Tang Jun: Practice and Reflection on Digital Transformation and Intelligent Construction of Cement Enterprises

2023-12-08 14:16:37

Digitalization is an important means to promote new industrialization. President Li Yeqing of Huaxin Cement has pointed out that "in the past two decades, the combination of independent innovation, green development and digital transformation is the core driving force for Huaxin's development."

Digitalization and intellectualization are the core factors affecting the long-term development of cement enterprises. In recent years, Huaxin Cement has actively embraced the digital transformation and promoted the transformation of traditional manufacturing industry to intelligent, green and low-carbon. Intelligent factory is one of the innovative achievements of Huaxin Cement in digital transformation. Through big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technical means, it realizes real-time control and intelligent decision-making of cement production and operation, improves management efficiency, reduces production costs and enhances competitiveness.

"The digitalization of Huaxin Cement does not aim at short-term economic benefits, but mainly at enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises." Recently, at the "Fifth China Cement Intelligent Summit Forum" sponsored by China Cement Network, Tang Jun, CIO and CDO of Huaxin Cement Co., Ltd., made a keynote report on "Practice and Reflection on Digital Transformation and Intelligent Construction of Cement Enterprises". Tang Jun

, CIO and CDO

of Huaxin Cement Co., Ltd. Digitalization is an important means to promote new industrialization. President Li Yeqing of Huaxin Cement has pointed out that "in the past two decades, the combination of independent innovation, green development and digital transformation is the core driving force for Huaxin's development."

Why is the digital failure rate as high as 80%? The main reasons are as follows: the leaders do not attach importance to it; they mistakenly believe that digital transformation can cure all diseases; they mistakenly believe that they must make up their minds to formulate the blueprint of digital transformation first; they mistakenly believe that the application of high-tech is digitalization or intelligent manufacturing; they mistakenly believe that digitalization can be achieved by spending a lot of money and working hard and quickly; they mistakenly believe that digitalization is difficult to succeed, so it is better to give full play to the advantages of backwardness.

From the perspective of enterprise leaders, digital transformation should consider several issues, for example, enterprises should first make money: the comparison between future profits and current profits; the affordability of enterprises facing transformation; the difference between digital and traditional management methods. In order to deeply understand the relationship between strategy, business, management and digitalization, cement enterprises have different genes and must choose the path of digital transformation according to local conditions.

Digital transformation is a management art requiring high comprehensive ability of enterprises, which requires consensus at three levels of strategy, tactics and consciousness in order to better realize digital transformation. At the

strategic level, Li Yeqing, president of Huaxin Cement, once said, "Digitalization is not a question of how much profit it brings to the enterprise, but whether it can resolve the risk of the enterprise." This is also Huaxin Cement's definition of digitalization from the strategic level. At

the tactical level, digital = change management. Huaxin Cement always adheres to independent research and development; focuses on business value and abandons false reputation; adheres to long-term principle, lays a good foundation and proceeds step by step.

Consciousness level, the formation of cooperative relations between business departments, the company's entire staff should have the courage to change.

At present, artificial intelligence, big data analysis, mobility, cloud computing, automation and other new digital technologies have long been well known, industries have been gradually involved in digital transformation, cement and other manufacturing industries have gradually been brought into the whirlpool.

Huaxin Cement's awareness of digitalization continues to improve, and digitalization does not aim at short-term economic benefits, but mainly at enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises.

In 2019, the digital and IT departments of Huaxin Cement were merged from the second-level functional departments to the first-level business departments. After years of development, the number of digital projects of Huaxin Cement has increased dramatically. It can be said that digitalization closely follows the rapid growth of Huaxin Strategy.

For example, HIAC, which is rated as the "world's leading" level by China Building Materials Federation, has more obvious effects and can solve the problem of factory survival when the conditions are more complex and experts are more scarce. When a large number of alternative fuels are used in Huaxin Cement Plant, the kiln condition changes quickly, the stability is poor, the manual operation is difficult, and it is difficult to maintain a high level of manual operation for a long time, while HIAC can perform fine operation more effectively, avoiding empiricism and comfort (operation) doctrine.

At the same time, Huaxin Cement is also using digital technology to continuously reduce invisible costs. For example, 9 senior executives, 35 general managers of industrial parks participated in monthly operation executive meetings, business day meetings and other meetings held directly in front of large screen data, to establish a digital cultural atmosphere and promote the digital transformation of the company's business. Digital technology is also used to support the daily work of marketing, procurement, logistics, cement industry, concrete, aggregate and environmental protection. How can traditional enterprises such as

cement better carry out digital transformation?

One New industrialization can not be measured by short-term economic benefits, but is the core of the basic ability of enterprises, and is committed to enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises and long-term stability.

Two Digitalization is one of the basic capacity building of enterprises, which can speed up the process of new industrialization, independently develop and control technological innovation, and achieve curve overtaking.

Three Digital transformation is a "first-hand project", and enterprise leaders should take part in it.

Finally, it also calls on the cement industry to open cooperation, exchange and share, and jointly promote the innovation and development of new industrialization of traditional enterprises.

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Digitalization is an important means to promote new industrialization. President Li Yeqing of Huaxin Cement has pointed out that "in the past two decades, the combination of independent innovation, green development and digital transformation is the core driving force for Huaxin's development."

2023-12-08 14:16:37

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