AI boosts the digital and intelligent evolution of traditional manufacturing industries, and domestic smart factories are bursting with vitality

From another perspective, the hot application of artificial intelligence can be seen from the accelerated construction of its open platform. According to iResearch statistics, the market size of China's artificial intelligence open platform in 2019 was 10.4 billion yuan, and the market size could reach 22.2 billion yuan in 2020. As the AI ​​open platform maintains rapid growth in the future, it is expected that the domestic artificial intelligence industry will grow in 2019. The average compound growth rate will reach about 41%.

Statistical data provided by Deloitte shows that the industries with a high proportion of domestic use of artificial intelligence are: IT (63%), network security (29%), production/manufacturing (16%) , Engineering/Product Development (16%). In fact, as a major manufacturing country, the planned application of artificial intelligence in my country's production/manufacturing field has become a general trend, and smart factories are a typical representative.

Industry 4.0 evolves from embedded systems to cyber-physical systems (CPS) to form smart factories. As a representative of the fourth industrial revolution in the future, smart factories continue to develop in the direction of realizing the seamless connection of objects, data and services to the Internet (Internet of Things, Data Network and Service Internet).

A smart factory is not just a simple automation, but also a flexible system that can optimize the performance of the entire network, adapt to new environmental conditions in real-time or near real-time, and automatically Run the entire production process, automatically on the factory floor, while interconnecting with networks with similar production systems or even the entire digital supply network.

Data is the blood of smart factory construction. During the operation of smart factories, business data such as design, process, warehousing, logistics, quality, and personnel will be generated. In the industrial production stage, through correlation analysis of production unit allocation, resource status management, product tracking management and other information collected in the manufacturing execution system, data support can be provided for reasonable inventory management and plan and schedule formulation. At the same time, by combining real-time data, the product production process can be evaluated and predicted, and the production process can be monitored and adjusted in real time to achieve collaborative optimization of the entire industry chain and complete the transformation of data from information to value.

In terms of smart factory construction, relying on regional innovation advantages and focusing on the four planning concepts of ", intelligence, ecology, and digitalization", Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone is vigorously promoting the construction of smart factories. Today, the center covers a total area of ​​100,000 square metersThe French Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Demonstration Park has been officially settled to serve the transformation and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing.

In addition, based on China Unicom’s “AI Brain”, more than 30 independently developed projects in the fields of face recognition, human body recognition, object recognition, environment recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, etc. Scientific and technological achievements, combined with vertical functions formed by equipment and technologies such as intelligent monitoring, intelligent robotic arms, and intelligent dialogue, the "China Unicom Industrial AI Solution" effectively supports multiple scenarios such as industrial quality inspection and industrial compliance.

At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are emerging. The "Internet +" era characterized by cross-border integration has arrived. Manufacturing and advanced information technology are integrated and penetrated, and network , intelligent, green, and service-oriented manufacturing models are gradually becoming popular, customized, flexible, professional, and personalized production methods are widely emerging, and technological innovation, industrial innovation, market innovation, and management innovation are accelerating. In such an era full of innovation and change, what new changes will occur in the development of the manufacturing industry?

What will the smart factory of the future look like? How can China's manufacturing industry keep up with and even become smarter? The various problems encountered in the process of upgrading and transforming traditional manufacturing industries are testing the wisdom and determination of manufacturing practitioners. In a few years, perhaps the development of my country's manufacturing industry will undergo even greater changes.