Ouyang Jinsong, vice chairman of the Expert Advisory Committee of the intelligent testing equipment industry and director of the Institute of Comprehensive Technology and Economics of Machinery Industry Instrumentation, said: Accelerating the development of the intelligent testing equipment industry will help improve the resilience and safety of the manufacturing industry chain and supply chain, and provide strong support for the construction of a manufacturing power.
In order to promote the high-quality development of the intelligent testing equipment industry, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission and other seven departments jointly issued the "Action Plan for the Development of Intelligent Testing Equipment Industry (2023-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), proposing to build an intelligent testing equipment industry system for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and the urgent needs of major national strategies, and support the construction of a manufacturing power, a quality power, and a digital China.
To this end, Xinhua Finance and Economics exclusively interviewed Ouyang Jinsong, vice chairman of the Expert Advisory Committee of the intelligent testing equipment industry and director of the Institute of Comprehensive Technology and Economics of Machinery Industry Instrumentation, and asked him to talk about his understanding and knowledge of promoting the high-quality development of the intelligent testing equipment industry.
The seven departments jointly issued the "Action Plan", which put forward the development direction and landing measures of intelligent testing equipment in the top-level design. Could you please introduce what intelligent testing equipment is, why should we develop intelligent testing equipment, and what is the role of intelligent testing equipment in the construction of new industrialization?
Ouyang Jinsong
Intelligent testing equipment is based on industrial sensors and instrumentation, focusing on the implementation of manufacturing process, production quality control, equipment operation management, safety environment monitoring and other intelligent testing needs, strong coupling with the manufacturing process, with intelligent characteristics such as fusion perception, independent analysis, real-time feedback, etc., used to achieve stable production and operation, ensure product quality, improve manufacturing efficiency, ensure service safety and other goals of online testing equipment. Intelligent testing equipment is widely used in machinery, automobiles, aerospace, electronics, steel, petrochemical, textile, medicine, power and new energy, coal, building materials, food, rail transit, home appliance production and other industries.
The National Conference on the Promotion of New Industrialization emphasized that the requirements of high-quality development should run through the whole process of new industrialization, and build a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization. The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that quality support and standard guidance should be strengthened to improve the resilience and safety of industrial and supply chains. Intelligent testing equipment is an important component of the "six bases of industry" and an important area of industrial base upgrading, which is crucial to production quality and product quality, and its development level is related to the development level of the mainland's manufacturing industry.
First of all, the development of intelligent detection equipment is an urgent need to make up for the shortcomings and weaknesses and build a manufacturing power. At present, there are still problems in the mainland's intelligent testing equipment industry, such as weak technical foundation, insufficient high-end supply, imperfect industrial system and imperfect application ecology, which has become a key shortcoming for the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. Accelerating the development of the intelligent testing equipment industry will help improve the resilience and safety of the manufacturing industry chain and supply chain, and provide strong support for the construction of a manufacturing power.
Secondly, the development of intelligent testing equipment is an important guarantee for promoting industrial digitalization and building a digital China. In the digitalization of the industry, equipment must come first. The level of digitalization of testing equipment largely determines the level of industrial technology and manufacturing quality. The development of intelligent testing equipment will provide equipment support for the system to further promote the development of intelligent manufacturing, and provide a fundamental guarantee for the deep integration and development of the digital economy and the real economy and the construction of a digital China.
Finally, the development of intelligent testing equipment is a strategic choice to promote industrial optimization and upgrading and new industrialization. Promoting industrial optimization and upgrading means improving efficiency and efficiency. The development of intelligent testing equipment, through digital means to improve the detection accuracy, quality stability, to achieve the amplification of equipment performance, efficiency and value, to drive technological progress in key areas and the formation of new economic growth points, is conducive to the comprehensive promotion of new industrialization, enhance industrial competitiveness.
The "Action Plan" proposes that the development of intelligent testing equipment needs to grasp the opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, strengthen the deep integration of intelligent detection technology and a new generation of information technology, and improve the performance, efficiency and value of intelligent testing equipment. What do you think are the favorable factors for the market development of intelligent testing equipment?
Ouyang Jinsong
The mainland has established the world's largest industrial system, the most complete categories and the most complete supporting facilities, but the mainland's industry is still at the middle and low end of the global value chain, and is in a critical period of transformation from a manufacturing country to a manufacturing power. At the same time, the working-age population of the mainland is gradually decreasing, and the original advantages of the traditional manufacturing industry based on the demographic dividend are gradually disappearing. The model of replacing labor with machines as the main labor force has ushered in development opportunities, and the trend of replacing manual detection with intelligent detection equipment has gradually emerged.
With the strong support of the national industrial policy, the intelligent testing equipment industry has ushered in major development opportunities. In recent years, the state has successively issued guiding documents such as the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing", the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Deep Integration of Informatization and Industrialization, and the Action Plan for the Development of the Intelligent Testing Equipment Industry (2023-2025) to continue to promote the high-quality development of the intelligent manufacturing and intelligent testing equipment industry. The equipment industry is a strategic industry of the national economy, is the core tool of intelligent manufacturing, the mainland from the policy to support the intelligent testing equipment as the representative of the equipment industry bigger and stronger, intelligent testing equipment technology, products and industries ushered in a window period of vigorous development.
Emerging technologies empower intelligent manufacturing and accelerate the intelligent transformation of the testing equipment industry. With the increasingly widespread application of emerging technologies represented by 5G, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in the manufacturing industry, the perception, processing, and communication capabilities of intelligent detection equipment have been empowered to leap forward, which is promoting fundamental changes in the production detection mode, production line operation mode and even enterprise form of the manufacturing industry.
The trend of market demand in the downstream of the industry has forced the quality and efficiency of intelligent testing equipment. Intelligent testing equipment is widely used in consumer electronics, medical, new energy vehicles, aerospace and industrial electronics. The development of the national economy, the continuous improvement of people's living standards, and the rapid growth of demand for customized, integrated and intelligent terminal products have forced enterprises to adjust production capacity and update products in a shorter cycle. Intelligent and integrated products also require that they must be equipped with production process testing, and intelligent testing equipment is required to have higher precision and faster detection performance.
The development of intelligent testing equipment is an important support for the construction of new industrialization, and the industry is also facing greater market development opportunities. What problems do you think still exists in the mainland intelligent testing equipment industry, and what suggestions do you have for promoting the healthy development of the industry?
Ouyang Jinsong
Compared with industrially developed countries and regions such as the United States, Japan and Europe, the mainland intelligent testing equipment industry started late, most of the enterprises in the industry are small, and the industry is facing problems such as weak technical foundation, insufficient high-end supply, imperfect industrial system and imperfect application ecology. With the increasing demand for intelligent testing equipment, the emergence of new technologies and new products, and the rapid development momentum of the industry, in order to seize the development opportunities of the intelligent testing equipment industry, it is necessary to accelerate the development from the aspects of standard guidance, scenario driven, platform services, cluster construction and talent training.
First, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a standardized system for intelligent testing equipment. Industrial development, standards first. As an important starting point for promoting the development of intelligent testing equipment and the promotion of the industry, standardization is an important means of precise management of the industry, which is of great significance and role in improving product quality, enhancing production and sales, promoting market trade, enhancing safety and promoting sustainable development. Actively implement the requirements of the Action Plan on the development of a number of basic standards for testing technology, key technical standards for intelligent testing equipment, and standards for interconnection between testing equipment and software systems. In order to better serve the intelligent upgrading of testing equipment, it is recommended that the standard system position the attributes of the times required by technical indicators, highlight the characteristic indicators such as "three sexes and two modernizations" (reliability, stability, safety, intelligence, and greening) in view of the problem of "usable but not easy to use" of domestic products, strengthen the technical requirements for equipment application performance such as environmental adaptability, and promote the standard system to become a strong guarantee for users to dare to use and be willing to use domestic testing equipment.
Second, we should pay attention to the synchronous development of intelligent testing equipment and the upstream and downstream of the industry. On the one hand, the combination of scenarios is the premise of the practical application of intelligent detection equipment, and the environmental parameters of major engineering and project scenarios tend to be extreme, and the demand for in-situ real-time detection is urgent. On the other hand, it is necessary to further pay attention to the integration of intelligent testing equipment and the upstream, and key components of intelligent testing equipment such as high-precision sensors, industrial cameras, and optical components also need to be made to make key breakthroughs, so as to enhance the resilience and safety level of the supply chain of the intelligent testing equipment industry chain.
Third, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of industrial public service platform, and the common platform is the "accelerator" for the cultivation of the intelligent testing equipment industry. Intelligent testing equipment has a high degree of comprehensive technology, a long cycle of product development and brand building, a small enterprise size, a scattered industry, and many management policies and regulations. It is recommended to strengthen the construction of industrial public service platforms, establish public service institutions, support the government, jointly guide manufacturers and users to join hands, open up both ends of the supply and demand chain, promote the coordination of government, industry, academia and research, jointly carry out technical research and verification, strengthen the ability of pilot test verification with a common platform, and promote the maturation and industrialization of new intelligent testing equipment technology as soon as possible.
Fourth, it is necessary to promote the development of intelligent testing equipment industry to clusters. The Action Plan supports qualified local governments, industrial parks and leading enterprises to build industrial cluster promotion institutions, and proposes to deploy innovation chains around the industrial chain, improve ecological construction and scenario application, and strengthen the construction of digital platforms. Through the dismantling of the value chain, the value of each link of the industrial chain can be quickly realized, the chain will be strengthened and the chain will be extended in a targeted manner, the cluster collaboration network will be smoothed, the professional supporting capacity will be enhanced, the quality brand building will be strengthened, the leading role of leading enterprises will be played, the coordinated development of large and medium-sized enterprises will be promoted, the cultivation of high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises will be strengthened, and the agglomeration and development of the intelligent testing equipment industry will be promoted.
Fifth, it is necessary to improve the overall mechanism of cooperation and sharing, strengthen talent training, and continue to build an advantageous team. The intelligent testing equipment industry is a technology-intensive industry, and talent is the focus of competition, and it is also an important factor affecting the competitiveness of enterprises. It is recommended to strengthen the implementation of the talent training measures in the Action Plan, increase policy support, rely on universities, scientific research institutes and equipment manufacturing enterprises, strengthen cooperation with top international institutions, jointly build laboratories and R&D centers, and carry out special activities for intelligent testing equipment and technical talents. Starting from the demand side of intelligent testing equipment enterprises, relying on colleges and universities to train professional technical and management talents, accelerate the construction of a talent innovation environment with strong innovation ability, close integration of production and education, and flexible training mechanism, and steadily build an application-oriented team with industry advantages, so as to realize the sustainable supply of talents for the research and development and application of intelligent detection technology.