On June 19, 2024, the 2024 Intelligent Industrial Control and Storage Industry Summit Forum, jointly organized by the Shenzhen Memory Industry Association and the South China International Industrial Expo, was successfully held at the Shenzhen International Convention and Exhibition Center. Global intelligent industrial control leading manufacturers, platform manufacturers, and storage manufacturers gather together to seek a new blue ocean of integration and symbiosis between intelligent industrial control and storage technology. At the meeting, Zhu Zhenyu, Senior Product Manager of Hikvision, gave a keynote speech on “Digital Opportunities brought by New Storage in Intelligent Manufacturing Scenarios”, sharing Hikvision’s cutting-edge storage solutions and successful cases for industrial intelligent manufacturing.
In the wave of new industrialization, digital transformation is deeply reforming the production process, organizational structure, and management system of traditional manufacturing, promoting the rapid development of high-end manufacturing. Mr. Zhu Zhenyu stated that in this transformation process, the demand for storage products in the manufacturing industry is constantly increasing, and the multi-dimensional requirements of performance, capacity, security, cost-effectiveness, etc. have brought huge challenges to traditional storage. Hikvision, with its profound accumulation of storage technology in the field of security, has launched “new storage” in intelligent manufacturing scenarios, helping the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry from multiple dimensions such as massive, efficient, long-term, and intelligent.
In response to the actual needs of manufacturing enterprises, Hikvision fully utilizes the advantages of its intelligent IoT technology, focusing on four major links: enterprise park management, production process management, logistics management, and marketing management, to provide enterprises with an end-to-end digital transformation path. Mr. Zhu Zhenyu shared that the key to transforming into a smart park lies in responding to the innovation of management and operation models, which includes strengthening safety management and emergency command capabilities, maintaining efficient and stable operation of equipment and facilities, and accelerating production efficiency, among many other challenges. The key to solving these difficulties lies in comprehensively collecting and analyzing data, ensuring that every management element is accurately grasped, forming a fast feedback loop for management decisions, and an instant response mechanism for emergencies, thus laying a solid foundation for the construction of smart parks.
Visual driven, AI empowered, visual management and efficient data tracing optimize productivity
Mr. Zhu Zhenyu introduced that in response to the intelligent transformation of park management, Hikvision provides enterprise digital AR workshop solutions and equipment and facility management solutions. Through online remote real-time visualization and rapid tracing, quality inspection data archiving, AI production line, and industrial control machine backup, it ensures comprehensive improvement in safety management, equipment stability, and production efficiency.

Specifically, the quality inspection data archiving scheme utilizes industrial high-speed cameras to capture images of various production processes, ensuring that there is no omission of detailed records in automated processes. These massive unstructured image data can be efficiently archived through distributed storage. At the same time, the Hikvision cloud disk system can achieve data lifecycle management capabilities such as retrieval, migration, and expiration deletion for billions of data, and identify anomalies through secondary data utilization and AI assistance, assist in process optimization, and improve production capacity; On the other hand, using AI technology to monitor production processes ensures the continuity and efficiency of production activities, while significantly improving product quality, reducing defect rates and customer complaints by standardizing operational behavior. As for the backup plan for the industrial control computer, the incremental backup strategy is regularly executed to ensure real-time protection of the operating system and critical files. In the event of a system failure, the backup mechanism can respond quickly and recover to the working state before the failure in just 30 minutes, effectively reducing production interruption time and ensuring the continuity and stability of production.
Comprehensive coverage of intelligent manufacturing needs, providing massive, efficient, and reliable data storage support
In the practice of promoting transparent management and digital transformation of enterprises, responding to the huge demand for factory data storage has become crucial for improving product quality and production capacity. Mr. Zhu Zhenyu shared that Hikvision can provide comprehensive storage solutions covering single machine single control, distributed storage, and backup all-in-one machines, as well as innovative AI storage solutions, to build a solid foundation for data support in the manufacturing industry. Among them, the single machine single control series focuses on high cost-effectiveness, supports IoT disks, and has a single device capacity of 1PB, which can meet the data storage needs of five factory product lines in small and medium-sized manufacturing industries; Distributed series of data storage with linear expansion of capacity performance, supporting EB level capacity of billions of data scales; A set of AI data storage series products supports both online and offline storage, centralized archiving of data without copying, higher space utilization, more secure data, and supports full lifecycle management of data.

Mr. Zhu Zhenyu illustrates the importance of data storage in enterprise manufacturing through two cases: long-term archiving and storage of unstructured data in battery factory production line processes, and factory quality inspection traceability systems. In the battery factory case, 59 industrial control machines from 17 production lines in the workshop generated diverse data, including vtdk SDU、SQB、execl、 Multiple formats such as text files generate 200-300GB of data per month on a single machine, with a total volume of up to 17TB per month. It needs to be stored for up to 8 years to ensure quality traceability. Therefore, 10 distributed storage devices were used, with over 10PB of storage space built. At the same time, intelligent clients were used to achieve automatic scheduled archiving of industrial computer data, which not only meets long-term storage needs but also facilitates quality traceability and big data analysis, enhancing the convenience and efficiency of data management.
In the example of the factory quality inspection traceability system project, with the continuous growth of business, new challenges have been posed to the factory’s capabilities in the fields of informatization, intelligence, and visualization, especially in the precise control of production processes, which has driven the need to build innovative factory information systems. Hikvision has achieved transparent management of the entire production, logistics, and sales process by integrating industrial cameras, distributed storage solutions, and intelligent data management platforms. It empowers real-time QR code scanning to track production dynamics, significantly enhancing the intelligent operation of production processes and precise management capabilities of production details. This provides a practical example for the informationization upgrade and intelligent transformation of factories.
In the storage field, Hikvision has built an advanced research and development system and talent team, as well as a first-class domestic production system and quality control. The competitiveness of its products and brands continues to improve. Currently, Hikvision ranks first in the global IP storage market share. Looking ahead to the future, Hikvision will use cutting-edge storage technology and intelligent IoT applications as the cornerstone to plug digital wings into industrial manufacturing, empower enterprises to achieve efficient operation, transparent management, and continuous innovation, and continuously inject strong momentum into the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry.