Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Regardless of whether you can afford it or not, reality is reality, and the situation is what it is.

Often at such times, someone will start to rebel.

In mid-January, Gale Group ushered in a new guest, CEO Dreischer from Siemens.

Dreischer and Meng Qian were talking about smart home appliances at the beginning, but they talked about the entire Industrial Internet of Things.

This is actually the reason why Siemens was the first to rebel. At this time, Siemens’ mind is no longer in the home appliance industry. The former Siemens completely withdrew from the home appliance field through sales in 2014. Although the Siemens brand is still there, Siemens home appliances are already Bosch. Yes, Siemens itself is focusing on electrification, automation and digital development.

Again, most of the collapses of buildings were not ad hoc. The Siemens incident in 2014 also started planning a long time ago.

Siemens began to lay out the Industrial Internet of Things in 2011, and officially launched the MindSphere Industrial Internet of Things platform of Siemens in 2017. Of course, this is a previous life. In this life, Meng Qian's cloud-intelligent connection has promoted the development of the entire industry. Siemens also started earlier Layout this matter.

Therefore, Siemens will inevitably take the lead in rebellion, and the home appliance industry may quit in two years. Regardless of whether it is the Chinese standard or the American standard, it is the right thing to hurry up and engage in the future trend of cloud and intelligent manufacturing.

But during the communication, Dreischer made Meng Qian feel uncomfortable.

Dreischer's attitude is very similar to some European entrepreneurs Meng Qian had contacted in the past. They always felt that Huaxia's industry was very backward, so the cooperation with Huaxia enterprises was like a kind of charity, and there was always a sense of nobility between the lines.

Of course, in terms of facts, China’s industrial base in 2012 was indeed inferior to that of Europe, and Meng Qian really hoped to cooperate with more companies with strong industrial bases, including Dafeng Group’s development, which was also built on the basis of stronger corporate cooperation. Up.

But Meng Qian's basic attitude towards cooperation is based on basic respect and equality.

People on the mountain should never laugh at those on the mountain. Some people don't seem to understand this truth.

Especially in 2012, looking at Huaxia with colored glasses, it is really quite disappointing.

Meng Qian kept smiling and looked at Dreischer, letting him show off the so-called nobility of Siemens, "Since we have talked so much, let me take Mr. Dreischer to learn about our technological development."

"OK."

"IoT technologies such as sensors and PLCs have existed in the industrial field for decades. The development of the Industrial Internet of Things actually has a natural innate advantage, so the first step in the development of the Industrial Internet of Things is to upgrade.

For example, the upgrade of sensors, because the core of the Industrial Internet of Things is the collection and processing of industrial big data, so as to realize intelligent manufacturing, so we need to turn every link and equipment in the production process into a data terminal, and collect basic data in an all-round way .

Therefore, traditional sensors must evolve into smart sensors, and the core of smart sensors is a microprocessor, which needs to be driven by a microprocessor. Our smart sensors can now detect and store physical quantities, and create new data after processing these data through instructions. Realize the purpose of intelligence.

But one of the problems we have now is the microprocessor design of smart sensors, we always have trouble with some traditional algorithms being overdone.

I don't know how Siemens solved this problem? "

Dreischer choked while looking at the smart sensor exhibited by Meng Qian. How did Siemens deal with it? Siemens has not yet figured out what a smart sensor is.

"It seems that Mr. Dreischer is not willing to share." Meng Qian pretended to be stupid, "Then let's talk about the implementation of the Industrial Internet of Things. We all know that data collection is only the beginning of the information value loop. , How to analyze and use the massive data collected to support decision-making is the focus of value creation.

But judging from the industry information we know so far, our companies in China are still in the perception stage of data application, and there is still a long way to go before the action stage.

The vast majority of Chinese enterprises are only using the collected data to explain the laws and root causes of historical performance, and almost no enterprises have started to use data for predictive analysis to guide corporate actions.

What we are considering and discussing now is, which angle should we start from to better break through this bottleneck? Can Dreischer give you some advice? "

"Well?" What Dreischer is thinking now is, have your Huaxia companies started to apply it in the perception stage? Can you tell me how to apply it to the perception stage first?

"If it's still inconvenient, forget it." Meng Qian continued to pretend to be stupid, "Can Mr. Dreischer share some of your views on the future direction of the entire Industrial Internet of Things? Because this matter is actually very important to us now. Said to be very confused.

The main applications we can see now are aspects such as fault prediction, remote diagnosis, industrial production line analysis, and energy consumption optimization.

But we have been thinking about what the deeper level of the Industrial Internet of Things can bring us. In our understanding, the Industrial Internet of Things must be a technology that brings foresight to enterprises, but industrial needs are different from Internet needs. Foresight tends to be more concentrated on the production line itself, but from the perspective of the enterprise, the final face must still be the customer.

Then it will involve services, customization and other issues. Our current supply chain design is based on the core of user needs. It stands to reason that the construction of the entire industrial Internet of Things should naturally start from user needs.

We guess that in the future, the focus of enterprise industrial IoT applications should shift from equipment and assets to products and customers. The main ways for industrial enterprises to achieve business growth with the help of IoT include new products and services and closer customer relationships.

What does Mr. Dreischer think? "

Dreischer's expression at the moment looked like he was constipated.

"It seems that Mr. Dreischer is still unwilling to share."

Meng Qian's words made Drescher's face even uglier, I don't understand anything, let me share a hammer!

After listening to one question after another from Meng Qian, Dreischer suddenly felt that Siemens seemed to be decades behind China.

And Meng Qian's face now seems to be written, isn't it, you are Siemens, you are representatives of German industry, you will not be inferior to us in the development of the Industrial Internet of Things, right?

A strong sense of shame surged into Drescher's heart in an instant, so that he was ashamed to look at Meng Qian in the following conversation.

"Mr. Meng, what is the specific position of Dafeng Group in the development of the entire Industrial Internet of Things." He couldn't keep silent, and Dreischer took the initiative to ask.

"We mainly start with the platform side. Next, we plan to complete the underlying cloud platform architecture first, so that companies that want to build the Industrial Internet or the Industrial Internet of Things can quickly build through our underlying architecture." Meng Qian didn't seem to care. One sentence hits Dreischer's heart directly. If Siemens wants to develop this thing now, it must first find a reliable underlying architecture. They do not have a team to develop this thing.

They originally considered looking for Microsoft, but Microsoft's price is too expensive, and European companies naturally reject Microsoft.

Later they waited for SAP's underlying architecture, but that was several years later.

Now that Dafeng Group has started to build the underlying structure in 2012, Drescher must be lying if he says he has no idea at this moment.

It's just that Dreischer was really humiliated by Meng Qian today, so he found a reason to go back to the hotel to rest and prepare to come back the next day.

And just after returning to the hotel, Dreischer felt more and more frightened as he thought about it. This was the first time he saw Meng Qian. How could Meng Qian show the company's core technology to himself? Meng Qian can show it so generously The things I show myself must be things that I am not afraid of being copied or stolen, and Meng Qian must hide the deeper technology and not show it to myself.

Now Siemens can't even see the taillights of the technology that Dafeng Group casually showed to others! ?

Germany's industrial foundation is indeed strong, and Siemens' industrial foundation is indeed strong enough, but in the fields of industrial Internet, industrial Internet of Things, and smart industry, Germany could not produce technologies like Dafeng Group at the beginning of 2012.

Moreover, Dreischer has been to the United States and has seen the level of related technologies in the United States, but no matter how the United States begins to firmly develop cloud computing and artificial intelligence this year, the overall concept and technological development have lagged behind China.

The former Industrial Internet was proposed by GE in 2013, and the Industrial Internet Dafeng Group in this life was proposed in 2009.

Through this contact with Meng Qian, Dreischer has already understood one thing. A great industrial revolution is indeed coming. In this process, everything from sensors to standards will change. Considering the rapid development of the Cloud Intelligence Standards Association in the past two years Well, this industrial revolution may really change the global industrial structure and become centered on China!

As for whether Meng Qian's leakage will promote Germany's industrial transformation and upgrading, Meng Qian doesn't care at all, because Germany is already preparing for transformation and upgrading at this moment. They will change because of their own stimulation. If they can't do things, no matter how much they stimulate them, they still can't do it.

When Dreischer came to Dafeng Group again the next day, his attitude was obviously turned 180 degrees, and his posture was extremely low. At this time, Meng Qian was not aggressive. After all, Siemens is a target that can be used at this moment.

As the Spring Festival approached, the news of the cooperation between Siemens and Dafeng Group appeared in the media. Siemens officially joined the Global Cloud Intelligence Standards Association, and stated that it would develop follow-up smart products in strict accordance with the smart home appliance standards of the association, and cooperate with more world-class companies. Jointly promote the global standardization of smart home appliances.

At the same time, Dafeng Group will provide cloud platform services for Siemens and help Siemens quickly build its own industrial cloud platform in China.

Judging from the released content, everyone can see that Siemens is at a disadvantage in this so-called cooperation. It is called cooperation at a good level, and Siemens is seeking technical support from Dafeng Group at a bad level.

Siemens is an important fortress in Europe in the next process of industrial network development, and Meng Qian has now directly pulled out this fortress.

And it was the kind that the fortress took the initiative to come to the door.

On the other hand, no matter what the future holds, Siemens is still one of the top ten home appliance brands in the world. Siemens’ betrayal made another household appliance standards association that has been talking about collapse all of a sudden. Within a few days, the market heard Philips CEO Huaxia’s trip. According to the news, Whirlpool in the United States and Samsung LG in Korea are left with their own ghosts.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Meng Qian posted a sentence in the group of the West Lake Club: The global home appliance industry pattern has basically been determined.