Smart Collaboration and Innovative Future | H3C Partners with BOE to Create a Model Practice of Smart Manufacturing

With the coming of the Industry 4.0 era, the integration of digital innovation and manufacturing assembly lines becomes deeper and deeper. The smarter manufacturing process not only enhances the efficiency of the whole industry but also forces enterprises to transform deeper into smart manufacturing to avoid being eliminated by the times.

BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "BOE") is a global innovative IoT enterprise. BOE has been working to advance business growth by focusing on customized production methods, shorter production cycles, and higher standards for product quality. Beijing Zhongxiangying Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongxiangying"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of BOE, works closely with H3C Group, a subsidiary of Unigroup. Both parties are committed to combining "automation, information, and intelligence" to achieve the goals of improving quality and efficiency, reducing cost and inventory, establishing an ecology, and implementing model innovation with the premise of standardized manufacturing and operation management.

Automation: an effective channel to reduce cost and increase efficiency

In BOE, automation is the starting point of the transformation to smart manufacturing. The core objective is to improve efficiency and achieve more extensive and automated data collection. In this way, the product yield rates can be increased and the production losses can be reduced. The automated welding machine of BOE is deployed with a built-in data collection and analysis system that enables deep data mining. The extensive application of automated optical inspection devices has greatly increased the precision of fault identification.

Automated product warehouses and material warehouses

Informatization: the foundation base of smart transformation

On the basis of automation, BOE has completed the transformation and upgrade of many factory production lines by holding the informationization concept of "Simple Front End, Integrated Middle Platform". Based on the artificial intelligence information platform, BOE has accomplished dramatic breakthroughs in terms of digital manufacturing, marketing, management, and service. In addition, BOE offers adaptable and effective cloud resources, a platform for service-oriented applications, a unified data store, and an easy global communication system for smart manufacturing. In this way, an information architecture with zero distance, zero inventory, zero bad debt, and zero leakage is built to shape the IoT system and create a digital and visualized BOE. Take data collection as an example. The sensor application, PC log data reading, PLC data collection, and other technical means can be used to upload data related to the quality of Man, Machine, Material, Method, and Environment. By modeling the data analysis, the control is continuously improved to enable smart quality control and lay the foundation for future data applications to guarantee quality stability.

Data collection case diagram

Intelligence: a key component of smart manufacturing

On the basis of comprehensive digital transformation, the convergence of vast data lays a foundation for the smart transformation and upgrade of BOE. BOE has created an industrial big data platform that collects, processes, and analyzes system data on the display panels of the whole factory and also extracts information. Based on this, the platform can provide the IT environment and technology required for smart services. In addition, the big data platform is widely used in analysis, prediction, and other scenarios to enhance the production capacity of the local factories and innovate business. With the effective integration of data, algorithms, and computing capabilities, the platform has greatly enhanced BOE's progress towards intelligence.

A number of application deployments in smart reconstruction have provided BOE with irreplaceable innovative values. For instance, BOE has developed a system for automatically identifying defects based on visual AI technology and deep learning algorithms. This system has significantly increased product yield rates for BOE.

BOE and H3C collaborate to accelerate the innovation of smart manufacturing

Currently, BOE has built digital platforms such as smart checking on work attendance, visitor management, smart meeting, mobile office, and smart factories such as production schedules, warehouses, and smart analysis. Behind BOE's transformation to smart manufacturing, H3C Group provides a comprehensive range of digital infrastructure for the transformation and upgrade of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and becomes a larger Information and Communications Technology (ICT) device provider for the entire system of BOE. For instance, in the planning and deployment of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) system, H3C delivered to BOE a comprehensive variety of products including four-way and two-way servers, high-performance storage 3PAR, backup MSL tape library, and FC SAN switches to provide a stable and reliable operating base for the entire CIM system.

In the process of transformation and upgrades from a large manufacturing country to a strong smart manufacturing country, BOE and H3C Group have joined hands to provide a practical example for the transformation and upgrades of the manufacturing industry. In the future, H3C and BOE will continue to expand their exploration and collaboration efforts in the manufacturing field and work together to lead the manufacturing industry to a new stage of digitalization and intelligence driven by the "new infrastructure".