Guided by national policies, manufacturing industry moves from intelligent manufacturing to smart manufacturing

The State Council recently issued "Made in China 2025", proposing a three-step strategic goal: to strive to enter the ranks of manufacturing powers within ten years. By 2035, China's manufacturing industry as a whole will reach a medium level among the world's manufacturing powerhouses. At the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the status of a manufacturing powerhouse was further consolidated, and its comprehensive strength entered the forefront of world manufacturing powers. This is a grand vision that can inspire fighting spirit. Moving from intelligent manufacturing to smart manufacturing. Indeed, currently most manufacturing is still at the level of intelligence or striving to reach this level. The ability to operate according to human instructions is ultimately difficult to avoid blind following, redundant construction, overcapacity, and various risks that come with it, while wisdom is different. It is generally believed that wisdom is a comprehensive ability that transcends knowledge and can maximize innovation according to objective laws; Being able to perceive the present and foresee the future. People collect data, process information, form knowledge, and ultimately hammer wisdom into practice.

Currently, various regions are intensively formulating and implementing policies around "Made in China 2025". In July 2015, the Guangdong Provincial Government released the "Guangdong Province Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan (2015-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan"), which is a comprehensive development plan for Guangdong Province to connect with "Made in China 2025". It is known as the Guangdong version of "Made in China 2025" in the industry, also known as "Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing". The transition from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing" will not only bring huge development opportunities for emerging manufacturing industries, including the LED industry, but also indicate from a policy perspective that the LED industry will develop towards intelligence, informatization, quality, standardization, internationalization, and other directions.

At present, Guangdong has a group of LED companies with certain international influence, but compared with international giants, there is still a gap in technology, brand, market channels and other aspects. Under the promotion of "Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing", with the good development momentum and policy support of Guangdong's LED industry, future LED enterprises will move towards internationalization in all aspects, and in this process, local international lighting giants in Guangdong will emerge.

Internet invades LED industry, and informatization becomes an important development direction

With regard to the development direction of information sharing economy, the Development Plan of Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing puts forward that it is necessary to "implement the action plan of 'Internet manufacturing industry', promote the pilot of industrial Internet innovation integration, support enterprises to develop industrial network collaborative manufacturing, and provide technology, products and business matchmaking for manufacturing enterprises".

Under the sharing economy, all resources will be more open, information flow will be more transparent, and customers' requirements for product experience will also rise, especially the demand for intelligent experience will significantly increase. Promote manufacturing enterprises to carry out innovative pilot projects in manufacturing models such as O2O, flexible manufacturing, and large-scale personalized customization, and promote the transformation from traditional product based manufacturing models to new models based on consumer personalized needs. Give full play to the Internet, the Internet of Things and other information and communication technologies, and transform and improve the research, development, production, marketing, management and other links of the traditional manufacturing industry. Based on the reconstruction of the industrial chain, lighting applications in the application and research and development stages will be easier to implement. Previously closed product resources will be fully opened up in the process of terminal application, leading to more intense competition and fair opportunities among enterprises.

In the era of sharing economy, taking the "Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing" proposed by the Guangdong Provincial Government as an opportunity, improving quality and establishing brand will be the only way for Guangdong LED enterprises to become strong. Quality is the pursuit of product quality and brand, whether it is "Made in China" or "Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing", both emphasize improving the original image of China's manufacturing industry and fundamentally enhancing the quality of industrial products.

Zheng Youxuan, an academician of the CAS Member and professor of the Department of Physics of Nanjing University, also said at the opening meeting of SSLCHINA 2015 that the development history shows that LED lighting technology has not only greatly promoted the major changes in lighting technology, but also promoted the progress of contemporary science and technology and the development of economic society.

With the integration of LED lighting technology with various fields and levels of the economy and society, especially the cross-border integration with light related fields, it will inevitably trigger new changes and applications, promoting green development of the economy and society.

LED lighting should be based on the new normal, plan for new development, develop new technologies and explore new applications under policy guidance and application drive, such as intelligent lighting, non visual lighting, etc. At the same time, the cross-border integration of LED lighting (such as integration with biology, agriculture, healthcare, communication, aerospace, navigation, etc.) is expected to explore new technologies and applications, promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional technologies, and promote economic and social development.

On demand lighting meets intelligent manufacturing, and beyond lighting meets the Internet

At the same time, the semiconductor lighting industry is naturally affected by the wave of Industry 4.0 revolution. In the era of the Internet, Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution led by intelligent manufacturing, or revolutionary production methods. The goal is to establish a highly flexible production model for personalized, digital, and information-based products and services. In this model, traditional industry boundaries will disappear and various new areas of activity and forms of cooperation will emerge. The process of creating new value will undergo changes, and the division of labor in the industrial chain will be reorganized.

The technological revolution in the field of equipment manufacturing, such as "machine for human", "smart factory", "Industry 4.0", can be described as surging, constantly bringing new opportunities and impacts to the semiconductor lighting industry. The era of Industry 4.0 is the overall trend of industrial manufacturing development, and the LED industry is also in the midst of this revolutionary wave. Intensive production is becoming increasingly intense, and LED factory manufacturing will be replaced by more intelligent machines instead of relying heavily on manual labor. On the one hand, the quality of the entire manufacturing process in the factory is completely controllable, and the product achieves 100% full inspection capability; On the other hand, the labor costs of factories have been significantly reduced, and production efficiency has also been greatly improved; Thirdly, there has been a revolutionary breakthrough in factory management efficiency and data interaction between producers and users.

At the "First China Semiconductor Lighting Industry 4.0 Summit" held in Hangzhou in August this year, Wu Ling, Secretary General of the National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering Research and Industry Alliance (CSA), stated in her speech that China's semiconductor lighting industry has achieved gratifying results after 13 years of development. Although it has not been easy to develop, semiconductor lighting technology, like cars replacing carriages, is a successful technological revolution and has established a dominant position in the transformation of the lighting industry. At present, the import substitution rate of LED chips has reached 75%, and there are also remarkable achievements in innovative applications. Of course, the semiconductor lighting industry also faces a series of problems and challenges that still need to be addressed and overcome one by one.

It takes 20 years to cultivate an emerging industry, and China's semiconductor lighting industry has just gone halfway. How should it develop in the future and lead the development of the industry? Now that the Chinese economy has entered a new normal, where will the LED industry go in the future? This is a critical period for industrial development, and we must drive innovation Secretary General Wu Ling pointed out that "we should know that in the era of" Made in China 2025 "," Internet ", and" the the Belt and Road "going out, we have many opportunities. We must change our own ideas and models. Innovation is not just a matter of technology, but also an innovation of business models, and we need to truly understand the deep meaning of cross-border integration

How to understand intelligent manufacturing of semiconductor lighting in the era of Industry 4.0? Secretary General Wu Ling also shared two feelings: firstly, on-demand lighting has encountered intelligent manufacturing. On demand lighting is the true intelligence of the future, not the intelligence we are talking about now. Intelligence not only requires digitalization and intelligence in industrial manufacturing, but also intelligence in warehousing, management, and services. In the future, we aim to achieve true on-demand lighting and provide customized services that are intelligent and personalized.

Second, beyond lighting, we met the Internet. "Internet" is about cross-border integration and cross cooperation of industries in multiple fields. Beyond lighting based on LED can be integrated across multiple fields such as agriculture, healthcare, and communication. Traditional lighting in China accounts for 80% of the global lighting industry, and LED lighting will play an important role in the future. Although there are many challenges in the development of the semiconductor lighting industry, it still faces good prospects for growth.