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Join hands to accelerate the digital transformation of factories to help discrete manufacturing unmanned factory solutions

(Beijing, September 12, 2023) A few days ago, Shanghai Zhoubang Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhoubang Technology") and IBM announced that they will use IBM intelligent automation software to provide AI enabling solutions for Chinese manufacturing customers.

Zhou Bang Technology is an industrial Internet of things and big data solution provider, independently developed an industrial Internet of things platform, and based on this platform to discrete manufacturing high-tech manufacturing enterprises (such as electronics, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, etc.) to provide digital factory solutions for large-scale automated production lines. Realize from the data center of real-time data acquisition, storage and visualization, to the business platform of controlling production and operation and maintenance processes, and then to using big data and artificial intelligence technology to mine process mechanism model for production optimization, so as to improve quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency.

With the disappearance of the demographic dividend, the degree of automation of domestic manufacturing enterprises is getting higher and higher. Zhou Bang Science and Technology is mainly oriented to large-scale automated production lines, which are very different from those in the past. 7 × 24 hours in the production process will produce a large amount of industrial data, when these data are analyzed for management optimization. It is necessary to integrate data with a variety of information systems, including ERP and MES. However, most of the previous methods are point-to-point integration, and the degree of data coupling is relatively high. With the expansion of volume, stability and security are faced with great challenges.

(Zhu Lin, CEO of Shanghai Zhoubang Information Technology Co., Ltd.)

Zhu Lin, CEO of Zhoubang Technology, was invited to attend the "Future of Enterprise AI-IBMwatsonx Conference" held by IBM in Beijing. "it is one of our missions to gather the forces of the five continents to serve the country and rejuvenate the country," Zhu Lin, chief executive of Zhoubang Technology, said. While persisting in independent research and development of basic products and core technologies, we embrace open technologies and actively introduce world-class digital and intelligent technologies. We are honored to work with IBM to address these challenges by leveraging IBM's leading intelligent automation software to achieve co-creation of industrial intelligent solutions for large-scale automation production lines. This process has also been strongly supported by the IBM customer success (Customer Success Manager) team. "

As a partner of IBM's first discrete manufacturing digital plant solution in China, Zhou Bang Technology is based on its own digital factory solution and integrates IBM intelligent automation product Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) in a code-free / low-code way, quickly and easily realizing the seamless integration of different business systems (such as R & D, procurement, production, logistics, sales) in large and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises.

Based on the IBM CP4I solution, the IBM customer success team combines the excellent technical resources within IBM and works closely with Zhou Bang Technology to bring more value to manufacturing customers:

Through the App Connect enterprise service bus function of CP4I, Zhou Bang Technology easily connects the different systems of different departments of customers' production, management, operation, R & D and sales, and provides them to downstream applications and self-service consumption in the form of service bus and micro-services, which saves a lot of costs for the establishment and implementation of system integration and eliminates the isolated island of information.

Through the API Connect of CP4I, Zhou Bang Technology manages the scattered API of customers, establishes a unified and standardized API platform, realizes the unified management and operation of API, realizes the security control and flow control of API, and ensures the performance and priority of the core production system (such as MES), which fills the gap of this function at present. And without affecting the customer production system, complete the production line data collection, monitoring and management, at the same time, achieve user rights isolation (different levels of users see different data, that is to say, the same data, for different levels of users, assign different access policies and permissions). In addition, through API Connect,API, we can not only provide external services, count and control the consumption of external users, but also realize the priority control of internal resource calls, as well as accounting among internal departments, so that the work of IT can be measured and performed, and IT can be changed from money-spending department to money-making department, resulting in economic benefits and value.

How does IBM intelligent automation technology add power to the solution of Zhou Bang digital factory?

First of all, the IBMCP4I platform provides an open, cloud biochemistry, micro-service and containerized integrated platform for manufacturing customers, as well as built-in AI and hybrid cloud deployment capabilities and a full range of cloud technology support.

At the same time, with the help of the enterprise service bus component App Connect in CP4I, it provides a reliable application integration solution and helps Zhou Bang Technology to build an agile and lightweight application integration platform for medium and large enterprises. Through IBMCP4I's API Connect to help customers of state technology to achieve "open, cooperative, win-win" digital ecological platform capabilities.

According to Zhu Lin, Zhou Bang Technology is also trying to use IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson's AI assistant function to automatically convert user requirements into graphical reports and dashboards to help factory managers improve decision-making efficiency. Because industrial enterprises, especially the middle and high levels, still have a certain sensitivity to the use of computer software technology, through the ability of AI assistants, in the way of natural language, combined with the massive data collected by our platform, we can automatically generate some analysis charts to help them improve the efficiency of decision-making.

Zhu Lin said: "it is a great honor to participate in the launch of IBM watsonx, and we look forward to further strengthening cooperation with IBM in the future. Using IBM watsonx's platform, we will be able to achieve co-creation of generative AI solutions for industrial intelligence and manufacturing, and make greater contributions to China's manufacturing industry."

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