Interconnected Genes And Blood Are Coded To Create A Master Data Framework.

Li Jianhui, chief engineer of China Commodity coding center, has been constantly calling on enterprises to use the global unique identification code to establish master data for goods and build a framework that can superimpose data. In Li Jianhui's view, the globally unified, open and cross industry coding of commodities is the gene and blood of digitalized industry and the interconnection of the whole process, and will become an important promoter of the digitalization of traditional industries.

　　 What is the use of object coding?

A pull rail car has about 10 thousand components, a Boeing 737 aircraft has about 367 thousand parts, and there are more than 30 thousand parts in the life of the car. According to statistics, defective parts and components are a serious problem in the automobile industry. Nearly 1 million 240 thousand people die from traffic accidents every year around the world, and automobile parts are generally defective in many accidents, many of which are fake and inferior commodities.

With the application of object coding technology, the automobile parts enterprises can set up the identification mark in the initial production of the ontology, and carry out the unified coding of each part (accessories) to achieve the whole process control and quality traceability of the vehicle product quality and safety.

Once problems arise, relying on the unified identity logo established from the beginning of production for auto parts (accessories), it can provide traceable repair accessories and service information for maintenance enterprises and consumers.

How to deliver materials and tools to the right construction site timely and effectively is a common problem in the construction field. By adopting the GS1 standard, it is possible to accurately identify construction products and locations, and promote the sharing of the same architectural information among construction units, design units, construction units and supervision units, so as to help effectively monitor the construction process, improve construction safety, optimize asset utilization and fine management.

In the field of steel industry, the steel industry system can identify a single steel pipe or steel material by adding two dimensional bar code and information, including commodity bar code, production date, batch number, binding number, furnace number, etc., and laser etching on the material ontology. Thus, the tracking, tracing and recall of each steel pipe or steel product in the whole production, supply and marketing system can be realized, and the maintenance information can be obtained in its long life cycle.

In addition to recording raw information such as size, weight, material and origin, the unified item code can also record subsequent interactive data. For example, geographical location and transportation time, batch and maintenance status of commercial activities can be superimposed by unique coding.

In Li Jianhui's view, unified coding is like a human Passport: it has a unique identity in the whole chain of circulation, and also has a superimposed data record flow track (entry and exit signature) after the establishment of a unique identity. However, subsequent superimposed data records can not change their earliest core data even if they are too many.

From this point of view, the global uniform item coding is the basis for making a thing play a coherent role in the whole life cycle, and improves the transparency of inventory and supply chain, which is very important for the digitalization of the industrial belt.

　　 Next stop: Commodity lifecycle operation

In September 2018, the Chinese costume Association Alliance was formally established by the China clothing association, China Commodity coding center and Qingdao Haier washing machine Co., Ltd.

According to relevant media, this eco alliance has been launched on the basis of the national standard of clothing RFID, and has promoted the publication of the national standard "clothing commodity code and radio frequency identification (RFID) label standard". It is understood that the standard specifies the coding requirements of clothing material, color, style and other information on the RFID label.

Through coding technology, garment enterprises can realize the digital management of the whole life cycle of clothing. The clothing manufacturers represented by Hai Lan home have improved the efficiency of delivery and delivery by 200%, and the cost of manpower has been reduced by 50%.

At the end of the store, clothing brand makes it possible to use the RFID chip to make smart fitting mirror. 3D fitting, smart wear and so on become a new sales mode. Stores can not only follow up the sales data in the whole process, but also customize the main push styles and popular products according to the needs of the regional users.

Data show that through participation in the ecological alliance, clothing sales stores inventory turnover can be increased by 30%, user traffic increased by 18%, revenue increased by 15%.

At home, through cooperation with garment enterprises, Haier smart washing machine can identify clothing, get the fabric composition and exclusive washing care plan, and apply special washing procedures.

The above cases have two implications: first, item coding is not limited to form. Whether it is one dimensional bar code, two-dimensional barcode or RFID, the unique global coding information is the key and core. Two, in the future, enterprises should be more concerned about the whole business life cycle of products.

Take Haier as an example, the sales profit of its washing machine may not be high, but the service stickiness and the ecological chain profit gained by the Internet of clothing technology are far greater than the value of a washing machine's sales profits.

Boeing and other aircraft manufacturers sell a plane, the aircraft purchased by the aircraft in the scrapping years of the aircraft is Boeing's customers - aircraft maintenance and components of the entire life cycle will be Boeing has the final say.

This post market service, which focuses on the life cycle management type, is usually higher than the profit of commodity sales, which represents the development trend of the future business in a sense. In order to manage the whole life cycle of commodities, we must do well the source data coding and management of products and spare parts at the very beginning.

　　 Standardization is a threshold.

Insiders say that the data interoperability needed by the industrial Internet requires unified expression and identification addressing for the same or one kind of objects in the manufacturing enterprise, intra industry, inter enterprise and cross industry information application process.

For many enterprises, there are articles coding, but there is no uniform standard. That is to say, if the coding is compiled by the enterprise itself, it can only be regarded as the internal coding of the enterprise, and it is still unable to get out of the closed loop system of the enterprise, so as to realize the interconnection and efficiency improvement of the whole industry.

From Li Jianhui's point of view, from the source of product production, we should follow the GS1 global standard to give each product a unique global identity and establish a set of basic master data information, which should be the product standard of industrial digitalization, and also the core foundation for building a complete, universal and unified data analysis and understanding system in the whole industry.

However, in the current stage, industrial manufacturing enterprises still lack this awareness, and the construction of standards still faces some problems.

For example, the different uses of entity objects in different industries and vertical fields will result in different ways of expressing the entities. Different enterprises will have different purposes and uses in different periods to build information systems, which will lead to differences in information expression.

When using information, there are different contexts and contexts, which will have an impact on the understanding of information; enterprises can only develop and build an identification analysis system to meet their business development based on their own business understanding, lack of willingness and trend to open data to society; the storage, expression and application of different enterprise information are huge, and can not be invoked by the third party.

At present, a large number of industrial equipment is not interconnected, especially the equipment with long service life. It has no intelligent transformation space. Most of the devices that have been networked have different bus connection protocols and different communication port devices.

In addition, different enterprises' information management systems adopt different systems developed by different companies, and there is no uniform interface for interconnection.

At present, our country has much work to do in the semantic understanding of the information space of the Internet of things. Especially in terms of standardization, manufacturing enterprises have a practical demand for a set of open sharing standards.

GS1 digital link standard can provide enterprises with digital, intelligent management and marketing solutions. The problem of compulsory standard deficiency exists objectively, but it does not affect the deep implementation of the global unified coding system.

The key reason is that coding technology is only a representation, and what is important is the source data of the goods and the way of thinking about coding and coding of enterprises. It is necessary to ensure that every product, every device and every service is identifiable in the entire supply chain and the whole life cycle of the product. From the technical point of view, the solution based on GS1 global uniform identification standard can be realized.

The standard is not unified, it can be unified after the coming standard is promulgated. But the difference of management mentality may make the difference between different enterprises before the standard unification. In this way, enterprises should change their minds as early as possible, start from the source of products, and see if they have used the coding of goods that conform to global standards.