Intelligent manufacturing is a major component of the most popular industry 4.0 concept in today's manufacturing industry. So, what is intelligent manufacturing? Literally, intelligent manufacturing is different from those traditional manufacturing concepts in the past, such as lean manufacturing, digital manufacturing, networked manufacturing, agile manufacturing, etc. Although these concepts also appear tall, they are slightly inferior to intelligent manufacturing. However, in essence, intelligent manufacturing is inseparable from the above technologies, because they are important supports of intelligent manufacturing. Next, we will discuss in detail what is intelligent manufacturing, why we should develop intelligent manufacturing, and how to develop intelligent manufacturing.
What is intelligent manufacturing?
Here, we must realize that "intelligent manufacturing" is not a concept born out of nowhere, but a concept gradually formed by the manufacturing industry through long-term evolution and integration according to its internal development logic. In terms of content, it includes lean manufacturing, digital manufacturing, networked manufacturing, agile manufacturing, etc. mentioned above, and based on these technologies, it forms the general name of advanced manufacturing processes, systems and modes with the functions of deep information self perception, intelligent optimization self decision, precise control and self execution.
Why develop intelligent manufacturing?
The reason why we want to develop intelligent manufacturing technology is that it is the need of manufacturing transformation and the demand of the market. In recent years, in order to further improve the manufacturing level and increase its international competitiveness, various manufacturing powers have issued a number of manufacturing development strategies and plans, including the development of intelligent manufacturing technology. Once implemented, it will play a significant role in improving product quality, reducing costs and shortening the development cycle.
In addition, the maturity of relevant technical conditions has also created essential conditions for the development of intelligent manufacturing. There are network technology and digital technology. Among them, networking not only refers to the Internet, but also includes the deep connection and integration between people and equipment, equipment and equipment, and equipment and materials. In addition to numerical control technology, digitalization also includes virtual scheme design and engineering development through computer iteration. These two technologies are inseparable from intelligent production.
How to develop intelligent manufacturing?
In order to develop intelligent manufacturing and catch up with or even surpass the world's advanced manufacturing countries, we should take the in-depth implementation of digital engineering as the premise, and start from the five aspects of intelligent design, intelligent process, intelligent production, intelligent service guarantee and intelligent management, so as to finally comprehensively promote the popularization of intelligent manufacturing.
Intelligent design needs to establish a huge template library of data, so as to facilitate designers to select references from them, and constantly avoid shackles in human-computer interaction, so as to truly realize the "what you want is what you get" intelligent matching.
The intelligent process connects the design department and the production workshops. It is an intelligent bridge between design and manufacturing. Based on intelligent information platform, it can transform design language into manufacturing language, and accurately convey the designer's ideas to production personnel; It also makes the products produced meet the original intention of designers.
Intelligent production is a production mode that integrates intelligent equipment, units, production lines, workshops, factories and industrial chains into an organic whole. Several intelligent equipment and units can be combined into intelligent production lines, and several intelligent production lines can be combined into intelligent workshops. Intelligent workshops with several organic connections form intelligent chemical plants. Finally, multiple intelligent chemical plants form an intelligent industrial alliance of the industry.
Intelligent service guarantee is a manufacturing service based on industrial big data and network. It is supported by technologies in the information field such as cloud computing, data fusion processing and analysis, remote monitoring and diagnosis, and establishes a guarantee system that is not limited by space distance to provide support for the smooth operation of the whole intelligent manufacturing.
Intelligent management is to generate a bi based management cockpit to make decisions based on the accurate and real-time data extracted by the expert system or decision support system, and finally help managers make correct decisions through some interactive way.
