Recently, AVEVA, the global engineering and industrial software leader, held the 2022 AVEVA PI System China User Conference in Suzhou. The theme of this conference is: Stimulate industrial creativity, plus “number” forward. Industry experts from the energy, power, pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing, electronic technology, food and other industries discussed how to activate the potential of data, precise policies, and jointly build digital industrial innovation.

Wan Shiping, general manager of AVEVA China, said: “China is building a digital economy with data as a key element. Data has become an indispensable source of information and decision-making basis for strategy, production and daily operations in all walks of life. In addressing the challenges of the digital and low-carbon transition, industry needs to cover the full life cycle of solutions from top-level planning to implementation, with visible data resources to move in a more predictable and intelligent direction. AVEVA PI System China User Conference provides a good platform for the industrial ecosystem to discuss the importance of data as a new factor of production, how data can promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, and the competitive advantages contained in data. More importantly, these experiences and practices are reusable, and enterprises can learn from and develop solutions in combination with their own needs to empower, value and empower the high-quality development of the industry. ”

Software definition drives new changes in the real economy

According to China’s “14th Five-Year Plan” for the Development of Digital Economy, digital economy is the main economic form after agricultural economy and industrial economy, with data resources as the key element. For most industries, the digital transformation of physical enterprises has become an inevitable trend. How to carry out digital transformation and promote the transformation of the real economy is an issue that enterprises should carefully consider.

Yang Wenhua, director of the Smart Factory Promotion Office of Hubei Sanning Chemical Co., LTD., and members of the project team said that the asset-heavy industry such as chemical industry needs to introduce mature industrial software, carry out “data-based” fine management, and adapt to the new development pattern. The company breaks the constraints of traditional chemical production models and is committed to building smart factories. With the AVEVA PI System, Sanning Chemical has consolidated the foundation for the construction of smart factories and realized the data interconnection between the intelligent management and operation platform and the intelligent production control platform.

Zhang Yu, head of continuous improvement of Cargill Starch sugar and thickening Stabilizer operations in China, said that with the development of digital intelligence technology and the deep popularization of software applications, digitalization and big data promote the connection between food production and consumption, and the development of food production has entered a new stage of iterative upgrading. Taking energy management as an example, Cargill uses a big data platform to help companies quickly identify gaps in energy use, set priorities, and make targeted improvements.

Data empowerment to build digital industrial innovation

AVEVA believes that unifying data into a digital thread across the value chain can catalyse industrial transformation, drive industrial intelligence and innovation, and empower companies to better navigate challenging market environments.

Gu Yue, Vice president of Schneider Electric and head of Global Marketing in China, pointed out that the concept of “green intelligent manufacturing” enabled by digital can help enterprises meet future challenges and achieve sustainable development. Know yourself and know the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat. Digging deeply into the enterprise’s own data resources to maximize the value of data is an inexhaustible driving force for digital technology to take root in the entity, accelerate the improvement of quality and efficiency of industrial enterprises, and achieve green transformation.

Now, the digital economy has become a new driving force, and data has become an important asset. The mining of data value will become the new core competitiveness of enterprises. But only 32% of industrial data is currently used; 68% of the data is not available to the people who need it at the right time to mine and use it. Industrial enterprises can use AVEVA PI System to build a core operational data platform to achieve data availability, visibility, controllability and availability, and enhance endogenous creativity. As an enabler and enabler of digital transformation, AVEVA believes that human initiative plays a decisive role in achieving industrial innovation. Only when data, software or other digital technologies are combined with human insight and initiative can industrial creativity be truly stimulated. AVEVA will continue to collaborate with ecosystem partners to innovate and move forward with “number”.

Other speakers include SDIC Yunding Meizhou Bay Power Co., Ltd. production technology Department specialist/technician Tang Anhu; Zhang Bozhi, Deputy General Manager of Information Technology Department of EDF (Beijing) Investment Co., LTD.; Xie Huifeng, Process Data Analysis Software Consultant, Merck Life Sciences China; Congratulations from the information system engineer of Air Liquide (China) Investment Co., LTD. Zhou Kang, Senior Business Development Manager, Asia Pacific, Cytiva; And Cui Jingyi, general manager of AVEVA China Operations Products Business unit.

This is the first AVEVA PI System user conference held in China since AVEVA acquired OSIsoft, and has received strong support from ecosystem partners. The strategic partner of the conference is Schneider Electric; Gold medal partners include Taiji Computer Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhongruitai Technology Co., LTD. Silver partners include Wuhan Renaphthalene Technology Co., LTD., Beijing Ruitai Smart Link Technology Co., LTD., Nanjing Jansi Digital Technology Co., LTD., and Stratus Fault-Tolerant Technology Co., LTD. Bronze partners include Shanghai Bluebird Electromechanical Co., LTD., Shandong Yingwei Electronic Technology Co., LTD., and Wenxin Information System Co., LTD.