ZTE Tu Jiashun: The Intelligent Transformation Of Traditional Industries Takes The "Digital" Train First

After the "new infrastructure" strategy with 5g as the core was proposed, the enabling communication industry is also trying to promote the adaptive digital transformation of key industries with its own experience.

On September 27, at the "2020 China intelligent manufacturing industry annual meeting" sponsored by the 21st century economic report, Tu Jiashun, chief scientist of ZTE nfv / SDN, pointed out that behind the newly mentioned "new infrastructure" strategy, it is the huge boosting role of the traditional infrastructure "tiegongji" (railway, highway, airport, etc.) brought to China's economic development in the past 40 years of reform and opening up.

Among the core elements of the new infrastructure, 5g, as an information superhighway, is not only connected to counties and cities, but also connected to everyone, even terminals with CPU. So as to achieve what people call "changing society".

He cited an example. With the advent of 5g era, for the three major operators, the network bandwidth will be increased by 10 times and the number of terminals will be increased by 2-4 times. However, it seems that the manpower and overall investment of operators have not increased too much. Why is this?

"The answer is that the entire communications industry has basically completed the digital transformation in the past decade. This is why we hope to use the successful experience of the communication industry to promote the digital transformation of other industries. " He said.

The industry needs to improve the degree of digitization

"5g as a" road ", the biggest problem facing 5g in the industry is digitization." In a subsequent interview with the 21st century economic reporter, Tu Jiashun pointed out that the lack of digitalization means that there is no car in the traditional infrastructure. However, digitization is the foundation, and it is also the difficulty to be solved in the process of promoting the new infrastructure.

He further said that based on this, "ZTE started to have a new strategy in the second half of this year. Originally as a 5g equipment supplier, ZTE is also promoting the digital transformation of the industry."

ZTE has already begun to transform itself. In his speech, Tu Jiashun said that ZTE has gradually completed the transformation from a traditional manufacturing company to an extreme cloud company by using cloud computing, artificial intelligence and big data technologies. With this in mind, ZTE takes itself as a sample case of traditional manufacturing industry and takes the road of digital transformation first.

"We have the ultimate office cloud, which can bring reference to the vast majority of industries; research and development cloud is based on software, as well as matching hardware, client and other full range of solutions. Therefore, when 5g technology was implemented, the performance was improved a lot, but the tariff was not significantly improved, and the operation and maintenance labor cost was not greatly improved. This is the most fundamental reason. We have changed ourselves. " He continued.

Among them, ZTE's core competence is cloud network integration, and helps enterprises fully interconnect and business to the cloud. "The cloud and the web must be connected. As for what problems need to be solved precisely, it is defined by the customer, and we help to achieve it and provide the most cost-effective solution. "

Tu Jiashun pointed out to reporters that ZTE proposed the concept of "precision cloud network". From the perspective of business model, this is a customized private cloud solution, with the core of helping industry users solve the pain points.

"For most manufacturing industries, there are certain requirements for profits. Therefore, it does not mean that all enterprises in the manufacturing industry need to upgrade to the highest level immediately. Instead, they need to solve the problem of pain points accurately and gradually promote it." Based on his further analysis, ZTE's "precise cloud network" scheme is a relatively light and economical cloud scheme. "In fact, it means that the overall progress, investment and safety can be controlled."

Tu Jiashun said that after ZTE was transformed into an extreme cloud company, its cloud capabilities are basically aligned with those of mainstream cloud companies in the market, including distributed cloud and cloud security.

Fast landing bottleneck industry

Under the path of customized private cloud, ZTE's focus on intelligent transformation industry will be different.

"We believe that in industries that are relatively willing to transform and are in a relatively developing stage, but have encountered certain growth bottlenecks, there will be more demands for digital transformation at this stage." Tu Jiashun analyzed to reporters that from the perspective of technical solutions, enterprises that need accurate and customized cloud services are mainly large enterprises, typical cases such as factories and mining enterprises; while public cloud solutions are more oriented to the mass market, and the main goal is to face all scenarios and solve all problems.

"For industries like factories and mines, accuracy and reliability are the first priority, but the cost is the second and third. So we think it's a lucrative demand with a huge market. " He continued.

Among these huge industrial objects with transformation needs, the manufacturing industry must bear the brunt and be the most willing field. Other industries, including education, finance, logistics and medical treatment, also have active demands for digital transformation.

"For example, coal mines have a large market. If 5g technology is connected to the mine cave, the number of people going down the well can be greatly reduced through remote control, and the number of people who may be affected by mine disasters can be reduced. Another example is port logistics. 5g remote control crane can dispatch multiple machines at the same time, which not only greatly improves the working environment, but also increases the labor productivity by 3-4 times." He told reporters.

"With this end-to-end 5g network, cloud, AI and big data engine, ZTE can customize personalized intelligent manufacturing solutions for all walks of life, thus helping traditional manufacturing enterprises realize the transformation of intelligent manufacturing." Said Tu Shun. (Editor: Xu Xu)