When the intelligence of home appliances reaches a certain level, home appliances themselves are almost a kind of robots. When the United States moves in accordance with the strategic direction of the science and technology group, technological innovation and product change are gradually changing the connotation of home appliances. Dr. Xu Chengmao, vice president of the Central Research Institute of the Group, said that the perfect human-computer interaction is zero interaction. Another implication of this sentence is that home appliances can only make the intelligent single product intelligent, in order to make the real intelligence.

On March 7th, Midea Group shared its insights on the future at the annual strategic conference: Midea believes that people and machines will be transformed into deeper and more integrated collaborative relationships, entering the 'new generation of man-machines'. The strategy is proposed not only for the extension of Midea's 'Double Wisdom Strategy', but also for the drive of big data and AI to give products, machines, processes, and systems the ability to perceive, recognize, understand and make decisions. The unique advantages of the layout of the industry and the entire line of communication, and put the practice of manufacturing and life to a new level, promote the fissile development of manufacturing methods, but also for users to bring a more beautiful life experience.

Digital Closed Loop and Software and Hardware Collaboration

As early as 2014, Midea began a digital transformation and successfully landed 'a beautiful, a system, a standard', the beautiful group's ability in research and development, order response, planning ability, flexible manufacturing, purchasing ability, quality tracking, logistics capability, customer service Installation and other aspects of the entire value chain have achieved standardization and systematization, creating a solid foundation for deepening digital transformation for the United States and laying out the industrial Internet.

From 2017 onwards, the company has already conducted the 'T+3' production and sales model to promote deep business transformation, upgrade the intelligent supply chain, smart manufacturing and smart logistics, and achieved global collaboration, transparent and efficient operation. In software development.

Midea has the ability to provide the most comprehensive intelligent manufacturing suite: Midea integrates the independently developed integrated planning and procurement platform with the MBS business management system, which can increase the efficiency of scheduling by 83%, effectively achieving accurate operations, and effective quality management. The company's collaborative cloud can accurately deploy the production plan and achieve full logistics tracking and full booking admission. With blockchain technology, logistics can achieve full tracking, efficient and safe.

It has to be said that the U.S. love industrial Internet has a unique advantage. On the one hand, U.S. has been deeply practising the complicated manufacturing fields such as injection molding, electronics, assembly, and 3C manufacturing; on the other hand, through joint efforts with Germany’s Kuka, Israel has made high achievements. The world's leading robotics, automation and commercial solutions have been introduced to enable seamless integration from production of big data to motion control, effectively improving the visualization of production processes, man-machine collaboration, and full quality monitoring.

From this we can see that in the new century of man-machine strategy implementation, the owner of the U.S. has unparalleled advantages. With the deepening of this strategy in the future, the fissile development of manufacturing methods is also a matter of course.

Industrial Internet Closed Loop with 7 Abilities

Building the Industrial Internet has become a global consensus, according to consulting firm IoT Analytics statistics, the industrial Internet platform market is expected to reach 1.644 billion US dollars in 2021. With the beauty of the whole value chain practice for all to see: in the global production to achieve a platform, a Based on the standard, Midea has succeeded in realizing full value chain operation driven by software and data with digital transformation. It fully covers R & D capability, order response, planning capability, flexible manufacturing, purchasing capability, quality tracking, logistics capability , Customer service installation and other aspects of the entire value chain, to achieve end-to-end collaboration.

On this digital-driven platform: C2M's flexible customization, platform for production, modularity, digital processes and simulation, smart logistics, digital marketing, smart customer service and other deep changes have become a reality.

Zhang Xiaoyi, CIO at Midea Group, said at the press conference: 'The real industrial internet must be able to truly achieve' zero 'inventory production through the R & D, production equipment, supply chain, service, logistics and customer terminals. 100% logistics tracking management and 'single' set of custom C2M, the United States of America's Industrial Internet already have such a foundation.

At present, through software and hardware collaboration and China Unicom's seven major links, Midea's existing cloud platform solutions have been able to support the production and operation of more than 10,000 products at more than 40 sites around the world, providing flexible, multi-layer processing and complex processing Solutions.At the same time, Midea's digital solutions not only applied to itself, its independent company Meiyunzhiyu has exported mature products and solutions to other industries and companies, to serve the first domestic sales of China-made brands Changan Automobile, China's largest The power tools manufacturer Po, the retail area of ​​Yonghui supermarkets and many other enterprises.

Prospect Layout Supports 'Human-Machine New Generation'

Smart Manufacturing is more than just introducing robots and building unmanned factories.Most processes in the manufacturing world such as R & D, supply chain, production, logistics, sales and after-sales, were previously separated from the consumer by smart manufacturing In essence it is to change this state, based on big data analysis and get through, so that all business interoperability.

For a technology group spanning four major segments of consumer electronics, HVAC, robotics and automation systems, and smart supply chain (logistics), Midea needs to supply more than 300 million home appliances every year to global customers. In this case , So that all production processes interoperability is an extremely difficult project.At present, after nearly 3 years of production standardization, digital transformation, the United States has now basically achieved a 'beautiful, a system, a standard' Global collaborative production platform, developed to support the entire value chain operational excellence of the software.

Based on this, Midea collaborates with the world-leading Robotics KUKA to deeply develop the R&D and innovation of big data and AI technology, and gradually forms automation and commercial solutions that can adapt to various types of complex production scenarios to further practise smart manufacturing. Machine-sharing innovations have laid a solid foundation. Wilfried Eberhardt, member of the supervisory board and marketing director of the Kuka Group, believes that: 'In the future, humans and robots will work side by side to make life easier.'