Flexible manufacturing will become the dominant mode of intelligent factory

At present, the consumption mode is gradually changing from standardization and monotonous unification to customization and personality differences. For example, the garment industry actively implements online customization of various garments, the furniture industry vigorously promotes customer customization of the whole house household, the automobile industry accelerates the exploration of direct manufacturing of passenger car users, and the steel industry increases the demand for small-batch orders. The traditional production mode of mass production has been unable to meet the needs of individual agile response and fast delivery within the range of controllable cost. It is urgent for factories to build flexible production capacity to realize the production and delivery of personalized orders with multiple varieties, variable quantities and short delivery time with low cost of mass production.

According to the report, the future smart factory will achieve flexible production mainly through the collaboration of four aspects. First, rapid development of modular products. The second is flexible resource allocation and dynamic scheduling. Third, flexible and adaptive processing. Fourth, flexible supply chain system. In terms of flexibility and adaptive processing, TCL has built a reconfigurable flexible LCD production line based on 5G. Combined with 5G edge computing, TCL can quickly adjust the layout of production line according to orders, automatically update equipment parameters, etc., reducing production transfer time by 93% and increasing production capacity by 10%.

It is worth noting that the future smart factory “green safety” issue is also an important focus of intelligent manufacturing development. In recent years, guided by the “double carbon” goal, while carrying out the construction of smart factories and digital transformation, digital technology enables energy conservation, environmental protection and safety technology innovation, and applies artificial intelligence, big data, 5G and industrial Internet to improve the power consumption, emissions, pollution and safety control capabilities of factories, gradually moving towards green manufacturing, green factories and green supply chain. The green transformation of manufacturing industry is accelerating.

Intelligent factory has become the main foothold of intelligent manufacturing

Taking typical scenarios as basic elements, accelerating the integration and penetration of digital technology with the whole industrial chain, the whole value chain and the whole factors is a new path to deepen the development of intelligent manufacturing. According to the report, the top 10 intelligent scenarios in the number of smart factory applications are intelligent online detection, process digital design, intelligent warehousing, man-machine collaborative operation, accurate quality traceability, online operation monitoring and fault diagnosis, flexible configuration of production lines, intelligent production scheduling of workshops, lean production management, and production planning optimization, accounting for more than 50%.

In order to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, our country has promoted the construction of a number of intelligent manufacturing demonstration plants, focusing on raw materials, equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, electronic information and other key industries, and centering on research and development, production, management and service to carry out transformation practice. After the transformation of the intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory, the value of the traditional factory has been comprehensively improved, the innovation efficiency has been significantly improved, the operation level has been significantly improved, and the effect of energy conservation and emission reduction has been significantly improved.

During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the technology integration and innovation of intelligent manufacturing, the construction of supply ecology, the implementation of scene application and the reform of new organization form will further accelerate the process of intelligent factory, and promote the digital and network chemical plants to be fully intelligent factory.