Yichen Guo / Chief Information Officer
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Chinese manufacturers are moving core systems to domestically developed software. The deadline is rarely the main risk. The risk is carrying undocumented plant processes into a new system on a fixed date, and boards should ask for the process record before the cutover calendar.
Read the essayChinese manufacturers are moving core systems to domestically developed software. The deadline is rarely the main risk. The risk is carrying undocumented plant processes into a new system on a fixed date, and boards should ask for the process record before the cutover calendar.
Machinery plants rarely connect their robot and controller networks to the internet on purpose. The outside world enters through the equipment vendors and integrators who maintain them, and the protection that lasts is written into their contracts.
Manufacturers report AI by the projects they have started. A board learns more from the pilots that were stopped, why they were stopped and what the survivors actually changed on the shop floor.