2015 cloud Computing and Industry 4.0: the first industrial cloud in China you know what?

At the end of January 2015 in the 2014 National Industrial Communications Development Briefing, Mao Weiming, Deputy Minister of Industry and Information technology, said that the integration of information and industrialization is facing the current economic downward pressure, breakthrough development bottlenecks, enhance international competitiveness, industrial competitiveness, product competitiveness of the key. 2015, the Ministry of Industry will take measures to further accelerate the deep integration of the two, including the implementation of the pilot demonstration of intelligent manufacturing initiatives and the deepening of industrial and Internet integration, ie industrial Internet.

Beijing "Cloud Chain" industrial SaaS Cloud Platform chinahypercloud.com in Beijing "Xiangyun Project" under the guidance of construction, at the end of 2014 online, it is understood that the first industrial SaaS Cloud (software as a service). In the January 2015 "cloud Power Unlimited" soft-pass dynamic Innovation Technology Forum, Beijing Industrial Technology Research Institute of Technology Innovation Service Center Director Zhe introduced the "cloud chain platform." "Cloud chain platform" integrates a variety of domestic and foreign mainstream industrial design, simulation software, integrated into a number of industry advanced knowledge and project experience, is for the vast number of product research and development designers and simulation engineers to provide online tool application of professional SaaS cloud platform. Through cooperation with the Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology, soft power, IBM, Caxa and other partners to participate in the domestic first industrial cloud Beijing industrial Cloud construction, and then successively participated in the Henan Industrial cloud and Gansu industrial clouds and other projects.

Industry 4.0 and challenges facing China

Industry 4.0 was the official strategy of the German government at the industrial exhibition in April 2013. Industrial 4.0, funded by the German Federal Department of Research and Development and the Federal Ministry of Economic and Technical Affairs, has been formed under the advice and impetus of German Academy of Engineering, Lloyd's, Siemens, and so on, and has risen to a national strategy.

Industry 4.0 is in fact the fourth time Industrial revolution that led by intelligent manufacture. Zhe that industry 4.0 mainly includes three elements: the first is intelligent factory, the research of intelligent production system and process and the realization of networked distributed production facilities; The second is intelligent production, involving the whole enterprise production Logistics management, human-computer interaction and 3D technology in the industrial production process application, etc. the third is intelligent logistics, The integration of logistics resources through internet and IoT.

In the intelligent manufacturing, China has made a number of basic research results and intelligent manufacturing technology, intelligent manufacturing equipment industry system to form, the state's support for intelligent manufacturing has been increasing. However, the construction of enterprise theory and technology is relatively backward, the long-term development strategy of intelligent manufacturing is missing, high-end technology, high-end equipment, core components rely on imports, heavy hardware light software phenomenon outstanding. At present, the key smart equipment, equipment, industrial software are dependent on imports, especially about 90% of industrial software and 90% of industrial robots, need to rely on imports, and expensive. In addition, about 80% of the integrated circuit chips about 70% of the car manufacturing key equipment, about 40% of large petrochemical equipment, etc. also need to rely on imports.

The first industrial cloud to hatch in China

The Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology was established at the end of 2011, is a research and incubation institution jointly established by Beijing Science and Technology Research Institute and Beijing University of Technology. The Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology locates in the research and Development center of Industrial Technology, the incubation center of High-tech Enterprises and the service center of Enterprise Development. At present, Beijing Industrial Technology Research Institute has three centers, including Technology Innovation Service Center, Industrial Technology Research and Development Center and High-tech Enterprise Incubation Center, Beijing Industrial Cloud is mainly responsible for the construction of Technology Innovation Service Center. The Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology and the German Fraunhofer Association has a long-term strategic partnership, the association also for the Beijing Industrial cloud construction advice.

According to Zhe, the predecessor of the Technology Innovation Service Center, the Beijing Computing Centre, was established in 1973 as a scientific research institution, which covers government, industry, commerce, education, transportation, social affairs and other fields.

In 1978, the United Nations Development Agency (UNDP) provided the Beijing Computing Centre with technical assistance of USD more than 10 million, and the two sides jointly established the Beijing International Economic Cooperation Information processing and training center and introduced mainframe computers.

2009, began to devote to the construction of Beijing Industrial Cloud, to serve the small and medium-sized enterprise science and technology innovation as the mission, now has built up computing capacity of 200 trillion times industrial cloud service platform.

In 2010, the Beijing Computing Center began to create "industrial cloud service Platform", which defined the direction of High-performance computing and cloud computing technology and cloud business model. 2011, officially relying on the Beijing Computing Center set up a Technical innovation service centre, "Industrial cloud service platform" has become Beijing "Xiangyun plan" one of the key demonstration projects.

2012, Flexible computing platform "win in the cloud" on the line running, for "industrial cloud" to provide IaaS layer support. May 2013, Beijing "Industrial cloud service Platform" successful experience to the national 19 provinces to promote.

At the end of 2013, the Beijing Industrial Cloud service Platform Industrycloud.com.cn On-line, and established the Industrial Alliance of Beijing "Industry Cloud".

At the end of 2014, the Beijing Industrial SaaS Cloud Chinahypercloud.com was online, focusing on providing industrial software and related computing resources to SMEs in the form of on-line services.

Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology has been successfully for more than 200 small and medium-sized enterprises, scientific research institutes to provide corresponding computing services, and with well-known enterprises at home and abroad to establish a good strategic cooperative relationship. The Technical Innovation Service center of Beijing Industrial Technology Research Institute has carried on the preliminary exploration, including intelligent research and development, intelligent processing and intelligent equipment.

Intelligent Research and Development: industrial SaaS Cloud

Beijing Industrial Cloud Main service 100 people below, registered capital under 20 million, average income of less than 10 million of small and medium-sized enterprises. Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology for small and medium-sized enterprises to provide hardware and software, including the information resources, especially industrial design software resources. Industrial SaaS Cloud is based on the Beijing Industrial Cloud service platform, the software and hardware resources are encapsulated, and then in the form of SaaS cloud services for small and medium-sized enterprises to rent online. In particular, industrial software, if the direct purchase of stand-alone installed packaged software is very expensive, instead of using the SaaS cloud Online rental form, the use of time to pay, significantly reduce the cost of using the software.

Now the "cloud chain" platform has been online, small and medium-sized enterprises can enjoy on-line purchase and use of the way, and online to see and reconciliation. In the Cloud application store, users can purchase resources and services based on actual business requirements, with a complete set of business models for online purchase, online use, and cloud storage. The cloud chain has the application deployment interface, the developer can deploy its custom development application in the cloud chain, and make the cloud chain platform become an open application resource trading system.

The cloud chain platform includes service types such as virtual applications, High-performance Computing services, engineering data management, and industry solutions. Among them, the High Performance Computing service is the traditional business, users can request the high performance computing resources by submitting the parameters and models in the Web page, and then do the large-scale parallel computation. Virtual applications push software in the form of virtualization to users, using Citrix's virtual application delivery technology, which can be billed according to usage. Engineering Data Management helps engineers manage the data generated during product design and simulation. Industry solution is the cloud chain platform to provide web-based online CAE customized development services for mechanical and electrical, civil construction, machinery, processing and molding, home appliances electronics, environmental protection and other industries.

The cloud-chain platform also provides an industrial gateway. This is an online trading service platform focused on providing design, analysis, experimentation and testing, engineering calculation and other tasks for the industrial field. The platform will focus on industrial professionals in the way, their experience, wisdom, technology, knowledge in the Internet to link together into value benefits, online personnel based on the ability to solve problems to form an interactive exchange area.

The cloud-chain platform now has a total computing capacity of 270 trillion times, network resources include gigabit backbone, gigabit Intranet, telecom, Unicom, IPV4 and IPV6 Education Network and international VIP Network, computing resources including High-performance Computing server thousand units, storage resources including the total capacity of more than 2.7PB Hitachi and EMC disk array. In software, we can provide common industrial software services for small and medium-sized enterprises, including 3DS Max, HFSS 32 cores, Maxwell 32 cores, UG, Ansys 512 cores, etc. Beijing Computing Center also has a leading high-precision inkjet 3D printer and the domestic excellent industrial-grade low-cost Melt extrusion 3D printer, as well as matching 3D scanners, to fully meet the reverse and rapid prototyping needs of SMEs.

In addition, the cloud chain platform provides engineering consulting services, this is a line of service, can achieve static strength and stiffness calculation, noise noise analysis, motion simulation, heat transfer analysis, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, flow path optimization, injection molding, etc., the service is currently a 20-person team responsible.

Intelligent Machining: A cloud platform for machinery manufacturing

The Beijing Industrial Technology Research Institute and the China Machinery Production Engineering Association have combined a number of colleges and universities, with the help of the knowledge and ability of the mechanical processing technology of the university, facing the intelligent processing, and constructing the machine manufacturing cloud platform.

The platform is led by China Machinery Production Engineering Association, by Xi Chuanda, Hunan University and other mechanical professional professors, experts to provide scientific research, including databases, software systems, expert knowledge, Beijing Industrial Technology Research Institute is responsible for platform construction, development, transport and peacekeeping market operation.

The machine-made cloud platform provides a platform for grinding clouds, cutting clouds, and light deburring. The grinding cloud realizes the functions of information query, automatic programming, error analysis and compensation, grinding crack, simulation of grinding process and optimization of grinding process. The cutting cloud realizes the functions of cutting equipment, cutting tools, machining, cutting process simulation, cutting parameter optimization and automatic programming. The deburring is divided into finishing process including ultra slow light grinding, expert system, polishing and simulation, as well as deburring function including mechanical method, automation method, expert system and simulation.

Take the grinding cloud for example, the enterprise now mostly uses the numerical Control machine tool, in the machinery Manufacturing cloud platform to select processing materials, processing tools, etc., after the selection of the machine manufacturing cloud platform to provide expert system, according to the process parameters of automatic programming, and then connect to the CNC machine tool, the code directly to the machine tool, automated processing and production.

Intelligent Equipment: Digital Laboratory

The Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology is also exploring intelligent equipment, and set up a digital laboratory. At present, the laboratory covers an area of 200 square meters, mainly testing and case display function, it can achieve online submission tasks, State monitoring and experimental data management functions. The current equipment mainly has the precision carving machine, the million ability study test machine, the modal test system, the high speed camera, the drop experiment machine, the Infrared Thermal Imager, the small wind tunnel test system, the drop Hammer Impact test machine and so on experimental equipment.

The digital laboratory is also equipped with a range of printing equipment, including the rapid prototyping output system object Eden 350 and the melt extrusion rapid prototyping output system inspire S250, the current line can receive 3D printing task. As long as users provide models, or commissioned the Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology design, the printer will print out the 3D model after the courier to the user, the entire use of the process is very convenient.

In addition, the digital laboratory also provides rapid prototyping 3D scanners. Among them, the large scene three-dimensional laser scanner Faro Photon 120 for high definition and induction of rapid capture of a large range of three-dimensional images, hand-held three-dimensional scanner Creform Viu Scan can achieve a variety of three-dimensional detection applications, Handheld laser scanner holon-3dh-3m for small precision parts scanning.

The Beijing Institute of Industrial Technology and the soft power of cooperation, through the API (API official website, API community, API product list, API application case) interface allows users to automatically use the cloud platform resources, and through the interface to complete the use of resources query, reconciliation and other functions. According to Zhe, including Beijing Industrial Cloud, Henan province Industrial cloud and Gansu Industrial cloud cooperation is to adopt this model. Zhe said that he hopes to continue to cooperate with soft power and other partners, in the era of Industrial 4.0 to jointly develop our industrial Internet and industrial cloud platform.