The Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan (2016-2020), issued jointly by the Ministry of Industry, Information Technology and the Ministry of Finance, stipulates the specific targets of intelligent manufacturing by 2020: the popularization rate of digitized workshop/intelligent factory exceeds 20%, and the operating cost, product development cycle and the rate of defective products are greatly reduced. At present, in the field of oil and gas equipment manufacturing, what is the stage of intelligent manufacturing at the manufacturing side? How far is it from the whole process of intelligent manufacturing? Where is the difficulty for enterprises to promote intelligent manufacturing?

The Intelligent Manufacturing Control Center of Jerry Group, the Digital Chemical Plant of Engineering Research Institute of PetroChina Group, and the Whole Process Information Production Line of PetroChina Baoji Petroleum Machinery Co., Ltd. At the China International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition held a few days ago, the participating equipment manufacturers are pushing forward intelligent manufacturing and technological innovation, and as a grasp of enterprise transformation to high-end manufacturing.
Industry experts believe that whether from the enterprise's own transformation, industry development or policy guidance, intelligence is the general trend, but to fully realize, still need to break many bottlenecks.
Entering the stage of digital factory
Intelligent manufacturing is the main direction of "Made in China 2025". In recent years, oil and gas equipment manufacturing enterprises have made many attempts and explorations in combination with their own reality, and achieved some results.
According to Wang Kun, Deputy Engineer of Jerry Petroleum Equipment Group, the intelligent manufacturing control center developed by Jerry Group transmits the operation data and information to the production control center in real time through intelligent equipment such as CNC center, robot and intelligent instrument. The equipment can be known directly from the mobile phone client or tablet computer. Operation status, production performance and monitoring of production anomalies. "The system from the front-end pre-sales support to research and development design, from the inspection warehouse to the procurement stage, and ultimately after-sales service links can achieve intelligent operation."
"Intelligent not only can greatly save labor, but also can improve efficiency, which is the development trend of the petroleum equipment industry." Jerry Group Chairman Sun Weijie said.
However, according to Xiao Gang, deputy director of the market management department of PetroChina Baoji Petroleum Machinery Co., Ltd., in the field of petroleum equipment, some key processes, key components and production workshops have been intelligently manufactured to achieve intelligent production, but the entire factory and the entire production process of equipment products have also been intelligently manufactured. Far from being realized.
According to Li Dongyang, Deputy Engineer of Beijing Petroleum Machinery Co., Ltd., intelligent manufacturing needs to go through four stages: digitization, digitization, intelligent factory and intelligent manufacturing. "At present, the entire industry is mostly in the digital factory to intelligent factory transformation stage, our company is facing the'unmanned'intelligent equipment and logistics equipment as the basis, change the original discrete manufacturing industry relatively solid production line and production system, so that enterprises from marketing, design, research and development, technology, manufacturing, manufacturing, etc.  Warehousing, service all links more closely, flexible and intelligent, focusing on building enterprise digital convergence platform.
In an interview with reporters, the relevant person in charge of the informatization department of Beijing Petroleum Machinery Co., Ltd. thinks that it is difficult to realize the intelligent factory of the whole process control, and it still needs a long time. "Intelligent factories need not only to connect the various production links with digital information, but also to add intelligent decision-making parts, using machines to make decisions."
No mature experience can be duplicated.
Su Yinao, academician of China Academy of Engineering and vice president of Drilling Engineering Research Institute of China Petroleum Corporation, said that intelligent transformation is leading the trend and direction of manufacturing industry. The application of oil and gas intelligent technology in equipment will effectively promote the efficiency of oil and gas industry, reduce costs and risks.
Although intelligent manufacturing is good, there are still many problems in the process of promoting it.
In Li Dongyang's view, unlike automobile manufacturing and other industries, the production line is single, easy to achieve intelligent manufacturing, petroleum equipment industry products are more complex, variety, large volume, long manufacturing process, product processing process, more personalized demand, change factors, intelligent manufacturing requirements are very high. "Intelligent production is inexperienced and can be found by equipment manufacturers."
Xiao Gang thinks that the standard parts of petroleum equipment products are easier to realize intelligent manufacturing, but for petroleum equipment products with more personalized needs on the user side, it is difficult to realize batch production of the same type of single product, which makes it difficult to realize intelligent manufacturing.
In the interview, the reporter learned that in addition to the above problems, high investment, integration of resources and other difficulties are also the constraints to achieve the whole process of intelligent production.
"From our own practice, large investment, many variables, weak manufacturing foundation are the important factors that restrict the whole process of intelligent production." China Petroleum Baoji Oilfield Machinery Co production and operation Department defense defense told reporters.
In this regard, the above Daqing Oilfield Equipment Manufacturing Group also said that the current oil equipment is basically mature, re-development of intelligent manufacturing control platform, not only large investment, long payback period, but also interrupt the existing more mature production lines and production mode.
"For manufacturing enterprises, the biggest difficulty is how to integrate the digital and intelligent manufacturing links." Wang Kun said.
Put forward higher requirements for management mode.
Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan (2016-2020), jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry, Information Technology and the Ministry of Finance, clearly sets out the specific objectives of Intelligent Manufacturing in 2020.