Rubber industry "four modernizations" transformation and development is just in time

Frontier science and technology give birth to the development of new forms, models and paths of our economy

The first three industrial revolutions were marked by steam, electricity, and programmable computers.

The fourth Industrial Revolution will be characterized by the ubiquity and increased mobility of the Internet compared to the past; Sensors are smaller, more powerful and less costly; At the same time, artificial intelligence and machine learning are coming to the fore. The fourth industrial revolution is marked by the industrialization of the Internet and industrial intelligence, and its essence is to promote the dramatic improvement of productivity, which is completely subverting our way of life and work. In terms of scale, breadth, and complexity, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is radically different from what mankind has experienced in the past. In particular, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will enhance and drive the development of smart factories, enabling flexible collaboration between virtual and physical production systems on a global scale, significantly increasing efficiency, helping to customize product production, and enabling new operating models.

In recent years, a series of waves of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G, and blockchain have swept in, pushing the world's new industrial revolution to a new stage. During this period, China rode the momentum and took a leading position in some fields. In the new stage of the new industrial revolution, the scientific and technological revolution, as a new driving force, will inevitably give birth to the development of new economic formats, new models and new paths, and put forward new directions and goals for the transformation and development of China's manufacturing industry.

The year 2020 is the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" for China's economic development, and it is also the transition period between the "13th Five-Year Plan" and the "14th Five-Year Plan". In the new stage of the new industrial revolution, in the new domestic and foreign economic situation, China's rubber industry to adopt the "digital, intelligent, platform, green" of the "four modernizations" transformation and development is the right time, is an important strategy to accelerate the construction of rubber industry power.

The international competition of science and technology prompts China to accelerate the transformation and development of manufacturing industry

The economy of our country is facing the new problems of international development in the new stage. At present, we live in a digital age, and the Internet is an important feature. The Internet was invented by the US Department of Defense, and the essence revealed by the Sino-US trade war situation is a digital dispute, a scientific and technological dispute. As the creator and influence of the Internet, the influence of the United States is no longer in doubt. Under the guidance of the current "America First" philosophy, it is redeploying its strategy to treat China as a competitor and put comprehensive pressure on China in political, military, economic and other aspects. The United States has used tariffs as a weapon to launch a trade war, and more seriously, it has launched sanctions against high-tech companies such as Huawei in an attempt to suppress China's digital development and technological leadership in order to maintain the competitive advantage of the United States and continue "America first". This digital battle, the war of science and technology is related to national rejuvenation and national prosperity. The severe international competition situation of science and technology makes our country must accelerate the transformation and development of manufacturing industry.

According to the development trend of the new industrial revolution, the domestic and foreign economic situation and the national policy on intelligent manufacturing, as well as the status quo of China's rubber industry, the author believes that China's rubber industry has made important progress in the period of intelligent manufacturing in this new industrial revolution, the new stage of the new industrial revolution to seize the opportunity, keep pace with The Times, Put forward the "four modernizations" development strategy of "digitalization, intellectualization, platform, and green", and accelerate the transformation and development of "new formats, new models, and new paths" of China's rubber industry.

Digitalization is the basis for the transformation and development of rubber industry

Now digitalization is everywhere, all information is basically in the form of digital existence, in fact, such changes have taken place around us, mobile payment, shared bicycles, etc., are subverting the tradition and creating a new way of life. In fact, we ourselves already exist in the digital world.

Digitization is the foundation of digital computer. Without digital technology, there would be no computer today, because all the operations and functions of digital computers are done with numbers. Digitalization is the foundation of multimedia technology. Digital, text, image, voice and other information and information processing equipment will change in the direction of digitalization, and communication networks will also develop in the direction of digitalization. Digitization is the foundation of software technology. The system software, tool software, application software, etc., and the digital filtering, coding, encryption, and decompression in signal processing technology are all based on digitalization. Digitization is a prerequisite for all cutting-edge technologies. A number of digital technologies have been applied in each field, not only including cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, mobile technology, etc., but also a series of cutting-edge technologies have emerged, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, edge computing, etc. Artificial intelligence is opening a new round of digital technology upgrades, blockchain technology is rebuilding the trust and credit system, edge computing and cloud computing collaborative interaction is injecting a catalyst for Internet of things applications, 5G with high speed, low latency, wide connectivity characteristics, become the key to lead digital communication and the Internet of everything, will greatly promote the rapid development of autonomous vehicles and intelligent manufacturing.

Using digital simulation means, digital products and product systems can be manufactured, and process design can be transformed from empirical experiments to scientific reasoning. In order to achieve the digitalization of product expression, manufacturing equipment, manufacturing process and manufacturing system, digital data support is needed. The data includes the coupling of geometric and mechanical behaviors of equipment and products, detailed analysis of product information, product process information and product resource information, and planning and recombination of products to realize prototype manufacturing and product simulation of product design and product functions, further accelerate production, and achieve the performance required by users. At present, digital production has become a new trend in the development of global manufacturing industry.

At present, China's rubber industry has the problem of unbalanced and insufficient digital development, in order to speed up the formation of a data chain through the whole process and the whole field, it is necessary to consolidate the digital foundation, accelerate the application of digital technology, equipment and systems in the production process, and further improve the numerical control rate of key processes and the network rate of digital production equipment.

The development of intelligent transformation of China's rubber industry is imperative

In the new stage, the development of intelligent manufacturing in China's rubber industry has also entered a deep water area. In the Internet era, China's rubber industry to seize the opportunity, in 2014 launched the "China Rubber industry power development Strategy Research", clearly put forward the rubber industry intelligent manufacturing strategic measures and the road map for building a rubber industry power; In 2016, the intelligent manufacturing of China's rubber industry took an important step, and the construction of intelligent tire factories made a major breakthrough, which is a new symbol of the construction of a powerful rubber industry and has milestone significance; In 2017, a number of tire companies have built smart factories in succession, and began to establish smart factories abroad, and the integration of the rubber industry and the Internet has emerged as a new trend. The intelligent demand of the rubber industry has promoted a number of software companies to enter the innovative rubber industry Internet, which has begun to form a new situation of the integration of the rubber industry and the software industry; In 2018, smart tire equipment continued to improve, test equipment and instruments were intelligent, MES and other software were further implemented, intelligent recycled rubber (rubber powder) factories were successively operated, and rubber industry apps were continuously developed and applied. At the same time, in line with the needs of intelligent tire manufacturing, new rubber materials, skeleton materials and auxiliaries have been developed. Began to attach importance to the development of rubber industry intelligent manufacturing standards. Non-tire industry intelligent manufacturing progress; In 2019, the intelligent manufacturing of the rubber industry continued to develop, the framework system of the intelligent tire factory was gradually improved, the intelligent factory of waste tire cracking was completed and put into operation, and some non-tire factories made progress in the intelligent transformation of some manufacturing sections and logistics.

Although China's rubber industry intelligent manufacturing has made great progress, there is still a certain gap with the requirements of the development of the national industrial Internet and compared with advanced industries. For example, the digital level of the rubber industry is low, the Internet architecture, the identification analysis technology system and the formulation of relevant standards are relatively lagging behind, the lack of Internet platform construction, the backward development of the rubber industry APP, the low level of hardware and software integration, and the intelligent manufacturing of the non-tire industry is generally backward. China has entered a new era of intelligent manufacturing in the rubber industry, and a few enterprises have made breakthroughs in intelligent manufacturing, but the entire rubber industry is still unbalanced. Now the development of the rubber industry has also encountered the same contradiction of China's economic development, that is, the structural defects of the supply side are serious, and it has fallen into an unprecedented predicament. According to the current situation of intelligent manufacturing in China's tire and rubber industry, it is imperative to continue to deepen manufacturing intelligence. Intelligent strategy is the leader of the "Four modernizations", and it must be in charge of the overall situation.

Platformization is an important model for the transformation and development of rubber industry

In the past few years, the industrial Internet has accelerated its rise and development on a global scale, triggering the accelerated integration and innovation of information technology and manufacturing technology, and driving the intelligent development of manufacturing. As the industrial Internet moves towards application deployment, the industrial Internet platform, as an important carrier of industrial data integration and industrial application innovation, is becoming the core of industrial competition in the new industrial Revolution.

A platform business model is a business model that connects two (or more) specific groups, provides them with a system of interaction, meets the requirements of all groups, and makes money from it.

The commercial revolution brought by the platform has rewritten the current and future business survival rules, and this wave has now spread from the Internet industry to other industries, it can be said that the past decade is the outbreak of the platform business model in the Internet industry, then the next 10 years will be the golden age of the transformation and application of the platform business model in the traditional manufacturing industry. At the same time, the deep integration of the Internet and the field of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery (primary industry) will also be in-depth, and all industries will operate in the mode of Internet platform in the future, which will completely subvert the traditional economic operation mode.

In the future, the industrial Internet platform is not only a typical form and model of the "integration of the two industries", but also the basic direction and main support of the "integration of the two industries". At present, the development of global industrial Internet platforms is still in its initial stage. Compared with other countries, China's industrial Internet platform is not late to start, but it faces many problems, especially in the industrial software is very weak, and special policies and measures must be taken to strengthen the independent construction of industrial software.

China's rubber industry is a typical traditional manufacturing industry, which is in the exploratory stage in the construction of Internet platforms. In the new industrial Revolution period, the same is facing a big change, only by seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the rubber industry can be transformed and upgraded to further develop into a modern rubber industry power. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to innovate, and the establishment of rubber industry Internet platform and enterprise Internet platform is an important model of transformation and development.

Greening should run through the whole rubber industry chain

The essence of green is through technological innovation and system optimization, green product design, green technology and process, green production, green management, green supply chain, green recycling and other concepts throughout the product life cycle, to achieve less environmental impact of the whole industry chain, higher resource and energy utilization efficiency, to obtain economic benefits, ecological benefits and social benefits coordinated optimization. The implementation of green manufacturing is the concrete embodiment of the concept of green development in the production field, and is an effective measure to implement the strategy of manufacturing power, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and achieve high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.

In 2016, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology formulated and issued the "13th Five-Year Plan for Industrial Green Development" and the "Green Manufacturing Engineering Implementation Guide", which clearly put forward the overall idea, key tasks and safeguard measures for comprehensively promoting green manufacturing and accelerating industrial green development. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the tire rubber industry has done a lot of work in the green aspect, the comprehensive recycling technology and utilization rate of waste tires ranks among the world's advanced level, the implementation of tire "label law" has made important progress, some enterprises have made waste gas and dust treatment standards in the smelting workshop, and have begun to pay attention to the development and application of natural or bio-based rubber raw materials. However, there is a certain gap with the national higher standard of environmental protection requirements and the green development goal of the rubber industry, and there is also an imbalance in various regions and enterprises.

In the future, the green strategy should run through the whole rubber industry chain, continue to deepen and popularize a number of rubber industry green manufacturing projects, such as gradually expanding the development and application of natural and bio-based rubber raw materials, and reduce the dependence on fossil resources; Continue to implement tire "labeling law"; The comprehensive recycling of waste tires and the treatment of "three wastes" in tire and rubber factories are completely realized.

It is timely to respond to the development of the "new four modernizations" of the automobile with the "four modernizations" of the rubber industry

The rubber industry is closely related to the development of the automobile industry, and most rubber products are for the automobile. At present, the development of the "new four modernizations" of the automobile "electrification, intelligence, network connection and sharing" is unstoppable, and it is urgent for the rubber industry to cooperate with it. The "Four modernizations" strategy of "digitalization, intelligence, platform and green" of the rubber industry fits the development of the "new four modernizations" of the automobile and is timely.

The integration of the "four modernizations" is the key to the transformation and development of the rubber industry

On November 10, 2019, 15 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Deep Integration of Advanced Manufacturing and Modern Service Industries", clearly proposing the concept of integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, which is an important direction for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry. It is an accurate expression of the integration of industrialization and information technology in the new era, which indicates that the integrated development of manufacturing and service industries will further expand in depth.

In the new stage of the new industrial revolution, China's rubber industry should seize the opportunity to effectively implement the "four modernizations" integration strategy of "digitalization, intelligence, platform, and green", which is the key to the transformation and development of the rubber industry.