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Through independent innovation, enterprises can integrate the discrete processing methods of raw material processing, connect the original independent processes through automated production lines, implement lean continuous production, eliminate the loading, unloading, storage and handling of intermediate links. Speed and productivity will increase.
Automation and informatization are the biggest part of achieving smart manufacturing investment. Enterprises must be cautious before doing automation transformation, why should we upgrade automation? What is the return on investment? What is the reliability of automation equipment? What are the risks? Can you adapt to the upgrade of the product? Be sure to think clearly, otherwise the cost will not fall.
As technology advances and labor costs increase, automation is an irreversible trend. For different industries and different enterprises, some have mature automation solutions, while others do not. Enterprises need to plan their automation direction according to their own situation.
5, service
China currently has more than 600 million netizens and 700 million smart terminals. The booming mobile Internet has accelerated the transition from manufacturing to services. The “Industrial Internet” advocated by the United States connects people, data and machines to form an open and global industrial network. Its connotation has transcended the manufacturing process and the manufacturing industry itself, spanning the entire value chain of the product life cycle, covering aviation, energy, and Transportation, medical and other industrial fields.
In addition, manufacturing companies can improve product reliability and efficiency by monitoring, analyzing, and improving equipment design and manufacturing through networked data.
Of course, different products in different industries have different services, and under the Internet+ mode, traditional enterprises need to constantly innovate business models to find a suitable service method to impress customers.
6, personalized
In the past 30 years, the types of market goods have expanded rapidly by dozens and hundreds of times. In the era of personalized consumption, everyone can have their own blogs, Weibo, WeChat, etc. to spread their voices.
High-quality, low-cost personalized implementation depends first and foremost on your level of lean production, which is what Lean advocates as “value comes from the real customer demand.” Personalization is secondarily dependent on your standardized and modular design. Information technology such as the fast-growing Internet has provided support for it, making it easy to personalize.
At this stage, personalization is still a finite condition of personalization, and it is impossible to achieve complete personalization. Whether it is a car, a computer, a mobile phone or a clothing, personalization is selected within a certain range.
Each company needs to determine its own personalized model according to its level of leanness, standardization/modularization level and informatization level. It is not the more personalized, the better it is based on certain implementation conditions. Perhaps the future of 3D printing and artificial intelligence can provide a possibility for complete personalization.
7. Ecological
Enterprise competition is shifting from individual enterprises to competition between supply chains and even between ecosystems. Kevin Kelly wrote in "Out of Control": "The tide of alliances between big companies, especially in the information and network industries, is another aspect of the growing co-evolution of the world economy, rather than eating or competing with rivals. It is better to form an alliance - symbiosis and coexistence... The future of control is: partnership, collaborative control, man-machine hybrid control, and humans share control with our creations."
8. Globalization
Today in the world of interconnectedness, when your company is on a certain scale, you need to consider globalization to allocate resources to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Global resources include market resources, design resources, procurement resources, and production resources.
China's "One Belt, One Road" strategy is to find global market resources and export our surplus capacity including high-speed rail technology. The design resource is to set up a research and development technology center in foreign countries, develop products close to the local or make up for the lack of domestic design capabilities, and also form a global 24-hour uninterrupted product development to shorten the development cycle.
Purchasing and production resources are looking for better quality and lower cost global supply of materials. In addition to considering purchasing and manufacturing unit prices, it is also necessary to consider increased transportation costs, supply chain complications, supply chain visualization, extended lead times, and more High inventory, environmental carbon emissions, quality stability, local labor policies, and exchange rate fluctuations.
9, digital
Digitalization is closely related to informatization. Like automation, this is the largest piece of investment in smart manufacturing transformation. With the rapid development of information technology, everything can be digitized, from people, products to equipment, to achieve all things connected.
Through independent innovation, enterprises can integrate the discrete processing methods of raw material processing, connect the original independent processes through automated production lines, implement lean continuous production, eliminate the loading, unloading, storage and handling of intermediate links. Speed and productivity will increase.
Automation and informatization are the biggest part of achieving smart manufacturing investment. Enterprises must be cautious before doing automation transformation, why should we upgrade automation? What is the return on investment? What is the reliability of automation equipment? What are the risks? Can you adapt to the upgrade of the product? Be sure to think clearly, otherwise the cost will not fall.
As technology advances and labor costs increase, automation is an irreversible trend. For different industries and different enterprises, some have mature automation solutions, while others do not. Enterprises need to plan their automation direction according to their own situation.
5, service
China currently has more than 600 million netizens and 700 million smart terminals. The booming mobile Internet has accelerated the transition from manufacturing to services. The “Industrial Internet” advocated by the United States connects people, data and machines to form an open and global industrial network. Its connotation has transcended the manufacturing process and the manufacturing industry itself, spanning the entire value chain of the product life cycle, covering aviation, energy, and Transportation, medical and other industrial fields.
In addition, manufacturing companies can improve product reliability and efficiency by monitoring, analyzing, and improving equipment design and manufacturing through networked data.
Of course, different products in different industries have different services, and under the Internet+ mode, traditional enterprises need to constantly innovate business models to find a suitable service method to impress customers.
6, personalized
In the past 30 years, the types of market goods have expanded rapidly by dozens and hundreds of times. In the era of personalized consumption, everyone can have their own blogs, Weibo, WeChat, etc. to spread their voices.
High-quality, low-cost personalized implementation depends first and foremost on your level of lean production, which is what Lean advocates as “value comes from the real customer demand.” Personalization is secondarily dependent on your standardized and modular design. Information technology such as the fast-growing Internet has provided support for it, making it easy to personalize.
At this stage, personalization is still a finite condition of personalization, and it is impossible to achieve complete personalization. Whether it is a car, a computer, a mobile phone or a clothing, personalization is selected within a certain range.
Each company needs to determine its own personalized model according to its level of leanness, standardization/modularization level and informatization level. It is not the more personalized, the better it is based on certain implementation conditions. Perhaps the future of 3D printing and artificial intelligence can provide a possibility for complete personalization.
7. Ecological
Enterprise competition is shifting from individual enterprises to competition between supply chains and even between ecosystems. Kevin Kelly wrote in "Out of Control": "The tide of alliances between big companies, especially in the information and network industries, is another aspect of the growing co-evolution of the world economy, rather than eating or competing with rivals. It is better to form an alliance - symbiosis and coexistence... The future of control is: partnership, collaborative control, man-machine hybrid control, and humans share control with our creations."
8. Globalization
Today in the world of interconnectedness, when your company is on a certain scale, you need to consider globalization to allocate resources to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Global resources include market resources, design resources, procurement resources, and production resources.
China's "One Belt, One Road" strategy is to find global market resources and export our surplus capacity including high-speed rail technology. The design resource is to set up a research and development technology center in foreign countries, develop products close to the local or make up for the lack of domestic design capabilities, and also form a global 24-hour uninterrupted product development to shorten the development cycle.
Purchasing and production resources are looking for better quality and lower cost global supply of materials. In addition to considering purchasing and manufacturing unit prices, it is also necessary to consider increased transportation costs, supply chain complications, supply chain visualization, extended lead times, and more High inventory, environmental carbon emissions, quality stability, local labor policies, and exchange rate fluctuations.
9, digital
Digitalization is closely related to informatization. Like automation, this is the largest piece of investment in smart manufacturing transformation. With the rapid development of information technology, everything can be digitized, from people, products to equipment, to achieve all things connected.
Products can be digitized through product development design, material procurement, and production delivery through PLM/ERP software. Each product drawing, each material information, and each production process are digitally connected.
The equipment can transmit the operation data to the MES, Internet and other networks through PLC, sensors, etc., so GE can optimize the operating parameters to reduce the fuel cost through the data analysis returned by the aircraft engine, and Google can realize the driverless driving of the car.
This means that in the "Industry 4.0" era, for the first time, it is possible to interconnect resources, information, goods and people through digitalization! This communication includes the exchange of information between people, people and products, people and machines, products and machines, and machines and machines.
Each industry characteristic is different from the enterprise foundation, and the order of digitization is different. I think that for the process-oriented manufacturing industry, because most of their manufacturing processes are connected, and the degree of automation is high, some device data can be automatically collected, and the difficulty of digitization is relatively small.
For discrete manufacturing industries such as mechanical equipment, textiles and clothing, electronic appliances, household items, etc., because the manufacturing processes and components are scattered and the number is large, it is really difficult to achieve the connection, even if the implementation cost is very large. The feasible approach for these industries is not to be implemented in one step. The main process and materials are connected by applying lean continuous production technology.
Due to the immature technology and huge investment, each enterprise needs to weigh the timing of the introduction. Like automation, it considers the issues of investment return, system reliability, information security risk, and talent reserve.
10, intelligent
Intelligentization has two meanings, one is the intelligence of the product, and the other is the intelligence of the manufacturing process.
First talk about the intelligence of the product. Compared with the intelligentization of consumer goods, the intelligence of industrial products is actually more urgent. All equipment needs to be added to the intelligent control module for automatic acquisition, analysis and control of processing data, equipped with standard data interfaces, which can be connected with enterprise MES systems or other information systems. These industrial big data will be improved through the analysis of intelligent software systems. Operational efficiency, reducing failures and reducing energy consumption.
The intelligence of the manufacturing process is more complicated. You need to complete the above-mentioned lean, standardization, modularization, automation and digital transformation. The investment in automation and digitalization will also be great.
China's manufacturing has gone through 30 years of rapid development and become the world's number one manufacturing country, but few world-class products can really be taken out. In the next 30 years, China's manufacturing needs to shift from heavy speed and light quality to high quality and light speed. It needs to continue to innovate in the above ten areas, and realize the transformation from Chinese business model, technology and management to China's intellectual creation.
