Since Germany put forward the concept of "Industry 4.0", it has swept the whole world rapidly and set off a wave of "intelligent manufacturing". As the largest developing country in the world, China has also put forward the development goal of intelligent manufacturing under the background that the manufacturing industry has experienced a period of downturn, hoping to take advantage of this so-called "fourth Industrial revolution" to revitalize its manufacturing industry and raise it to a new height.
As the key to a new round of scientific and technological revolution, intelligent manufacturing can greatly improve the efficiency of production, improve product quality, reduce product production costs and resource consumption, and has become the trend and key content of the future development of manufacturing industry. At the same time, intelligent manufacturing is also an important measure to transform China's rapid development mode, promote China's industry to move closer to the middle and high-end market, and build a manufacturing power. It is an inevitable choice to build a new international competitive advantage under the new normal. In May 2015, Made in China 2025 issued by The State Council clearly put forward that intelligent manufacturing is the main direction of the development of China's manufacturing industry in the future. However, promoting intelligent manufacturing is a complex and huge systematic project, which requires constant exploration and even trial and error.
However, today, some places actively promote the "replacement of machines", and even believe that this is intelligent manufacturing. This is a simple, fragmented, mechanized understanding of intelligent manufacturing, but does not understand the essence and core of intelligent manufacturing.
Intelligent manufacturing is a new "revolution" in the production process on the basis of informatization. Since the first industrial revolution, human industrial production has experienced the process of mechanization, electrification, automation and information technology. In these processes, machines continue to replace part of human labor, and the productivity and production efficiency have increased rapidly. Especially in the information age, human-computer interaction further development, human use of computers and robots to create one miracle after another. Intelligent manufacturing, on this basis, makes the interaction between machine and machine, production process and production process, the use of information technology, the intelligent management of the production process, the independent production process "series" together, to achieve another leap in productivity.
If "machine for man" is intelligent manufacturing, it might as well be the process of completing the first three industrial revolutions. Moreover, intelligent manufacturing does not exclude human labor. For example, human-computer interaction technology is to realize collaborative production between workers and machines. At present, industrial robots only replace some simple, heavy, dangerous processes in the manual; Service robots can solve problems such as the shortage of professionals in the fields of home care, medical rehabilitation, education and entertainment. In general, intelligent manufacturing or robots do not have a great impact on the employment rate of society.
Meanwhile, robots are creating new jobs. Intelligent manufacturing and robot are the cross integration of a variety of technologies, their own development can not be separated from a large number of professional and technical personnel, the new industrial ecology it spawned can absorb a large number of labor. For example, a new generation of industrial robots, drones, education and entertainment robots and other products at home and abroad with extensive demand and huge development potential, will be important intelligent equipment and products for the implementation of the "going out" strategy in our country, will also be an important starting point for the evolution of our manufacturing industry to the high-end of the industrial chain, which can create a large number of jobs. Our country can enter the ranks of the powerful manufacturing industry only by firmly grasping the development window brought about by the new technological revolution and industrial transformation.