With the development of information technology, the factory will introduce big data technology for analysis and optimization management, and the whole production process will be simulated, evaluated and optimized in a computerized virtual environment, which will eventually realize automated, intelligent and interconnected manufacturing, and the factory that can realize this manufacturing method is called a smart factory. One of the directions of the unfolding of the Industry 4.0 strategy is the smart factory. In this new change, equipment manufacturers, component suppliers, software providers, etc. have their own interpretation of the smart factory from the perspective of their own needs, which also brings different levels of practice, and different forms of smart manufacturing solutions.
In the past, when we talk about smart factory or concept factory or smart manufacturing, we will think of robots, which is not the complete concept of "intelligence". We use intelligent equipment, intelligent logistics and manufacturing systems to achieve optimal control of the entire production process, intelligent scheduling, production, and monitoring of equipment operating conditions, quality management, design and performance management, production, equipment, quality of abnormalities to make the right judgment and integration, manufacturing execution and operations management, R & D design, integration of intelligent equipment, design and manufacturing integration, control This is intelligent manufacturing.
What kind of characteristics does a smart factory have to be called "smart"? There are at least five points.
Human-machine integration, virtual reality, the ability to self-organization and super-integration, self-learning and self-maintenance capabilities, and the ability to self-regulation. So how to achieve the integration of design and manufacturing, control and integration?
1, first of all, the equipment or instrumentation and other sensors should be able to self-organization, self-learning, self-maintenance perception capabilities, understanding environmental information and their own information, and analysis and judgment to plan their own behavior and capabilities. Able to follow the changes in the environment to make their own decisions to adjust their actions, with a stronger degree of support and memory support model as the basis.
2, industrial Internet to achieve interconnection, real-time control, and thus achieve safety, energy saving will be the core technology of the smart factory. Specifically through the network to obtain the application of big data, the development, sales, ERP, PLM, SCM and other business management systems and the actual production process between the synergy, etc.. Improving the mutual synergy between equipment through interconnection between equipment, thus making the way of matching between production modules more flexible and free.
3. Using machine vision, artificial intelligence and other technologies to make robots and equipment with more intelligent functions; building a deeply integrated digital factory through the combination of information technology and automation technology.
In the smart factory is not only the intelligent system, intelligent model so simple, but the traditional factory attached to the image thinking, so that he independently take up the task of analysis, judgment, decision-making, in cooperation with the intelligent machine can better play the potential of the human, so that the human-machine performance of an equal co-working, mutual understanding, mutual collaboration between the relationship. Therefore, in the intelligent manufacturing system, high quality and high intelligence people will play a better role.
Artificial intelligence then takes on the task of being able to help the plant to analyze, judge, and make decisions, and machine intelligence and human intelligence can be truly integrated together, cooperating and complementing each other.
4, the realization of virtual reality technology is also one of the key technologies to achieve a high level of human-machine integration, virtual reality technology is computer-based, integration of signal processing, animation technology, intelligent reasoning, forecasting, simulation multimedia technology as one, with the help of a variety of audio and video and sensors, virtual display of real life in a variety of processes, components, and thus can simulate the manufacturing process and future products. From the sensory and visual to get a completely real feeling, it is characterized by the human will, the idea to change, this combination of human and machine of the new generation of intelligent interface is the significant characteristics of intelligent manufacturing.
To summarize the modern smart factory has four key points: First, it is necessary to connect all networks in order to get data. Second is to have smart sensors. Third is big data, after connecting all the devices and all the people, all the data are transmitted to the intelligent terminal in large quantities. Fourth, analysis, after getting the data from which to grab out the application trends to improve the detection and prediction of equipment status. To form high-speed transmission, big data, to ensure real-time, security and energy saving becomes very critical. Therefore, the industrial Internet is the technology platform to carry artificial intelligence, big data has become the production factors of artificial intelligence.
For the future of intelligent water plant or concept plant, we boldly envision.
One, the future of intelligent plant all equipment and instruments are intelligent. Each device has its own operating data center, they have a strong self-diagnostic capabilities, but also has the ability to predict the future state, in the prediction of a future point in time will occur when the failure or lack of oil and other conditions, automatically to the intelligent brain to send a "distress" signal, in order to obtain specialized maintenance personnel love and care. They work together to intelligently regulate and schedule equipment without human intervention. Whether it is equipment or instruments, their management and maintenance will be changed from "passive after-the-fact repair" to "active prior maintenance", which will be connected with professional outsourcing service units through the Internet of Things, basically without the need for the plant's production Management personnel are not required to participate.
There is no central control room, but a secure wireless network in the plant, so that both visitors and managers can view the production situation through mobile intelligent terminals. In general, there is no need for human intervention in the production process, and only in special and emergency situations will an operator with authority be required to intervene. The brain of the intelligent control system will be characterized as distributed, i.e., the controllers responsible for the control of the production process are located on the ground floor near the equipment and instruments. The upper layer of the brain is placed in the "cloud", and the city's pipeline network and other concepts of plant interconnection, can complete a larger range of intelligent scheduling.
Second, the future of intelligent water plants and big data are inseparable. Some people say that in the next decade, big data and artificial intelligence will subvert various industrial forms. Intelligent water plant must be closely dependent on big data, because for the word "intelligence", big data is the raw material, and machine learning is the raw material processing plant, artificial intelligence services is the product of the factory, is increasingly used in the real environment.
Therefore, the intelligent water plant must be a large amount of data "fed" into the machine, so that the machine can continue to learn, and constantly optimize their own parameters, can be summarized to the experience of the machine, with the machine's deep learning and processing capabilities of big data continue to upgrade, our intelligent water plant in the real application of their role.
Third, the future of intelligent water plant with a variety of new technology integration. In the near future, when VR technology is commonly used, the management of our water plants can also use VR virtual reality technology, the water plant into the virtual reality glasses, managers do not need to go to the scene, and do not need to look at the computer screen in the process monitoring screen, we put on glasses, you can "immersive" down to investigate. With this technology, the future management of the water plant is like this "you are no longer tangled because of where you are, I can work at home, I can manage at leisure, I can also monitor when I go out.
I think, now is an era of artificial intelligence of everything connected, the future of the water plant will also be connected, data and intelligent. Building an intelligent water plant is a complex project that involves many specialized fields (mechanics, electronics, automation, IT) and covers a variety of application technologies (information technology, perception technology, controllers, artificial intelligence, etc.). The emergence of Industry 4.0, through the analysis of the elements of the production system and the summary of commonalities, proposed a complete and standard smart factory system, the industrial Internet is the technology platform to carry artificial intelligence, big data has become the production factors of artificial intelligence.