CCTV News:We walked into an automobile glass production enterprise in Fujian together, and met a veteran who has been in business for 30 years and a recruit who just switched jobs this year.In their eyes, what new changes have intelligent manufacturing brought to traditional manufacturing?
In the production workshop of the world’s largest automobile glass manufacturer, pieces of glass slide out one after another along the production line, and the left and right rows of robotic arms effortlessly grab the glass from the line and accurately stack it aside.
Zheng Mingsheng, who has worked in the glass manufacturing industry for more than 30 years, witnessed the process of less and less manual labor on the production line. Nowadays, this production line runs automatically 24 hours a day, with a daily output of 600 tons of original glass sheets. The huge workshop is empty and does not need a manual worker. Moreover, the intelligent manufacturing system can also complete quality inspection, cutting and other work by itself.
After the deployment of intelligent production equipment and platform, the production efficiency of the production line increased by 30% and the defective rate decreased by 30%. Now Zheng Mingsheng just needs to sit in the office, and he can have an overview of the overall production data through the industrial Internet platform. And next to Zheng Mingsheng’s office, there is a darkroom laboratory, where engineer Chen Zhixing is conducting a research and development test of automobile glass. They want to test a new function of glass.
In fact, Chen Zhixing is a recruit who has joined the glass industry for less than a year. It was the brand-new concept of glass antenna that made him decide to switch from electronic communication industry to glass manufacturing. While bringing new technology, it also makes more use of intelligent manufacturing tools such as experiments and simulation systems, which improves the design ability and efficiency of glass. It is estimated that by the end of this year, the new models of many well-known car companies will be equipped with this new glass product.