Wuhan: A “Hot Land” and Fertile Ground for Intelligent Manufacturing
At present, the humid air in Wuhan carries both the lingering heat of late summer and the unique freshness of early autumn. As a national key advanced manufacturing base and a core city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Wuhan, with its unique geographical advantages and complete industrial foundation, is giving birth to a large number of innovative application scenarios for intelligent manufacturing: The National Intelligent Connected Vehicle Demonstration Zone has been established in Wuhan, providing a test field for the intelligent transformation of the automotive industry; the optoelectronic industry cluster in “China Optics Valley” is accelerating its leap towards intelligent manufacturing, and key links such as laser devices and chip manufacturing are in urgent need of digital technology empowerment; traditional iron and steel, chemical enterprises are reconstructing production processes through industrial internet platforms to achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
This city, which “changes every day”, is adopting an open and inclusive attitude to provide manufacturing enterprises with full industrial chain support from intelligent equipment, industrial software to system solutions, making Wuhan an ideal place for intelligent manufacturing ideological collisions, technical exchanges and industrial cooperation.
Focusing on “Hot Topics”: The Intelligent Manufacturing Forum Comes at the Right Time
Intelligent manufacturing has become a key driving force for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and the global manufacturing industry is accelerating towards a new stage of intelligence and digitalization. Realizing the collaboration of all industrial elements through “intelligent connection” and activating future competitiveness through “digital transformation” are important means for industrial transformation and upgrading and important ways to promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. However, in the wave of intelligent manufacturing, manufacturing enterprises are facing many systematic problems: they need to build a digital and intelligent development blueprint that is coordinated with the strategy, break through the technical bottlenecks of equipment interconnection and data connection, solve the practical problems of integrating business scenarios with digital technology, and build an organizational structure and ecological system adapted to the transformation needs.
Against this background, e-works Digital Enterprise Network has held the International Forum on Intelligent Manufacturing in Wuhan for ten consecutive years, aiming to learn from industry benchmark practices, grasp cutting-edge technical trends, build an industrial cooperation ecosystem, and help enterprises solve problems. This forum will gather elites from the government, academic and business circles, focus on “hot topics” of intelligent manufacturing, embrace cutting-edge technologies and concepts of intelligent manufacturing, convey the latest voices of the industry, and offer suggestions for promoting the intelligent manufacturing upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry.
Hot Topics: Focusing on the Pain Points of Intelligent Manufacturing Transformation
Transformation is not a slogan, but to solve real problems. The 11th International Intelligent Manufacturing (Wuhan) Forum will take “Intelligent Connection of Industry, Digital Transformation for the Future” as its theme. Through four theme forums, three industry salons and on-site displays of intelligent manufacturing solutions, it will focus on the core pain points in enterprise transformation, provide enterprises with all-round guidance and solutions from strategic planning to technical implementation, so that the transformation can truly take root.
As the ideological highland of this forum, the four theme forums will conduct in-depth analysis around the topics of intelligent manufacturing upgrading paths and cutting-edge technologies, smart factory and digital twin practices, digital transformation and industrial software applications, and intelligent manufacturing promotion strategies. The main highlights include:
◆ Highlight 1: Prospects for intelligent manufacturing upgrading paths and cutting-edge technologies. The forum will for the first time deeply interpret the development direction of cutting-edge intelligent equipment such as collaborative robots and humanoid robots, reveal the new manufacturing paradigm in the era of human-machine integration; focus on the innovative application of carbon reduction technologies in manufacturing scenarios to help enterprises achieve sustainable development under the dual-carbon goals; explore how to build a data-driven intelligent decision-making system to create a truly thinking factory.
◆ Highlight 2: Practices of integrating smart factories with AI. The forum will invite leading enterprises to share practical experience in smart factory construction, covering innovative practices such as industrial intelligent interaction, AI + low-code development, AI + manufacturing process reconstruction; among them, the Automatic placement machine in the electronic manufacturing field optimizes component positioning accuracy through AI visual recognition, dynamically adjusts the placement rhythm combined with real-time production data, realizes high-speed placement of over 30,000 points per hour and zero-error control, becoming a typical case of “AI reshaping the entire manufacturing process”, showing how AI promotes the leapfrog upgrading of manufacturing from experience-driven to intelligence-driven.
◆ Highlight 3: Industrial software empowering core links of intelligent manufacturing. The forum will comprehensively analyze the application difficulties, integration bottlenecks and integration trends of key industrial software such as CAD, CAE, PLM and MOM in intelligent manufacturing, helping enterprises clarify the shortcomings of soft power; show how manufacturing operation management and control based on model definition can improve production efficiency and quality consistency through model-driven.
◆ Highlight 4: Intelligent manufacturing promotion strategies and enterprise adaptation paths. The forum will discuss intelligent manufacturing promotion strategies and enterprise adaptation paths, provide practical transformation plan suggestions; deeply interpret the trend of material-information integration, grasp the future development direction of intelligent manufacturing; select a number of industry benchmark transformation cases, analyze the logic and methodology behind the success, so that the transformation can be truly replicable and implementable.
The three industry salons will focus on the fields of general machinery/equipment/electromechanical manufacturing, electronics/electrical/electrical communication, automobile/motorcycle/spare parts manufacturing, and in-depth discussion on the industry implementation paths of intelligent manufacturing. It is believed that this year’s forum will not only be an ideological feast in the field of intelligent manufacturing, but also an action guide for enterprises to solve practical problems. Here, enterprises will find the key to breaking the situation and start a new journey of intelligent manufacturing.
Full Steam Ahead: Gathering the Wisdom of Top Guests
This forum is rich in content and highly professional. It will invite experts such as Academician Li Peigen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Ding Han of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Huang Pei, member of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee, and Professor Mei Shunqi from the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation of Wuhan Textile University to give wonderful reports, in-depth interpreting the development trends and key technical paths of intelligent manufacturing.
Leaders of intelligent manufacturing demonstration enterprises such as Sany Group, Dongfeng Cummins, China Wuhuan Engineering, Yutong Bus, Hubei Yihua, Wuhan No.2 Wire & Cable and Sanfeng Equipment will share their practical experience in enterprise digital transformation and intelligent manufacturing, providing benchmark cases for the industry. Well-known domestic and foreign intelligent manufacturing suppliers such as Mitsubishi Electric, Tencent Meeting, Shuopan Intelligent, Fuller Technology, Hikvision, Chicheng Technology, Sanwang Communication, Suzhou Tongshuo, Autodesk, Altair, Digital China, Tianyu Software and Yaotang will display industry solutions and application cases, helping enterprises accurately connect with technical resources and accelerate intelligent upgrading.
As a professional event with both scale and influence in the field of intelligent manufacturing, this forum is not only a collision field for cutting-edge ideas of intelligent manufacturing, but also a link for collaborative innovation in the industrial chain. Wuhan, as a thoroughfare to nine provinces and a fertile ground for innovation, is welcoming colleagues in the manufacturing industry with an open and inclusive attitude to gather together, share transformation experience and explore the future of intelligent manufacturing.
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