Cyber-physical systems built in the advanced manufacturing sector will completely change the production organization of traditional manufacturing. It is not simply about using information technology to transform traditional manufacturing, but a new business model that combines information technology and manufacturing.
Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) is an advanced manufacturing technology system that automates, intelligentizes, and remotely manages manufacturing production and management processes based on modern information technology and artificial intelligence. Its main characteristics are as follows:
1. Comprehensive application of multiple technologies: Intelligent manufacturing systems integrate various technologies such as mechanics, electronics, computers, communications, and control to form an intelligent production and manufacturing environment.
2. Programmable and Flexible Manufacturing: The production process of intelligent manufacturing systems is programmable, enabling rapid response to market demands and changes, and achieving highly flexible production and manufacturing.
3. Achieve digital production: Intelligent manufacturing systems use digital technologies to digitize, network, informatize, and intelligentize production processes and quality management, thereby achieving refined management of the manufacturing process.
4. Intelligent automated production: By adopting sensors, automatic control technology and artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing systems have achieved production automation and can respond quickly and accurately to abnormal situations that occur during the production process.
5. Lean Manufacturing: In the production process, the intelligent manufacturing system adopts lean manufacturing principles to minimize waste, improve production efficiency, and reduce production costs.
What are the characteristics of intelligent manufacturing systems?
1. Self-discipline ability
This refers to the system's ability to collect and understand environmental and self-information, and to analyze, judge, and plan its own behavior based on this information. "Intelligent machines" exhibit independence, autonomy, and individuality to some extent, and can even coordinate and compete with each other.
2. Human-machine integration
Artificial intelligence-based intelligent machines can only perform mechanical inferences and predictions. They can only possess logical thinking (expert systems) and at most visual thinking (neural networks), but they cannot achieve intuitive thinking. Only human experts truly possess all three types of thinking abilities simultaneously. Human-machine integration, on the one hand, highlights the central role of humans in the manufacturing system, and on the other hand, with the cooperation of intelligent machines, better unleashes human potential, enabling humans and machines to exhibit an equal, mutually understanding, and collaborative relationship, allowing each to demonstrate its capabilities at different levels and complement each other.
3. Virtual Reality Technology
Simulating the manufacturing process and the expected product allows people to intuitively experience a feeling completely identical to the real thing. Moreover, it can be modified according to people's needs and desires. This new generation of intelligent interfaces that combine humans and machines is a significant feature of intelligent manufacturing.
4. Self-organization and ultra-flexibility
Each component in an intelligent manufacturing system can perform specific tasks according to the needs of the work assignment. Its flexibility is not only reflected in its operation mode, but also in its structural form, hence this flexibility is called ultra-flexible.
In summary, the characteristics of intelligent manufacturing systems lie in the organic integration of various technologies to achieve digital, networked, automated, and intelligent production and manufacturing, which can flexibly and quickly meet market demands, improve production efficiency, and effectively enhance product quality and process level.
