Nanjing, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit 2017 was convened in Nanjing from December 6 to 8. Now key fields represented by robotics and industrial software are leading China's intelligent manufacturing forward.
China's intelligent manufacturing industries are making big progresses mainly in two aspects, that is, emerging intelligent manufacturing industries represented by manufacturing of robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and 3D printers, and large scale introduction and application of industrial software in traditional manufacturing industries.
According to data released by the International Federation of Robotics, the compound annual growth rate of China's industrial robot sales was up to 43 percent from 2009 to 2015. China's industrial robot sales maintained a strong growth momentum in 2016. Industry insiders predicted that the scale of China's industrial robot market and system integration market would hit 25 billion yuan and 70 billion yuan respectively in 2017.
Among the industrial robot parks in China, many important ones are located in east China’s Jiangsu Province, which has invested heavily in developing industrial robots many years ago. Currently, robot industrial parks in Changzhou, Nanjing and other cities have been established and Jiangsu has kept ahead in industrial robot and service robot development in China.
For instance, Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province, established a "robot industrial park" in Chilin Innovation Park, and will establish three more robot industrial bases in Jiangning, Liuhe and Gaochun districts. Changzhou's robot industry ranks the first in the country and one out of every four homemade robots is made in Changzhou. Changzhou's robot and intelligent equipment industrial parks have extended their operations from industrial robots to service robots, medical robots and other fields.
Nowadays intelligent manufacturing is vigorously promoted in such fields as rail transit, aerospace, energy and power and equipment manufacturing in China. Under such circumstances, many sector-leading firms have started to speed up intelligent plant construction and the intelligent upgrading of their existing equipment. Demands for the software supporting industrial product lifecycle such as CAD, SCM, MES and PLM, as well as the embedded software of industrial products are thus greatly boosted, which in turn expand the scale of China's industrial software industry.
Despite the influence of overcapacity in manufacturing industry, China's industrial software still maintained a growth rate of more than 14 percent in recent years. Industry insiders predicted that market size of China's industrial software would exceed 160 billion yuan in 2018. Enditem (Contributed by Qian Hejin, edited by Duan Jing, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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