Review and Prospect of Development of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment Industry

Intelligent manufacturing equipment is a general term for equipment with prediction, perception, analysis, reasoning, decision-making, and control. It is the integration and integration of advanced manufacturing technology, information technology, and artificial intelligence technology on equipment products. The concept of “Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment” has been proposed for the first time as a focus of development since the “Decision of the State Council on Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries” in the fall of 2010. It has received extensive attention both inside and outside the manufacturing industry in the past two years, especially for industrial robots, 3D. The emergence of new areas such as printing technology has also made smart manufacturing equipment the next industry star for the media. However, judging from the current development situation in China, the application of smart manufacturing technologies and equipment still needs more efforts from government and industry players.

On the whole, in 2012, the nation's equipment manufacturing industry entered a crucial period of transformation and adjustment, and faced many challenges ranging from changes in market structure to the impact of a new round of technological revolution. According to the analysis by the National Bureau of Statistics, due to the deceleration of the domestic economy and the significant slowdown in downstream demand, the value-added of China's equipment manufacturing industry increased by 8.2% year-on-year from January to November 2012, which was significantly lower than that of all industries above designated size, and the growth rate was higher than last year. During the same period, it dropped 7.2 percentage points. From the perspective of the Machinery Federation’s focus on linking enterprise orders, new orders signed by the Machinery Manufacturing Industry in 2011 increased by 6% year-on-year, while the accumulated growth in 2012 has shown negative growth, among which the orders for construction machinery, ships, machine tools, trucks, and power generation equipment declined the most. obvious.

The growth rate of the smart manufacturing equipment industry remains at the forefront of the equipment industry, and the overall demand for the equipment continues to rise steadily. Despite a year-on-year slowdown in the growth rate of new fixed asset investment and technological transformation investment in the domestic downstream manufacturing industry, the revenue growth rate of more than half of key enterprises in the national smart manufacturing equipment industry decreased compared to the same period of last year, but the domestic industry deepened the transformation and upgrading. In particular, driven by the acceleration of the development of high-end equipment manufacturing in the central and western regions, the whole industry will still be able to achieve growth of more than 20%. The output value scale will increase from 423.3 billion yuan in 2011 to more than 500 billion yuan, and the overall situation in the representative areas is generally good. :

——The situation of the machine tool industry is severe and it will take time for structural adjustment. Despite the data from January to November, the national machine tool industry still maintained a steady growth, and the total industrial output value and sales output value both increased by more than 12% year-on-year. However, the output of many products and the export delivery value have appeared in recent years. The year-on-year decline: For example, the output of CNC metal cutting machine tools and CNC machine tools has experienced a significant decline, and the output of other metal processing machinery and wood processing machinery has dropped more than 20 percentage points. According to survey feedback from major companies, the import demand for high-end CNC machining equipment and numerical control systems still maintains a relatively high level. This also reflects the fact that the competition in the low-end homogenous products of the national machine tools industry is increasingly hot and the high-end smart products rely on The import situation is still continuing and the road to structural adjustment is long.

——Industrial robots maintained rapid development and showed a booming export and domestic sales situation. In 2012, the output of domestic industrial robots was around 26,000 units, an increase of about 30% from the previous year, and the number of possessions was close to 100,000 units. The import and export growth rate slowed down year-on-year, and the import volume of multi-functional industrial robots increased by 8.1% from January to November. The import value offset the exchange rate; the growth rate remained unchanged; the export volume increased by 66.1% year-on-year; the export growth rate also reached 18.1. %. The industry leader Shenyang Xinsong Robot’s annual revenue and profit growth reached 38.2% and 27.2%, respectively.

——The instrument and meter industry has maintained a good momentum of development and the people's livelihood area has become a hot spot. From January to November, the total industrial output value of the instrumentation industry in China reached 619.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%. Among them, the growth rate of production and sales of geological exploration and seismic special instrument manufacturing, and special instruments and meters for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery production exceeded 30%; 13.1%, of which navigation, meteorology and marine special instruments had the highest growth rate, reaching 29.0%. Careful comparison of data shows that the automation instrument industry, which has experienced rapid growth in previous years, has a high degree of correlation with the “three high” upstream industries such as steel, electricity, coal, chemical, and oil, and the year-on-year growth rate has dropped from over 30% to about 10%. Special instruments for meteorology, oceanography, geological exploration, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries, culture, education, and medical, etc., have grown rapidly. This has led to insufficient demand in the industrial sector, urbanization, and information expansion due to the slowdown in infrastructure investment in China in the past two years. There is a greater relationship between deepening the demand for greater people’s livelihood.

The state vigorously promotes the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment, and policy support is gradually increasing. In 2012, the planning and special policies formulated by national ministries and commissions were successively introduced to further clarify the development profile of the smart manufacturing equipment industry: In January, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the “12th five-year” development road map for the smart manufacturing equipment industry; in March, the Ministry of Science and Technology The “12th Five-Year Plan” for the development of smart manufacturing technology was released; in April, the “Notice on Organizing and Implementing the 2012 Smart Manufacturing Equipment Development Special Notice” was issued by the three ministries and commissions of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; in May, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized the development. The “Twelfth Five-Year Development Plan for Smart Manufacturing Equipment Industry” was released.... The country clearly stated that intelligent manufacturing equipment will be the key area for the development of high-end equipment manufacturing, and the roadmap clearly clarified that “in order to achieve the goal of intelligent manufacturing process, Break through the nine key intelligent basic common technologies as the support, and promote the development and industrialization of eight intelligent measurement and control devices and components as the core, with the focus on enhancing the integrated innovation capabilities of eight types of major intelligent manufacturing equipment, and promote the six key areas of the national economy. "Demonstration application promotion" ideas for the promotion of intelligence in various places The research and development and innovation of manufacturing system integration and demonstration applications, core intelligent measurement and control devices, and the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment industry clusters and professional parks provide strong support.

It can be said that 2012 is an unusual year in which China’s intelligent manufacturing equipment continues to achieve stable and rapid development under the severe situation of slowing industrial growth in the country. It also accelerates the use of intelligent manufacturing equipment during the “12th Five-Year Plan” and beyond. The important role of China's manufacturing transformation and upgrading has laid a good start. As a number of basic industrial production such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, crude oil processing and power generation recovered in the fourth quarter of 2012, indicators such as PMI and industrial production price index showed a good trend in the second half of the year. It is expected that China's industry will gradually phase out in 2013. From the destocking process of supply and demand imbalances come out. With the acceleration of new-style urbanization, the new leadership of the Central Committee will strongly promote the construction of “beautiful China”, and the role of intelligent manufacturing equipment in leading low-carbon, energy-saving and efficient development of the manufacturing industry will be further enhanced. The industry will also be in the industry. Robots, high-end CNC machine tools, smart instrumentation, 3D printing technology, new sensors, automated production lines and other key areas formed rapid development and breakthroughs.