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On October 26, the sixth "Triumph Award" vanguard list of digital transformation was officially announced, 51 enterprises and institutions were on the list, and the "full stack intelligent R & D" project of Tide Information won the "R & D Transformation Model Award".

The Triumph Award, sponsored by Harvard Business Review, Global Industrial Research Institute of Tsinghua University and SAP, is the most credible enterprise digital transformation award in the industry. This year, with the theme of "accelerating New Chinese Enterprises", more than 30 experts have selected a group of core forces to implement new development concepts with digital technology after on-the-spot visits and multiple rounds of reviews, leading the "acceleration" of digital transformation.

"platform + Modularization", a necessary option for Agile Research and Development

R & D is the first step to achieve customer needs. In the face of increasingly diversified and scene-oriented customer needs, the traditional R & D model driven by technology upgrading is difficult to make an agile response to customer needs. Server is a kind of very complex high-tech products. A server has more than 10000 devices, more than 50 kinds of modules, more than 800 kinds of cables and more than 30000 parameters. The development of a server has to go through 23 design links, 7 testing links, cross-cooperation of more than a dozen posts, more than 6000 process activities, and more than 50,000 design checks of all kinds. Therefore, it takes at least 1.5 years to develop a server in the traditional mode.

In contrast, "platform + modularization" is a modern way of research and development, which decouples products into all kinds of standardized modules by unifying design standardization and interface definition. In this way, in the face of new customer requirements, a prototype can be created with the existing module, which can meet customer needs with a little modification, which greatly shortens the response cycle of new customer requirements. However, under the new mode, different levels of research and development of products, modules and devices are carried out at different levels, and the complexity of management and collaboration is almost beyond the scope of traditional management. Therefore, the R & D mode of "platform + modularization" has a natural demand for digital and intelligent technology.

Intelligent R & D collaboration to allow customers to participate

Tide Information has constructed a digital R & D system based on product lifecycle management platform PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and global collaboration platform GCP (Global Cooperation Platform). R & D management and collaboration have been highly automated, 8 global R & D centers can cooperate efficiently, and R & D between different products and modules can be synchronized automatically, which greatly improves the efficiency of coordination and avoids all kinds of errors. Only in the process of demand analysis, through the automatic tracking of the three platforms of M6, G7 and Gen8, human error is reduced by 90% and manpower is saved by 30%.

Moreover, PLM, GCP and other systems are open to users and partners, allowing them to participate in the main product research and development process from principle design to system integration, test and verification, and build a personalized and customized R & D ecology. Customers and partners can evaluate technical risk, management risk and input-output ratio together with tide information, which improves the R & D efficiency of the whole industry chain.

The industry's first digital prototype application, allowing hardware innovation to be on the same frequency as customers

The cycle of customer innovation is on a weekly or even daily basis. In order to share the frequency of customer business innovation and solve the challenge that hardware innovation and software upgrade are difficult to synchronize, tide information introduces a digital prototype.

The digital prototype first developed in the automobile industry, and the tide information reconstructed it according to the business logic of the server industry, and successfully created the first digital prototype system in the server field. With the support of the system, engineers receive customer requirements, call background data, and generate a three-dimensional model of the product to replace the physical prototype for review and verification. the heat dissipation, structure, power supply and other conditions are clear at a glance and can be modified and upgraded at any time. To a certain extent, the rapid iterative innovation like software in the hardware field is realized, which shortens the R & D cycle and reduces unnecessary R & D costs. In 2021, a major customer is going to develop and customize a cold plate liquid-cooled server. Tide Information has successively provided more than 20 versions of the design in the form of a digital prototype, which helps users determine the overall design in only 6 months, which greatly shortens the communication cycle and accelerates the launch of customer business.

The continuous integration of the new R & D model and digital intelligence technology has continuously improved the R & D efficiency and agility of Chao Information. The average R & D cycle of new products has been reduced from 1.5 years to 8 months, which has been shortened by 50%. The fastest one takes only 3 months from customer demand to delivery of the prototype.

New-type Chinese enterprises to guide the new road of industrialization

The intelligent transformation of wave information research and development is not only the comprehensive digital intelligence of management collaboration, tools and products, but also the overall upgrade of business model based on mathematical intelligence technology. Tide information uses mathematical intelligence technology to reconstruct the whole business process of manufacturing, supply chain, customer service and so on, forming a brand-new JDM (Joint Design Manufacture) business model innovation. This is not only the uniqueness of the practice of intelligent transformation of tide information, but also a reference for the whole manufacturing industry.

The practice of tide information has proved that creating a new model through numerical intelligence transformation and new business type is a feasible path for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, which provides a reference for the new road of industrialization. The jury said that the "new Chinese enterprises" continue to speed up, and more Chinese enterprises illuminate the way forward for the development of the new era. 2023 is the year of accelerating China's economic growth, and it will also be the year of accelerating the digital transformation of new Chinese enterprises. It is hoped that there will be more new Chinese enterprises so that the goal of new industrialization can be realized as soon as possible.

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