Editor's Note:
In November 2017, the "State Council's Guiding Opinions on Deepening the 'Internet + Advanced Manufacturing' to Develop the Industrial Internet" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions") was officially issued, becoming a programmatic document for the development of China's Industrial Internet and charting the course for pioneering a new phase in its growth. Over the past five years, China's Industrial Internet has advanced steadily, emerging as a vital force in accelerating the digital transformation of manufacturing and supporting high-quality economic development. To further advance the implementation of the "Guiding Opinions," the Industrial Internet Platform Innovation Cooperation Center, in collaboration with "People's Post and Telecommunications News" and "China Electronics News," has launched the "Industrial Internet Embarking on a New Journey" column. This initiative invites government leaders, experts, scholars, and platform enterprise representatives to review the development journey of China's Industrial Internet, summarize the achievements of its platforms, conduct in-depth analysis of the current state of development, focus on core technologies and industrial technological progress, and interpret the enabling role and future direction of industry platforms.
He Jun, Vice President of TCL Industries and CEO of GETECH
Industrial Internet Helps Chinese Manufacturing Seize Opportunities and Transform
Manufacturing is a crucial pillar of China's high-quality economic development, continuously facing new challenges and opportunities amidst its vigorous growth. Over the past decade, China's manufacturing value-added has increased from 16.98 trillion yuan in 2012 to 31.4 trillion yuan in 2021, with its global share rising to nearly 30%, maintaining its position as the world's largest manufacturing nation. Meanwhile, leveraging emerging technologies like the Industrial Internet to drive transformation, upgrading, and enhance the position in the industrial chain has become an inevitable choice for Chinese manufacturing to address challenges and strengthen international competitiveness.
The Industrial Internet is the Core Engine for
Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading
As the foundation and base for achieving smart manufacturing, the Industrial Internet fully integrates cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, IoT, big data, industrial AI, and digital twins. It effectively drives the reorganization of production factor resources, optimization of processes, significant improvement in product quality, and even the integration and structural adjustment of industrial chains, thereby realizing manufacturing transformation and upgrading. With the accelerated integration of new-generation information technology and manufacturing, the Industrial Internet, through extensive嫁接 of industrial software and applications, has become the core engine for Chinese manufacturing to seize digital opportunities, achieve transformation, upgrading, and overtaking in curves.
At GETECH, we are precisely focused on empowering Chinese manufacturing digitally through the Industrial Internet. Since its strategic incubation by TCL in 2018, GETECH has adhered to a "platform + software" product development strategy, developing the independent and controllable Industrial Internet platform—Dongzhi Industrial Application Intelligence Platform (hereinafter referred to as the Dongzhi Platform). The platform has accumulated nearly 30,000 industrial models and over 10,000 industrial APPs, building an Industrial Internet ecosystem covering continuous, discrete, and hybrid manufacturing modes. Today, GETECH has grown into a leading comprehensive Industrial Internet platform company in China, with the Dongzhi Platform being selected and certified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as a "2022 Cross-Industry and Cross-Domain Industrial Internet Platform."
As a national-level cross-industry and cross-domain platform originating from the semiconductor industry, GETECH rapidly extends the leading digital technologies and intelligent practical experience accumulated in advanced manufacturing sectors like semiconductors to over twenty细分 industries, including new energy, smart vehicles, 3C electronics, home appliances, petroleum and petrochemicals, and aerospace. As one of the preferred Industrial Internet platforms for leading manufacturing enterprises across various industries, GETECH has successfully established benchmark demonstration factories for a number of industry leaders such as TCL CSOT, TCL Industries, Huahong Huali, ASML, CRRC Semiconductor, Guide Infrared, Luxshare Precision, Changdian绍兴,康吉森, CITIC Mobile Communications, and武钢维尔卡. In this process, the Industrial Internet platform not only helps leading enterprises strengthen international competitiveness and enhance industrial chains but also provides technological empowerment for small and medium-sized enterprises, playing an innovative leading role in breakthroughs and applications of core technologies.
Serving Industrial Scenarios and
Creating Business Value is Key
Whether the Industrial Internet truly fulfills its role as a digital catalyst for manufacturing transformation and upgrading depends on its ability to apply technological innovations to industrial scenarios, meet on-site needs, and genuinely create business value. In this regard, GETECH continuously promotes the落地 application of cutting-edge innovative technologies in key automation scenarios by closely addressing business needs and pain points in production manufacturing. For example, in the quality management area, which determines the operational efficiency of the semiconductor industry, GETECH collaborated with TCL CSOT and TCL Industrial Research Institute to develop the "AI-Based Panel Defect Automatic Judgment System," the first人工智能 project implemented in the domestic semiconductor display industry for product defect judgment. By utilizing a series of AI technologies such as machine vision and deep learning, it achieves automatic classification of defect images, increasing detection speed by 10 times compared to traditional manual inspection, raising accuracy to 90%, and saving tens of millions of yuan in operational costs annually for a single factory. Relying on GETECH's Industrial Internet platform, this technology has been extended to industries like 3C electronics, SMT, semiconductors, and new energy, creating tangible value for dozens of sectors.
With the deepening supply capacity and industry applications of the Industrial Internet, manufacturing intelligence has expanded from empowering single scenarios to optimizing entire factories globally. By打通 data interconnection across all core production links in a factory through the Industrial Internet, it achieves intelligent management while optimizing overall resource allocation and operational efficiency. Taking the smart factory built by GETECH for a domestic semiconductor enterprise as an example, global intelligent optimization covers production management, quality control, and process optimization across multiple factories and workshops, from silicon wafer and晶圆 production to packaging testing and finished product assembly, greatly enhancing collaboration efficiency. By integrating data across multiple businesses, processes, and systems, the client achieves full-process traceability management from raw material crystal pulling to finished product assembly, significantly optimizing management efficiency across multiple factories, with MES and EAP coordination reaching leading levels.
The Industrial Internet Should Safeguard
Chain Strengthening and Supplementing, and Autonomy and Control
The Industrial Internet platform is a hub for achieving comprehensive connection and efficient configuration of all industrial elements, the entire industrial chain, and the full value chain. As a technological foundation supporting the efficient operation and coordination of "man, machine, material, method, and environment," the Industrial Internet drives the reorganization of manufacturing production factor resources, the integration of industrial chains, and structural adjustments. Beyond serving individual enterprises and enhancing smart manufacturing levels in factories, it provides unprecedented opportunities for strengthening and supplementing industrial chains and building independent and controllable industrial and supply chains.
For instance, in terms of industrial chain autonomy and security, GETECH, born from semiconductor manufacturing, has made outstanding contributions to supporting the independent R&D of core systems in the semiconductor industry chain. As the "crown jewel" of high-end manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing's digital technology level is generally higher than other manufacturing sectors, characterized by complex processes, high reliability requirements, massive data, and difficult analysis. In the past, even leading enterprises in the semiconductor industry with relatively high digitalization levels mostly used foreign industrial software. After years of dedicated self-research, GETECH has now achieved 80% localization replacement of industrial software in a leading enterprise, safeguarding the autonomy and control of critical industries.
Facing the current surging wave of digitalization, for Chinese manufacturing to achieve transformation, upgrading, and high-quality development, it must take the Industrial Internet as the core driver and accelerate the deepening of digital变革. This requires not only government top-level design for the deep integration of the digital economy and manufacturing but also concerted efforts and symbiotic cooperation across the entire industry. Over the next five years, GETECH will invest over 2 billion yuan in R&D and promotion focused on key technologies such as edge intelligence, AI, and digital twins, continuously enhancing the technical support and empowerment capabilities of the Dongzhi Platform. It will further deepen digital transformation cooperation with enterprises, contributing more industrial wisdom to promoting the transformation and upgrading of Chinese manufacturing and achieving high-quality economic development.
