Inventory | 2024, the beauty of digital transformation in the tobacco industry
As digital technology continues to penetrate all walks of life, modern information technologies such as mobile Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence have reshaped and deeply empowered economic forms and traditional industries, and have also become traditional industries including the tobacco industry. It is an important way to accelerate the conversion of old and new driving forces, build a modern economic system, and achieve high-quality development.
In the past 2022, the industry's information management level has been comprehensively improved from smoke sample samples to automatic agricultural machinery, from homogenized production to intelligent control, from automatic sorting to smart warehousing, from market models to automatic delivery, and has provided An extraordinary year has come to a successful end.
The picture shows the automatic unpacking robot unpacking carton cigarette packs fully automatically (picture from the Internet)
Smart agriculture improves “intelligence” and efficiency
Stabilizing the foundation of tobacco leaves is related to the overall development of the industry.
Since the beginning of this year, tobacco in many places has focused on the four major themes of "order acquisition, digital tobacco fields, portraits of tobacco farmers, and smart tobacco planting" to implement the decision-making and deployment of the construction of an integrated platform for national tobacco production and operation management, empowering the intelligent production of tobacco leaves with technology, and in-depth Promote the completion of the construction of "smart tobacco leaves" and help tobacco leaves in various regions embark on the path of high-quality development.
Chongqing Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (Company) has built a standardized and unified tobacco field spatio-temporal database in the city through the collection, sorting, binding and system development of the four elements of "tobacco fields, tobacco farmers, tobacco technicians and tobacco base". Based on satellite images, tobacco field plots as the core, and the "four tobacco elements" information, the city's tobacco production data resources are "one map", which realizes the cloud storage of core production resources and "uses the map to understand the family background and use the map to manage" Production and decision-making based on pictures.”
Shandong Zhucheng Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (Company) uses information technology such as remote sensing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things to apply the Beidou navigation system to tobacco field operating machinery to realize automatic driving and automatic obstacle avoidance of agricultural machinery, which reduces the driver's workload. It reduces labor intensity, greatly improves operation accuracy, is more in line with standardized production requirements, and facilitates later management of tobacco fields.
The application of technologies such as mechanized soil management, drone spraying of pesticides, smart baking, and intelligent sorting all-in-one machine acquisitions have enabled tobacco production to be visualized, tobacco field management to be precise, human-machine equipment to be interconnected, and management services to be online. Intelligent query and analysis has become a reality, which has comprehensively improved the level of tobacco farmers and embarked on the "road to wealth".
Smart factory data-driven
As the cigarette market shifts from "incremental sharing" to "stock division", tobacco industry enterprises have also embarked on a new journey of high-quality development. Focusing on the integrated collaborative linkage of "supply, research, production and sales", the implementation of "data + intelligence" smart factories is accelerating, and the establishment of a tobacco digital industry chain that is connected up and down, connected left and right, and integrated internally and externally.
Henan China Tobacco Golden Leaf Production and Manufacturing Center uses big data technology and MES system to build a big data analysis application platform, conducts real-time analysis and processing of key process parameters and indicators, realizes early warning and closed-loop processing of abnormal problems, and improves production, manufacturing and technology The level of management and control has been greatly improved. Under the influence of the information management system, processes such as unloading, transporting, stacking, and entering cabinets, which used to be labor-intensive and error-prone, have become extremely smooth after data instructions are issued, including tobacco storage, empty box inventory, and turning over. Box feeding, wind wire feeding, area cleaning...each link has its own "electronic eye" and "manipulator", which saves time and effort, is efficient and fast.
Hunan China Tobacco uses the "dual specification" independent packaging technology of the packaging and sealing system of the package integration system subsystem to allow "cigarettes produced by the same packaging unit to be loaded into one cigarette box" and "two cigarettes of similar specifications and brands to be packed at the same time" production" becomes a reality. At the same time, the application of barcodes, QR codes, RFID and other identification technologies has opened up the entire production chain data including silk making, rolling, packaging, and boxing, ensuring that the location of the cigarette box can be quickly traced and all the information on the cigarette box can be known. , achieving the "three flows into one" of material flow, information flow and control flow.
At the same time, with the changes in the cigarette consumer market, the market demand and pressure for special-shaped cigarettes are increasing. Difficulty and slow sorting have undoubtedly become common problems faced by the industry's logistics front. On the one hand, there is the rapidly growing market demand for special-shaped cigarettes, and on the other hand, there is insufficient sorting capacity for special-shaped cigarettes. To address the shortcomings and bottlenecks in the sorting of special-shaped cigarettes, cigarette logistics and distribution centers in many places have given answers.
山东潍坊市烟草专卖局（公司）卷烟物流配送中心在异型烟分拣技改的基础上，打造了异型烟自动检测系统，用信息化、智能化、智慧化赋能攻克异型烟分拣难点。该系统运用数字孪生技术，通过搭建3D模型，实时对分拣卷烟进行条码和图像核对，依据订单信息智能识别分拣过程中多烟、少烟、错烟等差错，并将分拣错误的卷烟图像显示在系统界面上，同步发出声光报警信号，有效杜绝了分拣差错，让异型烟分拣效率得到了显著提升。
Brand cultivates digital “wisdom” wings
If the industry economy wants to operate stably and continuously, good market conditions are necessary: balanced supply and demand, stable prices, reasonable inventory, and standardized operations, all of which are closely related to the accuracy of supply delivery.
In order to reduce a series of problems such as insufficient supply, oversupply, and unsatisfactory supply caused by supply mismatch, Guiyang Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (Company) has built a precise supply distribution system "3B Supply Distribution Method" to automatically obtain the distribution basis through artificial intelligence technology. Data, automatically generate a delivery strategy based on data indicators such as customer number, customer category, stall allocation, differential delivery, etc., realize automatic distribution of supply sources and one-click generation, accurately select marketable retail customers and reasonable marketable quantities for various products, and maintain a good The market status is of very important practical significance.
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The digital transformation of the tobacco industry is both an old topic and a new proposition. Tobacco companies everywhere are working hard to write their own answers, and these development achievements have also provided strong support for China's tobacco digitalization to move from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap.