At present, new products, new business forms and new models of intelligent manufacturing continue to emerge. The scale of intelligent manufacturing equipment industry has exceeded 3.2 trillion yuan, the revenue of industrial software products has exceeded 240 billion yuan, and more than 140 system solution suppliers have more than 1 billion yuan in main business revenue.

“The core elements of intelligent manufacturing are intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial software. It is necessary to strengthen application verification, promote development by application, and give full play to the leading role of R&D and application to speed up the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial software.” At the “Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation and Development Forum” held on May 26, Zhang Xiangmu, deputy director of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee and former director general of the equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that.

In his view, “Intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial software is the soul of modern manufacturing, strangling intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial software, from the source of the lifeline of industrial manufacturing.”

The prospect of intelligent manufacturing equipment should be tilted towards application

At present, the development of intelligent manufacturing in our country enters the key “window period”. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other relevant departments have issued the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing and the Action Plan for the Development of Intelligent Testing Equipment Industry, making new arrangements for the innovative development of intelligent manufacturing.

Wang Hong, deputy director general of the first Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that developing intelligent manufacturing is an important way to seize the opportunities of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and accelerate the promotion of Chinese-style modernization; It is the internal requirement of building modern industrial system and realizing high quality development. In recent years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with other departments concerned, has carried out the intelligent manufacturing project, coordinated and promoted the pilot demonstration of intelligent manufacturing, the innovative development of equipment, the cultivation of system integrators, the tackling of key and core technologies, and the construction of a standard system. These efforts have made great progress in the development of intelligent manufacturing, and strongly supported high-quality economic and social development.

To build a strong manufacturing country, intelligent manufacturing is the main direction, and expanding and strengthening intelligent manufacturing equipment is the top priority. “The 14th Five-Year Plan” Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan clearly put forward the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment. Relevant departments have jointly issued the Action Plan for the Development of the Intelligent Testing Equipment Industry, and are working on proposals for Promoting the Digital Development of Equipment. At the same time, we are studying and planning to implement special actions for the high-quality development of industrial mother-machines and industrial robots. Promoting the high-end, intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry is providing a broad application scenario for domestic intelligent manufacturing equipment.

“The development prospects of intelligent manufacturing equipment in our country are promising, and two points are particularly important. First, we need to strengthen application verification to promote development through application, and support policies should be more oriented towards application. Second, give full play to the role of ‘leading’, a leading enterprise can bring out an industrial chain.” Zhang Xiangmu said.

Ouyang Jinsong, deputy director of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee and director of the Institute of Integrated Technical and Economic Research of machinery industry instruments, suggested that attention should be paid to the digitalization of intelligent manufacturing equipment. The deep integration of digital technology and the whole life cycle of equipment can realize the intelligent upgrading and value remodeling of equipment. By embedding sensors, communication modules and other intelligent components or devices, upgrade inventory equipment; Integrate new materials, new technology, layout new equipment; We will intensify exploration of disruptive technologies and develop cutting-edge equipment.

At present, the digitalization, networking and intellectualization of textile equipment have reached a higher level. According to Mei Shunqi, an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and a professor at Wuhan Textile University, the “two-carbon” strategy has had a profound impact on the manufacturing industry, and intelligent manufacturing technology is driving the transformation of manufacturing production methods. Series of intelligent demonstration production lines of textile production process have been gradually established, involving spinning, chemical fiber filament, knitting, printing and dyeing, nonwovens, clothing, etc.

Mei Shunqi also reminded that although intelligent textile manufacturing has made great progress, it is still in the development stage of automation and digitalization, and in the initial stage of intelligence. At present, only the basic realization of automation, numerical control and information, is not the real sense of “intelligent”. It should be noted that it is still difficult to “intelligentize” clothing production. Based on the existing textile technology, the level of single machine intelligence still needs to be improved, and the gap between the core components/system and the advanced level of foreign countries is obvious.

“The production quality, efficiency and reliability of intelligent manufacturing equipment are fundamental to competitiveness. It is necessary to strengthen the cooperation between the industry, the university and the research institute. On the basis of theoretical research, we should devote ourselves to the experimental and empirical research of textile intelligent manufacturing equipment, accumulate sufficient ‘big data’, which is an effective means to guarantee the reliability of equipment and improve the processing quality, and may even form the unique ‘technical know-how’ and product core competitiveness of enterprises.” Mei Shunqi suggested.