Can “making concrete“ also be digitized? See how this traditional enterprise transforms

Controlling the quality of concrete with AI machine vision, purchasing bulk building materials online, placing orders online to "find a car", and accessing supply chain finance with one click... Chongqing Jianong Building Materials Logistics Co., Ltd., which mainly produces ready-mixed concrete, continues to develop Digital transformation, and its Gongyu Internet cloud platform has become the first national-level industrial Internet pilot demonstration project in my country's concrete industry recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. This company is accelerating its status as a "digital transformation service provider", and while realizing its own transformation and development, it effectively drives the digital transformation of the industry.

New "Intelligent Manufacturing" in the Old Industry

When it comes to the concrete industry, people's traditional impression is often messy and dusty. However, in Chongqing Construction Engineering Southern Concrete Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Chongqing Construction Engineering Building Materials Logistics Co., Ltd., it is a different scene: "one-yard" admission of raw materials, intelligent concrete production, AI camera independent quality inspection, concrete electronic receipt information Looking back... The smart scene doesn't stop there. Walking into the company's dispatch center, I saw that all orders, production, quality inspection, logistics and other information are collected on a large screen, and the staff can manage the entire seat with their fingertips. Production base.

"In the past, 'production depended on roaring' and 'detection depended on hands', but now it has completely changed!" said the person in charge of Chongqing Construction Engineering Southern Concrete Co., Ltd. In the face of the current market situation with shrinking demand and fierce competition, enterprises have accelerated their digitalization. By connecting to the industrial Internet platform, the intelligent control of the production process is realized, and the transportation and pumping efficiency and capacity utilization rate are greatly improved.

The "sharp weapon" for the old industry to realize the new "intelligent manufacturing" is the Gongyu Internet Cloud Platform built by Chongqing Construction Engineering Building Materials Logistics Co., Ltd. It is reported that the platform uses the "Industrial Internet Unified Logo + Cloud Platform" as the carrier to enable the concrete industry to realize data-centric process reengineering, and launch an unattended intelligent receiving system, construction site cloud monitoring system, concrete digital factory system, etc. 10 The remaining information systems can be applied individually or combined to form solutions.

Zhang Xingli, chairman of Chongqing Construction Engineering Building Materials Logistics Co., Ltd., introduced that the platform has been in operation for three years and has driven more than 1,000 companies to "go to the cloud", connecting with more than 5,800 supply and demand users in the industrial chain, and companies accessing the platform have generally benefited. Taking centralized procurement as an example, the platform brings together more than 3,000 suppliers, and customers can purchase bulk materials such as cement and steel online, reducing the procurement cost by 5%; in terms of transportation, it can realize automatic planning of vehicle routes, visual transportation status, and transportation and transportation. Pumping efficiency increased by 21% and capacity utilization increased by 32%.

Focusing on giving "identity cards" to concrete products, and opening up the industrial chain with an "ID", in recent years, Gongyu Internet Cloud Platform has also undertaken the second-level node of the national top node (Chongqing) building materials industry for industrial Internet identification analysis, and carried out "identity" for concrete. "Marking and recording, to achieve traceability of the whole process of production, transportation and pouring, thereby ensuring the quality and safety of construction. At present, the cumulative number of logo registrations exceeds 1 billion times, and the number of resolutions exceeds 1.4 billion times.

In addition, emerging functions such as supply chain finance are also accelerating the enrichment of platform content. After leaving traces of orders and business transactions online, the data is true and objective, which can "enhance credit" for small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, small and medium-sized enterprises on the Gongyu Internet cloud platform have received more than 30 million yuan in supply chain credit.

"Going" to a digital transformation service provider

A few years ago, Chongqing Construction Building Materials Logistics Co., Ltd. was a typical traditional enterprise, selling about 4 million cubic meters of concrete every year, with an output value of more than 1 billion yuan.

Despite occupying a certain market share, some problems and "bottlenecks" of traditional industries have always existed. Zhang Xingli said that, for example, the traditional production process of concrete mainly relies on manual cooperation, which has poor coordination and high difficulty in quality control. In addition, ready-mixed concrete has high requirements for transportation timeliness, and the transportation links are mostly manual dispatching, which is inefficient and difficult to route selection. Do science. Digital transformation is imperative.

Since 2015, the company has successively developed system modules such as intelligent dispatching and comprehensive information platform to intelligently upgrade the concrete batching plant, and gradually realize the information interconnection of the whole process of production organization, product quality inspection, dispatching and transportation.

From the point to the chain, the accumulation of less becomes more... With the support of the special funds of the Chongqing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission's innovation and development project, in 2019, the company's public fish Internet cloud platform was officially launched, becoming the first national-level industrial Internet pilot demonstration in my country's concrete industry project.

Shi Congli, deputy general manager of the company, said that at present, the company is transforming into a digital service provider, supported by digital technology, to provide digital transformation and resource coordination services for upstream and downstream enterprises in the concrete industry chain.

Toward the future with digital "open source and reduce expenditure"

Since last year, the infrastructure construction, especially the real estate industry, has been declining, the demand for concrete has shrunk, superimposed overcapacity, and the price of raw materials has risen, and the concrete industry has faced considerable pressure. In order to meet the challenges, for the main business of concrete production, Chongqing Construction Engineering Building Materials Logistics Co., Ltd. implements "lean management" from various aspects. For example, in the aspect of concrete transportation, the company has innovatively launched a pricing model of cubic meters per kilometer. The system can give precise quotations according to the distance of transportation and the difficulty of pouring. It is expected to save 10 million yuan in freight this year.

The company also plans to use artificial intelligence to learn from the tens of thousands of concrete mix data it has accumulated to create a mix model to realize the transition from manual operation to "automation", which is expected to save millions of yuan each year.

While "throttling", while "open source". At present, the company is accelerating the optimization of intelligent manufacturing software and hardware products, and exporting "digital services". Since the beginning of this year, sales have exceeded 10 million yuan, becoming a new growth point. In the future, it will continue to build an open industrial ecological platform with the public fish Internet cloud platform as the carrier. It is estimated that by 2025, the cumulative transaction volume of the bulk building materials trading platform is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan, and it will drive 5,000 small and medium-sized building materials companies to "go to the cloud platform".

"Digital transformation is a solid foundation for us to carry out lean management and production services." Zhang Xingli said that as the building materials industry accelerates its evolution towards intelligence and greenness, leading companies have started digital transformation, and the industry will accelerate reshuffle; ”, which will give us more confidence to meet future challenges.