Data has always been regarded as the oil of the digital age. For the manufacturing industry that has entered the fast lane of transformation, data is becoming a key driving force.
We can feel this through the 2020 CIIF that just ended. If you go to the CIIF site, you will see Siemens, Schneider Electric, Big Four Robots and other manufacturing giants move the production line into the exhibition hall. All the equipment is running, every minute and every second. Generate data, and in turn, use these data to continuously optimize the production line, and we can see the precise, automated, and intelligent production on-site. This scenario is especially true in the production workshop of an enterprise. Behind the uninterrupted and efficient production of thousands of equipment, the value of data is irreplaceable.
However, in actual production, it is not easy to make full use of the value of data. For example, a series of practical problems such as safe and reliable data storage and backup, guaranteeing business continuity, agile emergency handling capabilities, etc. Business enterprises need to face.
What kind of data management solution can meet all the needs of the manufacturing industry? Today, let's take a look at the data management wisdom of NAS enterprise Synology. Relying on its 20 years of accumulation in the NAS field, Synology is becoming a "data bank" for manufacturing customers, providing safe and efficient data management systems for manufacturing companies of different sizes.
Common problems of data management and security manufacturing
If you are a manufacturing practitioner, you must have such a feeling that today's manufacturing industry is very different from a few decades ago. Almost all enterprises are in the wave of digital transformation, gradually moving from "manufacturing" to " Intelligent manufacturing". With transformation, there are challenges. For the information management of the use of data to open up all links and form an effective security guarantee, many problems in the manufacturing industry need to be solved urgently.
The first is the storage problem caused by massive data. The investment in intelligent production lines and the increase in various electronic equipment have caused companies to experience geometric growth in actual production, from G-level data storage to T-level data storage, even if the scale is between a few people and dozens of people. For small businesses, data growth is also explosive. Where does the data exist? How to keep it for a long time without losing it? Enterprises need to have thorough consideration from the beginning of the business.
Data islands need to be opened up. This is easy to understand, because corporate data is generally stored in different systems such as customer management systems, production systems, and sales systems, making it difficult to share information and feedback in the business chain. Therefore, if companies want to achieve refined management, they need a unified platform to integrate data and break data islands.
Data security is insufficient. There are many manufacturing systems. Any problem in any link will cause equipment failure, loss of key data, business shutdown, and the system is complex and difficult to repair in a short time. In addition, the manufacturing industry is also the "severe disaster area" for ransomware attacks. Many companies have production lines and factory computers that are numerous and old. Once a failure occurs or a large number of files are encrypted by a virus, the loss will be huge. Moreover, this year, there have been frequent incidents of ransomware attacks on the manufacturing industry, including well-known companies such as Honda and Jiaming, which affect business continuity and cause corporate losses. Therefore, enterprises must establish a centralized backup and disaster recovery solution to achieve a good data protection mechanism and disaster recovery capabilities.
In order to meet the data management and protection needs of the manufacturing industry, Synology NAS integrated storage solution integrates backup and disaster recovery, file server, and data storage, saving enterprises the cost of expansion and operation and maintenance, and provides a flexible charging model. For example, the Synology backup solution Active Backup for Business (abbreviated as ABB) allows companies not to pay for backup license fees, but only need to purchase Synology storage servers, no matter how many devices (including computers, servers, virtual machines, cloud data) are backed up No additional charges are required, and data can be snapshot protected and copied to a local or remote server as a disaster recovery solution. In addition, Synology also has a wealth of storage products and continues to introduce new ones. At the Synology 2020 annual conference alone, Synology has launched all-flash, IP SAN, dual-control SAS and other new enterprise storage products at one time to meet the data of enterprises of different sizes. Management needs.
Synology ABB operation interface
Haven't felt Synology's data management capabilities? Let's look at two specific manufacturing cases:
The main business of Jinlong Electromechanical (Huaibei) Co., Ltd. is the manufacture of motors, structural parts, etc. The company has dozens of servers, but after more than ten years of development, more and more data, and the previous failure of the cloud platform caused the production environment The MES manufacturing system was interrupted, which caused considerable losses to the company. After evaluating storage companies on the market, the company decisively chose Synology NAS storage server.
Considering that the production system and business virtual machines require high-availability solutions to ensure the company’s business continuity, two Synology RS4017xs+ are deployed as front-end settlement nodes, and one RS2418+ is used to share and store business data to form a lightweight ultra Integration platform. And through Synology’s Virtual Machine Manager Pro virtualization suite, it provides efficient operating environment and data storage for ERP, MES and virtual machines. At the same time, in order to avoid unexpected failures and cause business to stop instantly, through Synology High Availability, when When the virtual machine is interrupted, the business can be transferred to another server in time to minimize the failure time.
In order to resist ransomware and other attacks, the Active Backup for Business backup all-in-one machine regularly backs up the server, virtual machine and the entire PC every day, and then cooperates with Snapshot Replication to take snapshots every day. Even if a virus or an unexpected failure occurs, it can be quickly restore.
Synology snapshot operation interface
For manufacturing companies with diverse business systems and terminals such as King Long, business continuity is particularly important. The data protection solutions provided by Synology from software to hardware not only cover a variety of platforms and terminals, but are designed based on the integration of software and hardware. Enterprise deployment saves cost and expenditure, while also avoiding the potential dilemma that the enterprise cannot run due to accidents.
Suzhou Futian Metal Co., Ltd. is also a typical example. This company is mainly a modern high-tech enterprise that produces and sells high-precision electrolytic copper foil for printed circuit boards. The degree of automation is constantly developing and improving, and the importance of corresponding data is getting higher and higher. The level is constantly improving. In addition to paying attention to safety, Foton Metal's previous production line servers could not meet the existing needs. After comprehensive consideration, it purchased two Synology RS3617RPxs.
In order to solve the problem of centralized storage of a large number of high-definition pictures produced on the production line, through the Synology Drive enterprise cloud disk solution, the production line pictures are synchronized to the Synology server in real time, so as to meet the needs of real-time image analysis in the next production link. At the same time, it also realized the centralized storage and aggregation of production line data for the company.
In order to improve corporate data security, the data on virtual machines, employee PCs, and production lines are backed up to RS3617RPxs. At the same time, through Synology High Availability, two RS3617RPxs are established as a dual-system hot backup system. Once a storage server fails, the service can be transferred to another storage server in real time to ensure business continuity.
With the gradual increase in the degree of automation of production lines in manufacturing companies, the informatization development of data management will also increase accordingly, and manufacturing companies attach great importance to business continuity, so the security mechanisms provided by storage servers are particularly valued. Aiming at the manufacturing industry, Synology helps customers overcome data management problems with the three characteristics of high reliability, high scalability, and high cost performance, so that customers have the ability to store massive production line data, manage data, and respond to emergencies. Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, the solution model of Synology all-in-one machine and no software licensing fee can solve the needs of manufacturing production line data aggregation, computer backup, and data storage with one server, providing them with cost-effective data Management plan.
Sharing + collaboration opens a new mode of cloud office
Do you think Synology's value to manufacturing only focuses on the manufacturing level? In the office, Synology NAS is also useful for data management and collaborative office, which is also a manifestation of Synology's comprehensive empowerment of manufacturing.
Collaborative office is very common in general Internet companies, but in the manufacturing industry, the difficulty of collaborative office is not small, involving many departments, multiple and complex documents, and strong confidentiality, all of which increase the difficulty of collaborative office.
Synology Drive enterprise cloud disk provides integrated services of private cloud disk. Under the environment of massive enterprise files, Synology Drive Enterprise Cloud Disk can realize unified file management, divide team and personal space, solve cross-departmental and cross-regional file sharing problems, and break the predicament of manufacturing enterprise data islands.
At the same time, in the complex deployment environment of the manufacturing industry, Synology supports multiple file access protocols, which can adapt to the original file access habits of employees. At the same time, Drive can also conveniently access and share data through the web or mobile APP. For data unification of multiple computers, Drive also provides a desktop client for real-time synchronization to centrally manage distributed files.
Synology Drive web operation interface
In addition, in order to improve the efficiency of data statistics of management departments in manufacturing enterprises, Synology Office can realize online editing of documents, tables and slides by multiple people, and can retain revised historical versions to improve collaboration efficiency.
Synology Office interface
For example, Tasly used open source software to build a network disk system, but the I/O performance was poor, file sharing and synchronization were not convenient enough, resulting in a lack of collaborative office software for department employees and low team collaboration efficiency. Synology Drive quickly deployed a full-featured enterprise cloud disk for it. While realizing fast file sharing, it also helped the team realize the isolation of permissions and provide independent space for each employee.
Synology cloud disk solutions help companies improve work efficiency. It can be said that Synology cloud disk services have opened up a new model of cloud office for the manufacturing industry.
Facing tens of millions of enterprises to become the "data bank" in the cloud era
When it comes to Synology, many people may still stay at the level of personal data services. As everyone knows, around data security management, Synology has already begun a major layout in manufacturing, education, government, finance, IT and other industries. Synology has sold more than 6 million products so far, bringing safe and reliable data services to various industries, and has won wide acclaim from customers.
Especially facing the cloud era, Synology has intensified its efforts to innovate, using data access as the cornerstone to create data synchronization, disaster recovery, collaboration, management and other applications suitable for different industries. On the one hand, Synology can provide to meet the data protection needs of different enterprise scales. On the other hand, it can realize data backup on and off the cloud to meet the data protection needs of PCs, physical servers or virtual machines, and even different scenarios in the cloud.
To meet the future, in the process of intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry, the value of data as a key driver will become greater and greater, and Synology is growing into a "data bank" for tens of thousands of enterprises, using data management wisdom to properly serve customers Manage and protect every piece of data.