A new thing cloud manufacturing will rise

Today, the various manufacturing resources and manufacturing capabilities of virtualization, service, constitute a service cloud pool, after the enterprise through the terminal and network access to the composition of the service cloud pool, you can at any time to obtain the desired manufacturing resources and manufacturing capabilities, in order to serve their own manufacturing processes. Not only that, those small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises also need not worry about the soft and hard resources and technical experience accumulated insufficient, want to make what products can be in the "manufacturing cloud" to find support, manufacturing will be the whole into personalized, intelligent manufacturing phase, to achieve a revolutionary leap forward. These are just preliminary ideas, but they are definitely not imaginary, and he is slowly becoming a reality.

Two years ago, the German Hannover Industrial Exposition appeared "Industrial 4.0", the concept of the fourth industrial Revolution. Its main connotations include: the Future, "Industry 4.0" will start from two, first, "Wisdom Factory", focusing on the intelligent production system and process, and networked distributed production facilities, and the realization of the second is "intelligent production", mainly related to the entire enterprise production logistics management, Human-Computer interaction and the application of 3D technology in industrial production process. The German government invested 200 million euros to take advantage of the new industrial Revolution by pushing for "Industry 4.0". Prior to that August 2010, the EU had launched the "Cloud manufacturing" project, with the aim of Manucloud the production network layer and the factory and process layer with the support of a software-as-service (SaaS) IT system, to provide users with on-demand manufacturing capability services. July 2013, the project passed the acceptance, the project two has also been set up, will be in the photovoltaic, organic lighting, automotive and other industries to be popularized.

But in fact, China is more than a European shot, in 2009, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Li Bohu Academician led the research group was the first to put forward the "cloud manufacturing" concept. Start to explore how in the manufacturing industry, such as cloud computing and other emerging information technology and the existing technology deep integration, in order to improve the competitiveness of our manufacturing enterprises. At present, from the scientific research level, the "cloud manufacturing" research team in the manufacture of "design" and "simulation" as a breakthrough, has gradually achieved a series of academic achievements. At the same time, some enterprises and cities in the participation or the introduction of "cloud manufacturing" model, look forward to finding practical solutions to the "cloud manufacturing" to achieve large-scale landing, let this new type of intelligent manufacturing mode for "Made in China" service.

Manufacturing upgrades are no more

The smile curve is the famous business theory proposed by Acer founder Shih in 1992, which means that in the industrial chain, the added value is more embodied in both ends: design and sales, while the manufacturing value-added is the lowest in the intermediate link. It is embarrassing that, despite the "Made in China" name is loud, but at present many manufacturers in China are at the bottom of the smile curve, doing the most bitter and tired of living, earning a poor hard-earned money.

The global Strategic Forecast think-tank, Stratfor, said in its latest report, "The era of Chinese development, which has conquered global markets with low wages, is ending" because there are other countries with lower wages and favourable manufacturing conditions, such as India, Vietnam and Kenya, which are challenging China's World Factory "status. Whether that judgment is alarmist or not, the growing pressure on China's manufacturing transformation and escalation is an obvious fact.

"China's manufacturing industry has long relied on high input, high consumption, unreasonable development, and there is a deep contradiction between the lack of core technology and the imbalance of regional development." Zhou, chief economist of the Ministry of Industry and Information technology, said that the Chinese manufacturing industry must improve the overall sustainable development capacity on the basis of innovation-driven, intensive, efficient and endogenous growth, which is now a crucial period.

The lack of continuous innovation ability is a common flaw of Chinese enterprises, and Chinese manufacturing must cultivate new manufacturing mode and means in order to move from low-end value chain to middle and high-end. "This mainly depends on the shortest time-to-market (time), the best quality (Quality), the lowest costs (cost), the optimal Services (service), the cleanest environment (environnement) and knowledge-based (knowledge) innovation, That is to tqcsek the demand of competition. Li Bohu said that the next 5-10 years, the development of Chinese manufacturing industry is to overcome these specific problems, all will be around to improve the competitiveness of enterprises to launch.

From the external environment, looking for more advanced manufacturing mode is the major trend of international manufacturing industry. An executive at a German electronics company said for the purpose of "Industrial 4.0", Germany is working to design an automated structure for future industrial production in order to develop equipment that is fully adaptable to production, which will enable German companies to respond quickly and easily to changes in customer demand and to ensure that their production is competitive To meet the personalized needs of customers. In the future, all components of a manufacturing enterprise can be connected through the network, communicate with each other, and the enterprise will no longer control production from top to bottom, information will be delivered along the raw material, indicating the necessary production steps to ensure that the final product meets the customer's specific needs. The degree of flexibility in manufacturing is undoubtedly a sign of the future direction of manufacturing, and the global manufacturing industry will usher in a fierce competition for technology upgrades.

It is clear that China's manufacturing needs to be more fast and catching up in the context of the upgrading of manufacturing by traditional manufacturing powers.