Traditional factories face labor shortages and high employment costs, chaotic workshop network cabling, tightly bound software and hardware, and disparate equipment operating in silos. Upgrading a single production line often requires tearing everything down and starting over. Faced with these long-standing problems on the production line, how can traditional manufacturing break through and be reborn? CHINA TELECOM (00728) uses its integrated acquisition and control platform as the core, fusing 5G customized networks, industrial PON, edge computing, machine vision and other technologies, and integrating AGVs, robotic arms and industrial cameras to create tailor-made smart production lines for enterprises, using Tokens to enable flexible production and replace manpower with computing power.
Production Line Reshaping: Traditional Factories Instantly Become Smart Workshops
Traditional industrial control systems have closed protocol ecosystems, and changing a single function requires major disruption. CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines move PLCs and industrial computers to the cloud, support unified programming and centralized deployment, achieve software-hardware decoupling, and bring development costs down. Equipment no longer works alone, and AI forms teams with one click. Under the traditional industrial control architecture of separated control and computing, devices from different brands often operate independently and struggle to collaborate. CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines support an AI algorithm library, enabling native integration of AI and control systems, allowing multiple devices to concentrate their strength on doing the same thing and effectively reducing computing power overhead. Wired plus wireless makes flexible production no longer difficult. Network cables are densely packed like a spider web, and upgrading a production line once required stripping everything down just to rewire. CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines combine wired and wireless networks, greatly shortening the deployment and changeover cycle of automated production lines, so flexible production is no longer just talk. Connecting IT and OT puts data under one screen. In the past, managing a factory relied on walking around; now it relies on a screen. CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines connect IT and OT, integrate cloud-based PLC with SCADA and MES systems for direct dialogue, break through data transmission bottlenecks, and make it clear whether equipment is failing and whether energy consumption is exceeding standards. Production data is visible at a glance, and cloud supervision can be achieved with a single mobile phone.
On-Site Production Line Exploration Witnesses the Industry's Intelligent Transformation
Machines replace people, and production lines enter unmanned territory. Unpacking, loading, transport and other tasks in industries such as food have seen labor costs rise year after year. CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines use cloud-based PLC control and intelligent recognition systems to uniformly schedule AGVs, robotic arms and other equipment, solving pain points such as difficult loading and easily damaged rolled packaging materials. This system has become the first intelligent unpacking and loading production line in China applied to the tobacco industry. After being deployed at a key tobacco enterprise, it reduced the weight of manual handling by more than 1 ton per day on average and increased production efficiency by 5%. Data breaks down barriers, and production lines can change whenever needed. Crystal components have small batches, many varieties and rapid iteration, so production lines must frequently switch channels accordingly. For the dispensing workshop production line's basket loading scenario of a leading enterprise in the industry, CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines installed a screen-reading tool on imported PC-based motion controllers, automatically capturing key data and synchronizing it to MES, enabling dispensing machines and AGVs to cooperate seamlessly, reducing the number of manual monitoring staff by 80% and improving equipment efficiency by 20%-30%. Intelligent equipment control makes energy saving a standard feature. Fans, converters and other equipment in the steel and mining industries operate around the clock, keeping energy consumption high. Through automatic control plus variable frequency control plus AI algorithm analysis, CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines built a three-in-one pre-furnace fan energy-saving system, helping a steel enterprise achieve intelligent regulation of fan speed, furnace temperature and other parameters, significantly reducing energy consumption, successfully passing an environmental protection Grade A assessment, and transforming a major energy consumer into an energy-saving model. From workers running themselves ragged to cloud supervision of equipment, CHINA TELECOM (00728) smart production lines are using Tokens as an engine to integrate intelligent control capabilities into every process, allowing traditional industry to continuously evolve to the rhythm of digital production.
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