In recent years, some domestic textile companies have achieved good results in automation and intelligent construction. Some spinning companies have realized blowing and carding, coarse and fine joints, and fine network joints. Through process connection, they have greatly reduced labor and reduced labor costs. Reduce human resource costs and increase product profits. So, are the automation and intelligence we often talk about the same thing?
The difference between automation and intelligence
For example: A company has built a fully automatic assembly line to produce a certain product. The original plan was to recover the cost within three years. But after a year and a half, the product could no longer be sold.
The conversion of the production line is very troublesome – this is an automated production line, but it cannot be called an intelligent production line. Because intelligent production lines need to cope with changes in product categories.
So, although traditional automation has solved production problems to a certain extent, some “unconventional” problems are what intelligence needs to do. What if the equipment malfunctions (rather than deviates)? What should I do if the product quality does not meet the requirements? What should I do if the performance of the control system itself decreases? These are all things that intelligence has to do.
From automation to intelligence
A company conducted a survey and found that: two people with similar conditions In factories, our country has fewer front-line workers than foreign companies, but the total number of employees is much larger because domestic companies have relatively more management and technical personnel.
This means: The difference between us and foreign companies is not actually at the automation level. The low level of intelligence is an important reason.
Therefore, as the level of automation increases, intelligence will become an important means to improve labor efficiency. If automation targets blue-collar workers, intelligence mainly targets white-collar managers and technicians. Traditional automation is mainly responsible for some routine tasks. As the level of automation increases, people will do less routine work and mainly do non-routine work. At this time, the value of intelligence becomes apparent.
So, in a sense, automation to intelligence is aimed at moving from small systems to large systems.
The core of intelligence
One of the core tasks of intelligence is the digitization of knowledge—— Only in this way can human work be handed over to computers. Of course, another necessary condition for correct decision-making is sufficient information: try to let the machine have more information than humans, not less. This is the role of information integration. Today’s intelligence is smart, that is, using technology and many other means to collect a lot of data. However, data is only a means. Only when data is used repeatedly can it be intelligent.
Automation often only targets the production process, while intelligence targets the business activities of the entire enterprise, such as R&D services, procurement and sales, etc. This is also an important difference between automation and intelligence. </p
