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With the arrival of the industrial 4.0 era, with the rapid development of information, automation and intelligence, the traditional production technology has been gradually replaced or subverted. The petrochemical industry is also faced with many challenges and the need for technological innovation, in which the development and innovation of ICT technology plays an extremely important role.

Recently, during the Huawei full connection Conference, Petrochemical Pacific Century formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Huawei. According to the agreement, the two sides will jointly build the ProMACE industrial Internet platform in the intelligent era and promote the digital transformation of enterprises.

There are many challenges in the intelligent transformation of petrochemical industry

The petrochemical industry is one of the pillar industries in China. Although China's oil refining processing capacity and chemical production capacity have ranked first in the world, there is a problem of "big but not strong, fast but not excellent" on the whole. The main challenges are: intensified competition in the industry, prominent contradiction between supply and demand, prominent cost pressure, strengthening environmental constraints, energy structure adjustment and so on.

In order to meet the above challenges and better adapt to the harsher resources, markets and competitive industrial environment in the future, China's petrochemical industry urgently needs transformation and upgrading, which requires not only new equipment, new processes and new catalysts. There is also an urgent need for advanced information and communication technology and management technology to enhance the level of digitization, networking and intelligence, build intelligent factories, and make China's petrochemical industry bigger and stronger. Improve competitiveness and achieve efficient, green and sustainable development.

The combination of platform and ecological strength to create an industry-leading industrial Internet platform

The signing of the cooperation agreement between the two sides is intended to comprehensively enhance the competitiveness of enterprises on the ProMACE platform and jointly create a platform based on business needs and oriented to oil refining and chemical enterprises. The main significance is reflected in three aspects:

First, based on the key capabilities of "ProMACE platform", it can be gradually built into an "operating system standard" for intelligent manufacturing in the petrochemical industry, and the threshold for petrochemical enterprises to build intelligent factories can be greatly reduced.

Second, around the platform, we can gradually integrate many participants in many fields and levels, such as commercial operations, application services, process control, sensor networks, intelligent equipment, and so on, to form an industry ecological circle of petrochemical intelligent manufacturing.

Third, through the solid foundation laid by the platform and with the efforts of all participants in the ecological circle, we will work together to enhance the international competitiveness of intelligent manufacturing in China's petrochemical industry, and jointly build a national brand of Internet and intelligent manufacturing in the petroleum and chemical industry.

Zhou Chang, CEO of Petrochemical Pacific Century, said, "this strategic cooperation between the two sides will further focus on the core competencies and open ecology of the ProMACE platform, promote private and public cloud solutions in the internal and external markets, jointly create a global model project for ProMACE, and establish a resource-pooling and multi-participating digital ecosystem of petroleum and chemical industry. The establishment of this strategic partnership will not only help the two sides to further achieve resource sharing and form a good situation of mutual support and coordinated development. At the same time, it will also make a modest contribution to the transformation and development of China's traditional industries, the upgrading of quality and efficiency, and the implementation of the strategy of a national manufacturing power and a network power. "

Yao Jie, general manager of Huawei EBG's large Enterprise Business Department in China, said: "in the field of industrial Internet, the two sides will jointly build the oil and chemical industry Internet platform ProMACE and the joint intelligent factory solution with ProMACE platform as the core; jointly formulate relevant standards and specifications for industrial Internet platform; and jointly build an industrial cloud platform experimental environment for exploring and verifying new standards, new specifications and new products of ProMACE. By giving full play to their respective advantages, the ProMACE platform will be built into the number one brand of Internet platform for the petroleum and chemical industries. "

Further upgrade of industrial cloud platform ProMACE

It is understood that since the joint launch of Petrochemical Pacific Century and Huawei at the Petrochemical Pacific Century user meeting in July 2017, ProMACE aims to innovate enterprises, reduce information costs, improve efficiency, and help enterprises transform their wisdom. The new generation of ProMACE based on Huawei's public cloud architecture will be officially released within October, and dozens of intelligent applications have been developed in intelligent factories, intelligent oil and gas fields, intelligent research institutes and intelligent logistics. The signing of the strategic cooperation agreement marks the beginning of comprehensive and in-depth cooperation between the two sides in the field of digitization.

So, what are the improvements of the new generation of PROMACE? Jiang Baihua, senior vice president of Petrochemical Pacific Century, said: it integrates the concept of industrial Internet construction, deeply integrates the new generation of information and communication technology with the industrial mechanism, management model and business characteristics of the petroleum and chemical industry, and forms the four core competencies of industrial couplet, industrial digitalization, industrial big data and industrial AI, according to the construction mode of "platform + data + service". Strongly support the intelligent factory upgrade version (2.0) construction.

From the author's point of view, the "Petroleum and Chemical Industry Internet platform ProMACE" is an excellent product that accumulates and precipitates the best practices in the exploration and construction of intelligent factories in the petrochemical industry. In the future, with the in-depth promotion and continuous improvement of the construction of intelligent factories in the petrochemical industry, ProMACE will also be continuously enriched and improved.

For the next step, the "Petroleum and Chemical Industry Internet platform ProMACE" will be promoted to the whole industry, especially refining and chemical enterprises outside Sinopec, small and medium-sized enterprises and overseas markets, bringing best practices of Sinopec intelligent factories to the whole industry, thereby promoting the overall intelligent level of the industry.

ICT Technology is the engine of Intelligent Transformation in Petrochemical Industry

Wang Peng, head of MKT and Solutions Department of Huawei EBG in China, said: digitization and intellectualization represent two different development stages of intelligent manufacturing respectively. Digitalization emphasizes the collection and perception of production data, which is the basis of intelligence, while intelligence is the analysis and cognition of production data and the ultimate goal of digitization.

In order to meet the needs of the development of intelligent manufacturing, based on the experience and achievements of Petrochemical Pacific Century Intelligent Plant construction, Huawei mainly relies on the advantages of infrastructure such as network communications and cloud computing to launch end-to-end solutions in the fields of telecommunications networks, terminals and cloud computing, to help Petrochemical Pacific Century build petrochemical intelligent factories and oil and industrial interconnection platforms.

In the end, the author believes that ICT has entered a fusion-driven era, ICT and information technology is not only a tool to improve efficiency, it is becoming the core driving force of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

Based on its deep understanding of its customers, Huawei is committed to providing comprehensive and efficient ICT solutions to customers in the global energy, power, transportation, financial, government and public utilities industries. For the energy industry, through the study of the petrochemical industry, according to the characteristics of the energy industry, different scenarios demand, provide a series of information and communication solutions to help petrochemical enterprises to achieve lower cost production, more intelligent management.

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