5G driving industrial chain transformation and upgrading the new blue ocean

Shanxi Unicom engineering and technical personnel perform equipment installation and debugging under the well under the well

Located in Huozhou coal and Ponchuria Coal Mine, located in the Shanxi Coke Coal Group, sitting in a spacious and bright remote control "space capsule", the coal mining driver wore a new white shirt and skillfully manipulated the main order controller in his hand. In the six LCD display in front of it, you can see 360 ​​degrees in the 800 -meter mine at 360 degrees. The precisely controlled excavator is working in an orderly manner. The application of remote "one -click coal mining" has successfully allowed the crew to complete the leap from "black -collar" to "white -collar".

The realization of all this is inseparable from the full scene product supply system created by the China Unicom Smart Mine Legion. Since the beginning of this year, China Unicom has been looking for breakthroughs in the 5G+Industrial Internet field, and the business model led by TO B (facing enterprises) is accelerating expansion.

Leap from "1 to N"

"At present, 5G applications have achieved a breakthrough from '0 to 1', and they are achieving a leap from '1 to N'. Chinese operators pay more attention to the high -quality coordinated development of the industry in the 5G era." At the 2022 World 5G Conference, Liu Liehong, chairman of China Unicom, evaluated the development status of the 5G industry.

This is also the goal of China Unicom's introduction of the "China Unicom 5G Application" Sailing "Action Plan (2022-2025). According to the plan deployment, the company will focus on creating IT (information technology), CT (communication technology), and OT (operating technology) deeply integrating new ecology to promote the depth and breadth of 5G applications in key areas, enhance the network, platform, terminal, application, and Core competitiveness such as security.

"In the past, 2G, 3G, and 4G's application models were relatively single. The mainstream approach was to build the Internet well and then provide users to use it." Insiders of China Unicom talked about his experience in recent years, he said that in the 5G era, It is not entirely a product to build the Internet. It is more to help enterprises in the vertical industry understand information technology and meet their business needs through them.

He emphasized that 5G applications not only refer to 5G technology, but refer to the integration of 5G, the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, edge computing and other technologies with the real economy.

4G changes life, 5G changes society. In his opinion, the current 5G integration application is accelerating the landing. The TO B market in the industrial Internet, smart medical care, Internet of Vehicle, and digital governments occupy an absolute advantage. The corporate market will become the benign compressor and propeller of 5G commercial development. "Only by using the most suitable technology to help companies solve problems and find business models at the same time can this application be sustainable."

Data from the China Institute of Information and Communication show that in 2021, 5G directly drove the total economic output of 1.3 trillion yuan, directly driving the economic added value of about 300 billion yuan. It is expected that my country's 5G network will directly create over 3 million jobs in 2025, driving more than 8 trillion yuan of emerging consumption, forming a trillion -level 5G related products and service markets.

Under this trend, it is the only way to promote the digital transformation of industries with 5G scale applications. Insiders of China Unicom said that 5G will be an innovative platform for the vertical industry in the future, which will be very applied and valuable.

In response to the key areas in the vertical industry, China Unicom has set up nine major industry legions for equipment manufacturing, smart mines, smart steel, clothing manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, smart medical care, smart legal affairs, smart emergency, and smart transportation. As of August, the company has built more than 500 5G lighthouse projects, expanded more than 9,000 5G industry application commercialization projects, and fully sailed to 5G applications.

Intelligent manufacturing is a key field

"Earlier, the mining of coal mines must be done by manually adjusting the hydraulic bracket. The use of China Unicom's 5G special network high upward, low latency, high reliability and other technologies can remotely control the bracket movement in the office without having to return to return to return to return. The coal mining is risky. "Li Mou, a coal mining worker of Ponchuria, said that it was difficult to hide the joy when talking about this change.

He told everyone that in two years, China Unicom introduced 5G and iPran (wireless access network IP) technology to build an industrial ring network, with more than 400,000 mega transmission performance and slicing capacity. The isolation transmission greatly reduces the workload on the spot and ensures personal safety.

And this is just a microcosm of 5G empowering the construction of smart mines. Under the vigorous advancement of China Unicom, Pang Pangta Coal Mine has landed at 50,000 mega in October 2020, a total of 400,000 megama, a total of 400,000 mega -width. network. At present, it is piloting a series of core coal mine core production control applications such as unmanned driving and 5G+intelligent comprehensive mining of 5G+card rail vehicles to promote the moving towards "less people and unmanned".

"Intelligent manufacturing is an important area of ​​5G applications." In the view of the insiders of China Unicom, there are two factors that drive 5G development. One is technology -driven and the other is market -driven. When analyzing technology -driven, he said that through 5G, edge computing, and network slicing, you can effectively transform the current industrial environment, and open up a dedicated virtual network for industry users on the 5G network to meet their customized needs of the network. Making smart manufacturing deeper and more transparent.

Capgemini (Capgemini) has investigated more than 800 industrial manufacturing companies in its published white paper. After 5G ranked secondary, it ranked second and was regarded as a key technology for digital transformation by manufacturing. Gu Yuejun, the chief information officer of Yagol Clothing Manufacturing Co., Ltd., explained this by the company's own practice. With the support of China Unicom, Yagore built a unified management and production linkage 5G multi -park special network in Ningbo Headquarters, Jilin Hunchun, and Ruili, Yunnan, to create the first 5G full -connected factory in the province. Manufacturing execution) multiple 5G application scenarios such as control systems, intelligent tailoring systems, and hanging flow lines.

For example, Gu Yuejun said that through the MES control system issued instructions, the fabric can "know" where you are going to do, and automatically complete the intelligent pairing of the jacket and pants. The direct benefit brought by this is that the production cycle of the finished product is shortened from 15 days to 5 days, the production cycle of batch orders is shortened by 35%, and the production efficiency of unilateral work levels has increased by 25%. "The advantage is very obvious."

In fact, such cases are no longer a few. For example, China Unicom provided 5G MEC (mobile edge computing) hybrid special network solutions provided by China Unicom's digital factory construction, which has achieved workshop high -definition video monitoring, environmental data collection, and unified control of workshop equipment networking, which improves the efficiency of comprehensive operations near 20%; 5G digital farm created by the Heilongjiang North Great Wilderness Group, penetrating 5G and other digital technologies throughout the cultivation, tube, and collecting full links, solving problems such as the breeding and precision seeds of black land protection, and achieving water saving 20. %, An increase of more than 200 yuan per mu.

At present, the digital transformation of almost every industry is inseparable from 5G empowerment. Insiders within China Unicom believe that the 5G special network should be regarded as an important starting point, superimposed edge computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to improve production efficiency and promote the deep development of 5G integrated applications.

Open the industrial chain transformation and upgrade the new blue ocean

While 5G changes the economic and society, it is also promoting the transformation and upgrading of the 5G industrial chain, value chain, and innovation chain. A significant change is that China Unicom is no longer positioning the role of "channel providers" in the traditional sense, but to provide toolboxes and methodology for transformation and upgrading of various industries.

"Communication operators want to expand the 5G To B market, and the concept must be shifted from 'selling the network' to provides 5G integrated solutions to the vertical industry customers." China Unicom insider said that the company should consider 5G embedded in the entire process of production and operation of enterprises research and development, production, manufacturing, sales, etc., to provide customers with an integrated solution for "dedicated network+terminal+platform+application" closed loop.

"5G is not just 5G of operators, but also 5G of thousands of industry." He emphasized that only in depth cooperation with industrial partners can we make a "circle of friends" that enlarged 5G applications. This requires telecommunications operators Corporate cooperation.

In May this year, China Unicom and China Information and Communication Research Institute and industry leading enterprises set up a 5G OpenLab Open Laboratory to carry out business cooperation from three aspects: improvement of 5G application custom service capabilities, promoting 5G application incubation commercial closed loop, and promoting ecological integration of 5G application industry. It aims to create a joint innovation technical service platform through the integration of all parties of the industry.

According to the plan, the 5G Internet of Things OpenLab Open Lab will create a joint ecological certification management system and integration certification mechanism to realize the interoperability of test resources and the sharing of ecological results. At the same time, through professional test process management, 5G innovation and open test environment is provided for the industrial chain.

As of now, the laboratory has attracted the settlement of Ziguang Zhanrui, Shiyuan, Hongdian Co., Ltd., Miggian Smart, Guanghetong, Sixin and other companies, and established the first batch of nearly 100 5G industry terminal ecological libraries.

From the perspective of industry experts, this reflects the new strategic concept of China Unicom's "integration and opening up". It is precisely the mutually beneficial and win -win industrial chain supply chain system advocated by the country. The change of the modern industrial system must be based on the basis of co -construction, co -governance sharing, and everyone to discuss the establishment of rules to allow the society to share communication technology.

This also means that with the clearer 5G technology standards and more similar application scenarios, the beautiful vision of the high -quality development brought about by the connection brings to the connection is not far from the future. (Lian Ping)

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