[Ferro-Alloys.com]

  In recent years, especially during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the emerging ICT (information and communication technology) represented by artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud computing and big data has developed rapidly. With the introduction of a series of national policies to encourage industrial transformation and upgrading, all walks of life have set off a wave of digital economy revolution. The implementation of green manufacturing (to determine the survival of steel enterprises), intelligent manufacturing (to determine the development of steel enterprises) and lean manufacturing (to determine the status of steel enterprises) play an important role in the transformation and upgrading of steel enterprises.

  In the era of digital economy, the development stage of digital transformation of steel enterprises is standardization, informatization, lean, digitization, networking, intelligence and so on. At present, most of the domestic steel enterprises are still in the information stage, and the Internet of steel trade has become an important direction of transformation for about 30% of the enterprises. Only five large steel enterprises take the development of big data industry as one of their development strategies, and only China Baowu has written intelligent manufacturing into its "13th five-year" strategy.

  At present, there are two main modes for steel enterprises to implement digital transformation:

  One is independent research and development. For example, China Baowu independently developed two digital intelligent platforms, and realized large-scale production verification application in Baowu E-steel for the first time. One is the intelligent factory platform called iPlat, namely the cloud edge integrated intelligent manufacturing platform. The platform has the functions of data collection, management and service, intelligent production process control, digital manufacturing execution application and cost performance control, comprehensive integrated production process monitoring and multi-source data fusion and innovative application. The other is the intelligent ecological platform named ePlat, which supports the group company to build an iron and steel ecosystem. The platform provides financial, logistics, technology, quality inspection, information, procurement and other integrated services for the participants in the industrial chain, realizes the integration of business flow, information flow, capital flow and logistics in the industrial chain, and achieves radiation transmission and enabling services to the ecosystem via big connection, data and sharing.

  The other is mainly with the help of social professional and technical forces. For example, the original e-commerce platform equipment of HBIS Group Co., Ltd is old, and its daily operation stability and flexibility are poor; the asset management is complex, and the local data center is used, so the asset inventory needs to be carried out every year, which is time-consuming and laborious. After several rounds of comparison and selection, HBIS Group Co., Ltd chose to cooperate with Huawei to quickly complete the transformation and upgrading of cloud business platform, and built a new B2B e-commerce business platform based on Huawei cloud. The new platform achieves excellent performance because customers can visit the website smoothly and still operate stably and reliably in extreme scenarios.

• [Editor:Catherine Ren]