Hailiang Group built a unified data lake platform based on the data-AI convergence solution of Huawei Cloud to streamline the end-to-end process of the digital factory, power business with data and improve efficiency with AI, reduce energy consumption per product by 300 kWh, and improve the labor efficiency of some processes by three times.
Hailiang Group focuses on three core areas of business: non-ferrous material manufacturing, education services, and ecological agriculture. With a global presence in 12 countries and regions, the group's marketing network radiates around the world. Hailiang Group has been included in the Fortune Global 500 list for four consecutive years. Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Hailiang Group, has 22 production bases spanning Asia, America, and Europe. It is a world leader in the copper pipe rod processing industry.
Hailiang Group runs more than 100 system services and faces the following pain points: First, IT governance is complex, but the company used to lack such professionals, and its digital capabilities failed to keep up with business growth. Second, analyzing the data assets in different services and systems collaboratively required frequent data migration, which may cause data redundancy, a long analysis link, and low analysis efficiency. In addition, data could not be reused. The more complex system integration is, the more development and maintenance cost. As a result, the value of data assets was not fully unleashed.
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kWhTo address these challenges and accelerate digital transformation, Hailiang Group has migrated all of its core systems to the cloud to manage resources centrally and improve efficiency. This change in deployment mode has helped Hailiang Group reduce the resource use costs by more than 40% and shorten the average update time of application systems from 3 hours to 10 minutes. Moreover, more than 90% of the company's cloud systems are deployed in HA mode and active-active DR is enabled for key services.
To manage data more efficiently, Hailiang Group built a unified data lake platform based on Huawei Cloud DataArts (data governance pipeline). With this platform, Hailiang Group managed to import over 5,000 data tables from more than 100 systems to the data lake and use unified data standards and rules to improve data quality, streamline the end-to-end process of the digital factory, achieve end-to-end data management, and enable efficient data flow.
The data service capabilities provided by DataArts Studio help Hailiang Group power AI applications better with data. In addition, Hailiang Group has reduced the energy consumption per product by 300 kWh and improved the labor efficiency of some processes by three times.