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In the past year, the combination of intelligent technology and physical industry is bringing earth-shaking changes to thousands of industries.

Among them, what can not be ignored is the industrial field.

With the rapid development of 5G, artificial intelligence, Internet of things and other technologies, intelligent manufacturing has ushered in a vigorous development, and a large number of incubated industrial parks have been born. According to the World Intelligent Manufacturing Center Development trend report (2019), there were a total of 537 industrial parks with the name "intelligent manufacturing" in China at the beginning of 2019, distributed in 27 provinces and cities across the country.

When smart technology began to be accepted by more and more employees of manufacturing enterprises and became the core driving force of "made in China 2025", the pause button was pressed because of a sudden COVID-19 epidemic.

Of course, this also gives us an opportunity to think calmly, to ask what kind of empowerment intelligent technology brings to the manufacturing industry chain, and how to take root in the assembly line.

We have reason to believe that every review is to build up strength for the next gallop.

It is even more difficult to resume work and production, the "second hurdle" of the manufacturing industry in 2020.

If the COVID-19 epidemic is the first difficulty that China will encounter in 2020, then resuming work and production will become the second difficulty that business owners have to face.

For manufacturers that are indispensable to physical assets, rent, labor, energy, orders. It's all a mountain on top of your head.

The only way to solve the problem is to get back to work. But how difficult it is to get back to work and production.

First of all, there are objective restrictions. COVID-19 's epidemic affects a wide range of areas, and the measures of "city closure" and "traffic restrictions" in various places have made it difficult for personnel to return to the factory after the holiday, and many personnel are reluctant to return to work prematurely because of safety factors. On the other hand, those who have already returned need to be quarantined according to the requirements, resulting in a delay in taking up the post.

In addition, the whole society is faced with the problem of shortage of protective materials, and the manufacturing industry accounts for the majority of labor-intensive. Once there are no comprehensive protective measures in enterprises, there is a risk that the epidemic will spread again after returning to work.

Moreover, even if the epidemic prevention work is fully in place, if we want to return to work, we also need the coordination of the whole industry chain. In particular, all aspects of modern manufacturing are closely linked, such as the slowdown in the production of raw materials, which will directly lead to the overall decline in the middle and lower reaches.

According to Gartner, an international research institute, the uncertainty of the epidemic has directly led to a shortage of labor in semiconductor factories, which has dropped by at least 20 per cent. How to do well the production work after returning to work has also become a difficult problem for enterprises to test this spring.

How can manufacturing enterprises find a breakthrough in both epidemic prevention and development?

With a shortage of workers and fewer people, intelligent factories with a high rate of automation seem to be the perfect answer.

To understand today's intelligent manufacturing, you need to understand two key links:

1. Smart factory. To put it simply, it is the plant system and equipment facilities that use many intelligent means to carry out highly automated production.

two。 Intelligent production. That is, the order scheduling, production management, warehousing and logistics, assembly testing, quality inspection and human-computer interaction in the whole manufacturing process are supported by highly intelligent information management network and software and hardware systems.

It is difficult to see the leopard in the management, so we decided to carry out a "manufacturing enterprise production line cloud tour" to lead you to have a comprehensive understanding of the rework story behind the manufacturing enterprise. We chose a company, China Science Dawning, which resumed production long before the time required by the government to resume work, to dig out the details of the production line in terms of intelligence, manufacturing and epidemic situation.

On the one hand, China Science and Technology Dawn, as a high-tech enterprise, has invested a lot of resources and research efforts in intelligent factories. At present, its Tianjin factory has formed a relatively mature intelligent production system.

In addition, at the peak of the epidemic, which restricts the movement of people most strictly, dawning of China Science and Technology Co., Ltd. resumed work due to the demand of the first line of epidemic prevention. The first batch of hundreds of high-quality servers and other IT equipment they manufactured have been rushed to the front line of the epidemic area, and the resumption strategy adopted by them can be used for reference.

Overall, the deep integration of smart technology and manufacturing has unleashed at least three values:

1. It directly alleviates the efficiency climbing problem caused by the shortage of personnel.

Intelligence makes Chinese science dawning complete some types of work online from the process very early, such as the use of virtual digital factory, process simulation technology to optimize plant planning, process planning, production arrangements and so on. This makes some employees, even if they can not return to work in time, can complete the relevant work at home and keep up with the business needs.

On the other hand, in the production line that is indispensable to employees, smart factories need more than half as many front-line workers as traditional factories at the same output. On the other hand, the production efficiency of the same worker should reach more than 3 times, offsetting the capacity problem caused by the untimely return to work to a certain extent.

Take the server, one of the key products of dawning Company, as an example, in the assembly of hard disk and hard disk shelf, manual work was used in the past, and an average of more than 10 people were needed to cooperate every day to ensure production capacity. However, after the hard disk assembly line is changed to an automatic robot production line, the two processes of combination and screwing are done by the machine, which greatly saves labor.

According to dawning staff, in order to supply the first line of anti-epidemic demand during the epidemic, their automated production lines are continuously produced 24 hours a day, which is obviously beyond the reach of the same cost of manpower.

two。 Protect the health of personnel, reduce the risk of cross-infection, and return to work safely.

Naturally, the premise of resuming production is the safety of employees' lives. How to reduce the communication between personnel and at the same time ensure that production is carried out in an orderly manner. Both manpower liberation and efficient management are essential.

In the dawning Tianjin factory, we saw a series of automation equipment, including automatic stacking machine, automatic labeling machine, electronic picking equipment, automatic box sealing machine, automatic binding machine, suction and lifting equipment, etc. only one employee is operating, avoiding cross-infection to the greatest extent.

In order to make these machines communicate with each other, an information system is indispensable. I learned from the dawning Intelligent Factory that they all use interconnected wired or wireless communications, advanced order scheduling and manufacturing management software and big data analysis platform for collaboration, so that employees can telecommute to achieve efficient management of the factory, and can not lose the chain in the event of an epidemic or other special circumstances.

3. Improve the yield of production and realize lean management.

Through the previous measures, the impact of the epidemic has been greatly reduced, but it is clear that the development of enterprises still need sufficient profit margins and growth space to support. This puts forward more stringent requirements for product quality, management system and so on.

We know that the ICT industry tends to have high precision, complex production process and cautious testing process. For example, the memory bar used in the dawning server of China Science and Technology is tested by manual feeding and testing on the memory testing tooling. Take the 4pcs group as an example, the testing time of a group is more than 5 minutes, and a test tooling can test less than 400pcs memory in a day. The current testing methods obviously can not meet the needs of server manufacturing, and the efficiency is low.

Dawning of China Science and Technology can achieve efficient and highly automated detection through intelligent memory testing equipment, put an end to human errors, and then ensure product quality and corporate goodwill.

Of course, the stringent needs of all parties should naturally have a "manager" to ensure the best balance between efficiency and quality, so as to prevent unnecessary shutdown losses caused by the disconnection of a certain link. So in the dawning intelligent factory, we see the use of advanced digital manufacturing platform management system real-time monitoring and management of the overall operation of the factory.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP), product life cycle management (PLM) and manufacturing execution system (MES) are integrated efficiently, breaking the isolated island of information and realizing the interconnection between information flow and data flow. Even if they are not on the front line, they can know everything from design to manufacturing.

It can be said that the high-performance computing hardware, integrated AI solution, and powerful cloud brain finally merged into the progress of resuming work and production. This may also explain why smart manufacturing is very important for enterprises to return to work, and why China Science Dawn regards it as a key support for its own development.

See the opportunity in the midst of danger, intelligent manufacturing press the acceleration key for the industry

In the Chinese context, intelligent manufacturing has always been a very general concept of technology and industry. There are always different opinions on how much intelligence is considered and which manufacturing enterprises should join this camp.

However, an epidemic has made most business owners and managers begin to realize that short-term shortage and long-term understaffing, today's extreme control and future intelligent management have been folded in the same time and space.

After this battle, it may be possible to define the next practical version of intelligent manufacturing, and we believe that it should at least include the following features:

1. People, machines and other means of production can communicate and cooperate naturally and in real time in a network.

two。 The production management system can actively complete some tasks of innovation, decision-making and value-added.

(3) employees can better balance their life (special circumstances) and work, and carry out tasks efficiently and humanized.

Obviously, the answer to the above question is reflected behind the question of returning to work. And the real base of intelligent manufacturing also began to emerge from different opinions.

To get to it, the manufacturing industry may need to cross three thresholds:

1. Information infrastructure.

Intelligent manufacturing has put forward a large number of requirements for data computing capacity, storage space, server, big data analysis ability and so on. The traditional computing cluster architecture is obviously not enough to support.

two。 Information security.

With the information process of the factory, intelligent IT devices will also carry more private information related to trade secrets. Keeping data sovereignty, data property rights and data privacy protection in the infrastructure of domestic intellectual property rights may be one of the risk aversion strategies to deal with the uncertain international situation.

3. The cost of industrial upgrading.

If you want to transplant smart technology to your own business, the high investment and learning threshold of technical personnel will dissuade many enterprises and organizations. More and more very large-scale service providers (HSP), cloud infrastructure and digital service providers are beginning to create "computing + algorithm" integrated industry solutions to help the manufacturing industry upgrade.

Give an outline and a wide range of subjects, solve a volume and make it clear.

The change of the dawn of Chinese science and technology has not only witnessed the self-iterative and subversive evolution of the ICT industry, but also directly promoted the overall strength of the industry and become the mainstay of the critical moment.

Intelligent manufacturing is not so much a new manufacturing mode, but rather a dynamic management that integrates product research and development, production, market, operation and other stages. Only on such a strong base can China's manufacturing industry be more confident and not afraid to face all possible "black swans" in the future.

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