Intelligent manufacturing systems deeply integrate new technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing, big data, and mobile applications with product production management. By using computers to simulate the intelligent activities of human experts in analysis, reasoning, judgment, conception, and decision-making, they replace or extend some of the mental labor of people in the manufacturing environment, realize innovative changes in production models, and provide customers with factory visualization and remote operation and maintenance solutions.
Intelligent manufacturing originates from research on artificial intelligence. It is generally believed that intelligence is the sum of knowledge and intellect. The former is the foundation of intelligence, while the latter refers to the ability to acquire and apply knowledge to solve problems.
Intelligent manufacturing should include intelligent manufacturing technology and intelligent manufacturing systems. Intelligent manufacturing systems can not only continuously enrich their knowledge base in practice, but also have self-learning capabilities, as well as the ability to collect and understand environmental and self-information, and to analyze, judge, and plan their own behavior.
Intelligent manufacturing is a model that applies next-generation advanced science and technology, based on modern information technology, Internet of Things technology, robotics technology, intelligent control technology, and other means, to intelligently transform and improve production efficiency in the manufacturing industry. It is one of the core concepts of Industry 4.0 and a major development direction for modern manufacturing.
Intelligent manufacturing, characterized by information sensing, efficient collaboration, autonomous production decision-making, and human-machine integration, can achieve multi-level, comprehensive, and sustainable development goals, including intelligent design, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent service, and intelligent maintenance. It realizes the transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing and has the following characteristics:
1. Manufacturing Automation: Intelligent manufacturing enables automated and flexible manufacturing, allowing for autonomous decision-making and automatic execution of production tasks.
2. Reduced production costs: Smart manufacturing can fully or partially realize online monitoring and control of logistics, production equipment, factories, and resources, which can reduce production costs.
3. Production process control and optimization: Through real-time data collection, analysis and processing, the production process is optimized and intelligently scheduled to improve production efficiency.
4. High flexibility: Intelligent manufacturing can quickly adapt to market changes and provide higher levels of product customization and design services.
5. Collaborative Manufacturing and Service: It has achieved all-round cooperation in production and R&D, production and sales, and production and service, and can provide customers with personalized products and services.
6. Highly energy-efficient and environmentally friendly: Intelligent manufacturing greatly reduces energy consumption and environmental pollution in the production process through technologies such as energy conservation, emission reduction, and resource recycling.
The goal of intelligent manufacturing is to achieve informatization, intelligence, and networking on the basis of traditional manufacturing; to optimize engineering performance and reduce human intervention in the product design stage; and to reduce resource consumption and labor costs in the production and manufacturing stage by improving precision and production efficiency.
