Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province is the "hometown of China's forging", famous for its flange industry at home and abroad. With the advent of the era of "industrial 4.0", the transformation of digital intelligence has become the main direction of the development of Dingxiang flange industry. Traceability "Your flange has been sent out"

Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province is the "hometown of China's forging", famous for its flange industry at home and abroad. With the advent of the era of "industrial 4.0", the transformation of digital intelligence has become the main direction of the development of Dingxiang flange industry.
Traceability "Your flange has been sent out"
"In recent years, the group has been carrying out a 'technological revolution'. At present, we have completed the first phase of the project. Through the collected product data, we have improved and upgraded the flange forging process, and the utilization rate of raw materials has increased from 40% to 60%." Shanxi Tianbao Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianbao Group") deputy general manager Yan Zhilong said.
"After accessing the digital platform, customers can know what process the goods are made from the whole process of blanking, forging and cooling, and each product can be refined to the precise source of the production steps." During the interview, Yan Zhilong told the reporter of China Economic Times that Tianbao Group has cooperated with Huawei in three years to build the "Intelligent Manufacturing Expansion Project for Wind Power Ring Forgings Based on 5G Cloud Platform", which has realized all digitization of product information and effectively improved the digitalization, intelligence and automation level of the enterprise.
Digital reform is the only way for enterprises to transform and upgrade. In recent years, Dingxiang forging enterprises are deeply aware of this and are carrying out industrial digital information reform in batches. "We have built a digital management platform integrating production, supply, marketing and financial storage, which can not only trace the source of products, but also count the business data of enterprises and automatically generate financial statements, which greatly reduces the investment in manpower and material resources." Xu Yuanfei, executive deputy general manager of Shanxi Jianjiaying Flange Forging Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jianjiaying Group"), introduced.
Up to now, 6 leading flange forging enterprises in Dingxiang Economic Development Zone have completed the basic digital transformation. Not only that, as one of the first 10 provincial-level key professional towns built in Shanxi, Dingxiang Economic Development Zone also plans to invest 95 million yuan to build a forging industry digital service platform and wisdom based on the model of "characteristic professional town development zone industrial chain" Park construction project. "The project will establish a digital economy development support system in the mode of 1 1 N (I .e." one screen, one network service, n modules "), and the construction is planned to be completed in 2025. In addition, we have also set up a" low-carbon cloud account "platform to help more than 370 flange enterprises in the region and throughout the county to set up carbon accounts. The combination of the two can provide data support and empowerment for enterprises to save energy and reduce carbon and provide financial services." Song Haiping, Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Dingxiang Economic Development Zone, said.
Transformation of ideas
The talents needed exist in the "library"
"Digital transformation is a necessary process for the development of enterprises. Although we are actively promoting it, there are also many problems in the process, among which the shortage of talents is the biggest problem." Xu Yuanfei told reporters.
During the visit and investigation, the reporter found that the scarcity of talents is an urgent problem for Dingxiang enterprises. In this regard, Song Haiping said that professional and technical personnel are a prerequisite for directly affecting the digital transformation of enterprises. The development status of the combination of traditional jobs and digital technology has greatly improved the industry's requirements for the skills and quality of employees. Dingxiang has always been based on the basic casting industry, which has formed a surplus of ordinary skilled workers and a shortage of high-skilled talents. situation.
In order to solve the problem of talents, Dingxiang Economic Development Zone has successively established cooperative relations with Chongqing University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanxi University, continuously deepened the cooperation between provinces and universities, and unblocked the docking channel between enterprises and technical expert teams by increasing the docking efforts with universities. In addition, Dingxiang is also actively establishing a "cloud" expert database for enterprises to help enterprises innovate in science and technology. And the implementation of a more open talent policy, increase the release of policy dividends, hoping to "open up a wide range of talent sources" for enterprises ".
"In the next step, we will actively implement the talent introduction and talent cultivation mechanism, and promote the integration of digital professional and technical talents with the traditional forging industry; at the same time, we will actively carry out the digital transformation of enterprises, and introduce corresponding digital transformation support policies to build Dingxiang Flange Professional Town. Become a'new benchmark' for the construction of professional towns in Shanxi Province, and hand in a fixed answer for Shanxi's all-round promotion of high-quality development." Song Haiping said.