September 8, the United States and Alibaba Group released a strategic cooperation between the two sides of the results - the first YunOS intelligent operating system based on the United States to create the smart refrigerator "OS set wisdom."And the recent few appearances in the public appearance of the US group chairman Fang Hongbo also take this opportunity to talk about smart home and intelligent manufacturing.Fang Hongbo's unique corporate perspective reveals the deep logic behind the "double-minded" strategy that the US group is practicing.

Chairman of the US Group Fang Hongbo

  The following is a speech by Fang Hongbo:

  Smart home must be human-computer interaction

  The beauty of the two years ago put forward the "double wisdom strategy" (that is, wisdom home + smart manufacturing), 2 years we have invested a lot of resources to explore, although a lot of detours have received a lot of lessons.

  The United States is the world's home appliance industry in the annual production of home appliances most enterprises, last year is 270 million, this year will exceed 300 million, that is, there will be 300 million US products into the tens of thousands of households.

  Then the wisdom of the home must first be the future of all home appliances from a cold machine, into the human machine can be interactive, so first it is a smart single product, on this basis must have intelligent system, all hardware, software to the cloud All systems.

  What we are doing today is to further explore the wisdom of ecology on the basis of a single product. Ecology has a greater degree of ductility upstream and downstream. Although we do not know what kind of product the future will be, but we have to explore and explore.

  The essence of intelligent manufacturing is the connection of all business based on data

  Intelligent manufacturing is a bigger issue, intelligent manufacturing itself is part of the Internet of Things, the core of intelligent manufacturing is essentially based on the data of all business connections. To the United States as an example, all products from the R & D began, from planning to the supply chain, from manufacturing to logistics, to the channel, to the consumer's home, and consumer use, all business aspects of the past are physical form.

  A machine, there are many parts, there are many workers, vehicles, there are many warehouses, there are many lines under the store. The essence of intelligent manufacturing is to make all the business links into data, with data to operate, storage, interaction, integration, analysis, calculation, intervention, and then data analysis of the proposed value-added terms to restore to the existing business management, Business change. For example, more product models will be reduced, the supply chain manufacturers will reduce the number of long production cycle will be shortened to the consumer's products at home more parts of the logistics will be resolved.

  On the basis of business change to further analysis of data integration, to promote the user-centered model of reform. For example, the United States before the United States are 100% of home appliances are sold, and now online sales, online rich enough enough? Personalization is inadequate? These need reform.

  So the essence of intelligent manufacturing is based on the data on all business models to restore the Internet after the business process changes, and then change our products sold to consumers of the old model. It used to be very long, and now it was very short; it used to be large, and now it was personalized; it was very slow and quick; it was smart.

  Whether it is smart home or intelligent manufacturing, home appliances business can not go it alone

  Whether it is smart home or intelligent manufacturing, home appliances business is clearly not dominate, home appliances business can not become a platform-based enterprises, you can not become a smart home operating system platform business, more impossible to become a platform for things. And we can do is open, collaboration, integration, which is our cooperation and the basic premise and foundation of Ali.

  We have a very wide range of cooperation with Ali. Today's smart refrigerator is the result of this, the future in many ways to deepen cooperation with Ali. Just talk about the smart operating system is to cooperate with Ali. We are in the intelligent manufacturing is part of the Internet of things, there are a lot of things networking technology, have to cooperate with Ali. Such as large data, cloud computing, operating systems, as well as service system, all of these links we have to cooperate with the Ali platform.

  Whether it is intelligent home or intelligent manufacturing, it is not a business can go it alone, must be all enterprises in the open collaboration of the basic genes, to work together to create a platform for all things interconnected.

  Smart kitchen area, the refrigerator is very good connection point

  Today released smart refrigerator, is a good start. In all the smart home appliances, we think that smart kitchen is the future can see the application scene. Smart kitchen than other energy, nutrition, security, air and other systems more practical application of the reality, so the United States has now focused on the smart kitchen.

  A few months ago, the United States set up R & D institutions in Silicon Valley, specializing in artificial intelligence and overall smart kitchen projects. Smart kitchen area, the refrigerator is a very good connection point, more than all other kitchen appliances have an advantage.

  So today's cooperation with Ali is a good start, although we do not know the future of smart home, intelligent refrigerator in the end what is the application of the scene, how the ecosystem in the end is extended, unpredictable, but we must start from today Explore and explore.

  Regardless of today's exploration and release of the form, is not in the future direction of intelligence, it does not matter, we have to continue to try to learn some lessons. Today is the beginning of cooperation between the refrigerator and Ali, the future will increase in more scenes, the wisdom of ecology, and Ali to explore, explore. (Ming Yanhua)