The future is the era of innovation and sharing. Enterprises, if confined to current achievements and glory, will be weaker and weaker. Only with advanced concepts and courage to innovate, reform and share, can they enjoy more resources to create an industrial ecology benefiting parties. This is the true path to development.

Held in May 7th, the "XCMG Cup" Green Innovation Design Competition Launch Ceremony made people excited. In the ceremony, the competition plan was released and more important, XCMG and AliCloud announced to jointly build XCMG-Cloud. This move made insiders excited. XCMG, the leading enterprise in China’s construction machinery industry was about to launch a "Internet + cloud + manufacturing" reform to actively participate in the tide of "Made in China 2025" and " Industry 4.0", lifting the industrial ecology to a higher level.

Finding a true friend

Not long ago, Ali Group officially announced that it has grown into the world's largest retail trading platform, and AliCloud was the basis of its rapid growth. In the fiscal year 2016, the revenue of AliCloud has reached 3.019 billion yuan, an increase of 138% over the previous year, becoming the world's third largest cloud computing service provider after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

"Compared with the United States, the 'cloud' has greater market in China," said Jin Jie, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. Nanjing Branch. "New things always need time to be accepted. The 'cloud' technology now faces embarrassed situation in China. Many enterprises neither understand nor accept the technology. I was always called as ‘city slicker’. Of course there are companies willing to try, but they often lack abundant foundation or ability to promote it."

Jin also told us that it was XCMG that took the initiative to construct the industrial cloud, which made them both astonished and excited. When they heard this program was firstly proposed by Chairman Wang Min, they felt flattered.

"We talked on the phone on weekends, and had a face to face communication on Monday. We found we have the same concepts, ideas and the pursuit, which made the project progress smoothly. Especially, XCMG’s comprehensive information and data system has provided a solid foundation." Jin Jie was so excited when mentioning the cooperation with XCMG, "XCMG said it will work with AliCloud to build China's Predix platform, which included China's industrial information and data. This ideal and pursuit made us have the feeling of true friendship.”

Wisdom on cloud

"XCMG Cup" Green Innovation Design Competition was the trigger point of the cooperation. As one of the important industrial design competitions of Jiangsu Province, the competition has attracted continuous attention since its release on April 20, 2016 in Nanjing.

The competition is one of the 14 global precise welfare projects promoted by Chairman Wang Min with the concept of "global welfare, precision welfare”. The competition will last till late October. Themed with "changing world with the cloud”, and focusing on the industrial design of environmental cleaning equipment, XCMG collects designs from the world to arouse people’s concerns on environmental protection and green development with more creative and useful products highlighting the obligation “XCMG makes the world better”.

In the future, with strongly inclusive XCMG-Cloud, massive data will be fully shared, so that the world's wisdom can be integrated to create more possibilities.

Cloud ecology

"Innovation, coordination, green, open, and sharing have become the trend of development," said Wang Min. "Only with the thinking of the Internet to break the barriers among individuals, enterprises, industries and nations, and integrate more resources, can we truly achieve the 'Made in China 2025' and sustainable development. XCMG has the compelling responsibility in taking the first step!"

With the thinking of the Internet and mature technology, the mode of relying on core technology to win the market has become increasingly difficult to sustain, for core technology is more and more difficult to enjoy exclusively. The development will be more dependent on social value creation, networking ecological existence and real-time market observation, and the Internet technology + enterprise platform mode is becoming the model for the future development of manufacturing industry.

In the near future, open platforms like collaborative design cloud, global Internet of Things, intelligent supply chain and intelligent factories will be realized in XCMG-cloud. A globally sharing new digital innovative cloud ecosystem deeply integrating digital technology and manufacturing capabilities will be launched in XCMG and benefit parties.

Use cloud to reform

Carrying the internationalized and world-class pursuit and ideal, XCMG has always been the vanguard of China's manufacturing industry in its 27-year’s development. In 2016, it has ranked fifth in the world, competing with global leading engineering machinery manufacturers. As for the factors for success, Wang Min summarized as: "forward-looking, bold and accurate strategic decision, corporate culture of integrity, and indomitable and innovative personnel".

Constructing XCMG-cloud is undoubtedly a forward-looking, resolute and accurate strategic decision -- using information technology to reform to pursue the world-class development.

In fact, as early as in 2009, XCMG has started the information technology upgrading project. Currently it has formed a whole chain information system including research, production, supply, sales and service, accumulating 150T industrial data which are being applied in intelligent manufacturing, remote fault diagnosis, and after-market service. The deep fusion of informationization and industrialization has provided fertile soil for the construction of XCMG-cloud.

It is reported that on middleware platform, XCMG and AliCloud will construct shared service center, including user center, algorithm center, trading center, assessment center and logistics center, realizing the modular management; on the software platform, cloud collaborative design, e-commerce, global Internet of Things, intelligent supply chain, intelligent plant, social service, and crowd sourcing will be achieved. Each part of the industry chain can enjoy the benefits and convenience brought by the XCMG-cloud through an APP.

In the eye of participants, the cooperation made them aware that "this is the first time China stands so close with the world leading technology tide". In a new round of industrial revolution, China will no longer be a follower. As long as there are more innovative attempts such as XCMG cloud, and more innovative enterprises like XCMG and Alibaba, China is fully capable of becoming a leader of the fourth industrial revolution.