China News Service, Wuzhen, September 28 (Reporter Xi Jinyan and Huang Hui) Digital technology empowerment is rewriting the future of traditional manufacturing.

During the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference in 2021, experts, scholars, and business representatives gathered at the "Innovation and Breakthrough of Industrial Internet-Industrial Brain Future Factory" sub-forum to explore a new path for the high-quality development of manufacturing in the digital economy era.

  The manufacturing industry is the foundation and foundation of Zhejiang province.

In recent years, in order to accelerate the in-depth integration and development of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing, and to promote the construction of a strong manufacturing province, Zhejiang has increased its smart manufacturing.

  Based on the sound foundation of intelligent manufacturing, in 2020, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology has created the first batch of 12 "future factories" and 16 "future factories" cultivation enterprises, and took the lead in proposing and exploring the path and standards for the construction of "future factories" in China .

  In the first half of 2021, Zhejiang successively issued the "Industrial Brain Construction Plan (Trial)", "Future Factory" Construction Guidelines, and other related documents, ushering in a new era of "intelligent" manufacturing.

  Lu Shan, deputy governor of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, pointed out that "Industrial Brain + Factory of the Future" is Zhejiang's new exploration and new attempt to promote the construction of the industrial Internet and accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading.

Zhejiang will take "industrial brain + factory of the future" as the core scenario, continue to promote innovation and breakthroughs in the industrial Internet, advance the digital economy No. 1 project, implement a new round of decisive actions to move the cage and change the bird, and the phoenix nirvana, and accelerate the high-end industrialization, digitalization, and Green development, to achieve high-quality development of Zhejiang's manufacturing industry.

  Sheng Ronghua, deputy director of the National Internet Information Office, pointed out that the development of China's industrial Internet has entered a period of rapid growth. New models and new business formats such as networked collaboration and service-based extension have emerged. The role of empowerment, intelligence, and value continues to appear, and the level of industrial agglomeration continues As a result, the Industrial Internet has become an important part of the new infrastructure and a strong driving force for China's high-quality development.

  Sheng Ronghua believes that Zhejiang is the pioneer of China's reform and opening up, and Zhejiang's exploration and practice have an important demonstration and leading role in promoting the deep integration of the national Internet and manufacturing industry.

  Han Xia, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that the Industrial Internet, as an important cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution, will certainly play a more important role in the construction of a manufacturing power and a network power.

"We will adhere to the system concept, uphold the concept of openness, and work with all parties at home and abroad to grasp the trend of digital, networked, and intelligent development and historical opportunities, and promote the development of the industrial Internet to a new level."

  In the keynote speech, Lin Zhongqin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Shanghai Jiaotong University, stated that the "factory of the future" is not only the practical basis of the "industrial brain", but also the service object of the "industrial brain", which realizes the "industrial brain + factory of the future" model. core.

He stated that the “factory of the future” must be fully digitalized, highly intelligent, and fully networked.

  Sekita Tetsuhiro, director of the Japan Institute of Business Engineering (Tokyo), believes that the pursuit of the future factory is summarized in three sentences: higher quality, better cost and higher efficiency. This is the ultimate and highest pursuit of the future factory.

  In the dialogue and exchange session, a number of guests also conducted in-depth discussions on the connotation characteristics of "industrial brain + factory of the future", ecological construction, practical exploration and future development trends.

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