The world is setting off a new round of industrial revolution with intelligent manufacturing as its core. The deep integration of the new generation of information technology and manufacturing industry is now triggering profound industrial changes and forming new modes of production, industrial forms, business models and economic growth.
China, known as the world's "manufacturing center," is starting an unprecedented industrial revolution based on the concept of "Industry 4.0" pioneered by Germany. One of the most prolific workshops in the world was gradually replaced by the unmanned factory in which the machinery roared.
"Made in China 2025" is based on the current overall level of development of China's manufacturing industry, raising the level of intelligence in the manufacturing sector and transforming itself to unmanned factories and smart manufacturing. This is the inevitable model.
Germany and China have different manufacturing bases. German industrial equipment and workshops are well-made, industrial robots are well established and widely used, and embedded systems and automation engineering have very specialized skills.
Therefore, Germany's "Industry 4.0" is a measure formulated for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Rely on the solid technical foundation, we can directly carry out the information technology reform.
Compared with the world advanced level, China's industrial manufacturing level needs to accomplish the dual tasks of automation and information transformation at the same time.
However, this latter advantage has given China's manufacturing industry an opportunity to build a smart factory and speed up its transformation and one-stop operation.
[Material basis of intelligence is automation]
Starting from the automation of a single device and the intellectualization of products, it is imperative to link the intelligence of key processes and the substitution of key positions to realize the improvement of production efficiency and product efficiency. This is the material foundation of intelligence.
With the maturity of technology and the reduction of cost, the widespread application of intelligent devices such as industrial robots and mechanical arms has enabled the unmanned manufacturing in the factory to become possible.
In recent years, the rapid development of China's robot market. In 2014, China's industrial robot sales reached 56,000 units, becoming the world's largest industrial robot market.
It is estimated that the sales volume of industrial robots will reach 150,000 units by 2020, with 800,000 units in stock. By 2025, the sales volume of industrial robots will reach 260,000 units, maintaining the number of 1.8 million units.
At the production site, industrial robots have achieved large-scale integrated applications in welding, handling, painting, processing, assembly, testing, and cleaner production. In addition to saving labor and increasing productivity, more importantly, it works more evenly, with better stability, controllable product quality and traceability. This is an important reliance on digital management to improve product quality!
Combined with the automated production line, CNC machining centers, intelligent robots and CMMs, and all other flexible manufacturing units can automate the scheduling of production scheduling, automatic loading and unloading of workpieces, materials and tools, and achieve unattended fully automated production mode.
Further research is needed on key technologies such as visual processing, situational awareness, pattern recognition, self-implementation decision making and visualization to improve 3D positioning, modeling, searching and interaction of robotic products to improve control performance, human-computer interaction performance and reliability Performance, enhance the ability of robot to reconstruct and adjust the deviation adaptively, and ultimately realize the robot's ability to perform sophisticated tasks in a man-machine coexistence environment.