The robotic arms that run tirelessly back and forth on the track, and the automated guided vehicles (AGV) that move quickly and grab accurately are, to many people, things to be found in advanced manufacturing plants. However, a row of intelligent sewing vehicles that conscientiously implement the instructions of the MES system tell us that they are part of the digital production line of Huadu Shiling Hongchen Leather.

Intelligent production of luggage and leather goods was once considered to be a thorny and insurmountable mountain, full of obstacles that limit the digital transformation of the leather goods industry, such as soft materials, numerous types of materials, flexible and changeable technological processes. The traditional industries, as represented by the luggage and leather goods industry that is trapped in the "manual operation" and "family workshop" modes, have the most urgent demand for digital transformation and upgrading.

Embrace the digital age

Create a "Huadu model" of services for enterprise digital transformation

Promoting new type industrialization is a major strategic deployment made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core after overall consideration of the strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes of the world unseen in a century. Huadu District has been held back in digital transformation by many factors, including a weak foundation, lack of leaders of industrial chain, and SMEs, which are weak in technological innovation capabilities, do not want to, do not dare to, or do not know how to pursue transformation. After years of careful planning and design, Huadu digital service platform for new-type industrialization came to see the light of day, and brought revolutionary changes to the digital transformation model of the whole industrial chain in Huadu District.

Based on a unified data bus and a unified account system, the platform is a comprehensive service-oriented one with complete functions and processes, which can realize systematic collaboration of design, R&D, manufacturing, supply chain management, user service, and marketing operations, etc. Enterprises can rent at low prices the functional modules selected by themselves; this is a transformation from the traditional post-subsidy work into a new model in which "the government takes the lead in building the structure, and the enterprises rent it to promote transformation", and it has completely changed the scenario of "online food market" that was common to previous industrial Internet public platform.

The person in charge of the builder of the platform said: "The innovative mode of the platform can truly lower the 'threshold' of digitalization for small and medium-sized enterprises; so they can, quickly and at low cost, have a taste of the 'sweetness' of digitalization in quality and efficiency improvement and speed, and establish their 'confidence' in the transformation. We are trying to build a model of Huadu in practices of new-type industrialization to promote high-quality development of SEMS.”

Now technical experts of the platform are developing and updating ERP, MES, WMS and other systems at the site of the enterprise. The person in charge of Hongchen Leather Goods is full of confidence: "The use of robotic arms for efficient deployment and transportation of materials and products has greatly reduced the manpower input and error rate, and improved manufacturing efficiency. We estimate that the production efficiency can be increased by 18-25% after system optimization, which will significantly enhance the enterprise's market competitiveness! ” The next step of the platform is to apply AI technology in AI design pattern making, visual positioning of leather, precision cutting and other processes to further empower enterprise production.

On-site considerate service

The first industrial artificial intelligence center was put into operation

At Fenhao Fragrances company, formulators have said goodbye to their former repetitive work and are now focused on the final validation of formulations; the platform's AI model, which learns and is trained by a large amount of fragrance and formula data to automatically generate and predict the effects of different fragrance combinations, assists perfumers in formula optimization to greatly shorten the development cycle. The development and optimization of flavor formulations used to be time-consuming, laborious and costly. Now, with the help of large AI models, it is possible to quickly pick out formulations with the best potential, cut the development cycle from months or even years to weeks, and reduces the development cost by more than 50%.

In order to make up for the shortcomings of the industrial Internet public platforms that "emphasize construction and neglect operation", the Huadu Digital Service Center for New-type Industrialization has been put into operation, and the platform is used to offer SMEs with nanny-style personal services provided directly at the site. The platform has built an artificial intelligence computing power support system in Huadu District, providing a one-stop AI development platform, and 50P AI training and inference computing power, among others. The first batch of 20 industrial AI application scenarios that have been launched help the Center become the first city-level industrial artificial intelligence center in the country, and mark an important step down the road of exploration of empowering new industrialization with artificial intelligence.

Tian Hongchuan, Deputy Director of the Informatization and Industrialization Integration Research Institute at China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said: "Setting eyes on the actual choke points of the industry, and relying on cutting-edge technologies such as large models, Huadu Digital Service Center for New-type Industrialization builds a whole chain of basic technology tools and intelligent applications to provide driving force for the industrial transformation of Huadu District; it also sets an excellent example for the digital transformation of industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and even the whole country ; what is more, it is making substantial contribution to promoting artificial intelligence to empower new industrialization.”

"The application of AI large model not only increases efficiency, but also helps us discover new innovation points for fragrance combinations and formulas, create unique fragrance experiences, and seize market opportunities faster," said the head of Fenhao, "I hope that the platform's AI model can also help us gain insight into consumer needs and accurately grasp the fashion trends and the fragrance preference of consumers around the world. It would be even better if the AI model can make it possible for consumers to customize their own products according to their personal preferences and usage scenarios”

Wang Feng, Chief Strategy Officer of Huawei Cloud, said, "We will do our best to fulfill the expectations of enterprises.” The digital service platform for new-type industrialization in Huadu District is the first systematic attempt of Huawei's Pangu industrial model in the field of manufacturing on the basis of the dimension of industrial chain. Taking the opportunity arising from the cooperation in Huadu District's on digital service for new-type industrialization, Huawei Cloud hopes that the Pangu model will greatly improve the efficiency and bring innovative business models in every part of the full process, from R&D, and production, to supply, marketing, and service, and facilitate enterprises' quick transformation to digitalization and intelligence. ”

The successful practice of the Service Center fully demonstrates the excellent value and leading role of industrial Internet and artificial intelligence technology in helping the enterprises in digitally transform and upgrade and the industry in enhancement of competitiveness. In the future, the Service Center will continue to uphold the concepts of innovation-driven development and serving SMEs, continue to increase R&D investment, deepen innovation in artificial intelligence technology, and continue to contribute to the high-quality development of China's new industrialization.