Intelligent manufacturing originates from the research of artificial intelligence. It is generally believed that intelligence is the sum of knowledge and intelligence, the former is the basis of intelligence, and the latter refers to the ability to acquire and use knowledge to solve problems.

Intelligent manufacturing should include intelligent manufacturing technology and intelligent manufacturing system. Intelligent manufacturing system can not only enrich knowledge base in practice, but also have self-learning function, and the ability to collect and understand environmental information and its own information, analyze and judge and plan its own behavior.

Intelligent manufacturing is a man-machine integrated intelligent system composed of intelligent machines and human experts. It can carry out intelligent activities such as analysis, reasoning, judgment, conception and decision-making in the manufacturing process. Through the cooperation between human beings and intelligent machines, the mental work of human experts in the manufacturing process will be expanded, extended and partially replaced.

To talk about intelligent manufacturing, we should first introduce the international cooperative research plan of "Intelligent Manufacturing System IMS" initiated by Japan in April 1990. Many developed countries, such as the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia. , participated in the plan. The plan * * * plans to invest $654.38+0 billion to implement the preliminary scientific research plan of 6543.8+000 projects.

Manufacturing principle

Based on the essential characteristics of intelligent manufacturing system, in the distributed manufacturing network environment, according to the basic idea of distributed integration, the flexible intelligent integration of manufacturing unit and networked manufacturing system is realized by applying the theory and method of multi-agent system in distributed artificial intelligence.

According to the isomorphic characteristics of distributed system, on the basis of a local realization form of intelligent manufacturing system, it actually reflects the realization mode of intelligent manufacturing system under the global manufacturing network environment based on Internet.