From connecting data to activating intelligence, the approaches to industrial digital innovation continue to evolve. With complex production processes and massive industrial data, the chemical industry is confronting a new era of challenges: how to effectively embed intelligent technologies into real-world scenarios and unlock the value of data and knowledge at a deeper level.
As a global leader in advanced polyurethane materials, Wanhua Chemical Group (“Wanhua Chemical”; hereinafter referred to as “Wanhua Chemical”) has continuously strengthened its digital and intelligent capabilities through technological innovation, while accumulating extensive industrial best practices across a wide range of business scenarios.
Recently, Mr. Caspar Herzberg, Chief Executive Officer of AVEVA, led the senior executive team to visit Wanhua Chemical. The delegation held in-depth and friendly exchanges with Mr. BAI Haitao, Vice President of Wanhua Chemical, and their digital and intelligence team. The discussions focused on key topics including digital transformation in the chemical industry and the practical deployment of industrial AI. Both sides fully shared views on technology innovation, scenario-based practices, and priority directions for future cooperation, and reached consensus on multiple areas.
Aligned in Intelligence Vision
Mutual Benefit and Mutual Trust, Pursuing Innovation Opportunities Together
As industrial transformation accelerates, the chemical industry’s focus is shifting - from building static digital systems to long-term, dynamic data value releasing and the development of knowledge networks. In this process, innovation in intelligent technologies has become an important lever. With its integrated and agile characteristics, industrial intelligence can mobilize large volumes of data and professional knowledge accumulated over time across production units, assets maintenance, and process operations.
To connect fragmented data across different systems and platforms and turn it into value requires capabilities designed specifically for industrial scenarios.
AVEVA has been dedicated to industrial digitalization from a long time. Powered by it’s product portfolios including CONNECT Industrial Intelligence platform, PI System real-time infrastructure, and related solutions, AVEVA focuses on breaking data silos between OT and IT. AVEVA aims to enable operation safety, quality and efficiency improvement, and sustainability for the process industries through software technology. AVEVA also continues to push for AI technologies working in real industrial scenarios and develops frontier directions such as industrial knowledge graphs and digital twins, helping industrial enterprises unlock data value.
This long-standing commitment to technology breakthroughs aligns closely with Wanhua Chemical’s innovation-driven culture.
Guided by its corporate mission, “Chemistry, making life better”, Wanhua Chemical has remained committed to technological innovation as its core driving force, and has built deep practical experience across chemical production, new materials R&D, smart manufacturing, and digital and intelligent transformation.
Unlocking a New Chapter with Intelligence
Reaching New Heights with a Dual Focus
Based on a shared understanding of the value of industrial digitalization, Wanhua Chemical and AVEVA have continued to deepen cooperation over the years. Across multiple business areas, including production operations, engineering and construction, and value chain optimization - both sides have advanced the implementation of projects related to industrial data platforms, engineering digitalization, and production optimization. Cooperation has progressively expanded, establishing a solid foundation of collaboration and mutual trust.
During this meeting, both sides affirmed the outcomes of past cooperation and aligned on a shared view that the chemical industry’s digitalization is entering a new stage of deep AI adoption. In response to common industry challenges - such as fragmented multi-source, heterogeneous data and the difficulty of capturing, reusing, and scaling industrial know-how - both sides plan to jointly explore two priority areas: the practical deployment of AI in chemical-industry use cases, and the development and enablement of industrial knowledge graphs.
Building on AVEVA’s strong capabilities in industrial AI and knowledge graphs, and leveraging Wanhua Chemical’s deep domain expertise in chemical technologies, plant operations and maintenance, and process design, the two parties will focus on end-to-end business scenarios spanning from production design to operational optimization, exploring the deep integration and innovative application of AI foundation models and semantic knowledge graphs.
By connecting multi-source, heterogeneous data across engineering, production, and assets, and building an industrial knowledge system tailored to business scenarios, the two parties will jointly promote the structured capture and reuse of enterprise knowledge - shifting from passive queries to intelligent search and associative reasoning. This will further empower business analytics and decision support, providing strong backing for Wanhua Chemical’s smart manufacturing capabilities and its digital and intelligent transformation.
Envisioning the Future with Intelligence
Continued Exploration Toward the Industry’s Next Stage
This exchange further strengthened both sides’ understanding of how industrial intelligence technologies can be integrated with chemical industry practices and established a new starting point for continued and deeper cooperation.
Mr. Caspar Herzberg said that Wanhua Chemical is a benchmark enterprise in China’s chemical industry digital transformation. AVEVA looks forward to continuously deepening strategic cooperation with Wanhua Chemical, combining globally leading industrial intelligence technologies with China’s chemical industry practices, and jointly building demonstration cases for AI implementation in the process industries - working together to drive the chemical industry’s high-quality and intelligent development.
Mr. BAI Haitao said that digitalization and AI are important levers for the transformation and upgrading of chemical enterprises. He expressed the hope that both sides will leverage their respective strengths, stay guided by real business needs, advance technology validation and scenario implementation, convert technology innovation into tangible production value, and jointly explore new paths for the chemical industry’s digital and intelligent development.
Looking ahead, AVEVA and Wanhua Chemical will continue to be driven by industry needs and anchored in technology innovation, enabling digital and intelligent technologies to better understand, serve, and empower industry, unlocking new quality productive forces, and moving toward a new future of industrial intelligence.
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