Since Germany’s Industry 4.0 and Made in China 2025, intelligent manufacturing has become the hottest word in the industrial field. In the last two years, industrial Internet and artificial intelligence have also become extremely hot, we see many vendors in the market, taking a set of products or solutions, saying that their products are intelligent manufacturing when intelligent manufacturing is hot, taking the same products when industrial Internet is hot and changing the name, claiming that they are the leading industrial Internet, and saying that they are majoring in artificial intelligence when artificial intelligence is hot.

Dabbing traffic everywhere is a small matter, but it is easy for industrial enterprises and the government to confuse the basic concepts. If the concept is not clear, the direction of action will be wrong, and it is sooner or later to go astray.

Intelligent manufacturing is the ground, industrial Internet is the sky

Industrial Internet is a tool for the transformation of our traditional industry, which is to introduce Internet technology and thinking mode into the production organization of traditional industries. In our daily production, people, equipment, products, materials and other moments are generating massive data information, industrial Internet makes massive data information transfer, integration, mining possible.

And intelligent manufacturing is the result of enterprise realization is the goal. Through the data collection of market users, optimize the manufacturing industry chain process, maximize the efficiency, improve the flexibility of production and high quality; to achieve intelligent manufacturing is a long-term process, generally speaking, need to first realize the automation of manufacturing, informationization, and then with the help of digitalization, networking, and ultimately to intelligent.

Industrial Internet and smart manufacturing from the surface of the discussion have their own focus, a focus on industrial services, a focus on industrial manufacturing efficiency, but the essence of the realization of smart manufacturing and smart services, specifically, personalized customization, service extension. Intelligent manufacturing of digital, networked, intelligent degree depends on the cloud of data dimensions and quantity, quality, and at the same time affect the industrial Internet service industry width and depth, and the industrial Internet feedback application effect, in turn, optimize the design of intelligent manufacturing.

From the above, we can see that the industrial Internet and smart manufacturing is just different in focus, the industrial Internet is mainly by the industrial platform for enterprises to provide customized services to help enterprises on the cloud. Smart manufacturing is the ultimate goal of global industry, so that factories around the world can be automated. Now the industrial Internet revolution has begun, in the past decade, Internet technology has been applied to the process of industrial production, and with the continuous development of the industrial Internet, the industrial Internet-related industries will also be developed rapidly.

Therefore, industrial Internet is the foundation for realizing intelligent manufacturing. Industrial Internet, as the core driving force of today’s industrial revolution, needs to create a new industrial ecosystem to help realize smart manufacturing.

Digitalization, networking and intelligence are the future of the fusion of heaven and earth

The Internet of Things allows intelligence to flow freely, the mobile Internet makes intelligence ubiquitous, big data contains unlimited intelligence, cloud computing makes intelligence responsive, and people and robots collaborate intelligently……. Where does “intelligence” come from? Intelligence is built on a continuous connection, powerful optimization algorithm engine and live data closed loop.

Intelligence is mainly embodied in three aspects.

1, perception and understanding in dynamic and complex environment.

2, in the dynamic and complex environment of autonomous decision-making and optimization ability.

3. Learning and adapting ability based on empirical data. Especially the learning ability is a typical intelligent behavior.

Data-driven factory, algorithm-controlled smart manufacturing. Intelligent manufacturing also needs to gradually realize “cognitive intelligence” from “computational intelligence” and “perceptual intelligence”. The new generation of intelligent manufacturing is based on the new generation of AI system architecture of intelligent manufacturing, through the intelligent + penetration of the whole industry chain centered on manufacturing.

Through industrial big data, it is not only equipment maintenance and product services, and its technology involves not only IT but also OT industrial technology. Industrial applications of big data for talent compound requirements are more prominent. The data analysis of the industry not only requires knowledge of computers, statistics, mathematics, etc., but also a wealth of industry knowledge and experience, through which experience is modeled in order to develop appropriate analysis methods and find the value of the data.

Through the knowledge of industry experience, the establishment of appropriate intelligent factories, workshops, planning and scheduling control execution, warehousing models, the required real-time data, dynamic intelligent decision-making, which should be the key application of industrial big data. Intelligent manufacturing is also evolving towards distributed decision making and autonomous perception (machine learning, etc.).

On the basis of intelligent dynamic planning and scheduling, big data calculation of storage materials, FMR (frequency of use analysis) and real-time data and historical data analysis of materials at any time, through the automated robotic arm autonomous cycle of multi-frequency materials intelligently moved to the lowest level of the shelves, the red, green and yellow lights to remind the priority of the sorting and the order of the pickup of AGV carts, to accurately meet the procurement of multi-product, small batch materials, JIT / JIS distribution and workstation feeding. JIS distribution and station feeding.

At the intelligent level, Industrial Internet revolutionizes the height of operation and control, such as multiple operation and control models, activating the organization, and digitalizing the innovation and transformation. It comprehensively helps China’s manufacturing industry to realize digital, networked and intelligent industrial upgrading.

Artificial intelligence drives the new kinetic energy of industrial intelligence

The integration of artificial intelligence and industry is essentially to solve the core efficiency problems of manufacturing design, R & D, production, operation, management, decision-making, and comprehensively improve production efficiency through data intelligence, technology integration, platform intelligence, mainly in the following four aspects:

1, artificial intelligence is mainly on the computer to give people the relevant mode of thinking and intelligent behavior, so that the computer can recognize the complex environment of voice technology, similar to the human brain intelligent computer. Let the computer realize the self-perception, self-learning, self-adaptation and self-control of manufacturing equipment.

2, artificial intelligence is mainly based on big data analysis technology for machine learning, knowledge discovery and knowledge engineering and cross-media intelligence and other methods, in product quality improvement and defect detection, production process optimization, equipment health management, fault prediction and diagnosis, and other key aspects with artificial intelligence characteristics.

3. The target products adopt core technologies such as intelligent perception, pattern recognition, intelligent semantic understanding, intelligent analysis and decision-making, and realize the significant improvement of performance and intelligence level in complex environment perception, intelligent human-computer interaction, flexible and precise control, and real-time group collaboration.

4, artificial intelligence is mainly used in industrialization, industrial robots are used to replace the traditional industry in the human repetitive labor, nowadays, a lot of previous work with people to do has been able to use artificial intelligence robots to achieve.

Intelligent manufacturing is the ground, the industrial Internet is the sky, the enterprise cloud is the path, artificial intelligence is the plane, data is the fuel, the service object is the interconnection of everything, the center is the wisdom of people, interlocked to achieve the innovation of the future development model.