Analysis on the application of mobile informatization in Chinese manufacturing enterprises

"Industry 4.0", "Made in China 2025" and "Internet +" and other national action program issued, to manufacturers to bring new opportunities for development, but also inspire China's manufacturing enterprises, in the new round of technological revolution in the vortex, embracing digital, networked, intelligent, through intelligent manufacturing, To promote the level of industrial digitalization and the improvement of the level of intelligence. In the era of Internet of things, people and data (information) become the lifeblood of enterprise survival, anytime, anywhere, safe and efficient access to information is the key to the success of enterprises, mobile intelligent information Management system, effectively respond to this change.

For manufacturing companies, with mobile devices, work is no longer confined to a fixed office space where employees can operate anywhere and in any scenario. This kind of work means not only can control the situation of the workshop in real time, but also can quickly respond to the unexpected situation, find the coping style early, reduce the loss, and can get closer to the end user, obtain the feedback of the end user to the product in real time, improve the product, optimize the service, improve the market competitiveness. This survey also directly confirms this trend, in addition to a very small number of manufacturers, most manufacturers are using or are about to import mobile operation mode, and with the growth of practical experience, manufacturers to confirm the value of mobile operations, and further expand the willingness of mobile applications more positive.

1 affected by external environmental changes, manufacturing enterprises or passive or active on the road of mobile transformation

Under the pressure of competition from the external environment, as well as the good idea of the application of information technology, the manufacturing enterprises have taken the path of transformation either passively or proactively.

1) as the domestic economic development gradually step out of the high-speed development zone, into the moderate development of the "new normal", while the United States, the European Union as the representative of the overseas market has not yet fully recovered from the last round of economic crisis, domestic and foreign demand weakness led to overcapacity in manufacturing enterprises, the industry increasingly fierce competition. In the case of automobiles, Deloitte's 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index shows that China's auto industry has fallen from 100% in 2009 to 70% in 2016.

2) The development of "Industry 4.0" and "Internet +" has brought new opportunities for manufacturing enterprises, and how to realize agile production, innovation business and service mode by using informatization becomes a common problem for the future development of manufacturing enterprises.

2 Promote new business model and product upgrade, become the primary goal of enterprise mobility transformation

Research found that 79.3% of enterprise users have successfully practiced mobile applications. Further analysis found that as the application duration increased, enterprise users to expand the deployment of mobile applications more positive.

From the perspective of the overall practice of various industries, the actual operation value of the mobile working mode is still top-down. To meet the leadership of the forward-looking consciousness determines the majority of enterprise users to import mobile applications behavior, 47.8% of enterprise users because of the praise of senior executives into mobile applications, such as mobile approval, real-time access to information, understand the production and operation of enterprises, so that management to assess the direction of enterprise development, adjustment and so on.

In addition, seeking to reconstruct more efficient business processes and jobs based on mobile work mode (40.7%) is one of the important opportunities for manufacturing enterprises to import mobile applications. The manufacturing enterprises begin to introduce the mobile operation mode in purchasing, sales and after-sale, and reconstruct the business process and upgrade the operation mode. Take out the job as an example, after-sales staff in the customer site, mobile operation mode not only support employees first time input service information, work information, but also facilitate the system to adjust the work plan in a timely manner, optimize dispatch order (for example, choose the nearest distance, the shortest journey time of the staff, priority to reach the customer site).

3 Help build competitive advantage and realize business innovation becomes the key temptation of enterprise mobile informatization deployment

As the market living environment more stringent, manufacturing competition intensifies, local manufacturers are facing the challenge of optimizing production costs, agile operations. Some companies prefer to cut costs in the face of challenges – especially for suppliers, which compress procurement spending. However, this approach is unwise. In the past, many failure cases show that the cost of compression can lead to the decline of raw material quality and the reduction of upstream procurement channels. Thus, by collaborating to address the complex and inefficient challenges faced by the industry, transforming the industry chain into a "how to work together to improve efficiency and share revenue", it is the most efficient way to improve the level of return.

Mobile Intelligent equipment for the manufacturing industry chain of enterprises to provide excellent communication and coordination media, through the establishment of mobile work platform, it is expected to form a link industry chain of information flow channels, strengthen enterprise synergy between industrial chain, reduce redundant links, promote resource sharing, improve operational efficiency, improve the profitability level. For example, by interacting with end users, consolidating and sharing resources, resellers can enable manufacturing companies to identify new market opportunities more efficiently, optimize product or development, enhance user experience, increase revenue efficiency and create new revenue streams, or facilitate collaboration between products and service providers to package their products and services together , or integrate customer requirements to achieve C2B customization, provide more value-added services and a more complete user experience.

4 talent and Capital budget plan provides basic guarantee for enterprises to promote the construction of mobile informatization

Mobile Information security has been the majority of enterprise users on the agenda, more than 90% of enterprises set up a dedicated mobile team, the allocation of a stable budget, and began to carry out talent introduction and training work.

1) They have a specialized information-based team, and have a clearer understanding of their own information situation. Under the attention of the senior leaders of manufacturing enterprises, the Mobile Information team of the Enterprise has a clear cognition to the target of the mobile informatization construction and the basic frame of the future (a few enterprises can even carry out the mobile informatization construction alone), and the external team generally participates in the mobile informatization construction of the manufacturing enterprises as the concrete implementers.

2) Stable financial security. 84% of companies will maintain or increase their investment budgets, and only 15% of companies have made clear that they will cut their investments.

3) actively embark on the introduction of Mobile information personnel. 64.3% of enterprises have started or are starting to cultivate mobile-related talent, only 7.1% of enterprises said because the system is small, temporarily do not consider the establishment of their own dedicated IT team. Of course, it is important to note that different enterprises may have significant differences in the specific talent needs, such as mobile development talent, mobile business analysis talent, innovative talent, Mobile information global planning talent and so on. In general, manufacturing companies are most hungry for people who are based on a long-term strategy for mobile global planning.

5 The inconsistency of mobile demand in different business units is the main reason to hinder mobile practice

There are many sub-industries in the manufacturing industry, and even some large enterprises may involve a number of sub-industries, the daily production of a large number of business coverage, including research and development, procurement, production, warehouse, logistics, sales, after sale, and corresponding to the specific departments are not fine. Different business segments, different micro-molecular industries, the corresponding mobile scenarios are different, need to adapt to business requirements. For example, precision manufacturing enterprises to check the equipment more frequently, the replacement cycle is shorter, the service department of the server manufacturing enterprise may need 7x24 hour standby and so on.

Therefore, the manufacturing enterprises need to clarify the business scope and standardization of the mobile informatization between the internal business units and the group companies, so as to determine the specific form of the Mobile Information system and evaluate the degree of business efficiency improvement brought by the introduction of the mobile operation mode.

It is also important to note that the import of mobile operations requires prior approval from the business unit and the group companies, to avoid the original work habits, process changes, staff due to lack of mobile training and the impact of daily work.

Analysis on the application of mobile informatization in Chinese manufacturing enterprises