Automatic equipment is the foundation of intelligent production
People always have unlimited expectations for new things, especially those passed on from western advanced manufacturing countries, as if accepting these can solve all problems. But many people don't know that the so-called new things are not to completely deny the past, but often based on the past, combined with some new ideas or core technologies, so as to maximize their value.
As an advanced production equipment, automation equipment will not become a drag in the industrial 4.0 revolution. On the contrary, many links in industrial 4.0 intelligent production need automation equipment to realize. Just like human beings, whether they are cleaners in primary school culture or scientists with doctoral degrees, they can't create value without their own hands. Similarly, although industry 4.0 emphasizes the efficient management of the whole production process with more humanized software, automated production equipment is still its most reliable hardware support. In fact, both high-end CNC machine tools, industrial robots, ERP, MES and other typical automated production technologies are the cornerstone of the development of enterprises to industry 4.0.
Automation or industry 4.0 different enterprises have different choices
There may be a cruel fact, but we must recognize that not all enterprises need industry 4.0. In addition to bringing all kinds of automatic equipment into the unified management and control system through the Internet and the Internet of things, the so-called intelligent production also has an important function, which is to grasp the market trend in time through network big data and adjust production strategies at any time, so as to achieve the most reasonable production scheduling and achieve the goal of product personalization and profit maximization.
Objectively speaking, not all industries need to rely on the support of big data. The convenience of big data is more reflected in those enterprises for consumer applications. They need big data to improve their products, or adjust the output of different types of products to meet the needs of different customer groups. However, some industrial enterprises, such as steel plants and cement plants that produce basic raw materials, or small processing plants that provide outsourced processing services for fixed upstream enterprises, do not have a very urgent demand for Industry 4.0. Automation equipment will remain the main equipment for them to perform production tasks for a long time in the future.
The future trend of automation technology is integrated with other emerging technologies
A rational and effective change is not to push everything to reconstruction, but to optimize and integrate the original resources. In the future, automation technology will not disappear, but will play a more important role, and integrate with other emerging technologies to achieve the effect of 1+1>2.
As mentioned above, intelligent production can effectively integrate mature automation equipment with emerging network big data resources, and help production enterprises make the most reasonable production decisions with the fastest speed and response mechanism. Based on big data analysis, enterprises can greatly extend their competitiveness, extend the original "dead" equipment to "live" services, and optimize their production and manufacturing through feedback data. This will bring not only convenience and lower costs, but also new profit models. Driven by such a concept, the traditional machinery manufacturing industry and automation equipment industry will be able to obtain new profit space and better attract and grasp customers.