Informatization promotes the cement industry to become stronger

In the context of the country's promotion of "informatization to promote industrialization", the level of informatization in China's cement industry is steadily improving. According to reports, in view of the high raw coal consumption and low clinker production capacity in the production process of existing cement rotary kiln in China, Jidong Development Group has adopted a cement firing intelligent optimization system to fundamentally reduce the consumption of cement production. Emissions reduction has steadily increased cement production and quality. Information technology has brought direct economic and social benefits to the company.

Recently, the “Guidance on Energy Saving and Emission Reduction in the Cement Industry” issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology clearly stated that the cement industry should accelerate the promotion of information technology and intelligent construction and improve the informatization level of cement production in order to improve the efficiency of energy resource utilization. , reduce pollutant emissions and achieve sustainable development of the cement industry.

China's cement industry is in the period of industrial restructuring, and it is particularly important to speed up the informationization of the cement industry. According to experts, the information construction of the domestic cement industry has started since the 1980s. With the continuous advancement of information technology, it has gone from stand-alone management, unit operations, management information systems (MIS) to enterprise resource management systems (ERP). ) The application of informatization by domestic cement companies is becoming more and more common. Basically large and medium-sized cement companies are applying information systems. For example, Guangzhou Yuexiu Cement Group Co., Ltd. implemented the Oracle ERP system, Jiangxi Yadong Cement Co., Ltd. and Hubei Huaxin Cement Group implemented the SAP system, and Gansu Qilianshan Cement Group implemented the cement industry solution based on the Microsoft Dynamics AX system platform. The increasing popularity of informatization in the cement industry has accelerated the pace of corporate restructuring and helped transform and upgrade enterprises.

According to the information provided by the China Bulk Cement Promotion Association, the proportion of China's new dry process cement has reached 70%, that is, old-fashioned shaft kiln enterprises have gradually been eliminated. Cement companies adopting new dry process lines are mostly newly constructed or reconstructed by old cement companies. How to use information technology to improve the operation and management level of cement companies, reduce production and bulk cement circulation costs, and increase corporate profitability have become the focus of attention in the industry. .

Wu Meiyan, deputy secretary-general of the China Bulk Cement Promotion Association, said that although the cement industry continues to expand its application of informatization, some large companies have a high level of automation in cement production. However, in terms of the industry as a whole, its informatization is still in its infancy. In particular, the small cement companies occupying a certain percentage of the information industry are not highly valued and the information requirements are not urgent enough. Most cement companies pay more attention to the control of the production process, but they pay insufficient attention to the management, especially the informationization of the logistics, and basically only stay at the level of a single system or a single department. Information cannot be integrated and shared, and integrated management systems such as production, sales, inventory, procurement, and quality have not been established, which has restricted the development of the cement industry to some extent.

The pace of "informatization to promote industrialization" is accelerating. The guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on energy saving and emission reduction in the cement industry has been made clear. The key development of the cement industry is to support the development of production, information, and intelligent management technologies, and to develop information and management systems for energy and resource consumption. Research, promotion and application of mining mining information management and optimization of mining plans, and strive to achieve zero emissions of mining. Research, promotion and application of informatization technologies such as distribution control system for production processes, on-line automatic monitoring system for cement raw materials, and expert system for clinker production lines, to achieve a significant increase in the level of production technology. We will focus on promoting the construction of energy management centers for enterprises. We will use three to five years to accelerate the construction of energy management centers for large and medium-sized enterprises.

The drums of speeding up the construction of the cement industry have been sounded, and informationization will support the upgrading of the cement industry structure. Taking the rapid development of new dry-process cement production technologies in recent years as an example, the cement production is controlled by computers. The unit volume of cement kiln is larger than that of wet-process cement, with rapid heat transfer, high thermal efficiency and low energy consumption. In Japan, Germany, and other developed countries, the new dry-process cement clinker production equipment with suspension warm-up and pre-decomposition as its core accounted for 95%. The proportion of new dry process cement in China has increased year by year. In 2003, the proportion of new dry process cement was 21.9%, 45.1% in 2005, and 53% in 2007. By 2010, the proportion of new dry process cement has reached over 70%. By the end of 2009, 1,113 new dry process cement production lines had been put into operation throughout the country.

In the circulation of cement, modern logistics and distribution also need information to ensure. China is a big producer of cement. According to statistics from the Cement Association, China's cement production in 2010 totaled 1.868 billion tons, a growth rate of 15.53%, and it maintained the world's highest output for more than 20 years in a row. In 2010, the country's bulk cement supply reached 898 million tons, and the cement bulk rate reached 48.10%. The development of modern information technology and logistics technology has provided conditions for the transformation of bulk cement circulation methods. Through the establishment of modern logistics distribution systems such as bulk cement, ready-mixed concrete and ready-mixed mortar, modern information technology has been used to improve the level of logistics modernization in bulk cement production, transportation, storage, and use, through the socialization and professionalism of logistics. Modernization and modernization to enhance the bulk of cement.

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