Promoting intelligent manufacturing in the steel grating industry can bring many values, such as improving service levels, promoting safe production, improving product quality and resource utilization efficiency, saving energy and reducing emissions, reducing production costs, optimizing labor environment, improving labor efficiency, and Contribute to social issues such as protecting the natural environment, coping with aging, and promoting the free development of human beings. The gap between the overall technical level of China's steel grating industry and foreign advanced enterprises is relatively small. To revitalize China's steel grating industry, intelligent manufacturing will be the future development direction of the steel grating industry.
Personalized service should be a prerequisite for intelligent manufacturing
As a new type of building material, steel grating is economical based on large-scale production. However, the uses of steel grating vary widely, and the needs of users are very different. The contradiction between large-scale production and individual needs has always plagued the steel grating industry. This not only leads to difficulties in production organization, but also causes problems such as rising costs and inventories, lower yields and quality, and longer lead times.
"To promote intelligent manufacturing in the steel grating industry, we should not blindly pursue the individual differences of the product itself, but should emphasize "mass customization": that is, use the same materials as much as possible to meet the needs of different users, and make differences as far as possible The process is arranged later.
However, it is not easy to implement this idea. First, it is necessary to figure out what the user's essential requirements for the product are. This requires "individualized service" as the guide, and improves its own service ability and completes the accumulation of knowledge in the service. "Intensive production, personalized service" may be the key direction for the steel grating industry to promote intelligent manufacturing.
The steel grating industry can embed CPS into the horizontally integrated and end-to-end integrated information platform to realize intelligent R&D, service, procurement and sales. In this way, through the sharing of knowledge and information, we can break through the boundaries between departments, achieve fast and effective collaboration, and narrow the distance between enterprises and customers, so as to provide users with customized personalized services.
Looking ahead, downstream users' requirements for personalized services will gradually increase. The basic driving force will come from two aspects: one is that with the improvement of the user's automation and intelligence level and the improvement of the quality requirements of the final product, the requirements for the quality of steel grating products will definitely increase; the second is that with the continuous development of e-commerce , Steel grating products need to come from small and medium-sized customers more and more, and the traditional service model will become more and more unsustainable. Therefore, promoting "smart service" is obviously an important direction for the steel grating industry to realize intelligent manufacturing.
The increase in labor costs forces the development of intelligent manufacturing
Smart manufacturing is a profound industrial revolution and a blue ocean of innovation. However, only with the height of "people-oriented" can we see the whole picture of the blue ocean. The purpose of intelligent manufacturing can be summed up as: "serving people, helping people, replacing people, surpassing people, liberating people, and relying on people". The promotion of intelligent manufacturing can also be attributed to the problem of people. Aging makes its manufacturing less competitive, requiring technological means to extend the working age and attract young people. In China, with the arrival of the "Lewis Turning Point", labor costs have risen sharply; in 2012, the total labor force began to decrease, followed by China's entry into a "new normal" of medium-to-high-speed development. In recent years, while facing market downturn, capital, environmental protection and other pressures, steel grating enterprises have clearly felt that labor costs are rising, cooperating workers are difficult to find, the team is unstable, employee engagement is declining, management is difficult, safety accidents occur frequently, product Unstable quality, etc.
International competition has put forward higher requirements for steel grating industry
Although wages in China are lower, the total cost of labor is very close. With the further rise of labor costs in my country, the pressure on steel grating enterprises in China will increase. With the increase in labor costs, Chinese steel grating enterprises will also use technologies such as robots, unmanned vehicles, unmanned trolleys, and unmanned warehouses to improve labor efficiency and reduce production costs. Technically, these are not inherently difficult. "What I'm worried about is the future - if Chinese steel grating companies can't keep up now, it may lead to a new round of lag.
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