ABB B&R Machine Intelligence & Innovation Forum - Witness the high-quality development vitality of China's equipment manufacturing industry

On August 29, ABB B&R's 2023 "Machine Intelligence and Innovation Forum" was held in Qingdao. The theme of this conference is "Precision Automation - Promoting High-quality Development". More than 150 people from various equipment manufacturing industries, terminal production enterprises, system cooperation partners and media partners participated in the meeting. Wonderful sharing, fiery interaction, and exploration together.

On August 29, ABB B&R's 2023 "Machine Intelligence and Innovation Forum" was held in Qingdao. The theme of this conference is "Precision Automation - Promoting High-quality Development". More than 150 people from various equipment manufacturing industries, terminal production enterprises, system cooperation partners and media partners participated in the meeting. Wonderful sharing, fiery interaction, and exploration together.

High-quality development concept

Dr. Xiao Weirong, President of ABB B&R Greater China, first gave an opening speech for the conference. He talked about the transformation challenges faced by China's manufacturing industry, and how to understand "high-quality development", and proposed that high-quality development needs to be measured by "sustainability". With regard to the deployment of enterprises, it is necessary to think that the customer brings the business value of TCO (total cost), fast time to market, and high return on investment—which requires the creation of an adaptive production talent. B&R, as a leading company in the field of equipped automation, has helped the industry to improve the quality of production and the sustainable development of enterprises through precise control, motion control, robotics and flexible transportation skills, and professional application software.

Dr. Xiao Weirong believes that "high-quality development requires us to reach a consensus on innovation, that is, to develop high-quality development, we must pay attention to the value of people and the value of software." Give full play to the potential of talents and the leverage effect of software, and build soft power for enterprises. These are invisible, but the intelligence of the machine, the value of the machine, is visible."

Franz Enhuber, an expert with more than 40 years of experience in automation, has long observed the business logic of the digital future and the development of the skills, services, people and innovations that B&R has built for this purpose. Dr. Yu Rongrong, CTO of B&R (China), discussed the focus of artificial intelligence in the research and development of machines, and how to mix physics and data modeling in industrial scenarios to achieve better control quality and cost power.

Innovative product launch

At this conference, B&R released several key R&D product lines, including multiple series of Codian robots - Dr. Zhang Xiaohui, sales director of B&R (China), said, "Although robots are considered to be a sophisticated profession, however, B&R can always find differences in the needs of users, and the D2-D5 series of robots will still bring differences to industrial users such as packaging and pharmaceuticals."

ABB B&R Machine Intelligence & Innovation Forum - Witness the high-quality development vitality of China's equipment manufacturing industry

Another product, known as the "Robodoctor", was launched by the local team of B&R (China) MITC, which is based on the two urgent needs of machine assembly and on-site operation, and encapsulates vibration monitoring, signal processing and analysis, and display into an "out-of-the-box" product. Analyze and alarm potential problems in the machine assembly process and on-site operation for machine manufacturers, and then improve the health status of machine assembly and operation to ensure the planning and operation level of the machine.

The automation of the future awaits industrial specialists

At this meeting, Mr. Zhang Xiutao, general manager of Qingdao Gaoce Co., Ltd., a benchmark enterprise in the photovoltaic field, was also invited, who shared it from the perspective of equipment manufacturers. Based on the rapid process iteration, strict cost pressure, reliable and stable quality, digital needs and other aspects of the photovoltaic industry, the direction of Gaotei's efforts to "build soft power" is discussed, that is, efficient machine planning, professional team building, and digital integration. He said that "the photovoltaic profession is facing extreme competition, equipped with production talents to reach the limit, and the unit cost must be compressed to the limit low" - this fierce market competition, it is necessary to rely on close cooperation with peers, through innovative planning to achieve its own differentiated competitiveness.

Mr. Sun Yubao of Tongfang Power introduced the cooperation with B&R in the field of smart power to build a closed-loop architecture of complete power collection, analysis, scheduling and operation. He said that "smart power can be considered to bring lower power consumption prices to residents, and the resource utilization power of enterprises, so as to promote the country's overall green dual carbon strategy."

The summit forum was wonderful

The summit forum of this event invited Mr. Li Yanfeng, General Manager of Beiren Intelligence, Mr. He Yunfeng, Chairman of Newamstar Packaging Equipment Co., Ltd., Mr. Lin Bingxuan of Juwei Technology in Taiwan, and Mr. Zhang Xiutao, General Manager of Gaoce Co., Ltd., to discuss the topic of "innovative channel" construction, and discuss "machine innovative channel construction" under the chairmanship of Li Zheng, editor-in-chief of Vogel MM Modern Production.

The senior management of each enterprise has an in-depth understanding of the "innovation channel" for the sustainable development of the enterprise, and has fully expressed their own industrial practice on how to build a good innovation channel. And, although they come from leading companies in different industries, they all share the same vision of innovation. First of all, it is necessary for the industry to change, change the rough development of the past, and need to have a deeper grasp of the market and customer needs. Secondly, it is necessary to build a professional team to carry out a civilization of openness, learning and innovation. And can fully form cooperation between the upstream and downstream of the industry, cross-industry and interdisciplinary integration, to develop their own core skills, in order to form the differentiated competitiveness of the enterprise itself, and win market competition. The innovation channel not only includes the software and hardware channels supported by the automation skills required for development, but also includes the more comprehensive channels for the construction of talents, collaboration, and innovative civilizations to support the sustainable development of enterprises.

These wonderful sharing from industrial practitioners and sincere industrial voices also brought inspiration to the guests, and our common wish lies in the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry through collaboration.

In the summary of the meeting, Dr. Xiao Weirong summarized the exchanges between the forum and us in the past day, and he believed that this meeting showed the speculation of China's equipment manufacturing industry, the willingness to change and the expectation of difference. He commented, "The exchange of this forum made me deeply feel that our equipment manufacturing enterprises have now formed a consensus, that is, the future of China's equipment manufacturing industry lies in improving the competitiveness of enterprises through digital and intelligent innovation, and together, we will go to the world and dance with wolves."

ABB B&R Machine Intelligence & Innovation Forum - Witness the high-quality development vitality of China's equipment manufacturing industry

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