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In TCL CSOT's production workshops, flexible and precise robotic arms and precision equipment, along with high-speed intelligent production machinery, operate in ultra-clean dust-free environments with almost no workers in sight... This high level of automation showcases TCL's innovation and transformation in modern manufacturing.

In the digital era, TCL CSOT deeply recognizes the importance of digital transformation. TCL CSOT partnered with GETECH to jointly develop four integrated platforms for systematic and structured management of cost, yield, efficiency, and energy, completing the smart manufacturing transformation. Furthermore, it drives five major business transformations centered on IPD, LTC, IFS,ISC, and smart manufacturing, promoting TCL CSOT's comprehensive digital development.

So, what is TCL CSOT's digital transformation strategy? How does GETECH empower TCL CSOT's digital transformation?

TCL CSOT:

Empowering the Panel Display Industry with "Smart Manufacturing"

In 2024, as TCL CSOT celebrates its 15th anniversary, as one of the world's leading semiconductor display companies, it has established bases in Shenzhen, Wuhan, Huizhou, Suzhou, Guangzhou, India, and others, deploying 11 panel production lines and 5 module bases with an investment exceeding 260 billion yuan.

"Now, when people talk about operations and management, they learn from Huawei; in the future, when they talk about Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, they will learn from TCL CSOT. This is our vision and goal!" said SHE Bihai, Head of TCL CSOT's Digital Transformation Center. He stated that TCL CSOT's current level of intelligence is already high, and further integration of smart management, knowledge, and concepts will enable continuous improvement and elevation. TCL CSOT has significant advantages in leading Industry 4.0.

"On one hand, with the substantial increase in the number of factories, product diversity, and customers and suppliers, the difficulty of end-to-end operational management faces challenges; on the other hand, the panel display industry is highly competitive, with severe overcapacity." SHE Bihai pointed out in an interview with Communications Industry News & Industrial Internet World that reducing costs and improving efficiency place high demands on TCL CSOT. The main task of smart manufacturing is digitalization—streamlining existing isolated and complex workflows, implementing them through systems, integrating business processes, and enhancing automation and labor efficiency, but this is relatively basic. Longer-term, higher-level intelligence involves breaking through new technologies to achieve artificial intelligence.

As a global leading panel manufacturer, TCL CSOT continuously advances smart manufacturing upgrades, organically combining artificial intelligence with industrial IoT applications to optimize production lines and build smarter, deeper intelligent factories. Driven by actual business scenarios, TCL CSOT focuses on technological research and application, prioritizing core needs such as quality improvement, cost reduction, and efficiency enhancement. It is committed to building an industrial internet platform, quickly realizing intelligent working environments and smart parks, and steadfastly promoting the company's digital transformation.

TCL CSOT actively promotes the digital transformation of the industrial chain. By introducing the MES system (Manufacturing Execution System), it achieves real-time dynamic monitoring and management of production lines, processes, production materials, capacity, and other information, greatly improving production efficiency and product quality. Additionally, it established the T-work "Production Dispatch Center," integrating innovative business operations with MES, comprehensively monitoring the production process, coordinating the allocation of production resources, tracking production progress in real time, and enabling intelligent adjustment of production plans. Through these measures, TCL CSOT not only enhances its own production efficiency and product quality but also successfully breaks the upstream film material monopoly by Japan and South Korea, achieving stable domestic mass production with the monthly average yield increasing from 85% to 95%. Furthermore, TCL CSOT's digital practices extend beyond itself by introducing industrial chain enterprises to help improve the management efficiency of the entire industry and drive the high-quality development of the new display industrial chain.

TCL CSOT actively deploys next-generation display technologies such as Mini LED, Micro LED, flexible OLED, and printed OLED. Its products cover large, medium, and small-sized panels, touch modules, electronic whiteboards, video walls, automotive displays, gaming monitors, and other high-end display applications, building core competitiveness in the global panel industry.

GETECH:

An Empowerment Partner for Digital Transformation

To accelerate enterprise digital transformation, SHE Bihai stated that TCL CSOT collaborates with GETECH to delve into data management, using enterprise data asset management as a leverage. Through platform tools, a series of management measures are internalized to ensure data assets are "visible, manageable, trustworthy, and usable," enabling the release of enterprise data value and supporting TCL CSOT's strategic goal of "business dataization, data assetization, asset applicationization, and application valueization."

Currently, the data asset management platform has become TCL CSOT's data management portal. Business departments can access the company's global data assets through the data asset catalog, quickly and efficiently obtain target data via a convenient data application entry, while the platform provides fine-grained permission control capabilities, ensuring data applications are secure and controllable. This largely resolves the past difficulties of "difficulty in finding data and using data" for business departments, effectively supporting numerous business analyses and enterprise management decisions, truly realizing the transformation of business data value.

GETECH is an independent technology company strategically incubated by TCL Group six years ago. With a strong manufacturing foundation, the company started with a high focus—dedicated to R&D innovation in core industrial software for semiconductor production. Simultaneously, through underlying technologies such as the industrial AI platform and industrial large model platform, combined with industry know-how accumulation and indispensable field implementation validation, GETECH's smart factory solutions, supported by the three pillars of "AI + industrial software + smart equipment," provide customers with a full lifecycle digital product matrix and end-to-end services.

It is worth mentioning that AI, as a baseline capability, permeates various applications and scenarios in TCL CSOT's smart factories, facilitating deep integration of software and hardware, meeting the multi-scenario, full-process smart manufacturing needs of intelligent factories, and driving the digital transformation of manufacturing. GETECH focuses on penetrating services into the pan-semiconductor industry, using AI as a foundation to achieve intelligent upgrades across the entire industrial chain, continuously creating industry benchmark cases, and leading industry innovation and development.

According to SHE Bihai, GETECH's smart factory solutions empower TCL CSOT to achieve a series of innovative applications.

First, the Dongzhi Industrial Application Intelligent Platform. This platform is independently developed by GETECH, featuring flexible foundational capabilities, powerful industrial field data collection and processing, flexible and autonomous industrial model building, a what-you-see-is-what-you-get configurable application design tool, and built-in rich industrial data visualization and analysis capabilities.

Second, the AI Industrial Visual Inspection System (ADC System). This application uses AI deep learning algorithms across three modules—training platform, inference platform, and resource scheduling platform—to enable autonomous learning and modeling of algorithm models, automatically detecting, classifying, and handling defects in the production process, and identifying abnormal concentrations and causes. It is the "Quality Inspection Master" prominently featured on CCTV's "Made in China." After deployment at TCL CSOT, through continuous technological iteration, it formed TCL's independent technical capability, improving accuracy from 85% to 95%, saving 12 times the manpower, increasing inspection efficiency per batch by over 5 times, and saving 50 million+ annually. It demonstrates cutting-edge technological innovation strength, leads intelligent manufacturing upgrades, and sets a new benchmark for sustainable development.

Third, the three pillars of "AI + Industrial Software + Smart Equipment." Among semiconductor manufacturers, most equipment is imported from Japan, South Korea, and Europe, and these devices do not open API interfaces to domestic companies. GETECH innovatively uses AI to link with RPA, simulating human operation of control computers through RPA. GETECH achieves a full AI closed loop of sensing, knowing, and acting through AI + RPA innovation, completely liberating "humans." GETECH carries out technological innovation around the three pillars,重构ing industrial software through cloud-native and microservices architecture; using AI to shorten the learning curve for frontline engineers and reduce system integration development costs; and基于 AI to accelerate cross-system integration and data analysis between设备嵌入式 systems, closely combining industrial software development capabilities with data intelligence from the self-developed stage. Currently, GETECH has deeply integrated AI technology with dozens of self-developed industrial software and smart devices, accelerating intelligent upgrades. It has also self-developed a data platform,沉淀ing tens of thousands of industrial models to achieve faster and more efficient data processing and data service capabilities.

Currently, through GETECH, TCL CSOT also provides digital solution services to various industries across society, helping them achieve operational变革 and efficiency improvement. New display enterprises, by using these digital systems, achieve real-time dynamic monitoring and management of production lines, processes, production materials, capacity, and other information, better coordinate resource allocation, achieve lean production, and reduce operational costs. Ultimately, through data analysis and full-process traceability, enterprises can more scientifically optimize product design and production processes, comprehensively enhancing product quality and market competitiveness.

Accelerating Enterprise Digital Intelligence Transformation

In the past, traditional manufacturing faced many challenges in data utilization and value挖掘. For example, large amounts of data generated随时随地 in factories could not be obtained timely, daily business analysis relied entirely on offline manual processing, and management depended on personal experience or惯性. To break through, the digital transformation of the industrial manufacturing sector is imperative.

The road ahead is long and arduous, I will search high and low—digital transformation is not an overnight matter. Looking ahead, TCL CSOT's digital goals will continue to focus on per capita efficiency and operational efficiency. Additionally, TCL CSOT will continuously embrace challenges, maintain efficiency leadership; accelerate product and technology development to further enhance product competitiveness; adjust product structure, strengthen collaboration with customers for mutual benefit; and achieve the leap from "efficiency leadership—product leadership—technology leadership—ecosystem leadership."

With advancements in computing power, increased data availability, and algorithm innovation in the AI era, under the acceleration of China's new industrialization process, GETECH will continue to innovate in the journey of "Industrial AI," further refining AI engineering implementation capabilities, leading innovation through core technologies, continuously building new industrial ecosystems, assisting advanced manufacturing enterprises in sustained high-quality development, and persistently supporting industrial digital transformation and upgrading.