With the development of economy and the improvement of living standards, automobiles have become an indispensable part of modern people's lives. However, with the continuous increase in car ownership, parking spaces for cars are becoming more and more tense. Although many communities, shopping malls and other places are equipped with a large number of parking spaces, they still cannot meet the parking demand. Even if there are parking spaces in the parking lot, it will be difficult to park due to the asymmetry of the parking space information. For parking equipment manufacturers, whoever can solve this problem can occupy the market and win the future. The parking equipment manufacturer-Jinan Tianchen Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (Tianchen Group for short) looks to the future and cooperates with Siemens. With Siemens' excellent products and rich project experience, it helps the company to both internally and externally and fully prepares to develop the smart garage market.
Jinan Tianchen Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (Tianchen for short) was established in 1997 and started with the production of aluminum profile equipment. Thanks to rich experience and solid technology, sales reached 20 million yuan in the year it was founded. By 1999, Tianchen's sales had reached 180 million yuan, ranking first in the industry. In the process of Tianchen's development and growth, Siemens, as one of Tianchen's product suppliers, provided technical and product support for Tianchen's development, and also witnessed the development and growth of Tianchen. Tianchen entered the three-dimensional garage industry in 2002. In the first 8 years, the company has been losing money in the three-dimensional garage business due to the lack of domestic parking problems, but this does not affect Tianchen’s determination to become a three-dimensional garage. The chairman of the company, Hou Xiufeng believes that the market will definitely win the blowout moment. The time has come in 2008. With the Beijing Olympics, the government has stepped up the rectification and reform of urban traffic, which has brought a vigorous development opportunity for the three-dimensional garage industry. At that time, the number of private cars in China was growing rapidly, the real estate industry became increasingly popular, and the parking problem became increasingly prominent. At this time, Tianchen developed rapidly in response to the needs of the times, with more and more orders, and even built garages overseas. While the company is developing on a large scale, how to occupy the current and future markets, Chairman Hou Xiufeng has a new idea-to engage in intelligent three-dimensional garage.
"In the beginning, the control system we used in the garage was not Siemens. However, the future garage products should win in quality rather than price." Hou Xiufeng once again thought of Siemens, which has been cooperating for more than ten years. "Siemens is a big one. The brand and product quality are guaranteed. It is correct for us to choose Siemens!"
Connect to the Internet and embrace the futureThe stereo garage in the traditional sense is a stand-alone system, which is relatively closed. The parking space information cannot be transmitted from the garage to the users, and the usage requirements cannot be transmitted from the users to the garage. Because of this, even if there are parking spaces in the three-dimensional garage, users cannot obtain the information of the parking spaces. As a result, the garage cannot provide maximum convenience for the users and cannot achieve "full use of everything".
If a platform can be used to establish an interactive channel between the garage and the user, the user can effectively learn the parking space information through this platform, and can send the use demand to the garage in advance to realize the effective transmission of information and people and equipment Effective communication.
The life experience of Hou Xiufeng's friends in Australia inspired him. "Before shopping at the department store, you can check the parking space information on the Internet, and you can also book the parking space online. All of these can be achieved by the Internet platform."
However, the control system used by Tianchen Company was closed and could not achieve effective connection with the network. Without a controller that can effectively connect to the Internet, Tianchen can only sigh in the face of the smart garage market. Which product can meet this requirement? Among the many automation product suppliers, Tianchen has thought of Siemens, which has been providing products and technical support for Tianchen aluminum profile equipment. In the end, Tianchen Company chose Siemens Simatic S7-200 Smart PLC as its "killer" to enter the field of smart garages, and at the same time supporting Siemens 3TS series low-voltage products, complete and unified control and low-voltage solutions have laid a solid foundation for upgrading ordinary garages to smart garages. .
The SimaTIc S7-200 Smart PLC module body integrates an Ethernet interface, and also integrates an RS485 interface. By expanding the CM01 signal board, it can also expand a serial port, which has powerful communication capabilities. The SimaTIc S7-200 Smart PLC equipped with an Ethernet interface can be used as the port of the stereo garage to connect to the Internet, enabling real-time interaction of information, and reserves development space for the information transmission function of the smart garage in the future. When the customer wants to upgrade the current ordinary garage equipped with SimaTIc S7-200 Smart PLC to a smart garage that can realize information interaction, the customer does not need to make any changes to the hardware configuration, just change the SimaTIc S7-200 Smart PLC in the equipment If the Ethernet port is connected to the Internet and equipped with corresponding applications or mobile clients, it can be successfully transformed into an intelligent garage that can realize information interaction.
Simatic S7-200 Smart PLC also provides a convenient and efficient way for after-sales service, helping Tianchen save "invisible" service costs. The Simatic S7-200 Smart PLC body integrates a Micro SD card slot, and the program can be updated by using an ordinary Micro SD card. Due to the construction period of the project, the debugging and development of some equipment are all performed on site. Three-dimensional garages are equipment with larger volumes and more steel frame structures. The on-site implementation period is long, but there are often various uncertainties in the on-site environment, and the progress of the garage construction cannot be completed on time. On-site engineers do not need to wait until the garage is set up, they can download the program to the Micro SD card, and then send it to the field personnel of the end user, insert it into the card slot of the PLC to complete the download of the program.
Simatic S7-200 Smart PLC programming software Micro/WIN Smart incorporates a lot of humanized designs, which greatly improves the project development efficiency of Tianchen engineers. Among them, the data type intelligent prompt function is well received. Some engineers are new to Simatic S7-200 Smart PLC. They are not familiar with some complex function blocks and data types of user libraries, and they encounter greater difficulties when assigning values ​​to variables. But in Micro/WIN Smart, just move the mouse over the function block, the data type of each pin will automatically appear on the interface, and the user will make the corresponding assignment according to the prompt. If the data type does not match, there will be a red wavy line to ensure that the user completes the assignment accurately and quickly.
Brand strategy, strong allianceFor Tianchen, the strong alliance with Siemens is the most important step to develop the smart garage, and Tianchen's demand for Siemens automation products is not only Simatic S7-200 Smart PLC. "This is just a brain," Hou Xiufeng said. "We hope that in the future, Siemens can provide us with more suitable and excellent products." He also said that Siemens, as a world-renowned supplier of electrical and automation products, has a good brand and reputation. The powerful combination of Tianchen and Siemens will win more customers.
Picture: Jinan Tianchen's first lifting and transversal three-dimensional garage
In addition to brand and reputation, Hou Xiufeng also revealed another reason for cooperating with Siemens: Siemens has a very complete automation product line and rich solutions. As far as PLC is concerned, Siemens products range from small PLCs to large PLCs, which can meet various needs from relatively simple lifting and transversal garages to complex vertical lifting garages. For an electrical system, products such as sensors, low-voltage protection, and motors are also indispensable, and Siemens can fully meet these requirements. In the initial stage of customer development, the equipment is relatively simple. Siemens can provide corresponding products and solutions. When customers grow and need to upgrade their equipment, Siemens is also able to meet customer needs. As far as Tianchen wants to fly, Siemens can accompany Tianchen to fly as high as possible.
Hou Xiufeng has a bold vision for the manufacturing of smart garages in the future. Tianchen’s designers design three-dimensional garages according to customer needs, while Siemens engineers customize the most suitable solutions for Tianchen based on a complete product line to maximize the performance of the entire garage. Excellent while maintaining a good price/performance ratio. "Siemens engineers know better than us what kind of automation products are the most suitable. Only when engineers from both sides work together can we make the best equipment," said Hou Xiufeng.
Enhance soft power and improve competitivenessIn addition to product cooperation, Siemens' excellent management experience and project experience also brought unexpected gains to Tianchen. Through exchanges and cooperation, Siemens proposed the establishment of a technical center for Tianchen. The design personnel with excellent business ability are drawn out to set up a technical center to free them from a series of heavy work such as on-site implementation and after-sales service. They are specifically responsible for the design of the equipment, so as not to increase the labor cost. , Improve comprehensive competitiveness.
In addition, in the field of three-dimensional garage manufacturing, a sound industry standard has not yet been formed. With its outstanding strength, Tianchen has a number of corporate standards that have been used as industry standards. In the future, becoming the makers of industry standards means that you will become the makers of the rules of the game, which will help enhance the company's position in the industry, and it will also reflect the comprehensive competitiveness of the company. For this reason, Siemens has done a lot of training work for customers to help customers improve the design and equipment development capabilities of designers, and implement strategic talent reserves to enhance their own competitiveness.
Picture: Jinan Tianchen Three-dimensional Garage Project in Vladivostok, Russia
Smart garage, the road to the futureTo go shopping in the shopping mall, first open the mobile APP, find an empty parking space in the shopping mall, click on the appointment, a few seconds later, it will show that the appointment is successful, and then you can shop with confidence. Since the parking space has been reserved before driving, there is no need to worry about the parking space. Aiming at the electric vehicle industry that has attracted much attention nowadays, automatic parking charging will also be a development direction of smart garages.
This is a vision for the future of parking. In order to make this vision a reality, Siemens helps customers to build smart garages based on Simatic S7-200 Smart PLC and provides customers with all-round support for the development of the three-dimensional garage manufacturing field.
According to statistics, a car is currently equipped with an average of less than 0.2 parking spaces. The smart garage will break this awkward situation and meet the basic needs of life travel where each car is equipped with 1.5 parking spaces. For high-end community users, each car can be equipped with up to 2 parking spaces, which fundamentally solves parking. Difficulty is the "dilemma of the century."
In the future, parking will no longer be difficult.
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