At present, with the increasing pressure of internal and external environment and global competition, process industry enterprises are facing many challenges in the fields of production and management. For example, the energy consumption of factories is large, and the “double carbon” requirements are increasingly strict; The process is complex and difficult to optimize; It is difficult to recruit workers; Supply chain coordination difficulties; Massive accumulated data assets urgently need to be mined and applied, and a large number of information data islands cannot be broken through. The effectiveness and timeliness of business decisions need to be improved……

PXI-2533 Therefore, the traditional production, operation and management methods of enterprises need to undergo revolutionary changes, based on automation and digital transformation, to realize the transformation and upgrading from traditional factories to future smart factories, which has become the requirement of process industrial enterprises.

Based on deep industry insight and practice and product technology precipitation, Zhongcong Technology creatively proposed a new architecture of “1+2+N” smart factory to help enterprises achieve high-quality development goals of “safety, quality, low carbon and efficiency”. The architecture consists of a factory operating system, two automations (including production process automation PA and enterprise operations automation BA), and N industrial APPs, creating a clear and feasible path for building the smart factory of the future.

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New “1+2+N” smart factory architecture

The new architecture of “1+2+N” smart factory breaks the traditional Purdue Model architecture and revolutionizes the level standard of the factory, transforming the traditional multi-layer, layer by layer transmission of data and information into a flat, data interaction at the same level. At the same time, on this basis, more industrial APP applications will also be produced, which greatly accelerates the pace of enterprise intelligent development.

PXI-2533 The new “1+2+N” smart factory architecture deeply integrates data elements such as process, safety, environmental protection, equipment, production and operation, quality and operation management of process industrial enterprises, and runs through management decisions from millisecond and second level control to minute and hour level, helping process industrial enterprises to achieve independent operation and operational excellence in the whole life cycle. It has been applied and validated in more than 4,000 projects worldwide, providing a viable solution and a holistic blueprint for the digital transformation of enterprises.

Under the guidance of the new architecture of the “1+2+N” smart factory, the company has conducted an all-round exploration in the field of industrial AI, used the latest AI technology to restructure the company’s product technology, and made a series of major breakthroughs. The company will hold a launch event in Singapore in June, The world launched two blockbuster new products – the world’s first Universal Control System UCS (Universal Control System) and the process industry’s first AI timing model TPT (Time-Series Pre-trained Transformer), These two products are not only for the existing process industry automation, digital challenges, but also in the development trend of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to actively respond to and self-innovation.