Foshan | Development of digitalization and intelligent manufacturing

（2 days and 1 night）

【Project background】

Visit model enterprises with successful digital development in China, learn the essence of digital transformation, and feel the importance of big data in the Internet era.

It is undoubtedly the current trend for the manufacturing industry to use digitalization to strengthen enterprise management and create value. Today, global manufacturing companies are actively thinking and trying to seek breakthroughs and improvements in digital intelligence.

The "Lighthouse Factory" is known as the "Oscar" of the intelligent manufacturing industry, representing the high level of intelligent manufacturing and digitalization in the global manufacturing industry. On October 11, 2022, the World Economic Forum announced that 11 new factories have joined its global lighthouse network, including Midea Shunde Factory.

In this context, mici organized a delegation to visit the lighthouse factory in Foshan to understand advanced intelligent technologies and management models, learn the successful experience of intelligent factory construction, digital project management, intelligent services, and industrial Internet, and find new development paths for manufacturing companies to improve production and efficiency.

【Highlights of the trip】

● Visit 3 benchmarking enterprises, visit cutting-edge technologies, and experience the efficiency and intelligence of digital factories

It is one of the companies with the most lighthouse factories in China, and has guided the new direction of digital transformation for the manufacturing industry - Midea Lighthouse Factory

It has the most complete and largest professional production lines for various types of air conditioners in China - Midea Headquarters

It has the essence of Toyota's lean production method and is a successful example of Japanese lean production localization - Foshan J.B. Automotive Products

● 2 in-depth courses to understand the construction of lighthouse factories and the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry

"Midea's Intelligent Manufacturing" - Midea Cloud’s Senior Executives

"Digital Transformation of Manufacturing - Intelligent Manufacturing" - Mr. Wang (Director of Digital Intelligence Industry, Tsinghua Turing Institute)

【Itinerary】

Day1 Foshan

Morning: Visit the company-Midea Lighthouse Factory

Visit process:

1) Visit the exhibition hall

2) Visit the production line

Visit gains:

1) Learn how to use digital and intelligent technologies to empower suppliers and open up the entire chain from suppliers to customers

2) Learn to apply artificial intelligence, digital twins and other fourth industrial revolution technologies in the "end-to-end" value chain to reduce costs and improve efficiency

3) Experience the production efficiency of the lighthouse factory and deliver high-quality products in a shorter delivery period

4) Learn Midea's ideas: focus on technological innovation on the R&D side and focus on smart manufacturing transformation on the manufacturing side

Afternoon: Visit the company - Midea headquarters

Visit process:

1) Visit the exhibition hall

2) Theme: "Midea's Intelligent Manufacturing"

Speaker: Midea Cloud’s Senior Executives

Gains:

1) Learn about Midea's culture and lean management, understand Midea's new products and technologies, and experience the innovative technology of Midea's smart home appliances.

2) Understand Midea's planning and implementation of intelligent manufacturing in recent years, and learn how to use lean manufacturing to develop intelligent manufacturing.

Day2 Foshan

Morning: Visit to the company - Foshan J.B.

Visit process:

1) Senior Executives explanation session: the company's overall business situation

2) Senior Executives sharing session: "Creating miracles, sharing emotions - J.B.'s development process of visualization and digitalization"

3) On-site visit: training room, finished product warehouse, material warehouse, consumables warehouse, quality certification room, production site, office, cafeteria

Gains:

1) You can learn the essence of Toyota's lean production method without going to Japan

2) Explore lean practical experience adapted to local conditions and realize the localization of lean management in China

2) Learn to improve the visualization and digitalization of equipment maintenance and warehouse management

Afternoon: Expert course

Topic: "Digital Transformation of Manufacturing - Intelligent Manufacturing"

Lecturer: Mr. Wang, an expert in digitalization and intelligentization of industry and finance

Outline:

1) Top-level thinking of digitalization

▶ Introduction of digitalization concepts

▶ Overall framework of digitalization

▶ Which digital technologies should we focus on

▶ What are the three necessary stages of digital transformation

▶ Two cores of digital transformation

2) Digital transformation in the industrial field - intelligent manufacturing

▶ Core technologies of intelligent manufacturing

▶ How digitalization helps enterprises improve quality, increase efficiency, reduce costs and increase revenue

▶ How enterprises develop intelligent manufacturing

3) Principles of intelligence and prospects of intelligent manufacturing

▶ 2 underlying principles of artificial intelligence

▶ 6 underlying routines of artificial intelligence

▶ 6 steps to implement artificial intelligence

▶ 7 major scenarios for AI implementation in manufacturing

Gains:

1) Master the top-level thinking of digital transformation

2) Understand the internal connection of the 7 major systems of intelligent manufacturing

3) Understand the 2 methodologies for developing intelligent manufacturing

4) Master the underlying principles of intelligence

5) Take stock of the 7 major scenarios of AI in the field of intelligent manufacturing

6）Understand a large number of relevant cases, as well as the experiences and lessons behind them