The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently introduced that the pace of high-quality development of China’s manufacturing industry has been significantly accelerated, intelligent manufacturing has been further promoted, and nearly 8,000 digital workshops and smart factories have been built around the country. At present, the development of intelligent manufacturing in China has made great progress, but compared with the goal of manufacturing power construction, there is still a lot of room for optimization and improvement, and it is necessary to strengthen the research and development of vulnerable links, consolidate the foundation field, and promote the synchronous development of the whole industrial chain.

The development level of intelligent manufacturing is related to the global status of China’s future manufacturing industry. Intelligent manufacturing is regarded as the main direction of manufacturing power construction, because it can seize the opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change, and reshape the new advantages of China’s manufacturing. The low-cost advantage of Chinese manufacturing is weakening, and intelligent manufacturing will be a new generation of information technology and advanced manufacturing technology deep integration, can achieve self-perception, self-decision-making, self-implementation, self-adaptation, self-learning, through the design, production, management, service and other manufacturing activities of all links, effectively improve the quality of manufacturing, efficiency and core competitiveness. It can be said that intelligent manufacturing is an important means to develop and expand strategic emerging industries, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, improve the suitability of the supply system, promote the construction of a new development pattern, and is also an important way to promote digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, and build a digital China.

As a big manufacturing country and a big network country, China has a good foundation for the development of intelligent manufacturing. The scale of China’s manufacturing industry has ranked first in the world for 13 consecutive years, and it is the manufacturing industry with the most complete industrial categories and the most complete industrial system in the world, which provides huge space for the development of intelligent manufacturing. At the same time, China’s Internet industry has grown rapidly, forming a group of Internet leaders, with leading technical capabilities in big data, artificial intelligence and other aspects, especially in the business model and application services, which provides a strong technical foundation for the development of intelligent manufacturing. At present, China’s intelligent manufacturing has emerged virtual verification, shared manufacturing and other new scenarios, new solutions, new models, new manufacturing models have been from the conceptual framework to the implementation of the implementation, intelligent manufacturing international cooperation has continued to deepen.

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The most prominent problem in the development of intelligent manufacturing in China is the unbalanced development level. First of all, the development level of related technologies and industries is unbalanced. In recent years, the industrial Internet platform relied on for the development of intelligent manufacturing has developed rapidly, but industrial software, key basic components, key processes and other fields are still subject to people, such as machine tools, R & D and design industrial software, the underlying operating system, embedded chips, etc., still lag behind some developed countries, and it is urgent to complement the shortcomings and consolidate the underlying technical foundation. We will fight hard to upgrade the industrial foundation and modernize the industrial chain, and improve the stability and competitiveness of industrial and supply chains.

Secondly, the development level of intelligent manufacturing entities is unbalanced. China’s manufacturing industry itself also has the problem of unbalanced development, some are promoting the deep integration of industrial automation and information technology, some have just realized industrial automation, and some are even in the degree of large-scale manufacturing mechanization, the need for parallel development, both in the transformation of traditional manufacturing “make up”, but also in the intelligent upgrade “add lessons”. Especially compared with large enterprises, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises because of lack of awareness of transformation, lack of resources, weak infrastructure and other factors, there is a “will not turn, can not turn, dare not turn” dilemma in intelligent manufacturing. It is also necessary to strengthen demonstration leadership, inject resources, promote the construction of resource and capacity sharing platforms, launch lightweight, low-cost, standardized solutions for the common needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, and drive small and medium-sized enterprises to accelerate the pace of intelligent manufacturing.

It should be noted that intelligent manufacturing is a means rather than an end, and intelligent manufacturing cannot be blindly mounted for intelligent manufacturing. For example, there is a uneven level of development in China’s manufacturing industry, if you do not do a good job of classification policies or do not solve the problem of weak foundation, insist on intelligent upgrades, it is like the “wings” of the tiger did not add to the tiger, and the investment is huge but did not achieve the ideal effect. At present, there are too many concepts and technologies related to intelligent manufacturing such as industry 4.0, enterprise cloud, edge computing, and deep learning, so that many enterprises are dazzled, or should be based on reality, in line with the principles of long-term planning, gradual implementation, and key breakthroughs, and slowly map it, with “innovation” to drive “revolution”, and steadily improve the overall level of intelligent manufacturing.