Foxconn's 36-day 'lightning meeting' has made the Internet booming.
The company on this track included the white goods giant of China Midea and Haier. Midea announced on March 7th that it would enter the Industrial Internet on the eve of 2018AWE (China Household Electrical Appliances and Consumer Electronics Fair). Haier is actively promoting its mass customization industry. The Internet platform COSMO Plat, the platform has attracted tens of thousands of companies, is expected this year's platform trading volume will reach nearly 400 billion yuan.
The background of giants rushing into the industrial Internet is the potential huge demand brought by the vision of 'Made in China 2025'. With the upgrading of consumption, the people want better products and push the traditional manufacturing industry to accelerate the transition to 'smart manufacturing'.
Foxconn, Midea, and Haier are all pushing for the Industrial Internet. They are essentially socializing their strong manufacturing capabilities and grabbing the 'Made in China' upgrade bonus.
Olaf Gehrels, general manager of Midea Robotics, predicts that the market capacity of Chinese robots will reach 1 million units by 2025, and the market share of Chinese robotic companies will reach 50% by then.
After acquiring Germany's Kuka and Israel's Goseo, and possessing the 'hard power' of robots and core components, Midea created the 'Yeyun Smart Number' company to transform its experience in manufacturing and supply chain into software. System and enterprise cloud platform, external promotion sales.
Gu Yunsong, general manager of Meiyun Intelligence, said that Meiyun Zhiji hopes to become a unicorn company in China's B2B field.
In fact, the German Industrial 4.0, the American Industrial Internet started earlier than China. Gu Yunsong is emboldened by the fact that China's manufacturing industry has its own particularities. Like Midea produces 300 million products each year, has its own brands, and OEM OEMs; there are supply lines Channels also provide online e-commerce channels; they cover many different categories; and the industry chain is very long, starting from injection molding, sheet metal, and all the way to finished products. It is difficult to copy foreign industrial Internet systems, and the US’s own transformation effect. , is a good example of China's manufacturing upgrade.
Different from the emphasis on the coverage of robots and core components, Haier's Industrial Internet emphasizes the move from 'mass manufacturing' to 'mass customization'. From product development, design, marketing, and other aspects, it attracts users to participate and meets individual requirements. Demand, promote continuous product iteration.
Haier is cooperating with the governments of Tianjin, Nansha, Guangzhou, and Songjiang, Shanghai to build a smart manufacturing demonstration area. The goal is to create an integrated model of 'production and production', that is, a smart community, to demonstrate the application of smart products; smart manufacturing production lines, Customized products are provided according to user needs. Entrepreneurs are provided on industrial internet platforms. They bring together ideas and accelerate market response.
'Robots, we don't necessarily do it ourselves, but we attract suppliers to the platform to meet the needs of all parties.' said Chen Lucheng, vice president of the Haier home appliance industry group, general manager of the supply chain.
Compared to Midea, Haier, Foxconn's industrial Internet will combine 5G communication technology and 8K display technology.
Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd., which will soon be listed, has a hat on top of the 'Industrial Internet', but its current business is still mainly found in telecommunications equipment, cloud equipment, smart phone components, precision tools and industrial robots. The industrial Internet is To use the funds raised from the listing to open up the field.
Foxconn's industrial Internet platform, BEACON, realizes data collection and cloud computing by connecting smart sensors and production equipment. It improves quality and efficiency, reduces costs, and lays down the technical foundation for the company's business expansion. In the future, people will realize People, people and machines, machine and machine interconnection, and explore the construction of an open and shared ecosystem of industrial Internet platforms.
In the next 2 to 3 years, Foxconn hopes to transform from foundry giant to integrated service provider of intelligent manufacturing and technology services under the industrial Internet ecosystem. Foxconn hopes to combine the new generation of 5G communication technology to make 8K ultra high-definition images faster. Transmission, such as 2 to 3 micron mobile phone surface scratches can be automatically detected and repaired, to achieve intelligent upgrade of manufacturing.
Several large giants are all manufacturing enterprises with 100 billion RMB. Their road to constructing the Industrial Internet is also the same destination. Foxconn, Midea, Haier, who can take the lead in incubating the industrial Internet unicorn in China, let's wait and see.