What is intelligent manufacturing?

Intelligent manufacturing (IM) is a man-machine integrated intelligent system composed of intelligent machines and human experts, which can carry out intelligent activities such as analysis, reasoning, judgment, conception and decision-making in the manufacturing process.

Through the cooperation between human beings and intelligent machines, the mental work of human experts in the manufacturing process will be expanded, extended and partially replaced. It updates the concept of manufacturing automation, making it more flexible, intelligent and highly integrated.

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Comprehensive characteristics

Compared with traditional manufacturing industry, intelligent manufacturing system has the following characteristics:

self-discipline

That is, the ability to collect and understand environmental information and self-information, and to analyze, judge and plan their own behavior. Equipment with self-discipline ability is called "smart machine", which shows independence, autonomy and personality to a certain extent, and can even coordinate and compete with each other. Strong knowledge base and knowledge-based model are the foundation of self-discipline ability.

Man-machine integration

IMS is not a simple "artificial intelligence" system, but a man-machine integrated intelligent system, which is a kind of mixed intelligence. Intelligent machine based on artificial intelligence can only do mechanical reasoning, prediction and judgment, it can only have logical thinking (expert system), at most it can think in images (neural network), and it can't do inspiration (epiphany) thinking at all. Only human experts can really have the above three thinking abilities at the same time.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to replace the intelligence of human experts in the manufacturing process with artificial intelligence and independently undertake the tasks of analysis, judgment and decision-making.

On the one hand, man-machine integration highlights the core position of man in the manufacturing system, and at the same time, with the cooperation of intelligent machines, it gives full play to man's potential, so that man and machine present an equal, mutual understanding and cooperative relationship, thus showing their respective abilities at different levels and realizing complementarity.

Therefore, in the intelligent manufacturing system, high-quality and intelligent people will play a better role, and machine intelligence and human intelligence will truly integrate, cooperate with each other and complement each other.

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