PCB Technical - Intelligent Manufacturing of PCBA in the Industry 4.0 Era

For friends in the PCBA processing industry in recent years, Industry 4.0 can be said to be in full swing, so what exactly is Industry 4.0? Industry 4.0 is not just a problem in the industrial field, nor is it just a problem in the field of life. Its involvement and coverage are too wide, so its boundaries are difficult to define. But what is certain is: it can rise to the world pattern.

Since Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Germany in October 2014 and published the "China-Germany Cooperation Action Program", the concept of "Industry 4.0" has become popular in China. For a while, the strategic position of "Industry 4.0" and "intelligent manufacturing" has rapidly increased. It can be said that "Made in China 2025" has indeed been affected by Germany's "Industry 4.0" to a certain extent, and the core ideas have many similarities with "Industry 4.0". For example, "Made in China 2025" emphasizes that one of the main directions of attack is "intelligent manufacturing", which is also the core idea of "Industry 4.0"; in addition, the cyber-physical system (CPS) mentioned in "Made in China 2025" as the basis of intelligent manufacturing, It is also the core concept emphasized by German "Industry 4.0".

It coincides with "Industry 4.0" that for the transformation and upgrading of domestic industries (such as SMT chip processing and PCBA processing industries), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology began preparations for manufacturing in the next ten years as early as three or four years ago. Industry Development Plan: "Made in China 2025". Today, this plan will draw lessons from Germany's "Industry 4.0", learn from Germany's intelligent manufacturing, and draw a clear road map for China's development into a modern industrial power.

"Industry 4.0" is a development concept. "Made in China 2025" has also weakened the five-year time limit in the previous plan. The planning period has been extended to 2025. It pays more attention to medium and long-term planning, mainly focusing on areas that need to be strengthened in China's industry. Strengthen, and strive to make our country transform from an industrial power to an industrial power in 2025.

In the past, China's manufacturing industry was not high in technology, and it has always been at the low end of the international industrial value chain. Under the active promotion of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the deep integration of industrialization and informatization (“deep integration of the two”) has laid a solid foundation for the networked and intelligent development of the manufacturing industry. There is no doubt that the new round of industrial revolution will drive the deep integration of the two technologies faster: the full embedding of information technology into the manufacturing industry will subvert the traditional production process, production mode and management method; the depth of the manufacturing process and business management system Integration will realize highly flexible configuration of production factors and realize mass customized production. All this will strongly promote the traditional manufacturing industry to accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading.

Today, companies in the SMT chip processing and PCBA processing industries, in order to better serve customers and take a higher level, are now actively marching towards the industry 4.0 standard era, striving to complete the Chinese dream of China's great rejuvenation as soon as possible.