Based on the three unification, the implementation of seven changes, into the smart mine fast lane

At present, China's digital economy is deeply integrated with the real economy, and the transformation of traditional industries empowered by digital technology is entering the fast lane. Seizing the strategic opportunity of the development of the digital economy and combining the leading advantages of China's digital industry with the rich scenes and massive data of China's industry is the key to promoting the high-quality development of industry digitalization. The establishment of Huawei's coal mining Corps is an important step forward for the digital industry to take the initiative to face the mining industry and explore the practice of integrating digital technology with the real economy.

In recent years, the intelligent construction of coal mine in China has made a leap-forward development. First, thanks to a series of policy traction. For example, in 2020, eight ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Intelligent Development of Coal Mines, providing policy support for the construction of smart mines. Second, it is inseparable from advanced coal production enterprises to increase investment in intelligent scientific research and lead the acceleration of industry innovation. Third, the smart mining industry ecology and standards are becoming more and more perfect. With the joint efforts of administrative departments, associations, coal mining enterprises, and scientific research institutions, great progress has been made in technological innovation and standards. Especially in the formulation of standards, the State Administration of Mine Safety has promoted the development of 92 standards in related fields such as intelligent control systems and production auxiliary systems, guided the establishment of a mining big data industry group under the Big Data Standards Working Group of the National Information Technology Standards Committee, and organized the compilation of the "Intelligent Mine Data Fusion and Sharing Specifications". The intelligent mine standard system has been further improved.

The "three unified" intelligent mine industrial Internet is the core of accelerating the high-quality construction of intelligent mines

Entering the era of industrial Internet, Huawei Coal mining Corps and large coal production enterprises and industry partners in the practice of intelligent mine construction, to explore the "unified standard, unified architecture" intelligent mine industrial Internet as the only way to intelligent coal mines, through the "unified data specification" to give full play to the value of data as the core factor of production has become a common demand of the industry.

The essence of mine intelligence is the industrial Internet, which means that the need for hierarchical decoupling, platform sharing, capacity co-construction, ecological prosperity, in order to achieve industry knowledge and scene experience more quickly in the industry is widely invoked. Administrative departments, coal production enterprises, equipment manufacturers, and application system developers have participated in the alliances or organizations of standards, architectures, and protocols with an open attitude, jointly promoting innovation cooperation, and promoting the efficient and large-scale development of smart mine construction.

The core of the intelligent mining industrial Internet architecture is to build a unified standard, a unified architecture, and a unified data specification, which has become a general consensus in the industry. First of all, in terms of unified standards, industry participants give play to their respective advantages, based on unified standards to promote the ability to build and widely share, accelerate the speed of intelligent construction, increase the depth of innovation; Secondly, the industrial Internet inherits part of the genes of the consumer Internet. On the basis of ensuring the "direction is roughly correct", the industrial Internet architecture is referred to, and agile development and iteration are carried out based on a unified platform to win the innovation opportunity. Thirdly, the unified platform opens up the multi-chimney system, and the data is unified into the lake quickly and efficiently with a unified data specification. The data flows across systems and fields within the enterprise and the industry, uniformly accessing equipment and terminals downward, and enabling various applications upward. With its own advantages in ICT technology, Huawei cooperated with National Energy Group to build a mining iot operating system and design industry data standards to solve problems in the industry.

Implement the "seven major changes" to build intelligent mining industrial Internet and enter the fast lane of intelligent mining

As we all know, the mining industry has the characteristics of complex production environment, diverse working scenes, heavy equipment assets, rich knowledge and experience, etc. Intelligent mine construction is a complex system project. Practical experience shows that the implementation of the "seven major changes" can accelerate the landing of the intelligent mining industrial Internet.

1. Real-time interconnection of all things is the basis of intelligent mining industrial Internet.

The Internet of Everything is the contact point between the digital world and the physical world, and the data source for intelligent decision-making. Coal mine workers, equipment, environment, data and applications are connected together through the network to achieve comprehensive interconnection, real-time perception, reliable transmission, automatic control, and then support the whole enterprise and the whole industry chain of production tools and production methods. Therefore, it is not only required that all types of equipment have intelligent capabilities, but also have ubiquitous networking capabilities.

Mining Hong is not only an operating system for the mining industry all things intelligent link, but also provides a set of industry data protocols. On the one hand, all kinds of coal mine equipment will be intelligent, improve the online rate of equipment, so that more equipment "can talk"; On the other hand, at the source of data generation, the language of the device dialogue is unified, so that the device "speaks Mandarin", and the integration of the device and digital platform is quickly enabled. As a data flow channel, the new mine network is a communication scheme based on the mine scenario, which meets the requirements of security, easy installation, easy maintenance and easy management in the mine scenario. On the basis of ensuring network performance, smart mine construction is more efficient and safer.

2. Data-driven decision-making, whole-field, whole-process, whole-cycle data flow to support decision-making.

As a new production factor, data determines the optimal allocation efficiency of enterprise resources and leads the transformation of production mode and industrial model. The essence of data-driven is to optimize resource allocation, improve quality, increase efficiency and reduce cost through the automatic flow of data in the whole process of production, the whole industrial chain and the whole life cycle of products, and drive enterprise innovation.

First of all, the key to big data is the integration of multidimensional data, and the more effective data convergence, the higher the value. By connecting all kinds of coal mine equipment and data into the lake, carrying out data management, integrating personnel, mining, main transportation, ventilation, water supply and drainage, communication, video, alarm and other data in one, it can realize the comprehensive perception of coal mine production situation and intelligent scheduling management.

Second, the earlier and wider the application of "data-driven decision making" in enterprise processes, the lower the overall cost and the higher the benefit.

In addition, the establishment of the whole process, the whole life cycle of the data operation mechanism, from the source to ensure the quality and quantity of data, to ensure the realization of data value.

3. Software defines the mine, and software 2.0 can fundamentally solve the challenges of diverse coal mine scenarios and complex environment.

Mining enterprises have accumulated a large number of valuable assets in the process of mechanization and automation, such as heavy assets of large-scale equipment, a large number of intangible assets such as industry experience, technology and knowledge. As the carrier of experience and knowledge, software is the digital expression form of the operation law of the physical world. Software-defined equipment and software-defined operation process precipitate tangible assets and intangible assets into models, form massive software assets to give play to new values of equipment, and make experience and knowledge widely applied through the industrial Internet.

Traditional software development is based on the design, development and testing of clear requirements, such as the sensor detects that the gas concentration reaches a specified threshold and sends a corresponding alarm. However, just as the car autonomous driving needs to deal with a variety of complex surrounding environment such as weather, road surface, pedestrians, vehicles, etc., the coal mine environment also has characteristics such as variability and complexity, these characteristics determine that future applications can not be like traditional software development, by the programmer to specify how to run the software. Software 2.0 will be the key to solving these scenarios, that is, in the case of not completely clear requirements, through a small number of code + a large number of data sets for deep learning, iterative, generate new code and software, continuous learning and optimization, to make accurate analysis and decisions. Software 2.0 is expected to fundamentally solve the problems of complex underground scenes, and drive the construction of intelligent mines to a deeper level and a larger scale.

4. Platform supported collaboration, building a cross-system, enterprise, industry collaboration platform.

The industrial Internet platform is a base for industrial digitalization, networking and intelligence. It builds a system of mass data collection, aggregation and analysis based on cloud edge collaboration, forms a hub for enterprise and industry information aggregation and exchange, and supports the ubiquitous connection, flexible supply and efficient allocation of production resources.

Intelligent mining industrial Internet integrates data and models based on a unified platform to provide cloud-native intelligent services, that is, "data + model = service". The unified platform supports cross-system integration of multi-source data, combines with the platform's equipment model, mechanism model and business model, and is widely used in operation and management, equipment fault diagnosis and health management, production quality management, production efficiency optimization, equipment efficiency optimization, production safety and other industrial scenarios to achieve management optimization, production quality and efficiency improvement, increased safety and reduced consumption.

5. Value-added services, product reengineering, equipment, business and experience service, jointly create new value of the industry.

With the popularization of digital technology, the traditional business model with product as the core is changing to the model of "product + service". The value-added service means that the enterprise adds intelligent modules to the product, connects the product to the Internet and collects operational data in real time, and uses big data analysis to provide diversified intelligent services, releases the value of the stock equipment production system, and realizes product reengineering.

In the intelligent construction of coal mine, the value-added service is mainly reflected in three levels. First, the extension of equipment service, equipment enterprises based on the industrial Internet to provide intelligent services, such as predictive operation and maintenance, spare parts management, life cycle management, etc., to reduce maintenance or fault downtime, to help mining enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency; Second, business service, mining enterprises will their own excellent scene experience and knowledge, based on ICT technology innovation, development into intelligent systems and applications, provide more mining enterprises, production experience into new income; The third is the application of intelligent services to improve efficiency, and mining enterprises deploy intelligent applications based on new technologies such as big data and AI to improve enterprise benefits, such as intelligent inspection and intelligent monitoring.

6. Artificial intelligence leads, artificial intelligence large-scale "down the well", few people are safe, no one is safe.

The future trend of smart mines is to use artificial intelligence to replace people in dangerous work and repetitive labor and precipitate expert experience in the case of improving efficiency. In the mining industry, the industrial Internet must not only meet the needs of intelligent operation decision-making for enterprises, but also meet the needs of intelligent analysis for a variety of production scenarios.

As an emerging technology, AI provides the industry with general capabilities such as hardware, framework, and operators. However, industry scenarios are dedicated and massive, and there is a natural rift between the generality of AI technology and the specificity and diversity of industry scenarios. To cross this rift valley, we must lower the threshold for AI development and achieve "industrial production" of AI applications. Huawei Pangu Mine large model provides the basic capabilities of AI development, creates a platform for efficient and large-scale development of AI in the mining industry, jointly innovates with mining enterprises and partners, iterates one scene at a time, covers thousands of mine models, and finally realizes the intelligence of the whole system.

7. Organizational restructuring, cross-border collaboration between different organizations within the enterprise and the industry, cross-border integration of scenes, equipment and artificial intelligence technology.

In order to make agile demands on traditional enterprises, the virtual, flat and ecological organization and business form have become a trend, and enterprises must make timely response in organization and process, and establish a new organization with flexibility, adaptability and differentiation to adapt to the rapid changes in the enterprise environment. The operation mode of the Coal mining army is a kind of organizational reconstruction, which is a multi-arms synthetic combat mode, which will effectively integrate the industry's scene experience, equipment capability, AI technology, and bring digital technology into the mining industry and integrate into the real economy.

Since its establishment, Huawei Coal Mining Corps has adhered to the goal of "finding technology for the industry", not only finding technology from within Huawei, but also finding technology from the industry. Based on the ICT technology platform, relying on the intelligent mine ecology of open cooperation, integrating scene experience, equipment hardware and AI technology, incubating a large number of intelligent capabilities and promoting the extensive use of excellent capabilities.

Huawei Coal Mining Corps is driven by the vision of "few people, no one, safe and efficient" mining, grasps the characteristics of the industrial Internet, and works together with the industry to promote the construction of intelligent mining industrial Internet based on the "three unified" implementation of the "seven major transformations", and deeply integrates digital technology into the mine production process. To this end, we will not only continue to invest in technological innovation, but also to a more open platform, a wide range of ecological partners and scientific research institutes to jointly serve the intelligent construction of mines. At the same time, Huawei Coal mining Corps will also share its own technology, actively participate in the improvement of standards with outstanding industry partners, effectively implement "unified standards, unified architecture, and unified data specifications", further release the value of intelligent mining industrial Internet in the industry, and ultimately achieve "coal mining workers wear suits and ties".