Summary

In recent years, with the growth of global electricity demand and the promotion of smart grids, the size of the transformer market has continued to expand. In 2023, the global distribution transformer market will reach 14.321 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 8.12%. The market size of China's distribution transformers will reach 19.435 billion yuan in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 14.53%. In addition, China's transformer production will reach 2.163 billion kVA in 2023, demonstrating strong market demand.

The transformer industry has made significant progress in technology. Efficient energy conservation, digitization, and intelligence have become development trends. Some enterprises have increased their research and development efforts on new transformers with high efficiency, energy saving, remote monitoring, automatic adjustment, fault diagnosis and other functions, improving the technical content and added value of their products. In addition, transformer losses account for about 40% of power transmission and distribution losses, with significant energy-saving potential.

Company Overview

XX Transformer Enterprise is a holding company of China Ordnance Equipment Group, adhering to and developing the main excellent assets of the former Baoding Transformer Factory, as well as the research achievements and product brands of large transformers. After nearly 60 years of development, it has become a well-known professional manufacturer of power transmission and transformation equipment in China, producing a series of cutting-edge products representing the highest level in the world's power transmission and transformation field, and exporting products to more than 40 countries and regions.

The customer has a complete range of transformer products and core technologies, and is qualified as a supplier of transformers for thermal power plants, nuclear power plants, hydropower plants, LNG power plants, fuel and gas turbine units, and substation transformers; We have the production capacity of special products such as ultra-high voltage parallel reactors, DC converter transformers, smoothing reactors, railway traction transformers, phase-shifting transformers, test transformers, gas insulated transformers, etc.

Project Background

The competition in China's power transformer industry is relatively fierce, with foreign multinational enterprises occupying a large market. The increase in electricity demand and the construction of smart grids are driving the development of the power transformer market. Users' demands are increasing and the new energy market requires continuous technological updates for power transformers.

From the perspective of technological innovation

Combination, low loss, low noise, energy conservation and environmental protection, and high reliability will be the development direction of power transformers.

In terms of application market

The supporting construction of new energy power stations will stimulate the demand for substation equipment, effectively driving the stable and sustained growth of the power transformer market, but also placing higher demands on the technology and reliability of transformer products.

The client aims to build an "internationally renowned and domestically first-class" power transmission and transformation industry group, guided by "Made in China 2025" and the internal group's overall plan, with the market as the leader and meeting customer needs as the center, and transformer contract order fulfillment as the main line, to construct an enterprise digital platform covering four sub platforms: digital research and development, digital operation, digital manufacturing, and data-driven services, ultimately achieving cost reduction, quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, transformation and upgrading, and continuously enhancing the client's core competitiveness.

Enterprises are facing the following pain points:

Lack of data collection methods:The massive data generated by multiple factories and equipment is difficult to collect through a single platform; Multiple controllers and interface protocols are not unified, making it difficult to effectively parse and collect data.

Lack of refined energy management:The enterprise has not collected energy data, making it impossible to monitor energy data in real time. The Advantech EMS energy management system is unable to conduct energy consumption analysis.

Lack of business system management tools:The group company has launched multiple systems (PLM, ERP, MES, EMS, etc.), but the data of each business system cannot be shared and exchanged, and the enterprise cannot comprehensively and quickly analyze and make decisions.

Data synchronization with the group has not been achieved:The superior group and customers are unable to view the customer's safety and environmental data, which cannot meet the management needs of the enterprise and the superior group company.

Overall, there is a lack of refined and transparent management methods for data, as well as a lack of effective analysis of data.

Project Proposal

Build a group level industrial IoT platform to collect various data on enterprise production, safety, environmental protection, fire protection, energy consumption, and access video data. At the same time, it interfaces with other business systems within the enterprise (operating business systems, future new business systems) to provide comprehensive data support for other business systems.

Building an IOT platform

By building a Mingda Cloud Group level industrial IoT platform and collecting equipment data, real-time monitoring of safety, fire protection, environmental protection, and energy equipment data can be achieved to meet the management needs of enterprises and higher-level group companies.

Energy Management Platform

Based on the Mingda Cloud industrial Internet platform, build an energy management platform, an integrated energy management system integrating energy collection, energy data processing, energy monitoring, energy statistical analysis, energy optimization, carbon emission management and other functions, and help enterprises achieve the management objectives of energy conservation, emission reduction, cost reduction and efficiency increase in combination with industry characteristics.

Safety and environmental monitoring

Upload fire and environmental protection data to the safety and environmental protection platform to achieve the goal of preventing safety hazards.

Realize business collaboration of production data

Support the integration of IoT platforms with MES, PLM, ERP and other systems to achieve the flow and collaboration of production data, reduce management difficulties, and effectively improve the level of on-site production management.

Expected returns

1. Group standardization management

• The group platform provides data bus services to achieve unified and standardized interface management;
• Clean and structure the IoT data gathered by the group platform, and output it externally through standardized API interfaces
• Support data sharing with various business systems of the enterprise, reduce management difficulty, and facilitate comprehensive and rapid analysis and decision-making for the enterprise.

2. Factory Collaboration - Safety Collaboration Scenario

• By connecting with the interface of the higher-level group platform, the on-site video data is uploaded to the higher-level group's video surveillance system to achieve monitoring and control of safety hazards in the entire factory scene, while meeting the changing control needs of the group in the future.
• By adding a security and environmental monitoring module to the group's IOT platform, real-time monitoring and analysis of security, fire, and environmental data can be achieved to prevent safety hazards, meet the management needs of enterprises and higher-level group companies, and reduce repetitive investments in the platform, thereby reducing costs for enterprises

3. Production Collaboration - Production Management Scenario

• Adopting cloud edge collaboration to collect real-time data related to on-site equipment, meeting the management needs of enterprises and higher-level group companies.
• Upload the collected energy data to the energy management system, continuously optimize resource allocation, and reduce manufacturing costs.