Promote the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in the intelligent era

Manufacturing industry is the foundation of a country's economic development. At present, China's economy has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. Promoting high-quality economic development is inseparable from the support of manufacturing industry to improve quality and efficiency. At present, artificial intelligence has become a landmark technology of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, which not only shows a rapid growth momentum, but also empowers other industries to transform and upgrade. Expanding "intelligence+",giving full play to the role of artificial intelligence in the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry, and realizing the quality change, efficiency change and power change of manufacturing industry are the inevitable requirements for promoting the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in China. "Intelligence+manufacturing" is the general trend of so-called "intelligence+manufacturing", which is based on artificial intelligence, including cluster innovation, integrated development and breakthrough of new generation information technology and advanced manufacturing technology such as cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things and 5G, covering all links of manufacturing industry chain such as R&D, design, supply chain, production, sales and service. Intelligent manufacturing is the expression of "intelligence+manufacturing", supported by communication network, supported by intelligent factory, centered on the intelligence of key manufacturing links, based on end-to-end data flow, and characterized by personalized production, so as to realize the overall improvement of manufacturing quality, efficiency and benefit. In recent years, the development of China's manufacturing industry is facing a series of problems, such as rising factor costs, backward overcapacity and weak promotion of total factor productivity. At the same time, the traditional management mode and production mode can not meet the rapid market changes and the increasingly personalized and diversified market demand. As the most subversive technology after the Internet, artificial intelligence technology provides a new opportunity for a new round of changes in manufacturing. First, the application of artificial intelligence technology can not only liberate workers from repetitive and heavy manual labor, but also replace mental labor to realize the inheritance and popularization of human knowledge in digital form. For example, through the big data analysis of skilled workers' actions, their experience is made explicit, standardized and software, and the efficient reuse of human skills is realized. Second, the artificial intelligence system can judge user preferences, find potential demand, accurately predict sales trends and better guide product design and production scheduling by integrating and analyzing data such as sales, after-sales, user evaluation, potential users' responses to advertisements, and users' real-time use. With the help of artificial intelligence technology, product prototypes can be built quickly, resources can be allocated dynamically, time to market of products can be greatly shortened, and research and development costs can be reduced. Thirdly, artificial intelligence technology not only makes the production line more flexible, but also develops the abilities of self-adaptation, self-perception, self-decision-making, self-learning and self-optimization, thus realizing user-driven production, minimizing inventory and eliminating waste. Users can choose product parameters or modules independently through the digital platform, even directly participate in product design or give personalized recommended design schemes by artificial intelligence system, and realize low-cost personalized customization through intelligent and flexible production lines. Fourthly, through the intelligent analysis of sensors of the Internet of Things and real-time acquisition and transmission production equipment, not only can the production process parameters be optimized, but also energy and material consumption can be saved and the yield can be improved; It can also monitor the health status of equipment in real time, timely warn faults, implement maintenance and reduce downtime losses. The fifth is to open up the data connection between manufacturing enterprises and business ecosystem enterprises such as upstream suppliers and downstream service providers, and realize the horizontal integration in the information-physical system. Through intelligent analysis, the entire business ecosystem can respond to market changes in a timely and efficient manner and realize the optimization of the supply chain. Sixth, connecting through the cloud or embedding the trained artificial intelligence system into the product can not only make the product respond to the user's instructions through natural language, gestures and other means, but also provide rich value-added services based on the intelligent platform, realizing the combination transformation from providing products to providing "products+services". In short, the current global manufacturing industry is accelerating towards the intelligent age, and artificial intelligence technology has an increasing impact on the competitiveness of manufacturing industry, which will bring about profound changes in manufacturing industry. Actively expanding "smart+"and empowering the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry is the proper meaning of promoting the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in the intelligent era. At present, artificial intelligence has become a new focus of international competition, and major countries in the world have strengthened their deployment around core technologies, top talents and standards, trying to take the lead in the new round of international scientific and technological and industrial games. Although China's artificial intelligence industry started late, the state attaches great importance to the development of artificial intelligence, and has successively promulgated and implemented policies and measures such as "Development Plan for a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence" and "Three-year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Industry (20 18-2020)" to promote the rapid development of artificial intelligence industry, the deepening of integrated application and the continuous improvement of industrial ecology; This year's "Government Work Report" further emphasizes the expansion of "smart+"to empower the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. At present, the overall level of artificial intelligence in China ranks first in the world. The advantages of scientific and technological innovation, massive data, huge market advantages and enterprises actively promoting organic integration have formed the unique advantages of expanding "intelligence+"and promoting intelligent upgrading of manufacturing industry in China. The first is the advantage of scientific and technological innovation. At the level of basic research and development, the publication, citation and patents of China's artificial intelligence scientific papers are worldwide. In terms of supporting technology, computing power is an important support for the development of artificial intelligence. China's supercomputer ranks first in the world for many years, and a large number of supercomputer centers and cloud computing centers have been established in various places, and cloud computing enterprises are in the leading position in the world. At the application level, China's artificial intelligence sub-industries such as computer vision and speech recognition have developed well, and its industrial scale and technical level are in the first echelon in the world. The second is the advantage of massive data. China is a big country in manufacturing and Internet, with a large population, a large amount of data and low cost of data annotation. In recent years, a large number of advanced, automated and intelligent equipment have been put into use, which has provided a good foundation for the manufacturing industry to accumulate high-quality data and accelerate the intervention of artificial intelligence technology. The third is the huge market advantage. China has the manufacturing industry with the most comprehensive category, the largest scale, the most complete industrial facilities and the largest number of enterprises in the world, which provides rich application scenarios and broad application space for the deep integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing industry. Fourth, enterprises actively promote. With the explosive growth of artificial intelligence application demand, domestic Internet giants represented by BAT preempted the layout and began to build a complete ecosystem from basic technology research and development, open source and open platform construction to industrial application. Artificial intelligence innovation enterprises that have sprung up like mushrooms after rain are focusing on key areas. Although China's artificial intelligence technology research and development and industrial application have developed rapidly, and generally have certain first-Mover advantages, we must also clearly see that the factors that restrict the artificial intelligence empowerment manufacturing industry still exist. First, the comprehensive influence of scientific and technological innovation is still not high. For example, in the field of chips, although a number of domestic chip design companies have emerged, they are still weak in core algorithms, technical frameworks and open source ecological innovation. Second, the high complexity of the manufacturing industry increases the difficulty of intelligent upgrading. Third, the artificial intelligence investment in manufacturing industry is insufficient. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence industrialization, it has attracted a large influx of capital. However, as one of the most potential development fields of artificial intelligence, manufacturing industry has relatively little capital investment in artificial intelligence. In addition, the lack of interdisciplinary talents also limits the improvement of manufacturing intelligence. These problems deserve our great attention. How does "Smart+"empower the high-quality development of manufacturing industry? In practice, "intelligence+"empowers the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry, which is based on the wide application of artificial intelligence in manufacturing industry. Promoting the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in the intelligent era is not only the application of technology, but also the fundamental transformation of the development model of the whole manufacturing industry, which requires the efforts of the government, industry and even academia. First, it is suggested that relevant departments organize the preparation of a roadmap for manufacturing artificial intelligence technology and establish a regular revision mechanism to help enterprises and investors understand the development trend, industrial development status and future development trend of manufacturing artificial intelligence technology in a timely and accurate manner. Second, it is suggested to actively carry out pilot demonstrations to promote the technological research and development of artificial intelligence in the manufacturing field and the promotion of advanced models. At this stage, we can first extract a number of mature solutions in the fields of process optimization, quality improvement, energy saving and consumption reduction, operation and maintenance, and promote their application. Thirdly, it is suggested to establish a standard system to speed up the process of data standardization and unification. On the basis of ensuring business secrets and data security, realize interconnection and data sharing. The fourth is to study and formulate industry standards related to application safety and ethics as soon as possible to prevent the development of artificial intelligence from impacting and challenging traditional laws, regulations and ethics. The fifth is to improve the talent training system. In this process, it is necessary to encourage universities to broaden the content of artificial intelligence education and form a new training mode of "artificial intelligence +X" compound specialty, and also to establish a lifelong learning and employment training system to meet the needs of knowledge economy and intelligent society, support universities, vocational schools and socialized training institutions to carry out artificial intelligence skills training, and enhance employees' understanding and application ability of artificial intelligence technology.