According to the outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan, we will further implement intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing projects, develop a new model of service-oriented manufacturing, and promote high-end, intelligent and green manufacturing. As 5G and other new generation of information technology continue to deeply integrate with the manufacturing industry, the intelligent development of the manufacturing industry will become an important direction for the transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry in the future. According to the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing, by 2025, 70% of manufacturing enterprises above designated size will basically realize digital networking, and more than 500 intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories will be built to lead the development of the industry.

Under the dual role of policy guidance and industry exploration, intelligent manufacturing has been advancing continuously. It has developed from the initial stage of exploration and experiment and single point optimization to the stage of system reform and comprehensive transformation, promoting all-round reform of production mode, operation mode and resource allocation mode.

China’s Intelligent Manufacturing Development Research Report — Intelligent Factory (hereinafter referred to as the “report”) released by China Information and Communication Academy shows that at present, intelligent factory has become the source and main battlefield of the digital transformation of manufacturing industry, as well as the only way and important engine for manufacturing industry to build new core competitiveness and lead the high-quality development of economy.

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Data becomes the key enablement to drive smart factory applications

Intelligent manufacturing is the main direction of promoting the strategy of making China strong in manufacturing. It accelerates the digitalization, networking and intelligent upgrading of equipment, production lines, workshops and factories of manufacturing enterprises, and fundamentally changes the production mode and resource organization mode of manufacturing industry. With the deep integration of the new generation of information technology and traditional industries, traditional production factors are gradually evolving to digital, generating massive industrial data. The use of big data analysis to describe the state of the physical world, insight into laws and forecast optimization has become a key path to achieve factory intelligence, showing great potential in all fields of the factory. Ningde Times combines material mechanism, big data analysis and artificial intelligence algorithm to explore the combination of various material genes, accelerate the development of electrolyte, positive electrode, coating and other battery materials, the research and development cycle is shortened by 30%, and the research and development cost is reduced by 30%.

It can be seen that big data plays a non-negligible role in smart factories. Based on big data analysis, intelligent optimization, precise control and intelligent decision-making of factory production process can be realized, as well as accelerated business model innovation and value chain reconstruction. Weichai Power has built an intelligent management and decision analysis platform to gather massive production data. Based on big data analysis and artificial intelligence algorithm, Weichai Power has carried out data applications such as dynamic resource scheduling, equipment forecasting and maintenance, and intelligent optimization of energy consumption, which has increased production efficiency by 30% and reduced production cost by 15%.