At present, the wave of building industrial Internet and realizing intelligent manufacturing has swept the world, and the world’s major industrial countries have invested in the competition of the new industrial revolution. So, what is the relationship between the industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing? In general, intelligent manufacturing is the development goal and method, and the industrial Internet is a feasible path to achieve the goal.

330780-91-00 The fading of demographic dividend gave birth to the industrial Internet

At present, China’s demographic dividend has begun to fade. In the future, labor will become an increasingly scarce resource, and the expensive labor cost will change the ecological environment of China’s entire industry and manufacturing industry.

The industrial Internet was born under this background.

330780-91-00 Even in the case of the fading demographic dividend, the industrial Internet can still ensure that the manufacturing cost is the same as the original, or even lower.

It is precisely because of this that the state has given it a lot of support and established the Industrial Internet Industry Alliance (AII).

AII has made its own definition of the Industrial Internet:

330780-91-00 The industrial Internet is the industrial and application ecology formed by the comprehensive and deep integration of the Internet and the new generation of information technology and the industrial system, and is the key comprehensive information infrastructure for the development of industrial intelligence.

Industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing

In the definition of AII, the close connection between the industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing can be clearly seen.

Industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing from the surface discussion of each focus, one focuses on industrial services, one focuses on industrial manufacturing, but the essence is to achieve intelligent manufacturing and intelligent services, specifically personalized customization and service extension.

The industrial Internet is mainly provided by the industrial platform for enterprises to provide customized services to help enterprises on the cloud, which is the development model and realistic path to realize intelligent manufacturing.

330780-91-00 Intelligent manufacturing is the ultimate goal of the global industry, so that factories around the world can achieve intelligent automation.

In recent years, driven by the national supply-side reform policy, demand in the industrial sector has continued to recover.

The recovery of these downstream industries will also continue to promote a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution.

330780-91-00 However, under the multiple factors such as people’s increasing demand for material quality, rising labor costs and rising upstream material costs, the difficulty of making profits is also increasing compared with the past.

Therefore, this situation is also forcing enterprises to continue to move closer to intelligence.

Therefore, enterprises need to carry out industrial transformation, and intelligent manufacturing is the next outlet of industrial manufacturing.

Intelligent manufacturing is committed to realizing the intelligence of the entire manufacturing value chain, and the industrial Internet is the key infrastructure to realize intelligent manufacturing.

330780-91-00 Industrial Internet with huge market size

According to AII data, in 2017, China’s industrial Internet direct industry scale was about 90.3 billion US dollars (about 570 billion yuan).

During the period from 2017 to 2019, the industry is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 18 percent, and the output value of the industrial Internet could reach 225 billion US dollars (1,420 billion yuan) by 2020.

In addition, according to incomplete statistics, in the whole of 2017, there were more than 170 financing events related to industrial Internet platforms, and the financing amount was about 20 billion yuan.