Now often said that the fourth industrial revolution, that is, Industry 4.0, according to Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation:
The so-called 4.0 (Industry 4.0? It is based on different stages of industrial development. According to the current knowledge of * * *,? Industry 1.0 is the era of steam engine, industry 2.0 is the era of electrification, industry 3.0 is the era of informationization, and industry 4.0 is the era of promoting industrial change with information technology, which is the era of intelligence.
In other words, the fourth industrial revolution should be centered around "intelligent manufacturing", and its symbol is naturally the landing and application of artificial intelligence in the field of industrial manufacturing. According to the definition of Baidu Encyclopedia:
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.
In other words, the fourth industrial revolution should at least have the characteristics of automatic production, flexible manufacturing, intelligent decision-making, independent learning and self-maintenance. At this stage, although artificial intelligence has become a popular word, artificial intelligence technology is far from mature, and the industrial field will naturally not be the symbol of the fourth industrial revolution. After all, even from a global perspective, today's industrial manufacturing level is far from the standard of Industry 4.0.
As far as the present situation of China's manufacturing industry is concerned, it is a long way to go to realize the fourth industrial revolution. Even Huawei, which is at the forefront of intelligent manufacturing, compared with the German Industry 4.0 standard, its self-evaluation level of intelligent manufacturing is only between 3.0 and 3.5.
Therefore, we can only wait and see the signs of the fourth industrial revolution.
Reference materials—
Baidu Encyclopedia: Industry 4.0
Baidu Encyclopedia: Intelligent Manufacturing
Relying on digital transformation, enterprise intelligent manufacturing has become rule-based.