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“Today's digitalization is like electrification a hundred years ago,” said Wang Jian, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and chairman of the Technology Committee of Alibaba Group. This year's government work report clearly stated that it is necessary to strengthen the support of technological innovation for industrial development and accelerate the digital transformation of traditional industries and small and medium-sized enterprises.

In the process of vigorously developing the digital economy in China, a number of enterprises with both digital technology capabilities and physical industry genes have emerged, providing assistance for the digital transformation of traditional enterprises. GETECH Technology Co., Ltd., strategically incubated by TCL Group, is one of them.

In the digital factory built by GETECH, engineers are monitoring data

Cross-industry, cross-domain provision of digital solutions for enterprises

In 2022, GETECH was invited to join the "Yangtze River Delta Digital Trunk Construction · Partner Action," becoming a key force in promoting high-quality digital development in the Yangtze River Delta. As an industrial internet platform service provider, how does GETECH promote the digital transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing?

GETECH was established in 2018 and officially settled in Qingpu District, Shanghai, at the end of 2020, establishing its Yangtze River Delta regional headquarters.

Why choose to settle in Qingpu? Wang Yun, general manager of the Industrial AI Business Unit of GETECH Technology Co., Ltd., said that the Yangtze River Delta has a concentration of manufacturing industries, currently forming unique industrial clusters such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, and advanced equipment. Many enterprises have an urgent need for digital transformation; relying on the advantages of industrial clusters and the benchmark experience of leading enterprises, it is possible to serve small and medium-sized enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain more efficiently and at lower cost.

As a key introduced industrial internet platform service provider in Qingpu District, GETECH uses core technologies such as IoT, big data, digital twins, and AI to develop the Dongzhi Industrial Application Intelligent Platform. Relying on the Dongzhi platform, GETECH provides intelligent manufacturing solutions in areas such as production control, equipment management, quality control, energy saving and carbon reduction, and supply chain management, focusing on two core industrial chains: semiconductors and new energy, and serving 22细分 industries跨行业, including 3C electronics, petrochemicals, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals. It has partnered with multiple manufacturing enterprises to build digital benchmark factories in Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Jinhua, Changzhou, Huzhou, and other places, creating over 1 billion yuan in economic benefits for Yangtze River Delta manufacturing enterprises.

Taking medical supplies production as an example, in cooperation with Shanghai Baxter Medical Supplies Co., Ltd., GETECH's self-developed "AI Visual Inspection Application Tianshu Platform" uses AI technologies such as machine vision and machine learning to replace traditional manual visual inspection, achieving precise identification, batch recording, and回溯功能, with higher detection efficiency and accuracy than manual methods, ensuring 100% no batch mixing in Baxter's product shipments. After training in the use of related digital tools, workers previously in this position can train AI algorithm models based on the Tianshu platform, upgrading from traditional quality inspectors to builders, users, and managers of digital model tools, which objectively promotes the transformation and upgrading of the enterprise's talent skill structure.

R&D investment increased by 38% year-on-year last year

Based on the ability to migrate digital experience跨行业跨领域, in 2022, the Dongzhi platform was selected and certified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as a "Cross-industry Cross-domain Industrial Internet Platform," becoming a national双跨 platform originating from semiconductor manufacturing; GETECH's efforts in深耕 digital energy-saving and carbon reduction technologies, helping manufacturing enterprises build green intelligent benchmark factories, also earned it honors such as the Shanghai Green and Low-Carbon Service Institution awarded by the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission.

How did GETECH achieve today's results? Wang Yun said that as a technology-based platform enterprise, innovation and R&D are its core driving force. In 2022, GETECH invested hundreds of millions of yuan in R&D, an increase of 38% compared to 2021.

Backed by TCL Group, which has been established for over 40 years, also provides rich manufacturing scene experience for GETECH's R&D work. "Good software products are mostly developed in real usage scenarios. One of our advantages is that we can conduct product development面向 industrial现场的实际业务问题, solving problems that engineers encounter daily in factories," Wang Yun said.

School-enterprise cooperation to cultivate复合型人才

Currently, GETECH has over 300 employees in the Yangtze River Delta region, with more than 50% being R&D personnel.

"In the Yangtze River Delta region, we focus on attracting and cultivating R&D and technical talents in industries such as semiconductors and new energy. In addition to needing manufacturing experts to provide rich industry practical experience, information technology professionals with资深 digital R&D background and experience are even more indispensable," Wang Yun said.

In the digital wave,复合型人才 with integrated IT and OT capabilities will be more competitive. In recent years, GETECH has been vigorously promoting the "industrial geek" concept,即 letting factory frontline engineers use digital tools such as "low-code development platforms" to solve actual business problems, making business personnel the main body of innovation.

To cultivate and reserve复合型人才 and create a new generation of "industrial geeks," GETECH has carried out multiple school-enterprise cooperation projects, starting from industry needs, integrating production and education, and前置岗位能力培养. Currently, GETECH has signed strategic cooperation with multiple institutions such as Nanjing Institute of Technology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan Software Engineering职业学院, and Guangdong机电职业技术学院.

At the same time, GETECH also actively participates in the development of industrial internet technology ability curriculum standards organized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, providing suggestions for the development of vocational and skill education, and联合 industry partners such as the University of Freiburg in Germany to build an international cooperation and exchange platform for the cultivation of domestic manufacturing digital talents.