August 20, the German Federal Cabinet adopted the "2014-2017 Digital Agenda" designed this system to provide power for the construction industry 4.0 digital technology by strengthening infrastructure construction, boosting economic growth, and.
Industry focus lies 4.0 Interconnection of information technology and traditional manufacturing industries combined. In the future production process, not only is the exchange between people, also formed between the mechanical digital connectivity, the exchange of information. According to the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, estimate, industrial 4.0 allows businesses to increase productivity by 30%.
Early in the April 2013 Hanover Industrial Fair, the German government will call for "industry into the 4.0 era" slogan, its purpose is to improve the competitiveness of German industry, occupation opportunities in the new round of industrial revolution. The strategy has been widely recognized by the German research institutions and industry, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 4.0 will introduce the concept of industrial production areas in 6-7 institutes its subsidiary, Siemens has started this concept into its industrial software development and production control systems.
Today, Bosch and other well-known companies have already taken steps in the smart industry. German Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economy and Energy Gabriel also mentioned in a press conference on August 20, like Volkswagen traditional manufacturing enterprises such participated in this year's Hanover Fair international information and communications technology, which is a IT and examples of traditional manufacturing integration.
"Industry 4.0" project is divided into two main themes, namely "smart factory", focusing on intelligent production systems and processes, as well as a distributed network of production facilities; second is "intelligent production", mainly involving the entire enterprise production logistics management, human-computer interaction and 3D technology in the industrial production process and so on. The program will focus on attracting the participation of SMEs in particular, to try to make a new generation of intelligent production technology SME users and beneficiaries, but also become the advanced industrial production technology creators and suppliers.
In addition to industrial than 4.0, digital development but also for enterprises to bring a richer digital business models, such as online stores, remote maintenance. According to the survey, at least one-third of German companies today have come to realize that the Internet is capable of supporting an important component of a successful business. You can promote the upgrading of digital business model. In remote maintenance services, for example, companies will no longer just sell machinery, while providing protection for the mechanical operation of the network, so that more diverse their way of doing business. As a result, companies can sell more value-added services along with merchandise.
In 2013 the German Electrical and Electronics and Information Technology Association published "implementation" of industrial 4.0 "strategic proposal", also with some cases introduces us to the industrial manufacturing 4.0 era: "The current auto body laser welding production line operation has intermittent . energy of the total energy consumption of all kinds of intermittent equipment 12%. below the industry 4.0, using the "wake on LAN mode", can significantly reduce the energy consumption of the interim period. "" The current design has been highly curable, the customer can not the car's wipers across a cross-vendor for other models. 4.0 under industrial design, production with a high degree of flexibility, can be done from end to end customer needs to configure other aspects of manufacturing to lower the cost to meet customer needs and achieve profitable yields still very low one-time production, the production of which wipers for customers. "
This 4.0-industrial era, will be intelligent manufacturing-oriented fourth industrial revolution, it is the German traditional manufacturing techniques and modern ubiquitous Internet technology integration, generating machinery and equipment manufacturing intelligence. And we come back, the other hand, China's construction machinery industry, but found that there are still many gaps in the middle. Now, the construction machinery industry enterprises produced products and foreign brands can already go hand in hand, and achieve beyond in some areas of engineering machinery products, the world leader in the construction machinery industry. Whether it is technical or production quality, all with foreign brands can compete. Thanks to China's economy and rapid development of information technology, and also put their own construction and has a close relationship.
Behind the meantime, we can recognize that the "Made in China" competitive, in fact, is the traditional low-cost production. However, a more severe test that year, the Chinese manufacturing industry with rising costs, increasing competition, low-cost-driven economic growth has begun to appear signs of slowing down. Since 2006, China's labor costs have increased by 130%; coal, gas and oil costs are also increasing, respectively, an increase of 106% in the past six years, 102% and 40%.
Gross domestic product (GDP) calculations, China in 2025 will become the world's second largest economy, but the rapid growth in recent decades and will not go on forever: in some industries has reached a turning point in its development, China is now losing market share. An aging population problem is a shortage of workers, increased production costs; due to rising wages, inflation, exports, and increased transportation costs, China is losing its cost advantage.
As a pillar of the national economy an important part of the manufacturing sector, construction machinery industry is also faced with the urgent reflection and change in the past few years, China's construction machinery market seriously overdrawn, the industry ignored the enterprise itself for rapid growth in technology and upgrading the product, through the sale of equipment in exchange for money and not properly applied in upgrading new technologies, but to expand the plant to increase capacity to meet the huge market demand. However, when the time of the onset of winter, enterprises will lack warm "clothing" - technology.
In the past two years, the financial policy, the project started, and a variety of factors such as the impact of market saturation, China's construction machinery industry back on the road sensible development, road construction machinery network in China visited several enterprises also found, and now the industry multi-enterprise began to practice "Strength", the product quality and research and development rather than marketing in the first place, more and more enterprises to strengthen manufacturing intelligent products for research, there are a number of enterprises increasingly adopt a more intelligent manufacturing equipment and intelligent management systems. Challenge through technological innovation to the market. This will undoubtedly have a push forward for the industry, we also market a few years ago, said distraught like crazy, if the enterprise was able to see future trends, perhaps Chinese construction machinery enterprises in the future competition can walk less more detours.
On the other hand, China's construction machinery industry enterprises will continue to invest and share in the eyes of too many topics in other markets, ignoring the future development trend of product development and production. Core competitiveness of enterprises is further polished, spent too much time and energy in business strategy and business tools, this cart before the horse's behavior to enhance the country's overall manufacturing competitiveness, it probably did not have much value.
German industrial targets 4.0 The proposed plant is that intelligence (Intelligente Fabrik), while the background is also faced with the dilemma currently China is exactly the same: resources, energy transformation and change in the age structure of the staff shortage. It changes the way that the production process and IT integration, product personalization and production humane. Proposed network modes of production and network chemical plant. This is China's construction machinery industry should be an inspiration and attention.
The so-called remedy the situation, it is not to late. China's construction machinery industry enterprises If you want to stand on the world stage and withstand the competition of foreign companies on the need for change in essence, through technology and innovation and technology to conquer the market, we look forward to in the future, proposed by China's manufacturing fifth times change.