On September 20, the finals of the 3rd "Blooming Cup" 5G Application Competition sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ended brilliantly in Chongqing. The "5G Smart Factory Application Based on Edge Cloud" project of Elkem Xinghuo Silicone stands out from 4,289 projects nationwide. After the selection of regional competition and special competition, as well as the fierce competition of national second round and final, it has successfully won the runner-up in the national final of 5G Application Competition and the champion of the industrial thematic group. It is the only award-winning enterprise in China's chemical industry and Jiangxi Province.

The "5G Smart Factory Application Based on Edge Cloud" project is jointly declared by Elkem Xinghuo Silicone and China Telecom Jiujiang Branch. Based on the strategic objectives of enterprise greening, refinement, intellectualization, internationalization and sustainability, the project endows the traditional chemical industry with new wisdom and new vitality, and promotes the transformation and upgrading from made in China to intelligent manufacturing in China.

Du Xiaosong, Head of the Project and Asia Pacific Information Technology Director of Elkem Silicones, introduced that the project has six major innovations. First, it will build a new 5G digital twin factory in the chemical industry, realize multi-protocol data integration and low delay bidirectional transmission in an industrial scene with 5G industrial gateway, gather the data to form the basis of big data analysis, and establish and realize the real-time control of the production digital command center; Second, 5G MEC (edge computing) connects the whole scene of the industrial Internet to realize data collection, edge computing and analysis of various devices; Third, 5G and AI machine vision are combined to carry out real-time monitoring of all elements on the safety management site, effectively improving the closed-loop management of work safety. Fourth, the intrusive sensor + 5G MEC realizes real-time detection of multi-content materials in the production process, and feeds back a large number of multi-dimensional fingerprints and video data to the control center in real time by 5G large bandwidth and low delay characteristics. Fifth, it applies the modeled big data to accurately study and judge the health status of the device, and deeply integrates 5G with the big data system of earthworm box; Sixth, the application of 5G + UAV and robot realizes the "sky-ground integration" patrol inspection, and innovatively realizes the UAV sample inspection.

Zhang Lijun, Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Elkem Xinghuo Silicone, said that as one of the top three silicone industry leaders in the world, the selected enterprise of intelligent manufacturing application model of national major science and technology projects, and the first batch of "5G + Industrial Internet" application model enterprises in Jiangxi Province, Elkem Xinghuo Silicone shoulders the mission of "piloting the new infrastructure and jointly innovating the era", and will continue to cultivate application scenes with the help of Xinghuo 5G joint innovation laboratory platform, to establish new application standards for 5G in the chemical industry to form a White Paper on 5G Intelligent Chemical Industry, and to take Xinghuo as a pilot to promote the application in the national chemical industry, further promoting the innovation and development of China's 5G application industry.