From Manual Programming Rules to AI Visual Perception: Unsupervised Detection Sparks a Boom in Product Quality Control
In the long evolution of manufacturing, product quality control has always been the core lifeline. In the early days, the maintenance of this lifeline was highly dependent on “manual programming rules”. Engineers, as designers of precision instruments, had to convert every possible product defect into machine-recognizable logical instructions. In the field of visual inspection, this meant writing complex judgment codes for specific product dimensions, colors, scratches, or shape abnormalities, with rules that were both strict and rigid. Of course, manual programming rules are not without advantages. Their strength lies in controllability, but when faced with product model changes, light variations, or unforeseen defect forms, engineers need to repeatedly debug the […]
Another Revolution in Production Lines: Intelligent Industrial Control Machine Vision Systems Restructure the Global Industrial Chain
In an era where artificial intelligence technology dominates headlines, production lines are undergoing another profound revolution. The essence of this transformation lies in “data defining manufacturing” — ing the physical world with digital models through intelligent machine vision systems, and driving the industrial chain to shift from cost orientation to value innovation. The evolution history of machine vision is a microcosm of industrial automation evolving from “mechanical arms” to “smart eyes”. Around 2000, machine vision technology began to enter the Chinese market. In the first decade, its development was relatively slow. However, after 2012, driven by the booming development of domestic 3C, lithium battery, photovoltaic and other industries, as well […]
New technological achievements industrial production automation
New technological achievements empower industrial production automation: Intelligent upgrading leads the new future of manufacturing Driven by the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the global manufacturing industry is undergoing a profound transformation from mechanization to intelligence and networking. Recently, Chinese technology enterprises in multiple fields have successively released breakthrough achievements in the field of industrial automation, covering core areas such as intelligent robots, industrial Internet platforms, and digital twin technologies, marking that China’s industrial production automation process has entered a new stage of “all-factor collaboration”. Robot cluster operations break through efficiency limits In an automobile parts factory in the Yangtze River Delta, the latest generation of collaborative robot clusters […]
Entering the Smart Factory to Build Flexible Production Lines and Tackle the “Impossible Triangle”
How can digitalization make automobile parts manufacturing plants smarter and more efficient? Stepping into the Shanghai Intelligent Factory of United Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. (UAES), the “lights-out production line” for key new energy vehicle electronic control components operates efficiently. Precision machining processes are intelligently completed by robots, while driverless AGV carts navigate through the facility, handling materials, loading and unloading, and cooperating seamlessly with on-site staff. A set of data is even more intuitive: direct labor productivity increased by 21%, production and operation indirect staff efficiency rose by 28%, overall equipment efficiency (OEE) improved by 15%, design and engineering costs decreased by 21%, scrap rate reduced by 4%, inventory holding […]
The Flexible Smart Manufacturing Revolution: How AI Dynamic Scheduling Boosts Energy Storage Factory Changeover Efficiency by 60% and Breaks the 8-Minute Order Response Barrier
Thousands of customized orders pouring in simultaneously, with production lines completing dynamic restructuring in 53 seconds—not a sci-fi movie, but the daily reality of AI-powered smart energy storage factories. In a super factory for energy storage batteries in Jiangsu, real-time data streams flash across huge screens in the central control room. An urgent order enters the system, and the AI scheduling engine kicks into action instantly: 0.2 seconds to complete process analysis, 3.7 seconds to generate 128 scheduling plans, and 7 minutes and 48 seconds later, the production line has switched to manufacturing products of the new specification. The entire process requires no manual intervention, and changeover losses are nearly […]
Flexible Automation: A Bridge from Manual to Full Automation, Unveiling Its Key Role and Development Prospects!
Recently, reports on autonomous driving technology and automated equipment have been emerging constantly. Researchers predict that by 2025, there will be approximately 8 million unmanned or semi-unmanned vehicles on the road. However, this vision of full automation still has problems in practical applications where many local scenarios cannot be fully connected, making overall automation face risks such as local downtime or other issues. This also leads to discussions on the stability, characteristics, and future development prospects of flexible automation equipment. 01 Local Downtime: A Bottleneck for Overall Automation Fully automated equipment such as self-driving cars and automatic delivery vehicles need to go through the autonomous driving levels defined by SAE […]
Ultra-High Precision Turbine Blade Flexible, Efficient, and Intelligent Manufacturing Unmanned Workshop——Case Display of “Progress in China’s Intelligent Manufacturing Technology”
Entering the 21st century, intelligent manufacturing, as a new production method integrating a new generation of information technology with advanced manufacturing technology, has become the core driving force of the new round of industrial revolution. From automated production lines to intelligent robots, from big data analysis to the Internet of Things technology, and from machine learning to the application of artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing is constantly promoting traditional manufacturing into a new era of more intelligent, efficient, and sustainable manufacturing. From 2017 to 2024, the Intelligent Manufacturing Alliance of Chinese Societies (IMAC) continuously carried out the “Case Study on Progress in China’s Intelligent Manufacturing Technology” and selected a total of […]
The Battle to Break Through Intelligent Welding Control Systems: Who is Rewriting Industry Rules
In recent years, with the gradual decline of the demographic dividend, the welding industry, which faces harsh working environments and a scarcity of skilled welders, has been trapped in a transformation dilemma. Against this backdrop, the market demand for welding robots has been growing, and the requirements for the intelligence level of welding robots have also been increasing. In the process of intelligentizing welding robots, the intelligent welding control system, as the “brain” of intelligent welding robots, becomes more valuable as it grows “smarter” and easier to learn. It can reduce enterprise costs, bring better profits, and help enterprises seize the high ground in future competition. Thus, the intelligent welding […]
The “dark horse” in flexible manufacturing secures another round of 100 million yuan financing
with new technologies continuously subverting traditional production lines. On July 8th, as learned by Gaogong Robot, Zengguang Intelligence recently completed a new round of financing totaling nearly 100 million yuan, led by Yida Capital, one of the most influential venture capital institutions in China, with follow-up investments from Qigao Capital and Nachuan Capital. A responsible person from Zengguang Intelligence’s team stated that Zengguang Intelligence is an innovative technology-driven core component supplier. Since its establishment, it has been a domestic leader in the electric actuator market, and has maintained a leading position in precision force-controlled electric actuators. The company possesses 100% self-developed advanced precision motion control technology, as well as extensive […]
