The essence of the new round of industrial revolution is the debate on the standards of the global new industrial Revolution in the future. Every country is building its own intelligent manufacturing system, and intelligent manufacturing and intelligent factories have also become the two main goals of the new round of industrial revolution.

What is now often referred to as a smart factory is only one component of "smart manufacturing".Under intelligent manufacturing, the traditional manufacturing process will be reorganized in order to realize the intellectualization of products.Among them, personalized customer demand and design, information access and sharing between suppliers and manufacturers, quick response of after-sales service and other links, together with smart factories, have become the key components of smart manufacturing.

I believe that many people are not very familiar with the "smart factory", first of all to do a simple science.At present, the manufacturing industry is undergoing a technological revolution. The US proposes "Industrial Internet" and Germany proposes "Industry 4.0". However, China's manufacturing enterprises have different development stages and degrees, so we have also released "Made in China 2025".Its core is to gradually promote "intelligent manufacturing", to achieve the manufacturing power strategy.

China is the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the UN industrial classification, with 39 industrial categories, 191 categories and 525 sub-categories, thus forming an unparalleled industrial system with complete industries.Intelligent manufacturing is for the industrial giant's head into the soul of lean management, culture and wisdom, otherwise, there are all kinds of software is an empty brain, various sensors and the information technology of the nervous system, a variety of automated bones and muscles, although also be smart and strong, but not wisdom.
Intelligent manufacturing is based on the deep integration of the new generation of information and communication technology and advanced manufacturing technology, which runs through all aspects of manufacturing activities such as design, production, management and service. It is a new mode of production with such functions as self-perception, self-learning, self-decision-making, self-execution and self-adaptation.The construction of intelligent factory is the core of realizing the new production mode of intelligent manufacturing. In the construction of intelligent factory, it is necessary to ensure that "human, machine, material, method, environment and measurement" in the factory have intelligent characteristics and have the ability of perception, learning, decision-making, execution and adaptation.

Smart factory is a new stage of modern factory informatization development, is on the basis of the digital factory, using the Internet of things technology, equipment monitoring technology to strengthen the information management and service, clear grasp the production process, improve the production process control, reduce the number of production line manual intervention, real-time production data accurately, to reasonable arrange production plan and production schedule, and through the green intelligent means and intelligent system of the use of emerging technologies, such as to build a high efficiency and energy saving, green environmental protection, the environment comfortable humanized factory.

The core characteristics of intelligent factory are: the intellectualization of products, the automation of production, the integration of information flow and material flow.At present, in the world, many enterprises are developing towards the direction of intelligent factory.

Innovation is the biggest feature of the era of intelligent manufacturing. New technologies, new products, new forms of business and new models are constantly emerging, which gives innovative smes the biggest space for development.In the intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, innovative small and medium-sized enterprises must work hard to solve the problems of high r&d cost, long innovation cycle and big market risk, so as not to let the leading advantage become a trap that hinders development.
For Chinese manufacturing enterprises, it is a difficult period of "three phases overlapping". It is a very realistic and important problem for them to strike a balance between conforming to the development direction of Industry 4.0 or Made in China 2025 and ensuring the success rate with small investment, quick results and fast results.

In general, intelligent manufacturing in China is just starting at the present stage, and in the future towards intelligent manufacturing, intelligent factory, we should also make full use of the industrial automation equipment that has been widely used in China's manufacturing enterprises.

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