The essence of the new round of industrial revolution is the standard dispute of the global new industrial revolution in the future. Each country is building its own intelligent manufacturing system, and intelligent manufacturing and intelligent factory have become the two main goals of the new round of industrial revolution.

　　The intelligent factory that is often mentioned now is just a part of "intelligent manufacturing". Under the intelligent manufacturing, the traditional manufacturing process will be reorganized to realize the intelligent production. Among them, personalized customer demand and design, information access and sharing between suppliers and manufacturers, quick response of after-sales service and other links together with intelligent factory become a very important part of intelligent manufacturing.

　　I believe that many people don't know "smart factory" very well. First of all, I will give you a simple science popularization. At present, the manufacturing industry is undergoing a technological revolution. The United States proposed "industrial Internet" and Germany proposed "industry 4.0". However, our manufacturing enterprises in China have different stages and degrees of development. We also released "made in China 2025". Its core is to gradually promote "intelligent manufacturing" and realize the strategy of manufacturing power.

　　China is the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations Industrial Classification. It has 39 industrial categories, 191 medium categories and 525 small categories, thus forming an unparalleled industrial system with complete industries. Intelligent manufacturing is to inject the soul and wisdom of lean management thought and culture into the brain of this industrial giant. Otherwise, it is a brain with all kinds of software, all kinds of sensors and information technology, all kinds of automatic bones and muscles. Although it is smart and strong, it has no great wisdom.

　　Intelligent manufacturing is based on the deep integration of new generation information communication technology and advanced manufacturing technology, which runs through all aspects of manufacturing activities such as design, production, management and service. It has the functions of self perception, self-learning, self-decision-making, self execution and self adaptation. The construction of intelligent chemical plant is the core to realize the new production mode of intelligent manufacturing. In the construction of intelligent plant, it is necessary to ensure that "human, machine, material, method, environment and measurement" in the plant have intelligent characteristics and have the ability of perception, learning, decision-making, implementation and adaptation.

　　Intelligent factory is a new stage of modern factory information development. Based on the digital factory, it uses Internet of things technology and equipment monitoring technology to strengthen information management and service, clearly grasp the production and marketing process, improve the controllability of the production process, reduce the manual intervention on the production line, timely and accurately collect the production line data, so as to reasonably arrange the production plan and production schedule, And through the use of green intelligent means and intelligent systems and other emerging technologies, to build a high-efficiency energy-saving, green environmental protection, environmental comfort of human nature chemical plant.

　　The core characteristics of intelligent factory are: intelligent products, automation of production, integration of information flow and material flow. At present, in the world, many enterprises are developing towards the direction of intelligent factory.

　　The biggest feature of the era of intelligent manufacturing is innovation. New technology, new products and new business models are emerging, which gives innovative SMEs the biggest development space. In the intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, innovative small and medium-sized enterprises must strive to solve the problems of high R & D cost, long innovation cycle and large market risk, so as not to let the leading advantages become the traps hindering development.

　　For Chinese manufacturing enterprises, it is a difficult period of "three phases overlapping". Enterprises hope to not only meet the development direction of industry 4.0 or made in China 2025, but also have small investment, quick effect and ensure the success rate. How to balance the two is a very realistic and important issue.

　　Generally speaking, intelligent manufacturing is still in its infancy in China at this stage. When moving towards intelligent manufacturing and intelligent factories in the future, it is also necessary to make full use of the industrial automation equipment widely used by Chinese manufacturing enterprises.