"Made in China 2025" released nearly a year, the concept level can be described as colorful, from the industrial 4.0, industrial information to intelligent manufacturing, no man-made plant, now extends to unmanned vehicles, unmanned ships, unmanned medical equipment And other popular areas, it seems that industrial intelligence, unmanned era in sight.
Huawei is the founder of Ren Zhengfei made judgments are objective, he believes that this is the era of artificial intelligence, the first to emphasize industrial automation; industrial automation, it may enter the information; only after the intelligence, to intelligence. Chinese industry has not yet completed the automation, there are many industries with semi-automatic can not do.
Therefore, to explore the industrial 4.0, industrial unmanned, it is necessary to understand the relevant concepts of historical origin, technical origin and economic significance.
Automation is a prelude to intelligence
In the 1980s, the US auto industry was worried about being knocked down by Japanese competitors. In Detroit, many people look to "off-type production" beat the opponent. "Light production" is the factory highly automated, lights off, the robot in the manufacture of their own cars. At the time, this idea is unrealistic, Japanese car prices in the competitive advantage of the year is not automated production, but rather "lean production" technology, and lean production in most cases to rely on manpower.
Nowadays, the progress of automation technology has made the "lights out production" gradually become a reality. Japanese robot manufacturer Fanuc (FANUC) has been able to put some of its production line unattended environment, automatic operation for several weeks without the situation.
Germany's Volkswagen aims to dominate the world, the automotive industry group has developed a new production strategy: modular horizontal moment. Volkswagen would like to use this new process, in the same production line to produce all models of the car. This process will eventually allow the public in the factory around the world to local conditions, to produce the local market for any model.
Many years ago, Qian Xuesen once said: "As long as the automatic control well, even if the components almost, the missile can play God.
Nowadays, automation will mimic human intelligence to a great extent. The robot has been applied in industrial production, marine development and cosmic exploration. The expert system has achieved remarkable results in medical diagnosis and geological prospecting. Factory automation, office automation, home automation and agricultural automation will become an important part of the new technological revolution, and has developed rapidly.
On the whole, there is still a big gap between China's traditional industries, such as technology and equipment, energy and raw material consumption, product quality and management level, compared with industrial power, especially the gap between technical equipment (such as high-end CNC machine tools) . A large range of equipment updates, the state can not afford to maintain the status quo equipment, the consequences could be disastrous, only the application of automation technology to transform traditional industries in order to most effectively improve the quality of enterprises.
