Honeywell Yu Feng: Smart manufacturing is the fast track to sustainable development

From November 15th to 17th, the 24th China International Hi-tech Fair-China High-tech Forum was held in Shenzhen, with the theme of "scientific and technological reform drives innovation, scientific and technological innovation drives development". Yu Feng, President of Honeywell China, attended the forum and delivered a speech.

Honeywell Yu Feng: Smart manufacturing is the fast track to sustainable development

Yu Feng said that intelligent manufacturing and sustainable development itself is not a new concept, originated in the 50s and 80s of the last century, in the past 10 years, decision-makers, experts and scholars, the industry and all fields of society have paid more and more attention to these two topics, and China has also caught up, through a series of important strategic plans such as Made in China 2025, Industry 4.0, and dual carbon goals, as well as practical actions of enterprises and all walks of life, it has become a leading industry in intelligent manufacturing and sustainable development.

Manufacturing and sustainable development seem to be two themes, but in essence, they are one and the same, and both represent an indispensable part of human civilization in the future. Sustainable development is the future direction of human society, and intelligent manufacturing is the fast lane to the future, and the two complement each other. If intelligent manufacturing is the art of the future, sustainable development is the trend of the future, intelligent manufacturing is the toolbox, sustainable development is the blueprint, intelligent manufacturing is to run, and sustainable development is the sky.

Specifically, he said, smart manufacturing can help and accelerate the realization of sustainable development goals in at least three aspects:

First, smart manufacturing brings about the sustainability of industrial processes

This is the most recognized role of intelligent manufacturing, but also the most direct effect of intelligent manufacturing, through the intellectualization of industrial processes, can effectively improve productivity, improve yield, ensure delivery time, reduce inventory burden, improve safety level, prevent accidental losses.

As early as 1973, Honeywell began to transform its global factories with a lean production management system, and later reshaped the operational excellence system based on Six Sigma, popularized the lean concept to all production departments, expanded to non-manufacturing areas, integrated supply chain flows, extended to business process management, etc., formed a Honeywell operational excellence system and began to serve other enterprise customers, taking Honeywell's world-class certified factory Suzhou Majie factory as an example, starting from the establishment of the factory in 2008. The size of the workforce remained stable, the output value increased eightfold, the yield rate exceeded 98.5%, the on-time delivery rate was 99.3%, and the inventory days were less than 22 days.

Honeywell's achievements in the field of intelligent manufacturing do not come from the pursuit of replacing people with machines, but from maximizing the best way of collaboration and interaction between humans and machines. The sustainability of industrial processes is not only to improve material efficiency such as saving material consumption, reducing energy demand, and improving equipment life, but also to improve human efficiency and sustainability.

From the operational level, the top intelligence is to make full use of the biggest constraints in modern production, so that the limited time brings the maximum output, not only to create enough flexible time for human resources, mobilize the most valuable value creativity of workers, only with enough flexibility, adaptability of the industrial manufacturing process, is the real sustainable industrial process.

Second, intelligent manufacturing helps the sustainable application of materials

In fact, intelligent manufacturing at the micro level will bring a more revolutionary impetus to sustainable development, which is the intelligent revolution of the material industry.

In daily life, the basic unit of measurement of emissions is substances, even goods, and a certain type of item is emitted more in an industrial process, which is not environmentally friendly and unsustainable; In fact, can the indicators used in judging industrial sustainability continue to extend to the micro level? For example, on a molecular basis, there are many molecules produced and emitted, and we can consider the production efficiency to be high or the emissions to be high.

This requires the industrial process to be able to manage and control the output at the molecular level, and the molecule itself cannot be intelligent, but the molecule can be better managed with the help of intelligent means. From the intelligent management of equipment and products to the intelligent management of molecules, we can maximize the value of industrial materials, minimize the emission of industrial processes, maximize the recycling and closed-loop of industrial waste, and truly promote the realization of sustainable development goals.

Third, intelligent manufacturing shapes the sustainability of the whole life cycle

It is not enough to understand and promote intelligent manufacturing only at the level of lean, flexibility, elasticity and other aspects of production and manufacturing, but also to promote intelligence from the whole life cycle from production to product use and maintenance, so as to promote sustainable development.

Whether it is equipment, machinery, tools and other means of production or electrical appliances, vehicles and other means of life, as long as it is an industrial product, it can be said that it is sustainable to keep its state stable and give full play to its best performance; Otherwise, it is a waste of material resources and even social resources. Therefore, another extension of intelligent manufacturing can include the intelligent management of the product itself, so that the product can be managed in an organic and effective way and adjust its own state in a timely manner.

The progress and innovation of intelligent manufacturing have brought many doors to the future

Finally, he said that the progress and innovation of intelligent manufacturing have brought many doors to the future to human beings, which may change every aspect of people's production and life, and also make the original unattainable development goals seem closer and more realistic, such as sustainable development, and more importantly, he made human beings realize once again that their potential to transform the world and shape the future is endless, and this is the most primitive driving force for human continuous progress. Therefore, intelligent manufacturing is the fast lane to sustainable development, or it is to make human efforts to sustainable development really on the fast track.

Honeywell Yu Feng: Smart manufacturing is the fast track to sustainable development

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