Interview with Yingcai Magazine | Zhou Yuxian: Digital Transformation Is Imperative, Not to Advance Is to Fall Behind

Zhou Yuxian: Digital transformation is imperative, not to advance is to fall behind

. At the beginning of the year, Zhou Yuxian said on many occasions that digital transformation is a necessary question, not a multiple choice question. 2023 is the first year of the digital transformation of China Building Materials Group, and the construction of the "four modernizations" of the Group is also progressing in an orderly manner as planned.

Zhou Yuxian said that the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stressed the need to accelerate the development of the digital economy and promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy. SASAC has also made special requirements and deployments for the central enterprises to speed up the digital construction. Digital transformation is a difficult thing, but enterprises must attach great importance to it. Digital transformation is related to the survival and long-term development of enterprises, and has already become a "must answer" for enterprises, if not, it is likely to withdraw from the market stage. Digital transformation is a very important starting point for China's building materials to realize the vision of "materials create a better world", not only can not withdraw from the market stage, but also must enter the center of the world stage.

In fact, the digital transformation of China Building Materials Group has been steadily advancing in recent years, not only establishing the digital transformation vision of "digital leading material creation", but also setting up a digital management center. The organic combination of the digital vision and the Group's vision, namely "Digital Leading Materials to Create a Better World", shows that the Group attaches great importance to the strategy of digital transformation. China National Building Material Group has done a lot of fruitful work in the digitalization of R & D and design of the upgrading and transformation project

of the MK3 cement production line in Lahau,

France. The upgrading and renovation project of French Lahao MK3 cement production line undertaken by Sinoma International is the first project to realize visual construction by means of remote collaborative digitization. This project needs to install a new production line next to the old production line, but the other side requires that the old production line can not be dismantled before the new production line is completed, resulting in very limited space to move; Secondly, because of the global COVID-19 epidemic, Chinese workers can not go to the site for investigation and exploration within the limited time, and the successful landing of the project is facing great challenges. Finally, Sinoma International completed on-site mapping by using UAV laser ranging, uploaded the collected data to the cloud, and carried out three-dimensional design on the cloud. Through digital twin technology, a three-dimensional digital factory is generated while delivering a physical factory. Through this technology, under the unified control of the domestic headquarters, the production line in France was successfully installed at one time. In addition, the hoisting of rotary kiln in cement kiln is also installed successfully at one time under remote control. This production line is the first cement project in Europe to meet the new environmental standards, and it has also become a vivid case for Chinese enterprises to practice green development and realize the digitalization of R & D and design on the international stage. It can be seen that the digitalization process of R & D and design is gradually improving the production efficiency of the whole company, but it is undeniable that there is still a long way to go in the future.

▲ The world's largest glass fiber intelligent manufacturing base

in production and manufacturing intelligence, one is the intelligence of core equipment manufacturing, the other is the use of core equipment to form an intelligent production line. It is not only a basic building material, but also an intelligent production line for various new materials. For example, Sinoma International has built more than 20 intelligent cement production lines for the new Tianshan Mountains. In addition, the Group's intelligent glass fiber production line has also been completed and put into operation.

▲ Xining High-performance Carbon Fiber Intelligent Production Line

In terms of digitalization of operation and management and agility of customer service, CNBM Group is taking the digital transformation plan as the key link, and is actively promoting data value-added by using huge application scenarios and massive data. Through the real operation data stored by enterprises over the years, continuous optimization of algorithms and models can continuously improve the added value of data, thereby achieving cost reduction and efficiency, and enhancing market competitiveness.

Digital transformation is not an overnight success, and not to advance is to fall behind, so it needs lasting strategic strength and long-term uninterrupted investment to truly achieve results. Zhou Yuxian predicts that it will take at least three to five years to see obvious results. In his view, if China Building Materials wants to become a world-class state-owned capital investment company, digital transformation is a barrier that must be passed, no matter how long it takes, it will stick to the end.