Industry and Trade sector promotes the application and transfer of scientific and technical advances to production and business

In the past period, the application of scientific and technical advances to production and business activities is a key driving force for the sustainable development of the production blocks of the Industry and Trade industry. Scientific and technological activities (S&T) play an important role in enhancing competitive capacity, contributing to accelerating the process of industrialization and modernization of production and business activities.

Many S&T research projects have been successfully applied to the production and business fields of the industry, contributing to meeting domestic demand, improving the localization rate in equipment manufacturing, reducing trade deficit, improve productivity, reduce costs, increase product competitiveness, and bring economic efficiency to the industry. These achievements have been recognized by noble awards in science and technology such as Ho Chi Minh Prize, State Award, VIFOTEC Award.

In the process of implementing science and technology tasks oriented to application in production, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has directed S&T organizations and enterprises to coordinate to deploy and efficiently use the funding from the Ministry of S&T sources. National programs / projects assigned by the Government to the Ministry of Industry and Trade to lead, with funding from the S&T development fund of enterprises. This, on the one hand, contributes to strengthening the capacity of S&T organizations of the Ministry to provide services and technology to enterprises in the industry, and at the same time promote the application of S&T in production activities. contribute to improving productivity, quality and competitiveness of businesses.

In order to meet the requirements of production and business activities and competitiveness in the market, enterprises have actively invested in, renovated technology, and introduced modern technologies into the production process. The application of automation technology and information technology in production and business management and operation is quite diverse in different industries / fields. Some corporations, corporations, some industries such as electricity, oil and gas, beer – wine – beverage, etc, have a high level of application of advanced technology, many technologies from the Revolution Industry 4.0 has been applied and deployed.

Vietnam Electricity (EVN)

In order to serve production and business activities, EVN has made a relatively comprehensive investment from infrastructure to the deployment of information technology application in management and operation.

In terms of infrastructure, EVN has built and strengthened backbone transmission network and 09 intercity rings, providing enough transmission lines for core and inter-provincial connections to serve the operation of production and business activities. of EVN. The WAN network system serving the power market has connected all power plants with a capacity of more than 30MW to the National Load Dispatch Center, the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam and is operating safely and stably; Power corporations have built a Data Center (Datacenter) to safely store data, securely and ready to deploy centralized computing and processing software.

In the application of information technology, basically applying uniform professionalism in each field of the Group. Some major softwares such as: enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, completed to level 3 units, are being deployed to level 4 units; investment management system, basic construction, bidding management system; CMIS customer management system, technical management system and power plant operation have been deployed in power plants, power generation corporations, etc; grid operation and technical management system is in progress; metering data warehouse software system was officially deployed to serve metering management, upstream power delivery, boundaries for corporations, power plants, power system dispatching center and public electricity trading company, etc.

Currently, Vietnam Electricity is urgently building a Project on Research, Development and Application of Technology of the 4th Industrial Revolution in EVN’s production and business activities with focus on 3 main areas. Including: Electrical system operation, business – customer service and business administration. In particular, the Group will aim to build smart power plants, upgrade the operating system, enhance automation, digitization in customer service, etc.

Vietnam National Coal – Mineral Industry Group (VINACOMIN)

To promote the application of information technology and automation in production activities, TKV Group has developed and implemented the Action Program No. 188 / CTr-TKV and focused on promoting the application of THH, TĐH in production and management in order to improve production and business efficiency in the period of 2017 – 2020, with a vision to 2030 with a focus on implementing a number of typical projects in each field towards technology transfer, import of systems, modern technical equipment goes with research, manufacture, localization of products and equipment in accordance with the working environment of the coal industry.

Accordingly, VINACOMIN focuses on (i) Upgrading and completing IT infrastructure at the Group in the direction of increasing efficiency, ensuring system safety, in accordance with Vietnamese and international standards; (ii) Implement software for monitoring system of coal flow and complete automatic data integration at electronic weighing stations and coal quality control; (iii) Deploying the application of integrated software in coal mining design and management: planning for mining and product management at the mine; building the geological database management system; (iv) Building Sales Management software integrated with the Group’s electronic invoice management to prepare conditions for implementing the Group’s consolidated financial reporting software; (v) Building modern data centers and production operations at 02 offices in Hanoi and Ha Long; building a production management reporting system for the whole Group following the data bank model.

For Automation, VINACOMIN focuses on (i) Constructing synchronous and standardized high-speed digital communication and control network infrastructure; and (ii) Deploy automation systems in production stages: automatic ventilation and monitoring of coal mine gas safety, monitoring and control of power supply networks; automatic control and supervision of central pump tunnels, compressed air stations, wind doors; automating the main transport conveyor lines, regulating electric trains; building centralized dispatch monitoring systems, communication systems, personnel locating systems, fuel monitoring and management systems for open-pit vehicles and equipment, etc, (iii) Complete , raising the maximum level of automation in coal, bauxite, mineral processing plants, power plants, and cement plants, etc.

Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PVN)

PVN has a high level of technology and application of information technology, automation in production and production management. Recognizing the opportunities that the Industry 4.0 brings to the development of the industry in the coming time, the Group has been very proactive in searching information and implementing many activities. Vietnam Oil and Gas Group has also assigned the Vietnam Petroleum Institute to perform the task of training and training to raise awareness of Industry 4.0; made 02 reports with the topic: Approach to apply Industry 4.0 in the oil and gas industry; Proposed adaptation plan and orientation in the plan to apply Industry 4.0 of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group. In addition, the Group has actively looked for opportunities to cooperate with Vietnamese Industry 4.0 platform providers, focusing on making a specific plan for the application of Industry 4.0. Vietnam Oil and Gas Group has worked and has a cooperation agreement with FPT in researching and developing new science and technology in the field of oil and gas exploitation.

Corporation Beer – Alcohol – Beverage

According to the assessment of the Beer – Alcohol – Beverage Corporation, most of the breweries have a high level of crystallization and automation, only Saigon – Cu Chi Beer Factory is rated unit with the most developed level of the Corporation today, asymptotic to the level of development of CMCN4.0. In the Laboratory of the Factory, installed LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) software to manage operations, statistics, monitor and evaluate the testing capability of equipment and employees.

In order to contribute to the implementation of the development goals of the Industry and Trade industry, and orient the S&T activities of the Industry and Trade sector in the period 2020-2025, the Industry and Trade sector continues to promote the application and transfer of scientific and technical advances to business production. In particular, strongly deployed the contents of Industry 4.0, gradually built up smart production, formed digital businesses.

Productivity and Quality Office