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On June 4, Getech Dongzhi, a tech company incubated by leading manufacturer TCL Group and focused on industrial internet innovation, launched the industry's first Dongzhi Industrial Application Intelligent Platform targeting production sites. Guests including TCL Group founder and chairman Li Dongsheng, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology deputy chief engineer Xu Heyuan, and TCL China Star Optoelectronics senior vice president Chen Shengzhong attended the launch event and delivered speeches.

Leveraging the built-in AI algorithms and industrial big data models of the Dongzhi platform, experienced production engineers can use visual programming tools for low-code or even no-code development, quickly creating logic models and industrial applications for various production scenarios, thereby softwareizing and reusing industrial knowledge and experience. Unlike other industrial internet platforms, Dongzhi's main goal is to truly implement industrial internet within enterprises through internal factory forces, relying on the company's own new-generation on-site production engineers. The platform explores how to help companies cultivate future-oriented IT-OT integrated new-generation "industrial geeks" to provide deeply insightful and practically applicable industry solutions for their enterprises.

Getech Dongzhi believes that the implementation of industrial internet is essentially a complete evolution process for factories. The evolution of people, tools, and factory management are crucial factors for achieving smart manufacturing. Currently, the top-level design of industrial internet platforms is complete, entering a critical window for application. However, the complex nature of manufacturing and diverse industry characteristics demand highly customized industrial applications, which existing relatively universal industrial internet platforms struggle to meet. This has led to a situation where supply is hot but demand is cold.

As a practitioner of smart manufacturing in China, TCL Group chairman Li Dongsheng discussed the初衷 of building an industrial internet platform. Four years ago, based on basic management needs, TCL used network technology to connect equipment and built the industry's first comprehensive industrial internet solution at TCL China Star Optoelectronics, one of China's earliest industrial internet platforms. Getech Dongzhi was formed by integrating TCL's industrial internet teams across various industries. The newly launched platform will extend TCL's manufacturing experience and capabilities to general enterprises, applying smart and data technologies on-site to help companies enter the industrial internet era. TCL has identified industrial internet and smart manufacturing as one of its three key investment and development areas.

In his keynote speech, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology deputy chief engineer Xu Heyuan noted that as industrial internet platform construction and application mature, innovative platforms deeply integrated with industrial elements are the current mainstream trend, giving rise to emerging hotspots like industrial protocol conversion, industrial mechanism models, digital twins, and low-code industrial APP development, which will promote more complete platform construction and推广.

Data + Model = Service is the essence of industrial internet platforms. However, currently, 80% of enterprises face data scarcity, with industrial sites still "black-boxed"—e.g., production status uncontrollable, order progress unmonitored, quality issues untraceable, equipment management reliant on manual checks. Even leading manufacturers store vast amounts of data during IoT and operations, yet data value remains untapped and monetization difficult. A key reason is the disconnect between IT and OT in organization, technical systems, and project management, increasing the周期 and implementation risks of smart manufacturing projects.

With manufacturing's high信息化 development, production engineers at the IT-OT fusion front have industry insights and understand factory pain points, making them indispensable for突破 industrial internet implementation bottlenecks. Thus, the Dongzhi platform targets production sites, lowering the barrier to applying IoT and AI technologies. It focuses on the production floor, using built-in basic computing models and industry mechanism models to enable production engineering teams to independently convert their unique experiences and industrial knowledge into reusable industrial models. These models can be rapidly developed, tested, deployed, validated, and iterated on the platform, achieving integrated development and operation of industrial applications.

Getech Dongzhi believes that meeting the self-service needs of on-site production personnel is the core capability of an industrial internet platform. Currently, the platform's graphical programming environment and drag-and-drop operations allow production staff to easily use various big data algorithms and built-in industrial models, significantly reducing modeling learning costs and workload.

As one of the first beneficiaries, TCL China Star Optoelectronics senior vice president Chen Shengzhong stated: "TCL China Star has been running fully automated at full capacity for over 8 years, moving from局部优化 to全局优化. Using the Getech Dongzhi platform's big data module, we optimized production costs through IoT big data collection and analysis modeling, reducing modification costs by 20%, quality anomalies by 10%, and achieving a 6-8x return on investment over three years."

Getech Dongzhi CEO He Jun said: "The Industrial Application Intelligent Platform is a toolkit for frontline personnel, a data wall for on-site management, and a cockpit for factory management. The toolkit allows industrial geeks to develop applications freely; the data wall and cockpit help managers evolve and enhance management, providing comprehensive factory data visibility and responsive control."

To打通 the path to industrial data value monetization, the Dongzhi platform's technical strengths lie in: core capability as an industrial application APaaS, rooted in data acquisition from industrial sites, and supporting new-generation industrial application development.

The evolution from traditional workshop supervisors to modern industrial geeks, from IT-exclusive development to empowering on-site production engineers with self-service development, from经验管理 to visual data-driven management—tool revolution drives management leap. Smart manufacturing arrives澎湃 with technological iteration and evolution, full of opportunities and value.