Key findings:
Customer pain points: Traditional water plant business is discrete, and real-time data synchronization cannot be achieved, which brings obstacles to the collection, analysis and processing of data and auxiliary decision-making. Intelligent management systems are needed to help water plants improve management efficiency, optimize management processes, and achieve digital and intelligent goals.
Solution: Based on customer needs, Tianjin Tengling developed a smart water management integrated management platform using the Mendix low-code development platform to help customers achieve digital transformation of water plant management and fully realize the collaboration of “people, machines, and objects”.
Implementation effect: The project development cycle was shortened by 50%, and the corresponding human resources were saved by more than 50%; after the project was launched, the water plant customers achieved a carbon reduction of 0.58 tons per month and a drug consumption saving of more than 25%.
Traditional water plant
Discrete business hinders smart management
Tianjin Tengling Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tianjin Tengling) is a supplier of digital overall solutions from end to cloud and plug-and-play. The core products are based on 5G cloud PLC and privatized open IOT data middle platform, as well as the industry’s first industrial Internet bus protocol TenNet, combined with the SAAS application developed by Siemens Mendix low-code platform, and successfully deployed in smart equipment, smart transportation, smart buildings, smart agriculture, smart docks, smart pipe corridors, smart water affairs, smart flood control and other fields of industry digital solutions.
As a partner of Siemens Mendix, Tianjin Tengling recently cooperated with Mendix to develop the smart water affairs integrated management platform project of Shangrao Water Plant.
Before the launch of the smart water affairs integrated management platform, since the business of the water plant is discrete, whether it is within the plant or between water plants, on-site management cannot solve the physical distance problem, nor can it achieve real-time synchronization of data. As the five elements of production management, how to make people, machines, things work together, how to effectively implement the “law”, how to adjust the “environment”, and how to efficiently inherit and pass on experience all need to be improved in intelligence.
Sun Jingyan, manager of Tianjin Tengling’s operations department, is responsible for providing industry customers with full life cycle management of projects from beginning to end, involving preliminary project research, pre-sales architecture design, sales business confirmation, after-sales execution, and the connection and resource allocation of project operation and maintenance.
Stand out
Mendix low-code strength assists
In the Shangrao Water Plant Smart Water Comprehensive Management Platform project, Tianjin Tengling tried many low-code platforms to help customers save development manpower. At first, the difference in basic functions did not seem so obvious, but in the process of use, the different defects of different platforms made Tianjin Tengling unable to complete the presentation of an overall project. After repeated comparisons and demonstrations, it was finally determined that Mendix was the most suitable low-code development platform. The specific development situation is compared as follows:
Although everyone thinks that the setting of login personnel permissions is a very simple function, it is difficult to achieve the extreme. Some platforms can only distinguish permissions by whether the interface can be displayed, while Mendix can be detailed to a small function in a separate page. For example, the customer wants all personnel who log in to the system to view the data on this page, but cannot perform remote control functions on the cloud for several controls. Mendix can be divided by permissions to avoid operational errors, but many other platforms need to create different pages for different personnel, so there is no reduction in development manpower.
The platform “self-defined fine decoration”, most low-code platforms have provided UI templates, but the templates are more like packages and cannot achieve real DIY. For example, in this project, Tianjin Tengling has integrated figma and creat interface design to improve the visual effect of the system, making this system not only a tool, but also a work of art, which makes managers feel refreshed when using it.
Data governance assists decision-making, and the intelligent management system built with the Mendix low-code platform provides customers with data basis, realizes data persistence within Mendix, allows customers’ experience to be accumulated, and makes the next plan based on it. Through the data model algorithm built with sufficient historical information, it can predict and guide future production links.
Mendix’s standardized templates are more powerful than other low-code platforms, including modules such as production management and project management. They can be quickly built by dragging and dropping. At the same time, they are highly compatible and can be smoothly connected to other cloud platforms that have been developed and can be well connected with the data center, providing a solid foundation for IT development of the Internet of Everything.
Tianjin Tengling used Mendix low-code to help Shangrao Water Plant develop a smart water management integrated management platform project that achieved:
Multi-plant parallel management, digital twin of physical water plants;
Real-time monitoring of inflow and outflow data;
Management of process flow, including real-time data of each production link, equipment operation status, equipment operation record, instrument data, instrument overview, dosing data, etc.;
Storage, retrieval, reuse of historical data, generation of reports, statistical analysis, and operation information recording are realized;
Real-time alarm records are realized, and remote inspection notifications are issued to realize synchronization of cloud control, cloud inspection and offline inspection information;
Intelligent control section realizes cloud control, local control, fixed frequency setting, cloud parameter revision, and comparison of predicted data and real-time data;
Integrate intelligent algorithms to build data models for effluent water quality, dosing amount, and equipment use, integrate environmental data, plant construction physical data and other information resources, and implement iterative updates of data models after deep learning, so that the algorithm is more accurate and more in line with actual production, which has good guiding significance.
If this project uses traditional development methods, it is expected to extend the delivery cycle by about twice as long as that of Mendix low-code development. The delivery cycle and manpower are both increasing year-on-year. At the same time, traditional development has very high requirements for experience and technology to ensure the smooth testing process, and the increase in manpower is expected to be more than doubled. After the project was launched, carbon emissions were reduced by 0.58 tons per month, and drug consumption was saved by more than 25%.
The future is promising
Working side by side with Mendix
Summarizing the benefits of Siemens Mendix platform in helping end users develop applications, Sun Jingyan summarized them into the following points:
The compatibility of Mendix low-code platform helps solve the difficulties of discrete management and break the island effect;
Maximize the value of data resources, trace the past, establish data models through data persistence, present prediction effects and real-time comparisons on the platform, and lay the foundation for experts to provide professional advice;
Realize data linkage, better combine with edge control, and realize cloud-edge-end collaborative control.
In addition to the smart water management platform, Tianjin Tengling has also established industrial Internet applications covering multiple industries based on the Mendix low-code development platform, including water conservancy, agriculture, gardens, building parks, intelligent manufacturing, transportation, pipe corridors, etc. to achieve IT\OT\CT, unified connection, unified cloud, unified data management, and unified innovative applications. It can realize hierarchical and hierarchical permission settings, while meeting the requirements of real-time data transmission and long-term record preservation, giving value to data resources, achieving traceability in the past and expectations in the future. At the same time, according to the threshold setting, clear alarm levels are set to prepare for a rainy day and prevent problems before they happen, and enjoy long-term peace and stability without knowing it. Avoid risks, effectively predict, and use data experience to bring a digital cornerstone for sustainable development to enterprises.
Sun Jingyan said: “Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. We use low-code to realize the Internet of Everything and digital twins. We can implement our IOT integration solutions regardless of industry or field. It is not because we are lucky or outstanding, but because we stand on the shoulders of giants. Siemens Mendix is a ‘giant’ for us, which enables us to see higher and farther, do faster and better.” In the future, Tianjin Tengling hopes to combine the Siemens Mendix low-code platform with its existing projects to jointly develop a standardized platform suitable for general management in all walks of life. At the same time, it can also create industry standardized platforms for several industrial Internet industries. On the basis of the standardized platform, the iteration function of the low-code platform can also be used to quickly upgrade and transform the project. Without changing the hardware facilities and equipment, the software can be quickly upgraded and iterated, which will help the development of enterprises in various industries.
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