Growing with the Times, Qilian Mountain Cement Writes a New Answer Sheet for Transformation and Upgrading

2025-09-29 10:15:43

Today, Qilian Mountain Cement has built a "1 + 3 + N" digital architecture, forming a perfect digital management system. Through multi-system integration and linkage, the digitalization of operation and management, the intellectualization of production and operation, and the e-commerce of supply and marketing services have been realized, and the digitalization level has reached L3 (network level), and is steadily moving towards L4 (integration level).

Gansu Qilianshan Cement Group Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter referred to as Qilianshan Cement) is one of the 156 national key construction projects during the "First Five-Year Plan" period, one of the 12 key cement enterprises supported by the state, and also known as the "cradle of the cement industry in New China".

As the largest cement production enterprise in Gansu, Qinghai and Xizang and the core production base of special cement in Northwest China, "Qilian Mountain Cement" has become a "well-known trademark in China" by virtue of its excellent quality. Its products are widely used in a series of major national projects, such as Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Qinghai-Xizang Railway, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base and Step Hydropower Station in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

First, the transformation road

of Qilian Mountain Cement, a veteran enterprise growing with New China, has always maintained a brilliant performance in the highly competitive cement industry. Behind this steady development is the embodiment of the enterprise's excellent management ability, as well as the achievements of deep cultivation in the field of informatization and digitalization. Every technological innovation injects new development momentum into enterprises.

Under the guidance of the national digital transformation policy, the digital construction of Qilian Mountain Cement has formed a clear advanced context. Chen Huaixian, General Manager of Digital Management Department of Qilian Mountain Cement Group, introduced that the digital construction of Qilian Mountain Cement started early, developed rapidly and had high standards. As early as 1999, it began to implement accounting computerization, and in 2007, it began to promote the integration of industry and finance, realize the unified construction of the whole level, and take a key step in the construction of information technology.

In 2011, through management restructuring and process reengineering, Qilianshan Cement realized the online business process and built "Digital Qilianshan 1.0"; in 2016, it promoted the standardization construction with process solidification as the core and upgraded to "Digital Qilianshan 2.0"; In 2021, with the goal of digital empowerment and digital transformation, the construction of "Digital Qilian Mountain 3.0" was officially launched to comprehensively promote the construction of digital system.

Today, Qilian Mountain Cement has built a "1 + 3 + N" digital architecture, forming a perfect digital management system. Through multi-system integration and linkage, the digitalization of operation and management, the intellectualization of production and operation, and the e-commerce of supply and marketing services have been realized, and the digitalization level has reached L3 (network level), and is steadily moving towards L4 (integration level).

2. Digital support

behind excellent management In the process of promoting the digital system, Qilian Mountain Cement chose to join hands with Xinyun Zhilian, through effective consultation and planning in the early stage, relying on the deep digital ability of Xinyun Zhilian. Qilian Mountain Cement Two-level industrial Internet platform and Two-level Data Center have been jointly built, and the special work of data governance has been initiated, which lays a solid digital foundation for data governance and data value application by establishing unified data standards and norms.

industrial Internet platform: Overall control and empowerment

Qilian Mountain industrial Internet platform adopts a two-tier architecture, including the industrial Internet platform of the headquarters and the edge side platform of the factory, the data center of the headquarters and the data center of the factory. Chen Huaixian explained: "The platform at the ministerial level brings the relevant data and information of the production process of all subsidiaries into the headquarters to achieve overall management and control; the platform at the subsidiary level focuses on the management of the production process, covering functional modules such as production, quality, equipment, process, energy, mining, scientific and technological innovation, so as to enable precise production and operation."

The supporting two-level data center also plays a key role. The data center at the headquarters side integrates 16 systems to achieve centralized management of data; the data center at the edge of the subsidiary focuses on data acquisition and real-time processing at the edge side. This structure of "overall management and control of headquarters + landing of subsidiaries" not only guarantees the consistency and integrity of data, but also meets the individual needs of subsidiaries.

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Data Governance: "Five-step Method" Activates Data Value

Since October 2023, Qilianshan Cement and Xinyun Zhilian have jointly launched data governance. According to the data governance model of "top-down vision-driven and bottom-up demand-driven", the project team combs the production environment data comprehensively. Sun Xiaofeng, Deputy Manager of Intelligent Manufacturing Products Department of Xinyun Zhilian, introduced: "We have precipitated the five-step method of data management, namely, putting up shelves, managing needs, setting data, setting standards and realizing them." Through this methodology, we can guide the whole process of data governance to ensure the orderly progress of all work.

Relying on the "five-step method", the project team helped Qilian Mountain Cement to land the data governance system and data standard system, standardized the data acquisition rules, naming system, identification standards and statistical caliber, and formed five major data standards, namely, master data standards, business data standards, index data standards, time series data standards and model data standards. The unified implementation of standards in 17 subordinate enterprises provides reliable support for data reporting, large screen visualization, management Kanban and other applications.

Through the construction of data management system, Qilian Mountain has achieved remarkable results in data application. Chen Huaixian said: "These data applications provide a scientific basis for business decision-making and play an important role in improving quality, reducing costs and increasing efficiency."

After the expert review of the Building Materials Industry Information Center, it was highly recognized that "the standard constructs a systematic data management system framework, and the technical content of the standard can support the data management work of enterprises, with high applicability, innovation and industry demonstration role."

Today, the value of Qilianshan Cement's digital transformation has penetrated into all aspects of production and operation: through intelligent scheduling and optimization, the enterprise has achieved a continuous decline in energy consumption and a significant increase in production efficiency; remote monitoring and intelligent decision-making have become the norm of management, promoting the comprehensive innovation of management mode; and also significantly enhancing the market competitiveness of enterprises.

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Today, Qilian Mountain Cement has built a "1 + 3 + N" digital architecture, forming a perfect digital management system. Through multi-system integration and linkage, the digitalization of operation and management, the intellectualization of production and operation, and the e-commerce of supply and marketing services have been realized, and the digitalization level has reached L3 (network level), and is steadily moving towards L4 (integration level).

2025-09-29 10:15:43