Facing challenges in product diversity, time-to-delivery and quality brought by the operational shift from within-group single supply to external broader supply, Haier factory in Hefei leveraged the self-developed IIoT platform to accelerate at-scale deployment of AI, machine vision and advanced analytics in 18 Fourth Industrial Revolution use cases across supply network, R&D, manufacturing and customer service, shortening order lead time by 50% and lowering on-site defect rate by 33%.