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    Products digital transformation trend:clock

    As you can see the evolution of products, digitization makes the design of products more convenient and friendly, both in terms of functions and services. Obviously, not only product design, but also the manufacturing process is constantly improving. After experienced 300 years of mechanical, what are the connotation and value of the current intelligent integrated system for now? The topic will take clocks as an example, from service value to product functionality, and discuss the changes brought by digitization to consumers.

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    What is digitization?

    Before we start discussing the digitization of service value, let's learn more about what "digitalization" is? "Data" was originally defined as computer information that can be transmitted and stored. At present, data is no longer limited to apply on computers, but can also be broadly referred to all qualitative or quantitative descriptions. Briefly speaking, it is to describe a certain thing by the ways of recording, analysis, reorganization, etc., and digitization is to organize and provide the data which is beneficial to decision-making through analysis.

    Digitalization of service value

    Digitization of service value

    Before discussing cutting, this chapter takes the clock as an example. How does it evolve in response to market demand like Darwin's theory of evolution?

    From the perspective of service value, most products will be attached with product instructions at the beginning, and customers will learn how to use the products through the manuals. Some manufacturers even provide education and training courses for different needs to help customers operate the product.


    In order to meet more needs of customers, value added design and fool-proof setting have begun to appear to make customers more convenient to use, and precaution has been designed for some part of functions. With the increasing of additional functions, it is necessary to add more sensors to maintain the foolproof setting, moving forward to solve the potential problems of the product through the system error codes detected by the sensors. Finally, the knowledge of various fields is gathered to form a large-scale data, and through the advancement of Internet and cloud technology, users can more conveniently operate complex equipment to meet the needs of modern terminals.

    The digitalization trend of products

    Digitalization of watch

    As for the functional of the clock, it developed into a pocket watch in order to check the time in the past, which can know the time at any time. Later, due to the inconvenience of carrying, some people began to try to use the belt and buckle to fix the pocket watch on their hand, and then developed into a watch. In 1969, the appearance of quartz watches made watches become gradually widespread in the market, and the price decreased accordingly.

    Even if in 1973, LCD electronic watches showed up, and began to have functions other than time, such as alarm clocks, dates, etc., and in 1990s, in response to different requirements, it developed into highly functional watches such as radio-controlled watches, mountaineering watches, etc., and even had strong functions such as computers and databases.

    In recent years, the popularity of the Internet has led to the rapid development of smart watches, and has functions exceeded the meaning of the product itself, such as replying to messages, recording health status, …etc. All kinds of data collected from the information system and sensors of the watch are transmitted to mobile phones, computers, or the cloud. Through data re-analysis, it can predict, warn, or further understand the user's status, so that smart watches can assist more people’s life, not just a function of checking the time.

    Why do we need digitalization? What are the benefits of it?

    Data is very precious information. It can help us quickly identify and understand details after many behaviors are digitized which can also obtain the most beneficial information through analysis, and then optimize or make the best decisions for different needs. What are the benefits of digitization?


    1.Information collection: After accumulating a lot of relevant information, higher insight can be achieved by analyzing the data, not only to provide solutions for products, but also to integrate information from different departments to establish a big data database, allowing decision makers to make the best decisions for company according to the status currently.


    2.Insight of data-driven: Enterprises can use data to better understand the market, demands, behaviors in the operation process, etc., so as to formulate more relevant, customized and adaptability plans to enhance their competitiveness in the market.


    3.Better customer experience: Customers always have high expectations for products, and are used to having plenty choices, reasonable pricing, and fast delivery, etc. these days, and enterprises can optimize the entire product through data from design, process, market demand, even if the after-sales service. Customers can find solutions above them, so that the entire customer experience can use data to improve satisfaction.


    4.Increase agility and productivity: Digitalization will increase flexibility and make it easier for companies to innovate, adapt and grow. It will also help companies increase productivity and optimize work and manufacturing which makes the team work more efficiently.

    Changes brought by digitalization to the industry

    Whether is product or service value, there is a trend of digitalization. Such changes also bring new business models to the industry, and the value of data is to provide solution to problems which raised from the industry, whether is for business, management, customers, operation, sales, production, and even after-sales service, data technology had already assisted in many aspects, and there are many common applications in life, which are not limited to enterprises. When digitalization continues to being flourish, it will be more influence on life and industry.

    Conclusion

    From the perspective of products, the functions in the past were simple, but now they start to have multiple functions through data collection, and finally bring convenience to the public, which is the characteristic of the Internet of Things. Expanding collection and analysis through sensors and data, including cutting.

    In the past, In the past, the operator's experience was always used to judge the product life of equipment and tools manually, resulting in a lot of time, tools, and waste costs.

    Therefore, from the analysis of R&D personnel to the intuitive operation of the on-site master, we no longer let cutting manufacturing fall into a lot of trial-and error confusion. Finally, we are really moving towards digital manufacturing.


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