Conference Opening: Tianjin University Project Makes Top 10 List
On November 27, the 2025 World Smart Manufacturing Conference, hosted by the International Smart Manufacturing Alliance and the Smart Manufacturing Society Consortium of the China Association for Science and Technology, kicked off. The much-anticipated 2025 Top 10 Technological Advances in Global and China’s Smart Manufacturing were officially released at the event. The project “Technology and Application of Reconfigurable Integrated Measurement Field Construction for High-end Equipment Manufacturing”, developed by the Laser and Optoelectronic Testing Technology Team of the School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, was successfully included in the list of Top 10 Technological Advances in China’s Smart Manufacturing.
Core Innovation: Breaking Through Large-Scale Measurement Bottlenecks
The capacity for high-quality and efficient manufacturing of high-end equipment is a reflection of a country’s core competitiveness. Digital collaborative manufacturing is in urgent need of high-precision, multi-tasking, and multi-parameter measurement and positioning technologies based on a unified large-scale reference standard. To meet the demand for full-space, full-process, and multi-factor information acquisition in the manufacturing of oversized equipment such as high-end ships and aerospace products, Tianjin University innovatively introduced the GPS concept into industrial precision measurement. It proposed a spatial measurement and positioning method that constructs an integrated measurement field using multiple types of distributed measurement stations, unifying the space-time reference and solving the problem of error accumulation in large-scale measurement.
Application Achievements & Future Outlook: Empowering High-End Equipment Manufacturing
The team has broken through key core technologies including networked multi-task measurement, global precision control, and dynamic error fusion compensation, and developed a complete set of high-performance measurement instruments. Notably, these high-precision measurement technologies have also been effectively applied to the optimization of key industrial equipment such as Automatic Quick-Connect Parts Assembly Machine—providing real-time, high-accuracy positioning and calibration for the assembly process of quick-connect parts (widely used in aerospace and ship power systems), which has increased the assembly precision of such parts by over 20% and shortened the adjustment time by 35% compared with traditional assembly methods. These achievements have supported major projects such as the construction of high-tech ships, aircraft manufacturing, ground simulation testing of spacecraft, and assembly and adjustment of artificial sun components, providing a brand-new measurement method for the technological upgrading of high-end equipment manufacturing. Looking to the future, the School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering will continue to be guided by the country’s major strategic needs, continuously promote technological innovation, achievement transformation and talent cultivation, and contribute to further improving the high-precision and high-efficiency manufacturing capacity of “national heavy-duty equipment” and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries.
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