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“When advanced manufacturing is not only a strategy or direction but also a substantially significant presence in R&D, production, operation, management and etc, which promotes efficiency and quality and reducing costs”. As stated by Gao Hongwei, the Chairman and Secretary of Party Committee of CASIC, the industrial civilization era has come to an end and the information civilization era has arrived. The only way to terminate the global economic crisis caused by the homogeneous excess capacity is to promote the transformation of production mode via technology innovation，business model innovation and management innovation. Therefore, the cloud manufacturing industry clusters will undertake the mission to transform the production mode.
INDICS+CMSS builds the Cloud manufacturing industry cluster ecology.
How to build the front service system in the industrial Internet era? CASICloud, as the first public industrial Internet platform built by CASIC, adopts the INDICS+CMSS architecture (Industrial Internet Cloud Space + Cloud Manufacturing Support System) to establish and maintain the ecosystem for cloud manufacturing industry clusters based on the industrial Internet, undertaking the mission to transform the production mode.
Promoted by strategies including “Internet + Advanced Manufacturing”, “Industrial Internet App Incubation” and under the strong leadership of Party Committee of CASIC, the progress of industrial upgrading of CASICloud has been firm and steady. On June 15, 2015, CASICloud was born as a public industrial Internet platform, and it provides a “Internet + Intelligent manufacturing” product service system that covers all processes and all elements of industrial chain. After survey, visits and use of the platform, we found that functions and application scenarios of the platform are gradually improved. On June 15, 2017, INDICS, for which China has the proprietary intellectual property rights, is released, gaining the right of speech and initiative in winning the intelligent manufacturing competition for China. At the third anniversary of CASICloud, Gao as the top designer of CASICloud, confirmed the core status of the INDICS+CMSS and formed the cloud manufacturing industry cluster ecosystem model. As application service system of the SaaS layer for the connection and restructuring of production factors, CMSS just started to unfold.
The INDICS+CMSS architecture perfectly demonstrates the mutual promotion and two-way iteration mode between the operating system and software application (PaaS+SaaS): considering the characteristics of Internet application and requirements of industrial application, INDICS provides not only innovative functions including Big Data processing, industrial data analysis and industrial micro services, expandable open operating system but also micro service components and development tools for industrial applications to help developers quickly build customized industrial Apps; moreover, a new series of industrial sectors and value will be created in the development, deployment and operation and etc. of industrial Apps based on CMSS built on INDICS, the explosive growth of application innovation will be realized based on the accumulation and re-application of knowledge in industry , effectively supporting the coming of new manufacturing modes such as intelligent transformation, collaborative manufacturing and cloud manufacturing.
Constantly evolving CMSS
CMSS, which is a user-oriented system based on the INDICS industrial Internet space, provides Cloud manufacturing service and supports the Cloud-based SaaS layer application environment. The system is based on industrial software that integrates knowledge in industry and enterprise management knowledge in space flight equipment manufacturing and upgrades and encapsulates services, algorithms and models by using the micro service architecture to build the core industrial App of CASICloud CMSS, and it is supported by core 5C industrial Apps (including CCO Cloud coordination, CPDM coordinated design engine, CRP resources dispatching engine, CMOM manufacturing management engine, COSIM virtual simulation) to provide intelligent coordination service for the whole industrial chain and life cycle of products. CMSS is undertaking the noble mission to build an open and shared innovation ecosystem that provides stable and reliable comprehensive solution for digital transformation and Cloud-oriented industrial transformation.
It is no doubt that CASICloud has entered the SaaS 2.0 stage. CASICloud not only provides core SaaS Apps for equipment manufacturing but also give the capable quick App customization platform to many developers, users and partners in the industry to help them quickly configure specific field-oriented and scene-oriented SaaS Apps and serve enterprises via the portal platform of CASICloud, sharing information and rotating resources.
With competition in the industrial Internet platform getting more fiercer, the platform-based SaaS App has become the key to excel. Gao analyzed the unprecedented pressure exerted on the modern enterprise system. New technologies, such as communication technology, computer technology, Internet technology, information technology and etc. almost zeroed all transaction costs such as time and space of market trade, and they greatly reduced the fixed internal costs that support the running of enterprises; super large enterprises, large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises can all pursue an ideal operation status that features less assets, simpler structure and fewer business. To reach this target, the App application that is applicable for various industries, fields and scenarios in the SaaS layer must be enriched constantly.
As we all know, scenarios in industry can be extremely complicated, and knowledge in all disciplines can vary greatly, so general Apps can barely meet varied needs of digital projects of all manufacturing enterprises. Currently, CASICloud is creating a new series of industrial sectors and value in development, deployment and operation of industrial App via CMSS. Therefore, regardless of the development stage, scale, sector or region, all enterprises can independently build specialized Cloud-oriented scenarios based on accumulation and reuse of knowledges in industry to realize explosive growth in application innovation and effectively support the realizing of new manufacturing mode such as intelligent transformation, collaborative manufacturing and cloud manufacturing.
Multi-party Participating in “One Brain, One Cab, Two Rooms and Two Stations” Service System
Gao analyzes the system structure of CMSS in detail. Through full-process service support system in industrial product marketing and procurement, outsourcing and cooperation for manufacturing capability and production service, inter-enterprise collaborative manufacturing and project-level & enterprise-level intelligent manufacturing, CMSS provides services for users through this interface, which includes the enterprise brain, enterprise driver’s cab, cloud business work room, cloud application work room, service station for small-sized enterprises and micro-enterprises, and service station for enterprises deploying business on the cloud. The enterprise brain provides support and services for the scientific decision-making level; the enterprise driver’s cab provides services for the management of the enterprise; the cloud business work room provides support for the production-supply-marketing clustered services and peripheral business services; the cloud application work room provides support for customization, design, R&D, test and after-sale technical services; the two function modules for special Online-Merge-Offline services, i.e. the service station for enterprises deploying business on the cloud and the service station for small-sized enterprises and micro-enterprises, can meet the actual demands of various enterprises further participating in the construction of the ecosystem for cloud manufacturing industry clusters.
For users, CMSS provides “One brain, one cab, two rooms and two stations” customized interface according to application scenarios. Enterprises can configure applications in various fields and deploy equipment and business on the cloud by selecting applications or application combinations. “One brain” refers to the enterprise brain, which is mainly composed of intellisense, knowledge management, learning and development, and independent decision-making, focusing on providing functions such as big data applications, enterprise consultation, decision support, patent pools and expert pools for enterprises and developers. “One cab” refers to the enterprise driver’s cab can not only serve the enterprise decision-making level, but also provide more appropriate view of data for the management and executive level，providing enterprises with functions such as commanding, decision making and control. “Two rooms” refer to the cloud business work room and the cloud application work room of an enterprise. The cloud business work room focuses on providing enterprise business users and corporate functional users with functions such as supply chain, marketing, finance and taxation. The cloud application work room provides application service provider and application use enterprises with core application functions such as CPDM and CRP for intelligent manufacturing, collaborative manufacturing and cloud manufacturing. The two stations refer to the service station for enterprises deploying business on the cloud and the service station for small-sized enterprises and micro-enterprises, which are the two function modules for special Online-Merge-Offline services, and can meet the actual demands of various enterprises further participating in the construction of the ecosystem for cloud manufacturing industry clusters.
The CMSS ecosystem consists of application providers, users and operators, forming a mutually beneficial and win-win ecosystem. CASICloud has established a complete integrated deployment process and technical support, and guided the entry of third-party APPs via platform resources and business models to complement the non-core functions required in building market users scenarios. It focuses on the development of smart R&D, lean manufacturing, smart management and control and ecological applications, to better solve the user’s scenario problem in a dynamic and customized way. Meanwhile, CASICloud gathers resources from application developers, software developers, service integrators, industrial users and platform operators, and continues to expand the richness of CMSS application services to build a foundation for the cloud manufacturing industry ecosystem and provide precast units. In order to enhance user's activity, CASICloud has formulated a series of guiding policies for CMSS application access standards and application deploying business on the cloud policies, and developed the CMSS business model and promotion scheme. CASICloud has also continued to strengthen CMSS security to guarantee CMSS application and data security, promoting the sustainable development of CMSS's SaaS ecosystem.
CMSS based on INDICS, as an important part of the ecosystem of cloud manufacturing industry cluster, is charged with important tasks to promote the further specialization, distribution, socialization, intelligence, and collaboration of manufacturing industry. In the future, the gradually enriching and improving SaaS level APP application tools will assist enterprises to realize the social integration and sharing, optimization configuration and business collaboration for industrial services, industrial equipment and industrial products, living up to expectation of Chairman Gao in promoting the interaction among technology innovation, business model innovation and management innovation, rebuilding the industry boundary and industrial structure and building the ecology of cloud manufacturing industry cluster.
