Industrial Internet: Intelligent machines, advanced analytical capabilities

Absrtact: The topic about big data mainly concentrates on the click Stream data, the tendency analysis and the consumer localization. But in fact, behind the big data, the communication of machine to machine and the advanced analysis function may completely change the world around us. Case: General Electric

The topic of large data focuses on the click Stream data, orientation analysis and consumer positioning. But in fact, behind the big data, the communication of machine to machine and the advanced analysis function may completely change the world around us.

Case: General Electric (GE) and its "Industrial Internet" vision, the industrial Internet may be like the Industrial Revolution and the Internet revolution to completely change our way of life. "The industrial Internet will bring about a new era of innovation and change," said Marco Annunziata, director of Global Strategy and analysis at General Electric, Peter C. Evans and executive director and chief economist at GE Global Market Insights. ”

"Advanced computing, Analytics, low-cost sensing and new levels of connectivity through the Internet, global industrial systems are converging, the deep combination of the digital world and the machine world is bringing profound changes to the global industry and affecting many aspects of everyday life, including how we work," said Evans. These innovations bring faster speed and greater efficiency to different industries such as aviation, rail transportation, power generation, oil and gas development. ”

Industrial Internet: Intelligent machines, advanced analytical capabilities

Through the embedded sensors in the machine and other advanced instruments, the data of the machine are collected and analyzed, and finally the performance and efficiency of the system and network are improved.

According to Wipro Technologies, the Boeing 737 engine produces terabytes of data every 30 minutes in flight. Paul Mathai, director of the company's manufacturing and high technology applications, said: "A twin-engined aircraft produced terabytes of TB data in 6 hours of flight from New York to Los Angeles." By analyzing the data, we can understand the engine performance and so on. ”

According to General Electric Evans and Annunziata, there are about 20,000 commercial aircraft and 43,000 commercial jet engines in the airline industry. In the next 15 years, with the expansion of global air services, there will be another 30,000 jet engines put into use.

1% of the savings will be huge

Using this data can significantly improve efficiency. Even 1% of fuel savings in the airline industry will help save $30 billion trillion in the next 15 years. It is not just the airline industry that will benefit, but a 1% increase in the efficiency of global gas plants can save 66 billion of billions of dollars in fuel consumption, while the global health care industry can bring in $63 billion trillion in cost savings.

GE launches industry-wide data management and analysis kit

This week, GE took a step on the road to a vision of the industrial Internet, which unveiled a new proficy monitoring and analysis software suite-an integrated solution for industrial large data management and analysis.

GE said the kit could be used to remotely monitor a factory or a company's global business, providing information to increase device availability, reduce unplanned downtime, increase production, reduce variables, and reduce maintenance costs and inventories.

This product kit contains four existing products and two new products:

· Proficy historian-General Electric's flagship data collection software

· Proficy historian analysis-for data mining and visualization

· Proficy smartsignal-Predictive analysis of state-based monitoring

· Proficy csense-troubleshooting, monitoring process and creating closed loop process optimization

· Proficy historian HD allows new products to be stored for large datasets in the Hadoop cluster

· Proficy Knowledge center-A new console that binds the solution to process visibility, asset health assessment, and process optimization

General Electric Intelligent Platform work industrial data Intelligent software group general manager Brian Courtney says Proficy historian HD combines industrial time series data with analytics and resilient capacity to create large data solutions based on Hadoop that can reduce data storage by up to 85%. This, he says, is the first step in General Electric's industrial Internet.

"GE produces 5 TB of new time data a day," Courney said, "Our experience in large data and analytics maximizes the performance of equipment and processes and helps other companies reduce risk." At our testing and diagnostics center, we use our own software to manage the value of millions of of dollars in assets. Now, in the General Electric industrial performance and Reliability Center, GE Engineers monitor thousands of mission-critical assets for our customers to ensure uptime, asset reliability, and so on. ”

On the other hand, Proficy Knowledge Center is a browser-based visualization application that closely combines the asset data model with time series data. And it supports a unified view of process health and device monitoring to improve productivity and decision-making processes.

Improve process conditions to save costs

First, this suite helps enterprise customers understand their asset status. The system analyzes the normal behavior and patterns of the device and can detect deviations from the expected exception, thus solving the problem before the minor problem is upgraded to a larger problem.

With an understanding of the asset situation, the suite can help the enterprise analyze its process status in depth-identifying the cause of poor performance. This allows businesses to run devices at a level that is closer to their maximum capacity.

In the industrial Internet, small changes can have a huge impact

"In the industrial Internet, even relatively small changes can have a huge impact." As we said, 1% of the cost savings will be huge numbers. If the cost savings and efficiency of the industrial Internet were to increase productivity by 1%-1.5% per cent, the economic growth would be huge, which could account for 25% to 40% of GDP. The internet revolution has boosted productivity growth by 1.5%, and we believe that the industrial Internet will bring similar growth over a longer period of time. ”