On March 21, the TURE See Zero-carbon Digital Industry Salon hosted by Midea Group was held, inviting the media to explore Midea Group's first zero-carbon digital industrial park. In this Midea Building Technology Water Machine Factory, we have witnessed the rise of China's centrifuge industry, and we will also witness how a 20-year-old factory can achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality.
Due to the aging equipment and age of the original park, the energy consumption of the factory is high, especially in the context of power rationing in South China in 2022, the capacity efficiency of this factory has been greatly disturbed. Therefore, Midea Building Technology has implemented a green upgrade for this factory, with the iBUILDING digital platform as the core, reshaping the world with digital, and finally achieving carbon neutrality through "green power priority, emission reduction and offsetting".
The beautiful and high-tech office building has attracted the attention of the media. It turns out that this is the secret of the low-carbon buildings in the park. The exterior walls of the office building are inlaid with many photovoltaic modules, which are integrated into the walls and become part of the building. Hekang New Energy, a subsidiary of Midea Industrial Technology, gives full play to its advantages in the field of green energy, and uses photovoltaic, electric energy storage, water storage and other products to help the industrial park "open source" and continuously provide clean "green electricity" for the park.
"After the completion of the second phase of the development of distributed photovoltaic + energy storage integration projects on the roofs of office buildings and factories, photovoltaic power generation will reach 6.2 million kWh per year, and the proportion of green electricity will reach 55%, and more importantly, this measure will reduce carbon emissions by 5,323 tons per year." Wang Xiaofeng, the process leader of Midea Building Technology Water Machine Products Company, said that at the moment when there is day and night fluctuation of photovoltaics, supporting energy storage solves the fragmentation and volatility of renewable energy power generation, so that no matter whether the sun is seen or not, the electricity is there. In addition, the combination of self-produced high-efficiency evaporative cooling units, inverter air compressors, LED smart lighting and other equipment has opened up the last mile of carbon neutrality from the source.
In addition, digital transformation is crucial in the process of achieving zero carbon in industrial enterprises, and digital technology and industrial software innovation drive have significant superposition and multiplication effects on the construction of "zero carbon factories". On the zero-carbon road of Chongqing Midea's water machine factory, the Meiqing industrial Internet platform verifies this underlying logic. From "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing", the Meiqing platform provides a strong digital and intelligent engine, and continuously releases potential business value around the whole value chain of Chongqing Midea Water Machine Factory, including R&D, production, manufacturing, supply, marketing, logistics, and after-sales.
On the manufacturing side, relying on digital intelligent production lines such as D-ARC automatic welding production line and KUKA-MAZAK processing unit to improve process automation; Build an intelligent logistics system through three-dimensional storage scheduling, logistics robots, etc.; In addition, relying on the digital operation of the whole process, a "digital factory" is built.
As the underlying platform, iBUILDING is intended to open up various system applications such as photovoltaics, charging piles, production equipment and building automation in the park, and integrate and connect people, machines, materials, methods and environments in the factory.
"iBUILDING Carbon Management can manage renewable energy assets and help companies manage their carbon emissions." "We are committed to the ultimate IoT platform, which not only connects all the energy production side equipment, but also interconnects the energy-using terminals, and finally unifies the energy dashboard, equipment monitoring, energy consumption optimization, and alarm management, which is the final form design of the digital platform in our zero-carbon industrial park," said Wang Zazhong, head of the digital business architecture center of Midea Building Technology. ”
Today, in the park, the iBUILDING carbon management system has been linked to 8 digital scenarios, connected to dozens of information systems and hundreds of terminal devices, and the operation of the park has been coordinated and optimized, and implemented to everyone in the park. Let the charging pile intelligently open the gate for new energy vehicles, take off and land; Let the new energy LED lamp realize automatic induction time-sharing control; Let the camera intelligently identify visitors; Digitalization measures in every detail, the result is optimized collaborative control, which is simple and unified.
In the process of building this zero-carbon industrial park, Midea Building Technology also relies on its own ecological partners to jointly provide customized consulting and certification services for the park, and help the factory obtain ISO50001 certification, zero-carbon certification PAS2060 carbon neutrality certificates.
In addition to the "zero-carbon answer sheet" submitted based on internal applications, Midea's experience has also been deepened and applied across industries, fields and regions. It is foreseeable that green and low-carbon services will become a key area for Midea to lay out and break through in the core business of the B-end, and while firmly igniting the "second engine", it will actively empower the outside world to help more industrial enterprises in green transformation.