In recent years, the "Smart Transformation and Digital Transformation" initiative is profoundly changing the current situation of Sichuan's manufacturing industry. While empowering the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry, helping to achieve phased results in cost reduction, efficiency improvement, quality improvement, and green expansion, intelligent transformation has also given birth to a number of new models and formats such as flexible production, large-scale personalized customization, and network collaborative manufacturing. Huarong Chemical Co., Ltd., located in Chengdu, is an enterprise dedicated to the green recycling and comprehensive utilization of potassium hydroxide. It mainly provides fine chemical products for modern industrial systems such as electronic information, advanced materials, and energy and chemical industries. This traditional chemical enterprise, established at the beginning of this century, is undergoing tremendous changes under the promotion of intelligent transformation and digital transformation. It can be said that intelligent transformation and digital transformation have become the implementation tools for the company's high-quality development strategy of 'expanding high-end and extending terminals'. ”Wan Fang, Deputy General Manager of Huarong Company, said that in terms of greening, in recent years, the factory has been continuously saving energy every year, and the company's comprehensive energy consumption has decreased by 6%, with a cumulative energy saving and consumption reduction of over 10 million yuan; In terms of high-end products, since its listing in 2022, the company's sales of high-grade potassium hydroxide have nearly doubled year-on-year, and the proportion of customized products of flake potassium hydroxide alone has increased by nearly three times; In terms of efficiency, the implementation of digital workshops has reduced labor intensity by over 80% and increased production efficiency by over 35%. Based on the promotion of smart supply chain projects, both efficiency and quality have significantly improved: order delivery cycles have been compressed by nearly 50%, core finished product inventory days have been reduced from tens of days to a few days, inventory turnover efficiency has increased by nearly 175%, and delivery perfection rate has increased by 23%. The company has been rated as a specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprise by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Its high-end flake potassium hydroxide has been awarded the "Single Champion" product in the manufacturing industry by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and has grown into a national high-tech enterprise. Smart transformation is not a simple device update, but a systematic restructuring of production methods. The practice of Qimingxing Company has proven that intelligent transformation and digital transformation are not only feasible strategies for traditional manufacturing industries to achieve green transformation, but also necessary paths. ”This is the firsthand experience of Li Yong, Chief Engineer of Sichuan Qimingxing Aluminum Industry Company. It is reported that in the past two years, Qimingxing Company has quietly implemented a green transformation driven by intelligent transformation and digital transformation, investing over 75 million yuan to carry out 23 technological transformation or innovation research and development projects, equipping old equipment with "smart brains" and "green hearts", and achieving a magnificent transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing. In the past, many work processes relied on experienced masters for inspection, but now they rely on data to speak for themselves, "said Li Yong. With the launch and operation of smart energy control systems, smart logistics control systems, and other systems, abnormal situations are automatically alerted, and workers' processing efficiency is improved by more than 30%. According to the relevant person in charge of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, as of the end of 2024, the numerical control rate of key processes and the popularization rate of digital research and development design tools in the province will reach 64.1% and 85.0% respectively, an increase of 4.7 and 3.6 percentage points year-on-year. In order to solve the three difficult problems of "not knowing how to transfer, not daring to transfer, and not wanting to transfer" in the process of implementing smart transformation and digital transformation for manufacturing enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, Sichuan has coordinated policies, funds, products, and solutions, increased financial support, and supported 456 key projects with a total investment of 56.8 billion yuan in 2024. The Sichuan Branch of the People's Bank of China has increased its credit support, with a total loan balance of over 360 billion yuan for enterprises involved in the intelligent transformation and digital transfer project. Several banks, including Chengdu Bank and Sichuan Rural Commercial Bank, have launched financial products for intelligent transformation and digital transfer. Meanwhile, relevant public services are constantly improving. Promote the construction of the Sichuan Digital, Intelligent, and Green Development Promotion Center, invest in the provincial manufacturing industry intelligent transformation and digital transformation professional empowerment platform, and provide one-stop intelligent services for enterprises throughout the entire process. Select and release 183 high-quality suppliers, involving over 420 products and services. According to the evaluation index system of intelligent transformation, more than 14000 industrial enterprises have been evaluated and diagnosed, and the digital transformation coverage rate of industrial enterprises above designated size exceeds 40%. In 2024, relevant parties will organize more than 150 digital empowerment activities such as industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing, and digital transformation promotion, covering more than 10000 industrial enterprises. The digital base is the foundation for realizing intelligent transformation and digital conversion. Currently, Sichuan has built over 216000 5G physical base stations, ranking sixth in the country, and achieved full coverage of 10 gigabit optical networks in industrial parks at or above the provincial level. Chengdu was approved as one of the first pilot cities for integrated application of "5G+Industrial Internet". The performance (latency) of the Chengdu Chongqing hub ranks first among the eight major hub nodes in China, and the comprehensive level of carrying capacity ranks fourth in the country. The province's intelligent computing power exceeds 15 EFlops, a year-on-year increase of about 15 times. The "Spark · Chain Network" (Chengdu) super node has been built. The Chengdu national top-level node for industrial Internet identity resolution and disaster recovery has provided full data hosting for 374 secondary nodes nationwide, and 20 secondary nodes have been launched in total. The total number of identity registration and resolution ranks fourth in China. (New Society)