From September 19th to 23rd, the 23rd China International Industry Fair was officially held. Midea Group, together with its five business units, Midea Industrial Technology, Midea Building Technology, KUKA, Ande Zhilian, and Meiyun Zhishu, jointly appeared at the 2023 Industry Expo, and held a press conference of "Digital Midea Smart Industry", and released Midea's smart industrial solutions and white papers.
Midea's smart industrial solution was released
It has established 15 national green factories (14 in China and 1 overseas), 3 zero-carbon factories (Shunde, Jingzhou, Chongqing), and 5 world-class lighthouse factories, and has been selected as a national "double-cross" (cross-industry and cross-field) platform...... Based on nearly a decade of digital practical experience and technical capability accumulation from zero-carbon & lighthouse factories, Midea has released Midea's smart industrial solutions covering green energy, intelligent manufacturing, smart logistics, smart buildings and other fields. The release of this series of solutions means that Midea has taken another step towards the overall goal of "Digital Beauty 2025".
Zhang Xiaoyi, vice president and CDO of Midea Group, introduced the layout of Midea Group in smart industry. In 2022, Midea Group released the "Digital Midea 2025" strategy, which guides Midea to realize the digital operation of its entire value chain, and then continuously optimize business processes and improve efficiency. Under the guidance of the "Digital Beauty 2025" strategy, different business units of Midea have accumulated and precipitated digital transformation solutions, and based on this, they have developed software platforms and hardware products suitable for various industries, and built various solutions suitable for various industries. Together, these solutions build an overall solution for digital beauty and smart industry.
Zhang Xiaoyi shared that Midea's smart industrial solution is a flexible combination, digital, intelligent and green industrial solution, which consists of a three-layer architecture, from top to bottom, which are solutions, products and bases. Among them, the innovation organization provides strong support for the innovative development and iterative upgrading of solutions, products, and bases.
It is worth mentioning that these solutions are independent and can be modularly customized according to the needs of industrial enterprises; At the same time, because it has a common digital base, it can realize data integration, collaborative expansion, and combination to create more application scenarios.
Green energy solutions help the industrial sector advance the energy revolution
In the context of global carbon neutrality, China's industrial sector has further promoted the energy revolution and accelerated the planning and construction of a new energy system. Midea's green energy solutions realize energy management and further optimize energy distribution through green energy supply, energy storage technology, energy digitalization, high efficiency and energy saving, energy distribution and other means. It can ensure the safety, stability, green, low-carbon and economic convenience of energy consumption in industrial parks, and realize its energy value and environmental value.
Guo Hong, chief strategic expert of CLOU Electronics, talked about the advantages of Midea's green energy solutions. In terms of energy supply, Midea can provide distributed photovoltaic solutions in industrial parks to replace fossil energy; In the energy allocation link, it provides power supply and distribution system solutions using primary and secondary integrated intelligent switches; In the energy consumption link, the energy efficiency can be improved based on high-efficiency and energy-saving inverter solutions; In the energy regulation and control process, industrial and commercial energy storage and energy storage thermal management solutions are used to improve the load adjustability of the park and ensure power supply. In the energy management link, it provides intelligent energy measurement solutions for industrial parks.
Combined with the needs and pain points of customers in different fields, Midea has applied green energy solutions to create many cases such as industrial park power supply, intelligent power supply and distribution, industrial and commercial energy storage, and high-efficiency and energy-saving frequency conversion solutions, helping users achieve rich practices of energy conservation and carbon reduction, and ensuring energy security supply. Among them, in the case of the transformation of the high-pressure direct-drive inverter of the water pump for a power plant, the energy consumption can be reduced by 25%~50% after the test and transformation.
Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions Export the operation experience of lighthouse factories and black light workshops
In the successful transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, Midea Group not only demonstrated and led through its own pilots, but also built intelligent manufacturing solutions for thousands of industries based on its own transformation experience to promote the intelligent upgrading of China's industry.
The digital factory and the black light workshop are the two major scenarios of Midea's outward output capabilities. According to Jin Jiang, President of Meiyun Intelligent Digital, Midea has built an end-to-end digital factory with the successful experience of 15 green factories, 3 zero-carbon factories and 5 world lighthouse factories to build an end-to-end full-value chain operation excellence lighthouse digital factory, based on full-scene coverage solutions, efficient and collaborative lean supply chain and digital twin technology, to help enterprises reduce poor quality and delivery costs, improve human efficiency, shorten delivery time, and reduce energy consumption.
At present, the lighthouse factory solution has not only been implemented internally in Midea, with 5 lighthouse factories built, but also empowered externally, assisting customers to establish more than 100 digital factories and more than 150 digital workshops, continuously optimizing capabilities and serving more manufacturing partners.
Another scenario of Midea's intelligent manufacturing is the black light workshop. Based on its business units such as Meiyun Zhishu and KUKA, Midea has built a black light workshop for the fields of material distribution, intelligent flexible equipment and high-precision motion control. Based on flexible robots, Midea has achieved a 20% increase in space utilization in the field of material distribution automation, while the operating energy consumption is only two to three percent of that of traditional solutions. Hao Wenbin, Strategy Director of KUKA China, took the three fields of injection molding, sheet metal and electronics as examples, and shared the cost reduction, efficiency increase and quality improvement achieved by the black light workshop: In the injection molding black light workshop of Midea's refrigerator division, through KUKA robots and logistics automation, the front-line labor can be saved by 95%, and the storage area can be saved by nearly 500 square meters.
Smart logistics solutions empower the supply chain to improve quality and efficiency
In 2022, the General Office of the State Council promulgated the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Modern Logistics", which clarifies the development direction of digitalization, integration and green and low-carbon development of the logistics industry. Midea Group's end-to-end digital intelligent supply chain solution opens up the full-link green system of production, distribution and user, and improves the efficiency of the whole value chain. Solve the problems of high cost, long link, weak management and control, and high carbon emissions in traditional industrial logistics.
According to Lin Taien, chief product officer of Ander Zhilian, Ander Zhilian has carried out an innovative layout around the four dimensions of smart supply chain, automated warehousing, digital transportation and distribution, and green packaging, and combined with the unique "1+3" supply chain service model to create a smart logistics service system with Ander characteristics. Among them, "1" refers to the "full link" of the supply chain coverage scenario, and "3" refers to the three solutions "production logistics", "one inventory", and "integrated delivery and installation". Through the optimization of various links such as pick-up, warehousing and distribution, package transportation and delivery, the direct user access is completed with shorter links, less inventory, smaller losses and faster timeliness, so as to improve efficiency and reduce costs, and be low-carbon, green and sustainable.
The automated three-dimensional warehouse of Ander Zhilian Intelligent Warehousing Technology Center, jointly established by Ander Zhilian and Swissgate, has obtained the highest certification of national first-class green warehouse, and through diversified automation equipment and systems, it has achieved a 5-fold increase in ping efficiency, automation saves 37.5% of manpower, and 20% of kinetic energy recovery and electricity consumption.
Smart Building Solutions Build a green and zero-carbon industrial park
Industrial parks and buildings are another key area for digital, intelligent and green upgrading. Midea's industrial smart building solution provides industrial enterprises and parks with a full value chain solution covering the efficiency improvement of key energy-using equipment, the cascade utilization of industrial energy, the whole process of digital carbon management from carbon inventory to carbon verification, intelligent operation of the park and energy-saving management.
Yang Pengyu, Director of Building Technology Solutions and Delivery of Midea, took Midea's Shunde factory as an example to introduce how Midea digitally transforms energy management and energy services according to the characteristics of industrial parks, and adopts advanced means such as digital twins to achieve digital and efficient operation and maintenance. For the renovation of the factory park building, Midea has deployed 110 core functional modules, 45+ product highlights, and 40+ equipment access for 15 application scenarios. It covers all aspects of equipment and facilities, intelligent manufacturing, smart operation and maintenance, smart office, and related certifications, and provides employees and visitors with digital, full-scenario services and efficiency improvement strategies. Everyone in the park can feel the convenience brought by digital intelligence and the integration of digital and green in the low-carbon park from their own perspective.
The White Paper on Smart Industry of Digital Beauty was officially released
At the end of the press conference, Midea Group also released its business practice experience and thinking in the form of the "Digital Midea Smart Industry White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as the "White Paper") to contribute to the development of smart industry.
Relying on the precipitation of practical experience in digital intelligence, Midea will be guided by the white paper to inject the driving force for the transformation and upgrading of industrial and other physical industries, so as to promote the cost reduction and efficiency increase of enterprises, industrial integration and innovation, and green and sustainable macroeconomic development.
Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, highly recognized the content of the white paper, saying that the integration of digital technology and vertical industries is the core of the new industrial revolution and the connotation of the digital economy, and the development of the digital economy is a strategic choice to grasp the new opportunities of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. The White Paper on Smart Industry of Digital Midea systematically expounds Midea's practical experience, value creation and strategic thinking in empowering industrial digital transformation, answers the solutions to the challenges faced by the integration of data and reality, and provides a useful reference for promoting industrial digital transformation.
The data recognition ceremony of Midea's carbon footprint platform was grandly held
Under the dual guidance of the "leading technology" strategy and the "green strategy", Midea adheres to the concept of green design and is committed to comprehensively reducing the carbon emissions of the whole life cycle of products through the development of green advanced technologies and products. The carbon footprint platform developed by Midea can realize real-time collection, accounting, and integrated certification of carbon footprint data throughout the product life cycle. At present, the platform data has been recognized by a number of certification bodies. At the press conference, two authoritative institutions, China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute and TUV, issued a carbon footprint data recognition certificate to Midea, adding professional strength to calculate carbon footprint and achieve carbon neutrality, and providing professional support for further implementing the green concept and achieving green development.
With digitalization, intelligence, and greening as the core, Midea and its five business units made their first joint appearance and released a series of solutions of "Digital Midea Smart Industry", demonstrating the innovative achievements of breaking boundaries, realizing the use of cross-border technologies, and efficiently carrying out common technology research and development. The four major solutions are interconnected, providing customers in the industrial field with integrated solutions for collaboration and integration on demand, and fully controlling the operation of the solution. With the gradual expansion of the application of Midea's smart industrial solutions to the whole country and even the world, Midea is not only a hardware manufacturer, but also a pioneer of smart industry. Through clear strategies, intelligent thinking and its own strong advantages, Midea is opening a new chapter in the era of smart industry.