Recently, Shanghai Whale Cloud Fengze Intelligent Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Whale Cloud Intelligence”) completed tens of millions of yuan Pre-A round of financing, led by Yuan He origin investment, Qianrong Venture Capital investment. The funds raised will be used to continuously optimize the core product “Whale Cloud OS Industrial brain”, as well as the research and development of industrial AI products focusing on the application of subdivision process scenarios.

Industrial AI is an important trend in the development of the current manufacturing industry, through the integration of technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, to achieve the construction of smart factories, improve automation, predictive maintenance and self-optimization of process improvement. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the scale of China’s industrial Internet core industry will reach 1.35 trillion yuan in 2023.

Founded in 2022, Whale Cloud Intelligence is an industrial brain and manufacturing digital transformation service provider concerned by 36KR for a long time, focusing on industrial Internet PaaS platform technology research and industrial AI product development. The company’s core products are Whale Cloud OS industrial brain, Whale Cloud IIOT iot platform, Whale Cloud MOM manufacturing and operation platform, which can provide overall solutions for industrial digital transformation for automotive, semiconductor, heavy industry, machining and other industries.

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Founder Zhao Yu told 36kR that Whale Cloud Intelligence divides industrial digitalization into L1, L2 and L3 three stages of development.

L1 stage is the development stage of tool software. The main task of this stage is to solidify the traditional offline operation process and management methodology on software, provide customers with various instrumental software, constantly refine the granularity of enterprise management, and initially realize the use of software to assist managers to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve quality.

L2 is the industrial AI stage. Unlike the L1 stage, the industrial AI stage is faced with a more complex methodology – the industrial mechanism model. It is necessary to simulate the impact and correlation analysis of multiple dimensional data in product quality, production efficiency and production process, so as to achieve fully mapped control. “This is the time to solve the fundamental pain points of the customer.”

He further stated that Whale Cloud intelligence is currently in a transition phase from L1 to L2. The “Whale Cloud OS” digital base is a platform-level application that allows all kinds of enterprise systems to be managed in a unified way on a single platform and continuously precipitate and analyze valuable data.

At present, in the process of serving large customers in the field of new energy vehicles and auto parts, Whale Cloud Intelligence has formed a number of scenario-based AI applications in the subdivision production process scenarios such as injection molding and metal processing.

IC693APU301 L3 is the full automation of productivity, that is, the integration of automation, digitalization and intelligence. With the complete integration of digital and automated production lines, as well as the popularization of humanoid robots in the industry, in the future, humans themselves will no longer be part of the production factors, and human intelligence and physical strength will be completely independent through industrial software, robots, and intelligent agent decision-making systems to build fully automated productivity.

Next, with the iteration of technical capabilities, Whale Cloud Intelligence aims to successfully transition to L2 until L3 is achieved. The person in charge said: “We will continue to take the ‘generative industrial intelligent system’ as the product vision, build the industry AI product matrix, and gradually build the industrial intelligent system to prepare for the birth of the next generation of industrial productivity.”

The investor said: “Technology is crucial to the development of the industry. The technical strength and market application ability of Whale Cloud intelligence meet the investment standards. We value Whale Cloud Intelligence’s deep work in the field of industrial digital technology and believe that it has the potential to become an industry leader. We hope to grow together with Whale Cloud Intelligence, continue to maintain the leadership and market acumen in digital base and AI innovative application technology, and continue to introduce new products and services that meet the market demand.”