Xinhua News Agency Nanjing, November 25th Question: What is the prospect of "intelligent manufacturing of all things" from a cone to a mobile phone?
Xinhua News Agency reporters Yang Shaogong, Shen Rufa, Chen Si
Over 600 ice creams are offline every minute, which may be the fastest cone production speed in the world. The one who created this speed was Unilever Food Production Base located in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province. As a "beacon factory" leading the global wave of intelligence and digitalization, ice cream manufacturing here is more "smart" and less carbon-free.
The "intelligence content" is getting higher and higher, but the reporter observed from the 2022 World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference held in Nanjing that from a cone, a cup of coffee to a mobile phone, "everything can be intelligently manufactured." Intelligent manufacturing has become the main direction of the transformation of manufacturing industries in China and even the world, and has also brought new opportunities and challenges to industrial development.
is located in a corner of an intelligent manufacturing factory in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. (Photo provided by the interviewee)
intelligent manufacturing brings potential and new changes
2022 World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, participants took the high-speed rail EMU made in China to Nanjing South Station . Many people have not noticed that these EMUs are equipped with thousands of sensors, which transmit the vehicle body operation data to the background, and the "smart brain" analyzes the train's health status in real time to ensure safe operation. Wang Ping, head of Shanghai Shentie Information Engineering Co., Ltd., who developed this set of equipment, said that the organic combination of software and hardware has formed an intelligent system, allowing people to enjoy safety and convenience without realizing it.
can be intelligent and can be displayed. At the conference, the International Intelligent Manufacturing Alliance and the China Association for Science and Technology Intelligent Manufacturing Association jointly released the "Top Ten Technology Progress in World Intelligent Manufacturing in 2022", among which Siemens' world's first native digital factory was eye-catching. This factory in Lishui District, Nanjing City has undergone digital twins before on-site construction, opening up data flows from R&D to production and operation in the virtual world. After completion, its production capacity will be nearly 2 times higher than that of traditional factories and the product launch time will be shortened by nearly 20%.
is also selected as the "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress" . The intelligent material inventory robot developed by Nanjing University . This robot that can quickly identify books in the wrong place can recognize more than 20,000 books per hour with technologies such as radio frequency recognition and perception, which will make people in the library no longer have headaches for not finding books. You Zheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said that a series of intelligent technology applications from life to production will improve labor productivity and efficiency returns, improve the ecological and living environment, and enhance the competitiveness of the industry.
Digital production control hall of an enterprise in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. (Photo provided by the interviewee)
Intelligent transformation is a compulsory course for manufacturing in China
At the meeting, the "Lighthouse Factory" was mentioned by the participants from time to time. China accounts for nearly 40% of the "beacon factories" representing the highest level of intelligence and digitalization in the world's manufacturing industry.
As a major manufacturing province, Jiangsu has launched intelligent transformation of 30,000 large-scale industrial enterprises this year and digital transformation of . Currently, 10,000 have completed transformation. Through special funding support and other policies, Jiangsu will strive to achieve full coverage of intelligent transformation of more than 50,000 enterprises in the province in three years.
"Dumb Device" is becoming "conversational". In the unmanned smart factory of Huawei , through "device networking" to allow device data to be interconnected, Huawei can produce a mobile phone in 27 seconds. HU Kewen, vice president of , Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., said that only by allowing machines to communicate with each other and machines to have a better future will the manufacturing industry be able to have a better future.
"Intelligent manufacturing is the main technical path for the innovation and development of my country's manufacturing industry, the main technical path for the transformation and upgrading of my country's manufacturing industry, and the main direction for accelerating the construction of a manufacturing power." Zhou Ji, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that intelligent manufacturing is an inevitable option to promote the high-quality development of my country's manufacturing industry.
A corporate staff demonstrated intelligent manufacturing equipment at the exhibition.(Photo provided by the interviewee)
strengthens support to make intelligent manufacturing stable and far-reaching
This intelligent manufacturing conference also released the "Top Ten Issues Restricting the Development of China's Intelligent Manufacturing", which include: breaking through the infrastructure constraints of the fully connected factories of 5G, multi-source heterogeneous data problems that fully drive intelligent manufacturing, large-scale application bottlenecks of industrial robots, and the shortage of engineers in intelligent manufacturing system , etc.
Chen Ming, deputy director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Institute of the China Association for Science and Technology Intelligent Manufacturing Association, believes that there are bottlenecks at the technical level, the talent team is too short, the enterprise foundation is weak and the differences are very large, which leads many companies to have doubts about intelligent upgrades. Only by establishing assistance policies, building public platforms, and strengthening transformation guidance can intelligent manufacturing be popularized faster. At the
meeting, the comprehensive resource aggregation and service platform for intelligent manufacturing, integrating "government-research institutes-industry associations-user enterprises-solution suppliers" was officially unveiled. The platform gathered nearly 2,000 national project data, more than 13,000 policy data, information about nearly 100 experts in the field of intelligent manufacturing and nearly 10,000 national intelligent manufacturing standards. Experts at the meeting believe that the construction and development of this public platform will actively promote the development of intelligent manufacturing in China and even the world.
"Intelligent manufacturing is not a single technology or a single product, but a system project." National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee member Xu Honghai believes that intelligent manufacturing makes enterprises, products, talents, capital, application scenarios, etc. more intelligent, and at the same time brings more transformative changes in production methods. All walks of life need to continuously adapt and adjust to better embrace the new changes and new opportunities brought by intelligent manufacturing.
