medium-sized enterprises is not only the competition between peers, but also the supply chain represented by one enterprise and the supply chain represented by another peer, and the competition between the two supply chain systems. "There must be a good supply chain system, and there must be a digital supply chain. The application of digital twin technology to the supply chain is conducive to the optimization of environmental situation awareness and supply chain decision-making. Li Peigen said, "The most distinctive feature of the next generation of intelligent manufacturing is the application of digital twins, and the foundation of digital twins and other applications is the industrial Internet." ” Cheng Bo, deputy director of Wuhan SME Development Promotion Center, said that in terms of transformation strategy, it is necessary to pay attention to chain transformation, give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises, and drive small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out digital transformation through leading enterprises such as YOFC Optical Fiber and Huazhong CNC. In the specific implementation, through the pilot to promote the development of Wuhan's industrial software industry, the selection of service providers to cultivate a number of Wuhan local industrial software enterprises, such as Wuhan Kaimu, Tianyu Software, Datang Internet, etc., at the same time, to absorb excellent service providers from other places, such as Siemens, Inspur Industrial Internet and other enterprises to Wuhan, for Hubei small and medium-sized enterprises. Song Quncan, Solution Director of CAICT (Wuhan) Science and Technology Innovation Center Co., Ltd., said that since the "14th Five-Year Plan", the digital transformation of enterprises has entered the fast lane, and the industrial Internet industry has formed a pattern of "leading enterprises as the core node and developing upstream and downstream supply chains". However, 40% of small and medium-sized enterprises in the country are still in the initial stage of digital transformation, and they still need to be accelerated. Zhang Lei, general manager of Datang Fusion Technology (Huangshi) Co., Ltd., expressed the same view, that the future competition of enterprises is the competition of the supply chain. He suggested that many enterprises do not need to do all the orders themselves, and can find enough partners to match themselves through the Internet, and use its processing capacity to meet the product needs of enterprises. Zhang Lei believes that in the past two years, with the downgrade of electronic consumption, the core problem of the survival of small and medium-sized enterprises is the lack of orders. The equipment financing of these enterprises can also reduce the company's cost through financial leasing, and at the same time, products, services and capabilities can be promoted through the Internet, so that more potential customers in the region and abroad can know the company, so as to obtain potential orders. Reduce costs with SaaS and accelerate the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises After the speeches and sharing during the forum, industrial Internet enterprises generally believe that SaaS software services to accelerate the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises is an important development direction. At the meeting, Academician Li Peigen said that the digital transformation of enterprises is not only about interconnection and information integration, but also about the integration of virtual and real. The core point of Industry 4.0 is CPS, which is actually the integration of virtual and real. The integration of virtual and real is best reflected in the digital twin. The application of digital twins, enterprise cloud, industrial software cloud, SaaS, and PaaS are important trends. Zhou Qiaosong, a senior expert of China Telecom Group, pointed out the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises from the perspective of IT. He pointed out that the degree of standardization of the industry is worse than that of the IT industry, and the IT industry standard is globally unified, and once the industrial industry crosses a new field, its versatility will become poor. In his view, the industry can also promote SaaS-based software, deploy it in the public cloud for direct scheduling and use, and use the edge effect to solve the cost problem. He said that through the combination of 5G + public resources + SaaS capabilities, SaaS as a service will empower small and medium-sized enterprises, so that small and medium-sized enterprises can use the edge effect of IT systems to reduce various construction costs. As an "excellent software enterprise" in Hubei Province and with more than 40 years of experience in the steel industry, Baoxin Software has built a platform in the field of steel investment in Huangshi to provide services for the transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Cao Junlong, general manager of Wuhan Baoxin Big Data Division, said that the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises should establish a common plan from the industry level, find a common industry Internet platform from four points, and solve pain points and difficulties. The first is to take the problems that users are concerned about as a breakthrough to help improve quality and efficiency; second, the internal control of small and medium-sized enterprises is not standardized, and it is necessary to promote the integration of operation; third, the industrial Internet platform is the carrier; and the fourth is to use data through to find large data from the internal control of its own commonality and business system as the collection point. Cao Junlong suggested that SaaS services can be involved in application design, industry commonality, etc., and even allow it to be free for free, design business models on value-added customized services, and find sustainable solutions from common problems to create a usable platform. As a local service provider in Huangshi, Hubei Province, Hubei Qidianchuang Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Qidianchuang) is mainly oriented to building materials, aluminum profiles, equipment manufacturing, electronic information, light industry packaging, etc., smart energy systems, ERP systems, MES systems, equipment life cycle management systems, overall solutions for factory transformation, as well as industrial robots and automation-related services, focusing on the five-in-one and guaranteed package model, serving small and medium-sized enterprises from "0 to 1" digital transformation. Chen Qingman, chairman of Qidianchuang, said: "Qidianchuang has always served small and medium-sized enterprises, and our products have the service ability of 'small, fast, light and accurate', and the five-in-one helps enterprises to transform. We have always adopted the '82' principle, that is, 80% universal + 20% customized, to meet the individual needs of different business growth stages. ” Based on the industrial Internet platform, Datang Converged Communications provides technical resource sharing tools to help small and medium-sized enterprises in their digital transformation. Xu Jun, general manager of Datang Convergence Communications Co., Ltd., said that Datang Convergence has launched an industrial design cloud infrastructure, which uses hyper-converged computing technology capabilities to realize the pooling of basic resources and solve the dilemma of reducing costs and increasing efficiency in R&D and design. At present, Datang Fusion provides nine types of core industrial APP tools. Xu Jun introduced that in Yuhuan City, Taizhou, Zhejiang, the hometown of valves in China, about 30% of the domestic valves are produced in Yuhuan, with a total output value of more than 1 trillion yuan. The industrial Internet platform jointly built by Datang Fusion, Yuhuan Municipal Government and Taizhou Center of Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute carries and opens 17 characteristic APPs, brings together more than 1,000 valve enterprises, builds an industrial brain, and provides convenient comprehensive transactions and digital application tools for small and medium-sized enterprises. From supply chain construction to SaaS software services, industrial Internet platform enterprises have put forward practical paths and methods for small and medium-sized enterprises to encounter in the digital transformation of "do not want to transfer", "dare not transfer" and "will not transfer". In order to completely solve all the "difficulties" and "pain points" in the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, it is necessary not only to adapt and evolve products, technologies and services, but also to make common progress in business models and ecological construction. Source: China Industry News
