What impact will "intelligent manufacturing" bring to the furniture industry

1. A simple motivation

We can easily imagine that the original purpose of the concept of "intelligent manufacturing" is to solve the problem of "how to improve production efficiency". "To improve the efficiency" is always the goal of processing and manufacturing, but also an important factor to promote intelligent manufacturing;

2 Two diametrically different values [novel viewpoint]

Now there are enough phenomena to show that in the future, furniture enterprises that have completed the upgrading and transformation of intelligent manufacturing will be fundamentally different from traditional furniture manufacturing enterprises.

Perhaps this is contrary to the stereotype of many people -- isn't intelligent manufacturing just a way of outlawing traditional handmade manufacturing? Not really.

We find that the performance of the market is approaching such a situation, that is "intelligent manufacturing" and "traditional manufacturing" between the two is no longer a competitive relationship, but to meet the completely different needs of the market -- intelligent manufacturing products belong to the industrial products, cheap and good quality; However, traditional furniture manufacturing enterprises tend to be handicrafts, which are valued by consumers for their humanistic attributes. In the future, we believe this situation will become more and more obvious and may become a fixed pattern.

3. Four distinct stages of development

In fact, from the basic stand-alone equipment to achieve intelligent upgrade, to the realization of the whole plant fully intelligent "unmanned factory", need to go through a quite difficult process. According to the existing cases, we can see that the basic trend of such a process is --


First of all, from the single machine level, to achieve the popularity of CNC equipment;

The second is the intelligence of the module, that is, the realization of the local connection, there is a small amount of manual sorting and transfer between the modules;

Then is the realization of the whole connection, manual direct intervention in the production of components to a large extent reduced;

The intelligence of equipment and connecting mechanism is further improved until the seamless connection is completed, and the unmanned factory is finally realized.

The essence of "intelligent manufacturing" : changing the relationship between people and devices

1. We can compare it vividly: traditional equipment is a more pure tool without "brain"; The recognition ability of intelligent manufacturing is to give the processing equipment a pair of eyes, judgment ability is to equip the equipment with a brain, and the software system equipped with intelligent manufacturing equipment to achieve its command operation ability, which means that it has a set of nervous system;

2. Traditional manual equipment belongs to physical work, which enhances the ability of human physical quality; Basic numerical control equipment is a simple manual work into mental work, it has a specific language mode, the operator needs a considerable degree of professional ability to control; And the real intelligent manufacturing completely liberates the operator, easier to use, easier to use under different operating conditions;

3. The essential value of intelligent manufacturing is to change the relationship between people and equipment. All kinds of trends show that "machine replacement" is just the basic concept of intelligent manufacturing. The ultimate goal it pursues is that the intelligence possessed by the equipment can directly participate in the decision-making of production, and give oneself judgment on the current production action from an absolutely rational level. It is not hard to imagine that this kind of production relationship has actually broken away from the level of "man commanding machine", and is not necessarily "machine commanding man". Instead, it gives play to the subjective initiative of machinery and equipment and forms a cooperative relationship with workers. Each of them has played a great role in his own field of expertise.

Understand the value of the "unmanned factory" from the time dimension

If we look at it from a larger dimension -- the dimension of time, the core of the realization of unmanned factory is to liberate people's time and increase the value of the whole society.

As human life span is being extended by technology, we should liberate our spare time from mechanical and tedious activities and devote it to more creative and long-term pursuits. And unmanned factory is fully realized this point, it is in their own way to increase the human "total time", not to let more time and energy in production can be made by machinery and equipment savings disappear, more can promote social and human progress of energy in the "human total time" in the increment of fully done, this is really a matter to be.