＂5G+ Industrial Internet＂ expands the new blue ocean of industry
In recent years, Luxi County, Jiangxi Province has accelerated the development of 5G, Xinchuang, industrial Internet, new energy charging piles and other fields, built an industrial chain and built an industrial cluster, and guided the vigorous development of the county’s digital economy industry through policies. Photo by Wang Qiang (Zhongjing Vision)
In recent years, China has achieved global leadership in facilities, standards, technology and applications by promoting the "Sailing" action of 5G application and the "512 project of 5G+ Industrial Internet". According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, at present, there are 1.968 million 5G base stations and 3,100 "5G+ Industrial Internet" construction projects in China, and 31 provinces have issued policies related to 5G and Industrial Internet. The capital market pays more and more attention to the industrial Internet. In the first half of this year, the investment and financing amount of the industrial Internet ranked first in the Internet field, approaching 35%.
"At present, all conditions are very favorable to ‘ 5G+ Industrial Internet ’ To develop to a larger scale, a deeper level and a higher level, we must work hard and take advantage of the situation. " Zhang Yunming, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said.
Constructing new advantages of industrial development
"5G+ Industrial Internet" is one of the key paths and driving forces for China to accelerate the manufacturing industry to become better and stronger, which helps to realize the independent control of the industrial chain. "In June this year, the 5R17 version was frozen, marking the official completion of the second evolution version standard of 5G, and the low-latency and high-reliability 5G capability for industrial production control will be further improved. It is necessary to integrate 5G into the industrial core production control link and open up a new path for further consolidating the industrial base. " Zhang Yunming said.
Cao Shuguang, deputy director of the Institute of Technology and Standards of China Information and Communication Research Institute, believes that promoting the "5G+ Industrial Internet" will give full play to the standards, technologies and industrial advantages established by China in the 5G field. Guided by 5G, integrating new information and communication technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and empowering all aspects of industrial R&D design, manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, and operation and management, it is an innovative development road of industrial Internet that conforms to China’s national conditions and has China characteristics.
Developing "5G+ Industrial Internet" is also an important opportunity to expand the new blue ocean of information and communication industry. "The 5G experience rate is 10 times that of 4G, the connection density is 50 times that of 4G, and the air interface delay is one-fifth of 4 G. These technical characteristics determine that 5G will have huge application space in the industry." Zhang Yunming believes that especially in the industrial field, flexible, collaborative and remote scenarios are abundant and the demand is urgent. Deepening the development of "5G+ Industrial Internet" will not only promote industrial enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, improve quality and efficiency, but also open up new markets for information and communication enterprises outside the consumption field.
In this regard, Cao Shuguang said that China’s industrial categories are complete and the market scale is huge. Enterprises at all stages of development will create huge demand for 5G applications and guide the direction of technological innovation. For example, consumers mainly use the download function of 5G network, but in industrial scenes, they need to upload a large number of photos and videos to the cloud, which requires readjusting the ratio of 5G uplink and downlink bandwidth and innovating the technical path. When 5G enters the industrial field, the previous charging and supervision modes for the consumer market will be changed, which will force the basic telecom operators to transform and develop and formulate new business models as soon as possible.
"All in all, 5G provides enabling means and technology drivers for the industrial Internet, and promotes the sustained and in-depth development of the industrial Internet. The industrial Internet provides new demand and new space for the development of 5G, which is conducive to the re-innovation of 5G and the construction of new advantages in the second half of 5G development." Cao Shuguang said.
Fight hard the key core technologies.
After years of development, the "5G+ Industrial Internet" is at a critical stage connecting the preceding with the following, which has both persistent real problems and staged new topics. "We must face up to the practical difficulties and challenges, sum up successful experiences and effective practices, unify the present, development and future, and create ‘ 5G+ Industrial Internet ’ Develop a new situation. " Zhang Yunming said.
"Since the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released" ‘ 5G+ Industrial Internet ’ Since the "512 Project Promotion Plan", all parties in the industry have actively explored and cultivated 10 key industries and 20 typical scenarios in a short period of time, and achieved gratifying results from scratch. " Cao Shuguang told reporters that there are many outstanding problems in the process of promoting the development of "5G+ Industrial Internet": On the one hand, different industries have different requirements for chip functions, and market fragmentation is serious, which requires customizing 5G chip modules according to specific industrial scenarios, which is costly, especially lacking low-latency and high-reliability 5G chips; On the other hand, industrial production must be systematically transformed, and the effect of adding 5G modules to some equipment or links is not obvious. At present, the complete solution has yet to be broken.
To this end, Zhang Yunming suggested that we should persist in taking innovation as the first driving force to lead development, concentrate on tackling key core technologies, carry out joint research on core components, software and hardware equipment, fill in the shortcomings of the supply chain of the industrial chain, and enhance the ability of independent control. Fully mobilize the enthusiasm of industrial, communications, equipment and other enterprises, as well as industrial organizations and research institutes, give full play to the advantages of all parties, deepen cooperation in technology, construction, application and standards, and continuously strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout and overall promotion.
Experts believe that in order to create a good policy environment for the development of "5G+ Industrial Internet", the policy formulation at the ministerial level should fully absorb local good experiences and good practices, and the localities should follow up in time, strengthen the policy convergence with relevant departments, and coordinate development according to local conditions. It is understood that Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangsu and other places are actively exploring the construction of the "5G+ Industrial Internet" integrated application pilot zone. Taking Zhejiang as an example, the local government has made an overall arrangement of "industrial brain+future factory", increased policy support, improved the promotion mechanism, and strengthened financial guarantee. A number of typical practices of "5G+ industrial Internet" have emerged in textile, petrochemical, home appliances, automobiles, ports and other industries, which have achieved remarkable results in improving quality, reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and new kinetic energy has become increasingly strong.
"We should give full play to the role of the government, constantly enrich the policy toolbox, and stimulate the development of various market players through comprehensive means such as strengthening guidance, piloting first, demonstration and promotion ‘ 5G+ Industrial Internet ’ The vitality and motivation. " Zhang Yunming said.
Accelerate the construction of 5G fully connected factories
Experts in the industry believe that it is necessary to lead the development of "5G+ Industrial Internet" to a new level by building a 5G fully connected factory, from "connecting 5G in counties" to "using 5G in factories", further promoting investment, stimulating consumption, smoothing circulation and promoting transformation.
To this end, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued the "Guide to the Construction of 5G Fully Connected Factories", proposing that during the "14 th Five-Year Plan" period, it will mainly target manufacturing industries such as raw materials, equipment, consumer goods, electronics, and key industries such as mining, ports, and electricity, and promote the construction of 5G fully connected factories by 10,000 enterprises, build 1,000 classified and distinctive factories, and build 100 benchmark factories to promote the in-depth development of 5G convergence applications.
"The demonstration role of benchmarking factory is to establish a low-cost and reproducible construction template in combination with the actual situation of typical enterprises in specific industries." Cao Shuguang introduced that benchmarking enterprises should try first in building networks, networking, using networks and protecting networks. The "network" here refers not only to 5G networks, but also to a new generation of network information technologies represented by 5G, including artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and edge computing.
Specifically, enterprises should speed up the construction of new network facilities such as 5G networks, time-sensitive networks and edge computing, and complete interconnection with existing industrial networks. Network transformation of industrial stand-alone system and "dumb terminal" will fully activate the industrial data of each link and equipment to maximize the value. Build a classified safety protection system for industrial Internet, build the safety supervision ability of "5G+ industrial Internet", and improve the safety management level of 5G fully connected factories.
At present, the "5G+ Industrial Internet" mainly focuses on the application of typical scenes. How to make a breakthrough from single-point application to comprehensive coverage? The Guide clarifies the path for enterprises to build a 5G fully connected factory: classification and grading construction, and accelerating the promotion of key industries. Cao Shuguang introduced that horizontally, considering the differences in technical characteristics, industrial status and transformation needs of various industries, we should focus on key industries and fields such as electronic equipment manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, steel and electric power, take the lead in promoting the construction of 5G fully connected factories, and encourage enterprises with high automation level and good digital and network foundation to accelerate exploration and practice.
Vertically, enterprises can choose to implement the construction of 5G fully connected factories at production lines, workshops and factories according to their actual needs. Among them, the production line level focuses on capacity building in single production link, equipment connection of business units, data acquisition and 5G integration application innovation; Workshop-level focuses on capacity building such as collaborative production between multi-production lines, data access, and improvement of integrated innovation level; Factory-level emphasizes cross-workshop and cross-level interconnection, and comprehensively improves production, operation and management capabilities.
Building a 5G fully connected factory requires a good industrial ecology as a support. "Basic telecommunications enterprises should speed up the exploration of diversified business models, better meet the needs of network construction in the industrial field, and accelerate the improvement of comprehensive service capabilities; Industry enterprises should proceed from the needs of safe production, flexible production and collaborative production, deepen cooperation with basic telecommunications enterprises, and build a distinctive 5G fully connected factory by means of new construction or transformation; Enterprises related to the industrial chain, including equipment manufacturing enterprises, component enterprises, software and Internet enterprises, should give full play to their own advantages, actively participate in ecological construction, provide software and hardware products and services for the construction of 5G fully connected factories, and reduce application costs. " Zhang Yunming said.