Two major pivots of advanced manufacturing: digitalization and collaboration

Removing production processes and links that do not meet actual needs and improving the efficiency and quality of manufacturing development have become important elements for various countries to promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. As far as the entire manufacturing industry system is concerned, measures such as innovative technologies, building platforms, cultivating talents, cross-border cooperation, and innovative applications are increasingly making the isolated links of the manufacturing industry become a whole, increasing the efficiency of resource allocation, and promoting industrial development. Vitality factors are vying to burst out.

Let’s first talk about the digitization of manufacturing.

As an important direction for the upgrading of the manufacturing industry, industry insiders are working hard to achieve the ambitious goal of digitization and collaboration in the manufacturing industry with the help of cutting-edge technology and sophisticated equipment. In fact, digital strategy has become the forefront of innovative development of advanced manufacturing, and digital transformation of manufacturing has become the key to a new round of industrial revolution. So, how to realize the digitalization of manufacturing industry?

Constructing network infrastructure, applying and promoting industrial Internet platforms, improving digital public service facilities, and encouraging enterprises to accelerate cloud migration are all ways to achieve the goal of digitalization in the manufacturing industry. With the Industrial Internet as the carrier and relying on the digitization of production factors, manufacturing companies can use resources and factors to integrate and optimize process design, product manufacturing, marketing, after-sales service, raw material supply, and other major industrial chain links to improve resource allocation. efficiency, to achieve the purpose of reducing costs, expanding profits, and strengthening the brand's comprehensive competitiveness.

As the new generation of information technology continues to mature, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation are booming, and the digital transformation in the industrial field has stronger infrastructure support. At the same time, the deep integration of cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence technology and industrial production will create more favorable conditions for the transformation, optimization and upgrading of traditional manufacturing enterprises, and provide new impetus for intelligent industrial production.

Let’s talk about the collaboration of the manufacturing industry.

Now when we talk about the upgrading of the manufacturing industry, "unmanned" is actually no longer the main obstacle. People in the industry are particularly concerned about how to solve the problem of human-machine collaboration. Due to the breakthrough development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine performance has been further upgraded and can better adapt to various industrial production operation instructions. In this environment, the manufacturing industry pays more attention to "people"The uo;-centered production and manufacturing organization method allows machines to assist people rather than people to adapt to the machines, and achieves efficient human-machine collaborative production.

The realization of manufacturing collaboration requires not only human-machine collaboration, but also efficient management methods and resource allocation models. Since the concept of "shared manufacturing" better meets the requirements of manufacturing collaboration, its value has attracted much attention. Some people in the industry are also actively exploring models and diversified possibilities for the promotion and application of shared manufacturing.

On March 4, the Sharing Economy Research Center of the National Information Center released the "China Sharing Economy Development Report (2020)". It is reported that this is the fifth annual report since it was first released in 2016. The report shows that shared manufacturing will become an important starting point for the transformation and development of the manufacturing industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The resource opening of large manufacturing companies and the empowerment of manufacturing companies by sharing platforms will become an important support for the future development of shared manufacturing.

In summary, the realization of manufacturing collaboration is nothing more than handling the relationship between personnel, technology, resources, equipment, platforms, systems and other factors. Among them, the role played by cutting-edge technology cannot be ignored. As far as the manufacturing industry is concerned, new technologies such as blockchain will become a new hot spot in industry development and will play an important role in production data sharing, property rights protection, information security and supervision.

Some analysts once pointed out that the three main paths of manufacturing have been occupied by pioneers: Germany with precision machine capabilities as its core, the United States with science and data capabilities as its core, and efficient personnel as its core. and organizational capabilities as the core of Japan. At present, compared with foreign countries, China has shortcomings in core technology research, professional talent training, data value transformation, etc., and it still needs down-to-earth exploration and efforts.

The year 2020 is not just a small time node in the long history of manufacturing development, but a critical period for the manufacturing industry to achieve digital and collaborative development. Maybe we can witness more new achievements in manufacturing development in 2020~