"Chinese manufacturing 2025" released in recent years, the conceptual level is colorful, from the 4 to the information industry, industrial manufacturing, intelligent unmanned factory, now extended to unmanned vehicles, unmanned unmanned vessels, medical equipment and other popular areas, it seems that industrial intelligence, unmanned era in sight.

HUAWEI founder Ren Zhengfei is the judgment of objective, he believes that this is the era of artificial intelligence, we must emphasize the industrial automation and industrial automation; later, it may enter the information; the only information, can be intelligent. China industry has not yet completed automation, there are still many industries do not have a semi automated.

Therefore, to explore the industrial 4, before the industrial unmanned, it is necessary to understand the concept of historical origin, technical origin and economic significance.

Automation is the prelude of intelligence

1980s, the U.S. auto industry is worried that the Japanese competitors will be crushed. In Detroit, a lot of people looking to beat the opponent "lights out". "Lights out factory production is highly automated, the light is off, the robot in automobile manufacturing. At that time, the idea is unrealistic, Japanese car prices in the year of the competitive advantage is not in the automation of production, but in the lean production technology, and lean production in most cases to rely on human.

Today, the progress of automation technology has made the "lights out production" has become a reality. Japan FANUC robot manufacturer (FANUC) has been part of the production line can be placed in the unattended environment, automatically run for weeks out of the situation.

Volkswagen aims to dominated the global auto industry group, the company developed a new production strategy: modular transverse moment. Volkswagen would like to use this new technology, in the same production line to produce all models of the car. This process will eventually allow the public in the world around the plant to local conditions, the production of the local market, the need for any model.

Many years ago, Tsien Hsueshen once said: "as long as the automatic control is done, even if the component is almost a bit, the missile can hit the sky."

Nowadays, automation will mimic human intelligence to a great extent, the robot has been applied in the field of industrial production, ocean development and space exploration, the expert system has made significant effect in medical diagnosis, geological exploration etc.. Factory automation, office automation, home automation and automation of agriculture will become an important part of the new technological revolution, and the rapid development of.

On the whole, Chinese traditional industries in technology and equipment, energy and raw material consumption, product quality and management level compared with the industrial power is still a big gap, especially the technical equipment (such as high-end CNC machine tools) of a widening gap. To update a wide range of equipment, the state can not afford to maintain equipment; status quo, consequences be unbearable to contemplate, only the application of automation technology to transform traditional industries, the most effective way to improve the quality of enterprises.