Is Manufacturing Industry Growing In The Cloud?

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"At the beginning, the Black Lake was still worried because the downstream customers themselves could not work. Could they have time or money to consider the information system? But in February 6th, when we released the special edition of the Black Lake made by the Black Lake, 3 enterprises came into the market at the end of the day, and 124 companies found our advice. So we feel that perhaps the epidemic has prompted the traditional manufacturing industry to start changing. " Zhou Yuxiang, a black Lake Technology CEO in Shanghai, focuses on the cloud manufacturing collaboration system.

Under the epidemic situation, the traditional manufacturing industry has been greatly affected. Among them, non epidemic enterprises are faced with two major problems: production capacity is suspended, orders are difficult to deliver, and supply chain coordination is difficult to produce after resuming work. It is learned that this is a lightweight production collaborative solution specially prepared by Black Lake Technology for the manufacturing industry, and all manufacturing enterprises registered during the epidemic period can apply for free lifetime use.

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Two extremes of manufacturing enterprises under epidemic situation

During this very period, the traditional manufacturing industry appeared "polarization": anti epidemic enterprises such as production masks, protective clothing, medical devices, biopharmaceutics, Chinese medicine and other anti epidemic enterprises entered an unprecedented busy state, and orders continued; such as the production of food, beverages and other non epidemic enterprises were unable to return to work due to policy reasons, resulting in stagnation of production and the delivery of orders was greatly affected.

Regarding this, Black Lake Science and technology CEO Zhou Yuxiang expresses to the billion state power, in following up the related enterprise, discovered that the non anti epidemic enterprise's attitude is still relatively optimistic. "They are not very much like the catering industry in pursuit of the efficiency of capital utilization, customer orders are still there, the main problem at present is still need to communicate orders delivery and reply to work. Two weeks without production, this part of the capacity is lost, but the economic situation is not deteriorating, nor is it particularly worried that sales will fall this year. "

In the process of research, hehehu technology has observed that customers in the automobile manufacturing industry are the most anxious. "Although the epidemic may make us aware of the importance of private cars, it is actually just a feeling of consumers, and is not reflected in the order of automobile manufacturers. The performance of the automobile market was bad last year, and the sales volume of the whole vehicle factory was declining, leading to the anxiety of the upstream parts manufacturers. If the epidemic leads to economic depression, consumers will be more cautious buying cars. For example, Tesla's stock price fell by 17% a few days ago, mainly because its Shanghai plant was unable to return to work, and upstream parts were also unable to keep up.

On the whole, there are two main pain points for manufacturers of non epidemic diseases. First, in the short term, how to communicate with customers and how to quickly grasp every detail in the process of order delay. Second, we can not monitor the upstream suppliers, and worry about raw materials after resuming work. Zhou Yuxiang told the billion state power that many enterprises found Black Lake Technology during the epidemic period, expressing the hope that transparent management can be carried out through information system, and the demand for production can be resumed as soon as possible after resuming work.

"In fact, it surprised us, because the Black Lake was very worried at the beginning, because the downstream customers themselves could not work. Could they have time or money to consider the information system? But in February 6th, when we released the special edition of the Black Lake made by the Black Lake, 3 enterprises came into the market at the end of the day, and 124 companies found our advice. So we feel that perhaps the epidemic has prompted the traditional manufacturing industry to start changing. "

During the epidemic, a pharmaceutical factory was working on the Black Lake intelligent manufacturing system.

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Lifelong free Black Lake wisdom made special edition of "epidemic prevention"

"We understand that many traditional manufacturers need to send people to do projects on the spot. They feel that this efficiency is too low, and we do not want to send them to the scene for staff safety consideration, so we wanted to launch corresponding products to meet the two requirements. The first condition is that it can support remote on-line. The second condition is to solve the biggest pain point of the current enterprise facing the epidemic: how to ensure delivery time, the shortage of rework, and how to make a person take several positions to ensure orderly production. Zhou Yuxiang said.

It is understood that the Black Lake made the special edition of "epidemic prevention", which is a lightweight production collaborative solution specially prepared by Black Lake to cope with the impact of the epidemic. Around the plant material management, help manufacturers solve the following problems:

First, the accounts are consistent. Using two-dimensional code labels, we can quickly help enterprises to implement electronic material management methods such as electronic accounts, regional simulation, standardized classification and so on. Second, supplier information full link traceability. Third, the use of electronic receipts, scanning identification inspection, stock map, error proofing alarm, error information verification, etc., can quickly complete the receiving and inspection, improve the picking efficiency, reduce the error in the process of material circulation. Fourth, sweep code check, record the profit and loss in real time, alert the wrong disk and discs, and improve the inventory efficiency. Fifth, production traceability. Through the expansion of production modules, the production process can be combined with the process of material output / storage, consumption / generation, and the whole process information chain can be traced back.

According to Zhou Yuxiang, this "special edition of epidemic prevention" only introduces the most important function that meets the needs of the demand at present. The function of icing on the cake has been cut down. In addition, all manufacturing enterprises registered during the epidemic period may apply for free lifetime use.

In fact, we were prepared to pay this version of the product. Now I can solve your pain, and you are willing to pay, so when the function of icing on the cake is cut off, there is an internal debate, because this revenue is reduced, but at that time, we still believed that at this time we should not increase the burden and financial burden of others online, so we cut it off. On the morning of the issue, there was still a heated debate about whether to pay for it or not. Finally, the plate I was shooting decided that this version would be free first, and new customers could also be free for life. Since everyone is using this system, other functions can be gradually promoted in the future. I feel that it is not necessary to rub the pain to solve the pain points for others. Before the release, we also communicated with the board of directors of the Black Lake. We all support it very much.

Black Lake Technology employees work overtime during the Spring Festival.

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Epidemic is a turning point. Digitalization is not the end.

In view of the problems reflected by manufacturing enterprises during the epidemic, Zhou Yuxiang thought there were mainly two. One is the management of production level, the other is the supply chain.

From the production level, the surge in orders is difficult to digest the situation was magnified by the epidemic, but the future may become a norm. "In the future, because of the increasing number of products customized by individual consumers, the products will be popular for a while, and the situation will be more and more popular at a time. The fluctuations and impacts on production will be great. At this level, China's factory digitalization and its preparation for data utilization are far from adequate. They do not know how to produce this. That's why we started working overtime from the fourth quarter to support those enterprises. Now some factories do not know whether they can make so many masks a day, and they need to check their stock. This is a very exaggerated one. In the US, many factories use the traditional ERP system instead of SAAS, but at least the inventory is clear. At present, at least, some enterprises that urge epidemic prevention are aware of the importance of Internet and digitalization. This is also an opportunity for us. " Zhou Yuxiang said.

The dislocation of supply chain coordination is the second problem exposed.

Billion power understands that due to the rapid growth of downstream customer demand, a hand washing liquid pump manufacturer needs to start operation in the third day, but the upstream supplier does not know when to deliver. The suppliers of these collaborations have encountered great market volatility without the volatility test, and the entire supply chain of the upstream has been greatly affected.

During the Spring Festival, Zhou Yuxiang also helped customers in docking demand. "We have a client who is a supplier of raw materials and a mask filter. During the epidemic, he suddenly felt as if he should work overtime, but he did not know exactly where the demand was. But there were many downstream masks manufacturers who said they had no upstream materials in Tucao. At that time, when I saw this information, I sent a group to these upstream and downstream manufacturers so as to connect them. Assuming that I do not see this information, he may have to wait longer to start, so I think supply chain coordination is also the area where digitalization can be penetrated in the future.

Finally, he said, in fact, digitalization is not an end in itself, and it is meaningful to make use of data itself. "Black Lake has always believed that digitalization is not the end, and your data can really help others, such as calculating the rate of return on investment. Just like ERP manufacturers to help you get online, it's not the problem we want to solve. From the perspective of IT manufacturers representing new products in traditional industries, I think maybe this epidemic will be like SARS's impact on Ali, which will prompt the traditional industries to consider new ways to control.