Exploring the digital transformation of Sany Group: Building an agile R&D system with DevOps platform

Founded in 1989, Sany Group is one of the leading companies in the global equipment manufacturing industry, and it is also the first batch of pilot demonstration companies in China's "smart manufacturing". Based on the main business of equipment manufacturing, Sany Group vigorously develops new businesses such as new energy, financial insurance, residential industrialization, industrial Internet, military industry, fire protection, environmental protection, etc., and has become a domestic wind power package solution and renewable clean energy. The provider is also the most mature PC assembly provider in China.

At present, Sany Group's concrete machinery is firmly ranked as the world's No. 1 brand, and its excavating machinery has been the sales champion in the domestic market for ten consecutive years. In 2020, SANY Group sold 98,705 excavators, occupying 15% of the global excavator market, and won the global sales champion for the first time; crane products have occupied the top three in the industry for many years, and piling machinery, tunneling machinery, and port machinery have ranked first in China. one.

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Facing digital transformation, Sany Group faces both opportunities and challenges

As China's economy enters the "new normal", the problem of insufficient innovation capabilities faced by Chinese industrial enterprises is becoming increasingly obvious. Digital transformation has reached a critical period, which is both a challenge and an opportunity for the entire industry. Entering the age of the industrial Internet, the market has increasingly higher requirements for the value empowerment of the product itself, forcing the industry to begin to increase its weight in the direction of digital and intelligent development. In this context, the lighthouse factory, which relies on advanced technologies such as digitization, automation, advanced analysis, virtual reality and augmented reality, and the industrial Internet of Things, is regarded as the leader of the fourth industrial revolution.

As a Chinese construction machinery giant, Sany Group seizes the opportunity to accelerate the digital transformation, and courageous decision makers formulate the top-level strategy of digital transformation for Sany Group. Group Chairman Liang Wengen said: “Sany’s digital transformation will either turn over or capsize!” Yi Xiaogang, Group Director, Executive President and Chief Engineer, said: “Sany will transform digital and intelligent to help the'three highs and four new's. The implementation of the strategy is the major premise and logic of development, keeping up with the trend of digital revolution, grasping the trend of intelligent manufacturing, aiming at the leading domestic and world-class brands, and striving to become a world-class brand in the Chinese nation."

At present, the digital transformation of traditional manufacturing is facing some challenges. In terms of software, many simulation software in the industry come from the United States, while most industrial control software comes from Germany. There are not many domestic software applications. Most companies plan to use cloud-native technology. Research and develop and implement software replacement. Sany Group keeps up with the pace of the times, continuously explores new technologies, and incorporates the current cloud-native technologies with containers, DevOps, and microservices as the core in its new strategic plan. However, it is necessary to transform complex industrial software into cloud-native industrial software. Invest a lot of manpower and material resources.

Sany Group faces two major challenges:

• Management: The software delivery cycle under the waterfall development model is long, demand management is unclear, frequent changes, lack of visual Kanban in the process, and quality is difficult to quantify; the need for external system coordination cannot synchronize information in time, leading to delays in demand delivery.
• Development aspect: code branch management is chaotic and disorderly; the release process is cumbersome, there is no system, and the version rollback is troublesome; manual testing, the preparation of test reports is cumbersome, and there is no automated testing; code quality management, manual inspection, delivery quality, etc.

Build a DevOps platform by relying on pigtooth to build a long-term competitive technology platform

In order to cope with the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation, Sany Group officially launched the technology mid-stage project in 2020. By building the DevOps platform, the microservice governance platform, and the container cloud three platforms, Sany Group has built a technical middle station and used it as an important technology base for the group's digital transformation to achieve agile infrastructure, integration of development, operation and maintenance, and service operation. For the goal, build an agile development system of Sany Group, complete the whole life cycle management of software research and development, realize the precipitation of core technology assets, and improve software delivery capabilities and levels.

In the selection of the technical mid-stage, Sany Group adopted the Choerodon digital intelligence performance platform developed by Hand Information to build the DevOps platform of the technical mid-stage. The product provides systematic methodology and collaboration, testing, DevOps and container tools to help companies pull through the requirements, design, development, deployment, testing and operation processes, and improve management efficiency and quality in a one-stop shop. From team collaboration to DevOps tool chain, from platform tools to systematic methodology, Zhutou helps Sany collectively pull through the requirements, design, development, deployment, testing and operation processes, and run through the entire end-to-end process, thus enabling Sany Group Able to better manage the whole life cycle of software R&D, making the team's performance faster, stronger and more stable.

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At the same time, Sany Group's technology center also uses Hande's enterprise-level PaaS platform HZERO as its microservice development framework. Through cloud native technology and microservice architecture, the product provides unified basic technical service components, avoids repeated construction between systems, provides a unified framework for application development and decoupling, and helps Sany Group to focus more on business scenario-based R&D and applications.

Build an agile R&D system with DevOps platform to accelerate digital transformation

Sany Group's technology center is based on a cloud-based base, with DevOps platform and microservice development framework as the starting point, based on optimized agile software development management process, coupled with the implementation of agile development management tools, and finally established software development automation The management pipeline has promoted the efficiency and quality of software research and development. Helping Sany Group's existing software development process to transform to a standardized, automated, and efficient "pipeline model", greatly improving business agility and development efficiency, reducing IT construction and operation and maintenance costs, improving IT construction quality, and ensuring the company's Digital transformation and upgrading.

Whole life cycle management-software production whole process design based on "pipeline"

Project management: Sany Group uses the platform to manage the whole life cycle of demand, which greatly shortens the demand response cycle from one month to one week; the visual management of project tasks makes tasks focused, transparent, easy to track, and continuous improvement And to improve R&D collaboration; various reports that assist project management, including agile management reports, DevOps reports, test reports, etc.

software development: Sany Group connects all the links in the development process to realize the automation of the whole process, reduce the workload and improve the development efficiency; automatic code inspection, guarantee the code specification, improve the code quality, code duplication and errors The rate is reduced by 90%; the overall test management of software development, including test cases, test plans, test reports, API tests, automated tests, and performance tests.

In general, the DevOps, microservices, and container cloud provided by the technology center can effectively support cloud decoupling to achieve lightweight software, make the technical architecture intelligent, and help small and medium-sized enterprises in the Sany industry chain through The cloud architecture realizes software empowerment and continues to promote digital transformation and upgrading. It is a powerful tool for Sany Group to improve its research and development capabilities, and it is also a booster for Sany Group's digital transformation.

In this process, Hande's hogtooth efficiency management platform products played an important role in the establishment of the DevOps platform. Lv Qinghai, Director of Process Informatization Headquarters of Sany Group, introduced: “Strong software capabilities are one of the important driving factors for Sany’s digital transformation. Building this capability requires an independent, open source software development and management platform to support flexible and agile Software development process management, accumulation and improvement of independent development frameworks and components, automated deployment and operation and maintenance, seamless integration of Sany’s microservice management platform and container cloud platform. After a comprehensive comparison, we chose Hande’s Zhutou Fish Choerodon came to build the DevOps platform, which has also become an important part of Sany’s technology center, laying a solid technical foundation for Sany’s software capability improvement and playing an important and active role."

Build an agile R&D system with DevOps platform to accelerate digital transformation! In the future, Zhufangyushu's intelligent performance platform will continue to provide systematic methodology and a series of R&D management tools to help more customers improve operational efficiency and R&D management capabilities, and help more companies implement their digital transformation strategies.

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