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At this year's Two Sessions, the Industrial Internet and smart manufacturing once again became hot topics. The government work report repeatedly emphasized the profound significance of smart manufacturing. On this occasion, media outlets such as China Electronics News and Sina Finance reported on how China's leading comprehensive industrial internet platform—GETECH—is leveraging digital intelligence to accelerate the upgrade and transformation of the manufacturing industry.

Smart manufacturing represents the main direction for high-quality development in manufacturing. The 14th Five-Year Plan outline proposes the in-depth implementation of smart manufacturing projects, and this year's government work report explicitly calls for "vigorously promoting smart manufacturing and accelerating the development of advanced manufacturing clusters." During the recent Two Sessions, many representatives offered suggestions on smart manufacturing, such as promoting open source, fostering industrial chains, and accelerating integration with various industries.
Smart manufacturing integrates next-generation information technology with advanced manufacturing technology, covering all aspects of manufacturing activities including design, production, management, and service. As a key focus in building a strong manufacturing nation, its development level directly impacts the quality of China's manufacturing industry and plays a crucial role in consolidating the real economy, building a modern industrial system, and achieving new industrialization.

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New Era, New Mission

"14th Five-Year Plan for Smart Manufacturing Development"

At the end of last year, eight departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission jointly released the "14th Five-Year Plan for Smart Manufacturing Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan").
The Plan outlines four main tasks for promoting smart manufacturing during the 14th Five-Year Plan period: first, accelerating system innovation to enhance integrated development momentum; second, deepening application to open new paths for transformation and upgrade; third, strengthening independent supply to expand new advantages in the industrial system; and finally, consolidating foundational support to build new safeguards for smart manufacturing.
Over the past decade, through collaborative innovation among industry, academia, research, and application, demonstration by industry enterprises, and coordinated central-local efforts, China's smart manufacturing has made significant progress, with continuously improving supply capabilities, gradually完善 supporting systems, and notable results in application推广, laying a solid foundation for further promoting system innovation and deepening application. Smart manufacturing is key to transforming China's manufacturing from large to strong; the Industrial Internet is the key to opening a new chapter in smart manufacturing. With the joint release of the Plan, "developing the Industrial Internet and promoting smart manufacturing" has once again become a热门 trend.

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GETECH

Industrial Internet Platform Making Industry Smarter

Established in 2018, GETECH, as an industrial internet platform company strategically incubated by TCL based on industrial vision, closely follows the path安排 for smart manufacturing development ecology in the Plan. With the mission of "providing independent and controllable industrial internet platforms and industrial software solutions for the transformation, upgrade, and high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry," it focuses on industrial internet innovation and has become a leading comprehensive industrial internet platform company in China.
As a pioneer in accelerating China's manufacturing leap towards smart manufacturing, GETECH insists on market and business orientation, accelerating market application and promotion. Since its establishment, GETECH has focused on two aspects—"internal empowerment and external output." The former aims to support TCL in becoming a world-class digital enterprise group, while the latter emphasizes repeatedly iterating the company's digital capabilities internally and replicating and promoting them to enterprises of different industries and sizes, creating thousands of smart manufacturing applications across the country to play a leading and driving role.
The technological foundation supporting these smart manufacturing factories is the independently developed industrial internet platform by GETECH—the Dongzhi Industrial Application Intelligence Platform. The platform adopts an "on-site production-oriented" R&D direction for industrial internet platforms, deeply integrating cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud computing. This platform was沉淀 and accumulated by TCL GETECH during its internal support for TCL (Group)'s digital transformation. Based on this platform, GETECH has developed diverse industrial applications around customer needs for equipment optimization, quality improvement, and energy consumption reduction, such as equipment health management, the Tianshu AI visual inspection system, and MFA multi-factor analysis. GETECH adheres to the "platform + software" development positioning, establishing a basic, universal, and standardized platform foundation while providing platform + software solutions.

GETECH actively promotes industry development and has repeatedly received recognition from the government and industry. In 2021, it was recognized as a national characteristic professional industrial internet platform, Guangdong Provincial Industrial Low-Code Platform Engineering Technology Research Center, MIIT national AI characteristic professional industrial internet platform, and ranked among the top 15 in IDC China Industrial Internet Platform Service Provider Evaluation Report. In 2020, it won the second prize in the China Industrial Internet Competition, champion in the China (Tianjin) Industrial APP Innovation Application Competition, became a vice chairman unit of the Industrial Internet Industry Alliance (AII), and a member of the SEMI China Smart Manufacturing Committee. It has also won the MIIT "Excellent Industrial Internet APP Solution" honor for multiple consecutive years and the MIIT "Industrial Internet Platform Innovation Leading Application Case."

*Won the champion in the 2020 China (Tianjin) Industrial APP Innovation Application Competition

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Smart Manufacturing Business Innovation Practices

Facing the tide of smart manufacturing, GETECH drives innovation,下沉 to first-line factory scenarios in manufacturing, focusing on needs in eight major areas including supply chain management, production manufacturing, quality control, warehousing and logistics, operations management, energy conservation and emission reduction, safety production, and operation maintenance services. It empowers over 30 industries such as semiconductors, new energy, electronics, petrochemicals, auto parts, steel, and pharmaceuticals. GETECH provides hundreds of digital transformation solutions that help manufacturing enterprises improve quality, reduce costs, and increase efficiency, while also addressing the 'customization' needs of large enterprises and the 'standardization' needs of SMEs.
GETECH has accumulated strength and partnered with customers and partners to build a "smart manufacturing future." Its many excellent cases in recent years have become industry benchmarks, leading high-quality industry development. For example, in the high-end manufacturing sector, GETECH fully empowers TCL CSOT's digital transformation,全面提升 digital level from cost optimization, efficiency improvement, quality enhancement, and energy management aspects.
In 2018, GETECH helped TCL CSOT achieve the application of artificial intelligence in product defect determination (ADC project). This ADC project was the first落地 application of an AI automatic defect classification system in the LCD panel industry, bringing significant benefits to TCL CSOT's production lines, replacing over 50% of manpower, and achieving annual economic benefits exceeding tens of millions. It is reported that AI recognition speed increased by 5-10 times, and accuracy improved from 85% with the human eye to over 90%.
In the energy management field, GETECH built a digital energy management system for CSOT, realizing a comprehensive energy service platform and energy business innovation platform, promoting scientific management of energy conservation and emission reduction, and achieving annual cost savings of tens of millions for the enterprise.
With the help of GETECH's application of intelligent new technologies and tools, TCL CSOT has gradually become a smart manufacturing demonstration factory, with continuously improving digital levels, winning one of the nine excellence awards in the 2021 IDC Future Enterprise Awards. In the future, GETECH will continue to assist TCL CSOT in becoming a comprehensive world-class digital benchmark factory on the path of smart manufacturing development. 

*TCL CSOT won the excellence award in the 2021 IDC Future Enterprise Awards

Additionally, GETECH has signed agreements with local governments such as Wuhan and Tianjin, actively exploring manufacturing digital paths with regional characteristics.
GETECH has been selected for three consecutive years as a Wuhan municipal industrial intelligent transformation consulting and diagnostic platform. It has conducted intelligent transformation consulting and diagnostics for nearly 100 Wuhan enterprises, helping industry leaders such as TCL CSOT Wuhan production line, Huapei, Siemens, and武钢维尔卡 implement successful digital transformations. In 2019, it launched the first "on-site industrial" oriented industrial internet platform in Tianjin, providing better products and services for Tianjin manufacturing enterprises' intelligent transformation and smart factory construction. At the 2021 Tonglu County Economic Work Conference in Zhejiang Province, GETECH signed a digital high-quality development cooperation agreement with the Tonglu Economic Development Zone Management Committee, applying its rich experience in smart manufacturing transformation and industrial internet development technologies to the Tonglu region according to local conditions, assisting in the construction of digital, networked, and intelligent "future factories" in Tonglu.

*In 2019, GETECH partnered with Siemens to assist Wuhan's industrial intelligent transformation

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Towards the Future

Promoting the Transformation from "Manufacturing" to "Smart Manufacturing"

Currently, China is in an important strategic period for high-quality development; promoting smart manufacturing will become an important carrier and core focus for high-quality development in China's manufacturing industry in the new stage.
Although the industrial internet track is already crowded with many "star players," GETECH will leverage its own advantages and characteristics, closely following the "14th Five-Year Plan for Smart Manufacturing Development"—a guiding document for deeply promoting smart manufacturing, fostering high-quality development in manufacturing, and accelerating the construction of a strong manufacturing nation. At the intersection of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, it will benchmark against global manufacturing development trends and accelerate rapid enterprise development.
Looking ahead, GETECH will use the key force of manufacturing digital transformation—the Industrial Internet—to advance the strategic goals of digitalization, networking, and application intelligence for 2025 and 2035部署 by the Plan, helping China address shortcomings in key manufacturing equipment and system development, stabilize the supply chain system, and seize the precious opportunities of the fourth industrial revolution.

Article source: China Electronics News