Looking forward to 2019, under the upsurge of industry 4.0, industrial Internet, big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, 5G communication and so on, the fourth industrial revolution led by intelligent manufacturing, the structure of electronic manufacturing industry has undergone fundamental changes, and China's intelligent instrument market has entered the stage of full competition. How should we create the "China solution"?

Instrument intelligence is an irreversible development trend

Like other equipment sub-industries, China has also become a major producer of commonly used instruments, a typical "price killer" and "profiteering terminator". At present, domestic high-end instruments are highly dependent on imports, and foreign brands occupy most of the seats of domestic laboratory testing instruments.

In 2019, as China's traditional industries promote transformation and upgrading and emerging industries accelerate development, the demand for instrumentation is expected to be further released in major projects, complete sets of equipment, intelligent manufacturing, biomedicine, new energy, ocean engineering, environmental governance, inspection and quarantine and many other fields. The development of intelligent equipment has greatly expanded the depth and breadth of the application of instrumentation equipment. Market analysts predict that the sales revenue of the domestic instrument industry is expected to reach 1.1 billion yuan by 2020.

In the analysis of the operation of the industry in 2018, the relevant personnel of China Instrument and meter Industry Association summed up four characteristics: first, the change of product demand structure is obvious. The field of instruments and meters touches many products, industrial automation instruments and control systems still maintain a high growth rate than the whole industry. Second, excessive production capacity. The market for middle - and high-end products is dominated by imports. Third, from the past simple processing, assembly to high value-added products production. Fourth, export growth was fast, while import growth was small.

Of course, the instrument industry core technology shortplate also exists. In September 2018, the Ministry of Science and Technology identified 53 key projects for the "development of major scientific instruments and equipment". The project implementation period was three years, and the central government invested a total of 519.6036 million yuan to further boost the technological research and development of the instrument industry. Of course, if the special implementation draws on the experience of the past and uses systems engineering to promote the new model, it may achieve some substantial gains.

In today's new technology, new ideas, new models continue to emerge, in the era of traditional technology continues to be overturned, the instrument industry as long as unremitting efforts have hope.

Intelligent Manufacturing "China Solution" for Instrument Industry

In recent years, the industrial structure of instrumentation has undergone fundamental changes. From the development trend of instrumentation technology, the intellectualization of instrumentation is an irreversible development trend. At present, China's intelligent instrument and meter market has entered the full competition stage, instrument and meter manufacturing industry is an important part of China's manufacturing industry, its intelligent manufacturing upgrade will also greatly affect the process of "Made in China 2025". In recent years, a system for promoting intelligent manufacturing has taken shape in China, breakthroughs have been made in key areas, and notable results have been achieved in pilot and demonstration projects. At the national level, 305 pilot and demonstration projects have been carried out, raising production efficiency by nearly 30 percent on average. It is understood that the current intelligent manufacturing promotion system has formed a working pattern of central and local cooperation, joint innovation of production, university, research and application, and joint promotion of all aspects.

In general, the conditions for promoting intelligent manufacturing in our country are ripe. On the one hand, the ability to supply core equipment of intelligent manufacturing has been enhanced, and the ability to provide integrated services has been continuously improved. Our country has successfully broken through and applied a series of key technologies and equipment, including upscale numerical control machine tools and industrial robots, additive manufacturing equipment, intelligent sensing and control equipment, intelligent detection and assembly equipment, intelligent logistics and warehousing equipment and so on. On the other hand, the basic supporting capacity of intelligent manufacturing is continuously strengthened, and the standard system of intelligent manufacturing is gradually improved.

However, it should also be noted that in the process of implementing intelligent manufacturing, China is still faced with the situation that core technology equipment, supporting software, control system and so on are controlled by others. It is necessary to strengthen technological innovation on the supply side of intelligent manufacturing to meet the development needs of intelligent manufacturing.

We will promote the development of intelligent manufacturing from two aspects. First, we will promote the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry. Second, we will promote the improvement of intelligent manufacturing equipment, core software systems and system integration capabilities through the development of intelligent manufacturing, and foster emerging industries.

The instrument manufacturing industry should actively face the intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, and effectively improve the supply capacity of key technologies and equipment, intelligent manufacturing standards, core industrial software, industrial Internet platform and system solutions with market application, so as to form a "Chinese solution" for the development of intelligent manufacturing in the instrument industry.

(The content of this article is from the instrument business network)