"Artificial intelligence +" Fuels industrial production transform intelligent manufacturing "rules of the game"

At present, artificial intelligence, as a strategic technology leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change, has become an important driving force for new industrialization. At the conference on the development of industry and information technology in the first quarter of 2024 held by the State New Office recently, Tao Qing, spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau, said that the number of artificial intelligence enterprises in China has exceeded 4,500, innovative achievements such as smart chips and general large models have accelerated, and intelligent infrastructure has been continuously consolidated. The construction of digital workshops and smart factories has been accelerated, laying a good foundation for the new industrialization enabled by artificial intelligence. Promoting new industrialization enabled by artificial intelligence will also become a booster for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.

01  Promote artificial intelligence, enable new industrialization

  Promoting new industrialization has become the meaning of high-quality economic development, and AI enabling new industrialization is the core of intelligent manufacturing. Recently, a number of important conferences have proposed to strengthen the deployment of new industrialization related research.

  This year's Government Work Report focuses on the theme of accelerating the development of new quality productivity and further promoting innovation in the digital economy, and proposes to deepen the research and development and application of big data and artificial intelligence, and carry out “ Artificial intelligence +” Action means that artificial intelligence technology will be more widely used in various fields and deeply integrated with traditional industries.

  The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also said that it will continue to promote the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, actively build smart factories, implement special actions for the digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises, accelerate digital technology empowerment, and promote the development of the manufacturing industry to digital, networked and intelligent. Artificial intelligence +” Action to promote the new industrialization enabled by artificial intelligence.

  Zhou Ji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the National Manufacturing Power Construction Strategic Advisory Committee, said that promoting new industrialization enabled by artificial intelligence is the technical route to promote new industrialization and speed up the construction of a manufacturing power.

  Zhu Minghao, executive director of the China High-end Manufacturing Research Center of Beijing Jiaotong University, also believes that the construction of a manufacturing power should organically integrate with the development of the digital economy, forming a doubling and superposition effect, and actively use artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other digital technologies to accelerate the construction of intelligent manufacturing factories, promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, improve quality and efficiency.

02  AI integrated into the production process, improve quality and efficiency

  From the traditional “ Man-to-man marking ” To artificial intelligence 24 hours without dead guard, from the robot will neatly put the goods to the unmanned orderly delivery to the designated location, from manual inspection to AI visual inspection to improve the detection accuracy, artificial intelligence and manufacturing deep integration, and continue to improve the production line production efficiency. … In the process of industrial digital transformation, operators, relying on their own advantages in network, computing power and opening capability, accelerate the integration and application level of 5G, cloud computing, edge computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other new generation information and communication technologies, and fully release the “ 5G+ Industrial Internet ” Industry empowering effect.

  In Fujian Province, China Telecom helped Deao Knitting put into operation the country's first AI intelligent fabric inspection machine, using 5G, big data and self-developed knitting weft knitting AI vision algorithm technology applied to product inspection, replacing manual fabric inspection with AI fabric inspection machine, fabric detection speed of 60 meters/minute, 50% higher than manual fabric inspection efficiency, fabric defect detection rate of 80%. 30% more than manual.

  In Jiangsu, China Mobile's 5G network connects every production link of the vulcanization workshop of the semi-steel factory of General Technology Company in series, and realizes various types of production data uploaded and downuploaded at high speed with the help of 5G, forming an organic whole of intelligent manufacturing. Even in the absence of lighting conditions, the production workshop can achieve 24-hour uninterrupted production, saving 50% of labor costs, increasing production efficiency by 40%, and reducing operating costs by 20%.

  In Henan, China Unicom 5G technology and AI technology formed “ The eye of Heaven ” Covering all corners of the Zhengzhou Haier water heating connected factory, the data collected by 5G cameras are processed by intelligent identification algorithms deployed on the 5G edge cloud, and dangerous behaviors such as illegal operation, people and vehicles mixing, trespassing on the factory, and straying into the restricted area are quickly identified, and the alarm equipment sends a reminder and takes photos in time. “ The eye of Heaven ” After taking the job, the violations in the factory were reduced by 40% and the safety accident rate was reduced by 30%, greatly improving safety.

03  Face the challenge head on Speed up the push “ Artificial intelligence +”

  In the opportunity period of the outbreak of artificial intelligence industry, China promotes “ Artificial intelligence +” The general trend of action. According to data from the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 2023, the enterprise adoption rate of generative artificial intelligence in China has reached 15%, and the market size is about 14.4 trillion yuan. Such a market size is “ Artificial intelligence +” The promotion of action has laid a good foundation. In a hug “ Artificial intelligence +” In the process, we also face some challenges.

  On the one hand, the development of the domestic computing power industry that supports the development of artificial intelligence technology is unbalanced, and there are problems such as the lack of computing network scheduling platforms. At present, our country is solidly promoting the construction of computing infrastructure and speeding up the formation of a national integrated computing system. As the national team and main force of digital information infrastructure construction, the three major operators are accelerating the construction and investment of computing infrastructure. Among them, China Telecom continued to optimize “ 2+4+31+X+O” The layout of ubiquitous computing infrastructure, the scale of the construction of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Chengdu-Chongqing and other regional central nodes; An innovative computing power distribution network. — Xirang, combined with the two basic capabilities of self-developed computing power scheduling engine and computing resource management platform, provides a one-stop solution for fast cloud access and on-demand computing power use.

  On the other hand, AI applications are mostly preliminary innovation projects, and it will take time for AI to be applied to the entire industrial manufacturing on a large scale and in depth. Liu Bochao, deputy director of the science and technology department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that digital technologies such as artificial intelligence will be expanded in different links such as research and development, production and manufacturing, inspection and testing, as well as different industries such as electronic information, biomedicine, raw materials and equipment manufacturing. With the deep integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing as the main line, we will coordinate the layout of general large models and industry large models, cultivate industry large models for manufacturing scenarios, and accelerate the promotion of new industrialization enabled by artificial intelligence.

  China Telecom has built “ 1+N+M” The Star large model series product system has created a universal basic large model base, covering the four major capabilities of semantics, speech, vision, and multi-modal, and is open source. China Mobile accelerates construction “ 1+N” Pass specialized large model system, independent research and development of safe and controllable “ Nine days ” Series general large model, to thousands of industries to provide “ AI computing power + large model” Services while building a family of AI products to accelerate the transition from “ +AI” To “ AI+” To provide high-level intelligent business applications around the needs of digital intelligent transformation of production, life and governance. China Unicom launches “ China Unicom Yuanjing ” Large model system, adopted “ Model + tool” Model, to solve the big model landing real economy application scenarios “ The last kilometre. Question.