Source: Economic Information

       Manufacturing has an irreplaceable position in our national economy. Since the introduction of "Made in China 2025", the intelligent manufacturing and related industries have developed rapidly, not only rapidly becoming a brand new industry, but also gradually becoming the main thrust of China's manufacturing transformation and upgrading.

In recent years, China has issued a series of documents and measures aimed at promoting the development of intelligent manufacturing, creating a relaxed and favorable policy environment for the development of intelligent manufacturing and the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing. At present, this whole set of formed policy system is continuously releasing the policy dividend. A large number of enterprises have begun to actively embrace smart manufacturing, and the trend of China's manufacturing industry towards high-end is becoming more and more obvious. With the continuous implementation of various targeted measures, China's intelligent manufacturing level is expected to continue to improve, and the major goals of the manufacturing powerhouse strategy and manufacturing transformation and upgrading will also be steadily advanced.

Up to now, China has successively issued "Made in China 2025", "Promoting the "Internet +" Action Opinions" and "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Manufacturing and Internet Development", and has formed a strategic policy system for manufacturing strong countries. The above three major policies all make detailed plans for the future development of China's smart manufacturing.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other ministries and commissions also successively issued the "Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan (2016-2020)", "Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering Implementation Guide (2016-2020)", "Robot Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)", "equipment manufacturing" Industry Standardization and Quality Improvement Plan, "Intelligent Hardware Industry Innovation and Development Special Action (2016-2018)", "Industrial Green Development Plan (2016-2020)" and other subdivision policies, and launched smart manufacturing in 2016 In the pilot demonstration work, the establishment of the China Manufacturing 2025 National Demonstration Zone was launched in 2017.

Xin Guobin, deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, explained in the interpretation of relevant policies that smart manufacturing will be an important starting point for realizing the integration of manufacturing and the Internet in the medium and long term, and comprehensively improving the international competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. To this end, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries and commissions will continue to promote the implementation of smart manufacturing related policies in the next stage, in addition to research and development of smart manufacturing policies for traditional industries such as nonferrous metals, rare earths, textiles, and home appliances, and will implement national integration. Policies such as the development of circuit development are aimed at speeding up the deployment of new areas such as 5G, Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, and intelligent transportation.

With the help of various policies, more and more manufacturing companies have begun to embrace smart manufacturing and actively apply cloud computing, big data, robots and other related technologies to build and deploy smart factories. According to the statistics of local governments, the manufacturing enterprises in many regions have been deployed in the field of intelligent manufacturing, and related technologies have entered the application level.

“The factory production workshop has enabled ground and air transport robots, double speed chains, intelligent warehouses, six-axis robots and intelligent central control systems capable of collecting, analyzing data and command and control production.” Shi Wei, General Manager of Hefei Wanli Tire Co., Ltd. told "Economic Information Daily" reporter, Wanli Tire Hefei factory after using a full set of intelligent manufacturing production system, the original production of a tire takes 48 hours, and the current production time is shortened to 30 hours. Traditional tire companies of the same size require more than 2,100 workers, while Hefei Wanli only needs 696 people, and the average annual output value per person is as high as 3.32 million yuan, three times that of traditional factories.

Companies that see the huge potential of smart manufacturing are not just one of the Wanli Group. In July of this year, Trina Solar introduced Alibaba Cloud "ET Industrial Brain" into production, hoping to improve the production efficiency of enterprises by means of cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies. After only a few months, the cooperation between the two parties has achieved amazing results - A product (with photoelectric conversion rate, cell conversion rate above 18.8%) increased by 7%. Trina Solar told the Economic Information Daily that the next step will be to promote smart manufacturing on all production lines, which is expected to increase annual profit by tens of millions of yuan.

Alibaba Cloud President Hu Xiaoming introduced that Alibaba Cloud's "ET Industrial Brain" has been widely deployed in Jiangsu, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other major manufacturing industries in China, and a large number of manufacturing enterprises such as GCL, Trina Solar and Zhongce Rubber have utilized it. This system successfully launched intelligent manufacturing production; in addition, Alibaba Cloud's Tianchi Zhongzhi platform solution was also applied by a large number of enterprises in many fields such as automobile and environment. Hu Xiaoming said that Alibaba Cloud's capabilities are enabling enterprises to achieve smart manufacturing. "This can help China's manufacturing to increase its capacity by 1%, and 1% means creating trillions of RMB for the industry."

On the basis of the established good policy environment and industrial environment, China has further developed a large number of mature experiences through pilot demonstrations and promotion of key projects, and in important areas such as large aircraft, rail transit, 5G, and next-generation Internet. A breakthrough was achieved on the project. The industry generally believes that in the next 5 to 10 years, the C919 and 5G commercial networks will represent the harvest period of a large number of key projects. By then, China's manufacturing level and international competitiveness in these fields will be expected to enter the world first-class, and related industries will also usher in a period of industrial opportunities.

In addition to the above-mentioned fields such as large aircraft, China is also cultivating a large number of key projects, which will also contribute to the overall transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry in the future. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 2016 and 2017, China launched two pilot demonstrations of intelligent manufacturing, and selected more than 150 key projects to tackle the problem. These pilot demonstration projects cover a wide range of manufacturing sectors, including petrochemical, steel, nonferrous, aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical and other traditional manufacturing industries, as well as aerospace, aviation, high-end equipment manufacturing, robotics, additive manufacturing, and new energy. Such as the strategic emerging industries that China is actively developing.

At present, the achievements of many key projects have begun to promote the relevant industries. Taking industrial robots as an example, China has become the world's largest industrial robot market, and has formed five major robot industry clusters in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Northeast China, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Central China. According to the prediction of the International Robot Federation, China will play a leading role in the global industrial robot field in the future. By 2019, the sales volume of industrial robots in China will reach 160,000 units, accounting for 40% of global sales.