Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 05 | Page 95

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////// INTELLIGENT VERTICAL: MANUFACTURING HAIER SHOWCASES COSMOPLAT AT HANNOVER MESSE, DISPLAYING WORLD- CLASS CREATIVITY IN SMART MANUFACTURING Smart manufacturing is improving industrial performance and enabling businesses to thrive. Technologies such as the cloud are contributing towards optimisation and enhancing production quality and efficiency. H aier, the world’s top home appliance brand, has showcased its award- winning industrial Internet platform, COSMOPlat, at Hannover Messe 2018, contributing its world-class originality to global smart manufacturing. economy and customer needs are becoming more and more personal. Only by changing our way of thinking can businesses catch up with the pace of change, survive and thrive in this new industrial age. COSMOPlat can help them do this.” COSMOPlat, developed independently by Haier, provides a creative and comprehensive solution to mass customisation, potentially reshaping the global industrial supply chain as businesses struggle to satisfy increasingly individualistic customers in the digital era. Every visitor at Hannover MESSE has had the opportunity to virtually participate in the entire process of production, from product design, developing and manufacturing, to logistics and distribution. The Internet-based platform breaks through all process nodes interacting with the users and implements the concept from ‘mutual customisation’ to ‘life-long interaction of the network devices.’ “We are proud to showcase our line of cutting edge appliances and our groundbreaking COSMOPlat system at Hannover Messe 2018,” said Weijie Zhang, the GM of Haier Smart Manufacturing. “The world is moving towards an Internet-based www.intelligentcio.com Through interaction with the platform, customers can create personalised orders for products such as washing machines or “ THE WORLD IS MOVING TOWARDS AN INTERNET-BASED ECONOMY AND CUSTOMER NEEDS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE PERSONAL. INTELLIGENTCIO 95