Application and Performance Evaluation of Industrial Internet Platform in Power Generation Equipment Industry

Yan Jia (), Junfeng Wang, Xin Han, Haiqi Tang and Xiaoling Xiao
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Yan Jia: School of Management, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China
Junfeng Wang: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Xin Han: Dongfang Electric R&D Center, Chengdu 611731, China
Haiqi Tang: School of Management, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China
Xiaoling Xiao: School of Management, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-30

Abstract: The development and application of the industrial Internet platform (IIP) has brought enterprises huge benefits, such as improving the efficiency of resource management and equipment maintenance, achieving the precipitation and reuse of industrial knowledge, and enhancing the development ability of industrial APPs, etc. Therefore, in order to accelerate the application of the IIP, promote the digital transformation of enterprises, and enhance the application effect of the IIP, it is necessary to evaluate the application level and performance of the enterprise IIP. In this paper, taking the IIP in the power generation equipment industry as the research object, the background, architecture, and implementation process of the platform is described, and an evaluation method is proposed. First, a third-level evaluation index system is proposed via reference analysis and the Delphi method from four dimensions—platform basic condition, platform technology capability, platform application service capability, and platform input–output capability—and a total of sixty-five bottom indexes are designed in particular. Then, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm are used to determine the weights of indexes, where FAHP is used to construct a fuzzy judgment matrix and PSO is adopted to adjust the consistency of the fuzzy judgment matrix in the FAHP. Finally, through the weights of indexes and questionnaire scores, the evaluation results are obtained, and the application level and performance of the IIP in the power generation equipment industry is analyzed. Through analysis, the important indexes that have a significant influence on the evaluation are determined, and the weaknesses that need to be enhanced are also pointed out, which can guide enterprises to make targeted improvements on the IIP in the power generation equipment industry so as to ensure the sustainable development of the power generation equipment industry.

Keywords: industrial Internet platform; power generation equipment; evaluation index system; FAHP; PSO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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