On May 8, 2018, the preparatory meeting for the International Smart Manufacturing Alliance was successfully held at the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Standing Vice President of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, First Secretary of the Secretariat, Huai Jinpeng, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, China Association for Science and Technology Chairman of the Commonwealth Bureau, Academician Zhou Ji of the Chinese Academy of Engineering attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Attending this meeting were from Australia, China and Hong Kong, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and 13 other countries. More than 120 representatives from 70 institutions in the region. The meeting was chaired by the vice president and director of the expert committee of the Association of Intelligent Manufacturing Society of China Association for Science and Technology, the chairman of the China Mechanical Engineering Society and the chairman of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Li Peigen.
Figure 1 Site of the International Smart Manufacturing Alliance Preparatory Meeting
In his speech, Huai Jinpeng pointed out that at present, the world is facing tremendous changes. We have come to the turning point of the digital road: On the one hand, it is a scientific revolution, on the other hand, it is the shaping of industry. The combination of them requires different fields. , People in different industries unite together to achieve interoperability and information sharing in various fields based on cooperation. The book “Out of Control” describes a new world of biological, digital, and manufacturing integration formed through constant adjustment of technology. We need to unite universities, companies, scientific research institutions and other people with lofty ideals to share experience, information, knowledge, and solutions to problems, to achieve a win-win situation, and then to meet new challenges and a better tomorrow.
Figure 2 Speech by Huai Jinpeng
In his speech, Academician Zhou Ji pointed out that since July 2016, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the China Association for Science and Technology have organized hundreds of academicians and experts to conduct research and formed the “China Smart Manufacturing Development Strategy Study Report.” In the process of promoting intelligent manufacturing, Without participation of enterprises, universities, scientific research institutions and professional organizations, the Chinese manufacturing industry must continuously expand its exchanges with the manufacturing industries of all countries in the world and implement a higher level of openness. The Chinese market is an open market, and China’s innovation system is open. The innovation system. We must work with our colleagues in the world's manufacturing industry to jointly advance a new generation of intelligent manufacturing, jointly promote a new round of industrial revolution, and make the manufacturing industry better for humanity.
Figure 3 Speech by Academician Zhou Ji
At the meeting, Wu Youhua, Deputy Secretary-General of the Association of Intelligent Manufacturing of China Association for Science and Technology reported on the initiation and preparatory work report of the International Smart Manufacturing Alliance. He introduced the background of the launch of the International Smart Manufacturing Alliance, the development plan and the current preparations, pointing out the international intelligence. The Manufacturing Alliance is an international cooperative organization formed by voluntary, equal, and mutually beneficial organizations that are actively promoting the intelligent manufacturing industry in various countries and regions around the world. Enterprises, scientific research institutions, and institutions of higher learning, etc. The need for smart manufacturing development, through the promotion of international exchanges in the field of smart manufacturing, promotes effective cooperation among all parties, establishes an open smart manufacturing ecosystem, promotes the worldwide application of intelligent manufacturing technologies and the interconnection of related standards, and promotes global advanced intelligent manufacturing technologies. Best practice to promote smart manufacturing for sustainable development.
Fig. 4 Wu Youhua, Deputy Secretary General of the Association of Intelligent Manufacturing of China Association for Science and Technology
Huang Pei, a member of the Bureau of Intelligent Manufacturing Association of China Association for Science and Technology and a deputy director of the Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, presided over the discussion session. The participants held a lively discussion on the English name, vision, mission and key work of the International Intelligent Manufacturing Alliance. In the discussion, it was decided to set up an International Smart Manufacturing Alliance Preparatory Committee composed of organizations that agreed to participate in the preparatory work and be responsible for the preparations for the establishment of the Alliance. The meeting believed that the establishment of the International Smart Manufacturing Alliance would help expand the international exchange in the field of smart manufacturing and deepen international cooperation. Smart manufacturing cooperation to achieve the intelligent development of the global manufacturing industry. The meeting hopes that the preparatory committee will be able to extensively contact international organizations that are engaged in and focus on smart manufacturing and set up an international intelligent manufacturing alliance as soon as possible.
Figure 5 Discussion Session
The preparatory meeting was successfully concluded in a warm atmosphere. The successful convening of the conference will not only be the foundation for the establishment of the International Intelligent Manufacturing Alliance, but will also become an intelligence for expanding international exchanges in the field of smart manufacturing, deepening international intelligent manufacturing research and cooperation, and achieving global manufacturing. Important milestones in the development of chemical industry.
Figure 6 Group photo of participants