What is Advanced Manufacturing?

Compared with traditional manufacturing, advanced manufacturing refers to the continuous absorption of high-tech achievements in electronic information, computers, machinery, materials, and modern management technologies, and the application of these advanced manufacturing technologies to the research and development of manufacturing products. The entire process of design, manufacturing, online testing, marketing services and management, to achieve high-quality, efficient, low-consumption, clean, flexible production, that is, to achieve information, automation, intelligent, flexible, ecological production, and achieve good economic Generic term for manufacturing industry with revenue and market effect.

Advanced Manufacturing

(Advanced manufacturing technology and its industry)

China is a manufacturing country, but it is not a manufacturing country yet. At present, the sustainable development of China's manufacturing industry faces many problems. For example, the constraints of resources and environment are extremely prominent.

The word "advanced" in advanced manufacturing can be understood from the following three aspects:

Industrial advancement

That is, it is at the high end of the world's production system, with high added value and technical content, usually refers to

The first is the widespread application of advanced manufacturing technologies. Information technology is integrated with other advanced manufacturing technologies to control the material flow, energy flow, and information flow in the production process to achieve systemization, integration, and informationization of the manufacturing process.

The second is to adopt an advanced manufacturing model. The manufacturing model is an effective production method and production organization form adopted by the manufacturing industry to improve product quality, market competitiveness, production scale, and speed to complete specific production tasks. The goal is to achieve digital design, automated manufacturing, information management, and networked operations.

At present, China's advanced manufacturing industry is roughly composed of two parts. One is the absorption of traditional manufacturing industries, integration of advanced manufacturing technologies and other high and new technologies, especially information technology, and promotion to advanced manufacturing industries, such as CNC machine tools, marine engineering equipment, and aerospace. Equipment, aviation equipment, etc .; the other part is the new industry formed after the industrialization of emerging technological achievements, with basic and leading industries, such as incremental manufacturing, biological manufacturing, micro-nano manufacturing, etc. ^[1]

The main features of advanced manufacturing technology are systems and integration. Compared with traditional manufacturing technology, it has four characteristics:

(1) The basis of advanced manufacturing technology is high-quality, high-efficiency, low-consumption, non-polluting or less-polluting processes. On this basis, optimization and combination with new technologies are realized to form new processes and technologies.

(2) Traditional manufacturing technology generally refers to the process method of processing and manufacturing process, while advanced manufacturing technology covers the entire process from product design and processing to product sales, use, and maintenance.

(3) Traditional manufacturing technology generally can only control the material flow and energy flow in the production process. With the inclusion of information technology, advanced manufacturing technology has become a systematic project that can control the material flow, energy flow and information flow in the production process. .

(4) The disciplines and specialties of traditional manufacturing technology are single and have clear boundaries, and the continuous crossing and integration between the majors, disciplines, and technologies of advanced manufacturing technology has formed a comprehensive and integrated new technology.

Specifically in:

(1) Advanced manufacturing processes are widely used in high-tech industries such as microelectronics, computers, information, biology, new materials, aerospace, and environmental protection, including advanced conventional processes and equipment, precision and ultra-precision processing technology, nano-processing technology, and special processing technology , Forming technology and material modification and other advanced manufacturing technologies and processes.

(2) Traditional industries such as machinery and equipment industry, automobile industry, shipbuilding industry, chemical industry, and light textile industry have widely adopted advanced manufacturing technologies, especially using information technology for transformation, which has brought major changes to traditional manufacturing. Production technology is continuously updated and designed. Methods, processing technology, processing equipment, measurement monitoring, quality assurance, and business management are all infiltrated with high and new technologies. CAD, NC and flexible manufacturing technologies have been widely used in manufacturing, making them qualitative. The leap has produced a number of new manufacturing technologies and manufacturing modes.

(3) Driven by and impacted by high and new technology, the equipment industry is moving towards mechatronics, human-machine integration, one-machine multi-function, and test integration, and new types of machining such as robotized machine tools, virtual axis lathes, and high-speed modular machine tools Machine tools and CNC machine tools are moving towards intelligent and intelligent processing units.

(4) Manufacturing technology continues to develop in the direction of high processing and high technology, bringing profound changes to the manufacturing industry. In the future, the manufacturing industry will enter into flexibility, intelligence, agility, leanness, globalization, and humanization. A new era in one.

Advanced manufacturing is an important way for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, and it will become a leading force for China to participate in international competition. If three words are used to describe the importance and urgency of the development of advanced manufacturing in China, Zhu Sendi believes that it is imperative, urgent and far-reaching.

In Zhu Sendi's view, the development of China's advanced manufacturing industry has a certain foundation, but there is a large gap compared with the advanced level of the United States and other countries. If the strategy is correct, the measures are effective, and collaborative innovation is achieved, after ten years and two decades of hard work, China's advanced manufacturing industry will have great development and lead in some fields.

Advanced manufacturing will become a sharp weapon to lead China's manufacturing industry from big to strong. Liu Baicheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that advanced manufacturing technology is the basic technology of the manufacturing industry and strategic emerging industries, which is vital to the development of the economy and national security. Manufacturing technology has become a weak link in the development of China's manufacturing industry. We must attach great importance to the development of advanced manufacturing technology.

Five major measures for the development of advanced manufacturing industry-The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will coordinate the top-level design of advanced manufacturing, transform and upgrade traditional industries, accelerate the promotion of strategic emerging industries, promote green circular and low-carbon industries, and accelerate the implementation of the "go global" strategy.

First, we must strengthen the top-level design and promote the development of advanced manufacturing as a national strategy. At the policy level, the 18th CPC National Congress has put forward new requirements for the development of advanced manufacturing. Wang Weiming, deputy director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, emphasized that we must deeply understand and grasp the "new requirements", accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading, and promote the healthy development of advanced manufacturing. That is to fully understand the importance of developing the real economy with advanced manufacturing as its core, and to consolidate the foundation for sustainable and healthy economic and social development. To grasp the relationship between stable growth and structural adjustment, the focus of macro-control should be more focused on optimizing the structure and transforming and upgrading. Give full play to the main role of enterprises and entrepreneurs, and effectively create a good external environment for industrial transformation and upgrading. Vigorously create a market environment for fair competition and promote the integrated development of various ownership economies. ^[1]

Zhu Sendi believes that the manufacturing of China's manufacturing industry in the next decade will become more personalized, more prominent service characteristics, the manufacturing process will become more friendly and open source, network-based manufacturing will become more active and widespread, and manufacturing will become more efficient and more quality. Good economic activity.

He suggested that we should pay close attention to the development of the following revolutionary technologies: renewable energy (new energy); new materials: composite materials, powder milling technology of various materials; large-capacity energy storage technology (hydrogen storage); energy Internet (distribution Power grid); decentralized manufacturing (network manufacturing, cloud manufacturing), customized production, cluster effect, niche thinking; biotechnology, nano manufacturing technology; digital manufacturing technology, intelligent integrated manufacturing technology; incremental manufacturing technology.

Liu Baicheng said that the development trend of advanced manufacturing technology is mainly reflected in the following aspects: First, the integration and integration (high technology) of manufacturing technology and high technology, such as aero engine and heavy gas turbine manufacturing technology. The second is digital intelligent manufacturing technology. The third is manufacturing technology (large-scale) under extreme working conditions. Fourth, clean and sustainable manufacturing technologies (lightweight, precise, and green). ^[1]

How to realize the "Chinese dream" of manufacturing industry? I believe that there are directions and paths. Zhu Sendi even asserted at the meeting: "I believe that by 2050, China can realize the Chinese dream of advanced manufacturing!"