Industry 4.0 from automatic production to intelligent manufacturing-Nanjiang Electric (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd.

Industry 4.0 from automatic production to intelligent manufacturing
2019/3/8 Nanjiang Electric (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd.1519: "Comprehensive perception + reliable communication + intelligent driving" car; Robot waiters who serve and deliver food on their own and stand by while being greeted; Customized products according to customer needs; A smart factory that automates production, packaging and delivery? In recent years, with the continuous integration of information technology and manufacturing industry, the wave of Industry 4.0, a new round of industrial revolution mainly characterized by intelligent manufacturing, has swept in.
Ma Yun once said that many people do not understand what a computer is when the Internet and mobile Internet came; Haven't figured out the mobile Internet, big data era is coming. Today, when we are still immersed in the joy of industrial automation, the Industry 4.0 era with "intelligent manufacturing" as the main symbol has come.
It is foreseeable that in this process, numerous traditional industries will undergo subversive restructuring, the industrial chain and the social division of labor will be reorganized, and the world industrial map will be redrawn. In the face of this change, whether the sun is shining ahead or the undercurrent is surging, we can not escape, can only face it bravely.
Informatization gives birth to Industry 4.0
Looking back at the history of human industry, every innovation in science and technology is first reflected in the manufacturing industry, which has greatly promoted the change and innovation of human production methods.
At the end of the 18th century, the first industrial Revolution occurred in Britain, and steam power realized the mechanization of production and manufacturing, and mankind entered the era of Industry 1.0. In the early 20th century, the widespread use of electricity promoted the emergence of production lines, and industry entered the 2.0 era. Since the 1970s, electronic technology and computer technology have developed rapidly, and mechanical automated production and manufacturing methods have gradually replaced human operations, which is the typical characteristics of the current industry 3.0 era.
In recent years, with the emergence of the power of network information technology, big data, and cloud computing, a greater tool - Internet technology is participating in the production process, and the interweaving of information and industrialization is giving birth to the arrival of the era of human industry 4.0.
This new form of industry led by intelligent manufacturing was first marked by the "virtual network -Physical Physical System (CPS)" proposed by the Germans at the Hannover MESse in 2011 to realize the interconnection of resources, information, goods and people. In 2013, the German government made it a national strategy.
According to the beautiful prospect described by the German version of "Industry 4.0", after the maturity of modern intelligent robots, sensors, data storage and computing capabilities, existing factories will be able to connect the supply chain, production process and warehousing logistics intelligently through the industrial Internet, truly making the production process fully automated and product personalized. Front-end supply chain management, production planning, back-end warehousing logistics management intelligent. Since then, mankind has entered the era of intelligent manufacturing.
Intelligent manufacturing era map
So, what is the era of intelligent manufacturing?
At the 2014 Hannover MESse in Germany, a "smart factory" jointly developed by a number of German companies showed this scene to the world: a modular production line is producing business cards on the booth. Unlike traditional production lines, all the information about the production of this card box is fed through the Internet into the product components themselves, which communicate information with the production equipment, telling the equipment "This is how you should produce me".
In the smart factory of the future, this is a piece of cake. Because in the future, all processing equipment, raw materials, transportation vehicles, and charging robots in the factory are equipped with the CPS mentioned above, which are "able to talk and think".
The raw material will contact the processing equipment directly and tell it "which equipment I need to find for processing". These pieces then tell the machine responsible for the next step, "What more materials do I need?" Next, the transport vehicle knows its task is coming, and it sends the material to the loading robot according to the sensor lines laid underground. All subsequent processes of production, including production and sales documents, are carried by these parts themselves. If the workpiece is wrong, or the customer has personalized requirements, the intelligent engineer of the R & D department will immediately alarm and send the improved measures after calculation to the workpiece.
The companies that control these smart factories, their business processes and organizations will be reorganized, and the full life cycle data information from product development, design, planning, process to production and service will be seamlessly linked. The resulting massive data and its analysis and application will lead to the rise of new business models such as the first to meet the dynamic business network, remote collaborative design, mass personalized customization, and precision supply chain management.
For the entire manufacturing industry system, new value chains such as whole-life cycle management, integrated general contracting, Internet finance, e-commerce and other industries will also emerge, and the resulting productivity is extremely huge. According to the US General Electric company forecast, this change will add at least 10 trillion yuan to global GDP. $15 trillion -- the equivalent of creating a new American economy.
The more profound effect is that this revolution in manufacturing will permeate human society. All people and people, people and things, and things and things through the Internet to achieve the "Internet of everything", which will reconstruct the production tools, production methods and life scenes of the whole society. This sci-fi scene is perhaps even more exciting.
Made in China upgrade
The rise and fall of manufacturing confirms the rise and fall of great powers.
After the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, the US Manufacturing Promotion Act, the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Program (AMP), Japan's Manufacturing in Japan, and the UK's Major Strategy and Action Plan for the development of Advanced Manufacturing in the UK were introduced one after another. The EU spent 200 billion euros to focus on promoting smart manufacturing, ICT (information, communication and technology) driven manufacturing upgrades, Internet of Things applications, etc. Various developed countries have taken the high-end manufacturing industry under the conditions of information technology as a breakthrough to achieve "re-industrialization" and revive the momentum.
Data show that the comprehensive cost of labor in China's coastal areas has been close to parts of the United States. With the disappearance of demographic dividend, the rise of manufacturing labor costs and the decline of employment willingness of the new generation of labor, the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry will face a major crisis. Promoting the integration of "industrialization and information technology", entering the era of Industry 4.0 first, and maintaining the competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry has been a proposition that must be chosen.
"This means that the country should promote the integration of industrialization and informatization more quickly in the strategy of simultaneous development of the two." The former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, academician Wu Hequan said.
At the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering in May 2014, Miao Wei, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, proposed to "build an upgraded version of China's manufacturing industry". Miao Wei believes that the "upgrade" of industrialization with information technology lies in two points.
First, we will thoroughly implement the strategy of innovation-driven development. The focus is to break through key technologies and common technologies such as intelligent robot core components, high-end chips, new displays, key electronic components and other key technologies through long-term basic research, and transform these scientific and technological achievements into real productivity. Now the question is, how can we make enterprises become innovative subjects with environment, conditions and responsibilities?
Second, we will deepen the integration of IT application and industrialization. For example, the development of information technology to upgrade the traditional industry management system and technology system of the "national standard", with the Internet thinking to promote the Internet of things, big data, cloud computing technology in the industrial field of application, to promote the manufacturing mode, sales and service model of the Internet and so on.
Despite the long road ahead, as a "world factory", we also have many opportunities, such as a good policy environment, many tide riders in the Internet era, and enough solid innovation heritage. In this era of brave wins, we believe that as long as we are down-to-earth and brave to open up, fate will always be controlled in our own hands.; Share:; The "integration" strategy forces the transmutation of power system Substation energy storage attempts millisecond power grid frequency modulation

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