Can the ceramic industry successfully break the neck?

"Intelligent" is one of 2017 hot words. In the ceramic industry, although "intelligence" has become a consensus, the resistance in practice is very large. Some even assert that the entire industry should be intelligent for at least several decades.

On December 13, 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission promulgated the "Three-year Action Plan for Strengthening the Core Competitiveness of Manufacturing (2018-2020)" and put forward the "Implementation Plan of Industrialization of Key Technologies for Intelligent Robots", which applies the intelligent robot industry to the building materials industry, By 2020 smart robots break the difficult problem of landing.

On December 25, 2017, Li Wei, Director of the Department of Raw Materials Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, proposed to 2018 the work train of thought for the industry and informationization work conference in the country and proposed to optimize and upgrade the traditional industries, improve the quality and efficiency of development and further promote Intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration and intelligent manufacturing standardization and application of new models to enhance the industry's level of intelligent manufacturing. In the refractory, ceramics, brick, non-mining and other production lines to repeat the operation section to promote "machine generation", organize the promotion of advanced and applicable intelligent manufacturing technology and carry out pilot demonstration.

Where is the difficulty of promoting intelligent manufacturing in ceramic industry? Is the manufacturing of ceramic industry really so far?

1, intelligent ceramic industry where?

Some industry veterans accept Tao Wei network reporter's interview generally agreed that the domestic ceramic industry, a higher level of automation, while the level of intelligence is lower.

Some people think that the ceramic industry's resistance to intelligence, on the one hand, is weak on the basis of information technology to support intelligent brain information data is relatively scarce, which requires a data collection and analysis process; on the other hand is the production process of differentiation, for example The diversification of the production and packaging methods of various products will result in the different degrees of intelligent development of different process and equipment, which can only be adapted to local conditions.

Some experts also pointed out that the ceramic industry focus on direct economic benefits, that is, how to quickly and cost-effectively achieve the goal - put into production, and quickly produce qualified products to capture the market, to obtain sales profits, the pursuit of market share. Therefore, most enterprises in this process are more emphasis on all aspects of the simple and fast, compared to the smart factory top-down mode of construction, production management planning system, enterprise information management will be neglected, This may be the greatest resistance of the domestic ceramic industry intelligence.

At present, China's ceramic industry is facing two embarrassing: First, difficult recruitment of enterprises, and second, corporate net profit growth difficult. On the one hand, recruitment is difficult to highlight the major ceramic producing areas generally highlighted the problem, to enhance the degree of automation of the production line, energy saving is the trend of the situation; the other hand, with the changing needs of consumers, rapid changeovers and personalized customization The advent of the era of production, flexible and intelligent mode of production will gradually be accepted by the market. Zhang Qikang, director of Mona Lisa, said: "The so-called intelligent manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing is actually the ultimate goal is to achieve personalized flexible customization .All investment and upgrading, and ultimately are for the market, for the sake of customers .We want to use The original production-led marketing model, gradually changing to the consumer demand-led marketing model.

2, in fact, Taoqi smart manufacturing is not far away

At present, ceramic industry is facing the elimination of backward production capacity, re-shuffling, strategic changes in the major changes toward the intelligent building ceramics has become the development trend. In 2017, "intelligent" has been constantly raised in the industry, well-known ceramic enterprises have to move toward Industry 4.0.

In February, Asia invested 150 million large-panel marble tile production lines in Xianning, Hubei Province. All of the equipment used for digital glazing line from raw material processing to digital glazing line adopts digital intelligent equipment. The whole plant has three production lines with only 500 employees (including back-office staff) 600 million yuan, output per capita reached 1.2 million yuan / person.

March 21, Chongqing Aestheticism Ceramics Co., Ltd. officially put into operation. It is reported that the first production line of the first workshop of the beautiful No.1 in Chongqing, which is put into production, has a length of more than 1,500 meters and only 50 workers. All the operations on the line have realized the machine generation, and the workers are only responsible for operating the machine.

December 6, the new Pearl Ceramics Group green smart manufacturing demonstration plant in Zhaoqing Gaoluobu Industrial Park was completed. From ingredients to automatically packaged storage, of which 12 steps, workers only need to press the button in the control room, you can complete the entire production process control; outside the control room, the workshop noise, bright and spacious, ventilated, dust-free Only two or three workers are inspecting the equipment; the workers are rhythmic through the workers' hands; and each piece of brick, "one brick, one yard", can be traced back from the raw materials to the production process by laser coding ...

December 19, Dongpeng Intelligent Home Creative Industry Park settled in Chongqing Yongchuan District. It is reported that Dongpeng Smart Home Creative Industrial Park plans to invest 2.5 billion yuan of funds, will be equipped with the world's most sophisticated technology and equipment and intelligent manufacturing system, to create a "China Ceramic Industry 2025" demonstration base. The project embodies the characteristics of intelligent manufacturing, equipment selection, production planning and plant design to make a full consideration, plans to introduce Siemens SCADA system for the whole plant production processes for collection, monitoring and data applications, from the design start Integrated high-end smart manufacturing module. This is also the industry's first integrated smart home industrial base for the production and logistics of ceramic tile and sanitary ware. Dongpeng will achieve zero emission of waste gas and reuse of waste materials. The project is expected to be launched next year, four production lines, 2019 usher in production.

And just listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Mona Lisa ceramic plate production demonstration line, clean and tidy workshop rarely see the operating staff. It is reported that at present, the number of workers in this production line hit a record of less than 30 people ...

3, intelligent is a counterattack in the ceramic industry?

At present, the ceramic industry is facing a new round of reshuffling. Under the pressure of environmental protection and cost, many ceramic enterprises stop production and stop their work, but because of long-term commitment to environmental protection, the first to introduce modern production equipment, In the country opened a new round of capacity layout, investment and build a modern intelligent production line.

Some experts believe that the level of intelligence and standardization are closely related. A low level of standardization will only result in a lower level of product. Only by constantly establishing high standards and being implemented by machines at a higher standard will create the ideal competitiveness. He also boldly predicted that some of the ceramics industry ceramic production line will be fully automated in five years, ten years after there will be fully intelligent production of ceramic enterprises.

All along, industry associations and the media are also working hard to promote intelligence. 2018 on the afternoon of January 3, 2018 China Ceramic Intelligent Manufacturing Forum co-sponsored by China Building Materials Federation, China Building Sanitary Ceramics Association, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Building Materials Branch, Tao Wei network, Intelligent production. This forum, Dongpeng, Aestheticism, Mona Lisa, Huida, Wrigley, Jane, Ou Shennuo, Asia, the rudder ... dozens of domestic first-line ceramic strength manufacturers production system will be gathered at the scene. They will have more in-depth and comprehensive insights on the intellectualization of the ceramic industry.

Although the progress of intelligent ceramic industry is slow, but with more and more enterprises to join, intelligent ceramic industry may be the direction of the next few years, only from some enterprises in the implementation of the "non-mainstream" slowly become the mainstream ", To achieve a counterattack ceramic industry ... ... (Source: billion Europe home network)