On this road of global innovation, China's industry and enterprises need to continue to explore and innovate, while leading the change of the world's manufacturing industry, and constantly improve the gold content of Chinese manufacturing, in order to achieve and compete with the world-class level, laying a solid foundation for subsequent development.

The level of automation and modernization of industry can best reflect the level of science and technology of a country and represent its comprehensive national strength. In the past 30 years, China's research on industrial automation has been moving forward, with the introduction of Made in China 2025, and gave the industry to extend its tentacles to intelligent manufacturing a new opportunity.

Modern industrial control systems include process control, data acquisition system (SCADA), distributed control system (DCS), program logic control (PLC) and other control systems. In the process of modern industrial development, it is inevitable to develop toward intelligent production equipment and automation of the production process, only by realizing intelligent industry can we ensure that the coordination and cooperation between multiple fields in the production and manufacturing and even the entire life cycle of the product is completely intelligent, and help the perfect transformation of "intelligent manufacturing" of production-oriented enterprises.

Intelligent industrial control system gives birth to intelligent factory

Intelligent factory is a new concept put forward by some countries after the realization of soft and highly automated production, and its concept advantage is to promote the intelligent industrial production, so as to achieve a science-fiction industrial production model. Industrial production systems and processes, the realization of networked distributed production facilities, production logistics management, human-machine interaction, the use of new technologies and the use of embedded sensors to monitor relevant environmental parameters and production all require the support of intelligent equipment.

As the automated, informationized equipment base evolves into industrial processes involving manufacturing, engineering, material use, and supply chain and lifecycle management, it seems that modern factories have begun to use a new intelligent way to produce products.

The Internet of Things promotes the intellectualization of industrial control systems

The demand for large data volume and high speed transmission such as images and voice signals has spawned the combination of Ethernet and control network, and the network wave has integrated emerging technologies such as embedded technology, multi-standard industrial control network interconnection, and wireless technology, thus expanding the development space of industrial control and bringing new development opportunities. At present, the development and application of a variety of new information technologies, including industrial control informatization, three-network integration, Internet of Things, and cloud computing, are rapidly promoting industrial control intelligence.

The Internet of Things is a bridge between virtual and intelligent manufacturing. Therefore, in the future industrial production, management and operation process, information collection, information transmission, information processing and comprehensive utilization of information will be realized through information infrastructure and on the integrated platform of the Internet of Things.

The first three industrial revolutions resulted in mechanical, electrical and information technology. Today, while the Internet of Things promotes the development of industrial control intelligence, it also announces the arrival of the fourth industrial revolution - Industry 4.0.

The future of Manufacturing -- Industry 4.0