Where is the digital construction road of chemical Enterprises? Look at what BASF, Wanhua Chemical, Sinopec do

On the surface, the digital construction is effective, but it is actually a waste of funds and manpower, buried hidden dangers, and dampened the digital confidence of enterprises.

2. Follow the trend of digitalization

Chinese enterprises have no shortage of initiatives for digital transformation.

According to a survey of nearly 500 process companies by Process Industries magazine last year, nearly 90% of them have already started digital-related work, and nearly half of them have digital transformation as one of their major strategies.

There are many "lighthouse enterprises" in the digital transformation of the chemical industry, and so many enterprises such as BASF and Wanhua Chemical continue to expand their market advantages through digitalization, and most enterprises are aware of the value of digitalization.

Even without policy drivers, many companies are jumping on the bandwagon and preparing for digital transformation.

The problem is that some companies only know why, but not why.

Or hold high the strategic banner of digital transformation, but lack of landing action; Or splurge on software deployments that misinterpret digitalization as tool upgrades; Or think of one is one, urgent online digitization, eager to see the digital results immediately...

3. Digitization from the top down

The digitization of chemical enterprises is not achieved overnight, from a large level, it includes marketing digitization, management digitization, production digitization, involving all aspects of enterprise production and operation.

All the enterprises that have achieved remarkable results in digital transformation at home and abroad have long-term digital strategies and clear digital deployment strategies, from pilot to popularization, and gradually upgrade their existing businesses with digital concepts, tools and methods.

Wanhua Chemical's digital transformation path is typical.

As the world's largest MDI supplier, Wanhua Chemical knows the importance of digitalization and has been continuously promoting enterprise automation and digital upgrading.

Wanhua Chemical has built a series of information systems such as MES, ERP, BW and OA. In recent years, Wanhua has once again led the industrial 4.0 transformation of chemical enterprises and actively used digital technology to promote industrial change.

After a comprehensive evaluation, in 2017, Wanhua decided to take Ningbo Wanhua Base as a pilot to deploy the industrial wisdom Road operation management system and digitally upgrade the traditional operation management method.

Then, in 2018, Wanhua set up the Group Information Strategy Committee to carry out the overall planning and overall promotion of the enterprise's digital transformation.

At the same time, Ningbo Wanhua once again deployed the business data center to open up the scattered data of various internal systems through the industrial wisdom Road, providing efficient data integration, processing and presentation tools for production technicians, and facilitating production optimization and management decisions based on data analysis and mining.

Today, Wanhua's digital transformation has achieved remarkable results, and its digital construction will continue to deepen under the guidance of a unified strategy, and gradually build a world-class digital enterprise with intelligent manufacturing, global integrated management and control, and efficient cooperation in the ecosystem as the main characteristics.

Digitisation is a win for the long-termists.

4. Bottom-up digitization

Let the person who can hear the gunfire make the decision.

Many first-line teams and middle and grass-roots managers of chemical enterprises personally feel the backwardness of their work and the necessity of digital upgrading, and their teams take the lead in trying to digitize, and then gradually promote the digitalization of the entire company from the bottom up.

This bottom-up digitization has low trial and error cost, fast deployment, and high acceptance by front-line employees, so the company should try its best to give support. If a mature digital sample is produced, it is easy to quickly promote to the whole industry line and the whole group.

This is equivalent to the digitalization pilot work that enterprises spend a lot of energy to promote in top-down digitalization.