Intelligence is the development direction of the mold industry

With the rapid development of the world economy, intelligent manufacturing is prompting the transformation of existing industries and leading the advancement and innovation of global manufacturing development models. It is an inevitable choice for the transformation of China's manufacturing industry. The mold manufacturing industry occupies a special position in the manufacturing industry, and its level of development determines the overall level of the manufacturing industry.

In order to adapt to the ever-increasing market competition, China's mold manufacturing industry is undergoing major changes in recent years, such as the mass production of molds to the flexible production changes according to market or customer requirements; mold design and control systems are independently integrated into design and control systems. One-sided transformation; transformation from local production to global procurement and production; requirements for quality, cost, efficiency, and safety of manufacturing plants are also increasing. These changes are driving the development and application of automation technology in the mold industry to a new stage. That is, the intelligent development stage.

The so-called intelligent manufacturing equipment is a manufacturing equipment with sensing, analysis, decision-making and control functions. The intelligent mold also has the functions of sensing, analysis, decision-making and control. The stamping mold and die-casting mold with sensing and temperature control functions have the function of temperature control. The injection molds, which are manufactured by intelligent control means such as injection molding parameters and in-mold flow conditions, are intelligent molds. With the unsustainable development of low-cost human resources in China and the continuous development of science and technology, automated and intelligent manufacturing will inevitably become an important direction for the development of modern manufacturing, and smart molds will surely develop rapidly. Producing products with intelligent molds can further improve product quality and production efficiency, save more materials, realize automated production and green manufacturing.

Therefore, although the current total amount of smart mold is still not much, but it represents the new direction of development of mold technology, will play an increasingly important role in the industry product structure adjustment and change in development methods. The development of intelligent molds will inevitably have a powerful driving role in promoting the rapid improvement of the entire mold industry. Therefore, it is particularly necessary to prioritize the development of intelligent molds in the development of the industry.

"Developing smart mold manufacturing" is also one of the development goals during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period in China. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the overall goal of the development of intelligent mold manufacturing equipment for strategic emerging industries in China is to promote the overall level of high-efficiency, precision, and high-performance molds by developing intelligent molds to meet the “smart manufacturing” requirements. The promotion of the overall level of strategic emerging industry services driven by the mold will greatly increase the level of smart molds, laying a solid foundation for China's mold industry to enter the world mold power country by 2020.

Its specific objectives are: (1) The level of high-efficiency, precision, and high-performance molds represented mainly by intelligent molds. The medium and long-term goal is to reach the international advanced level. The first stage of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period is to enable intelligent mold leveling. Basically meet the needs of smart manufacturing. (2) The proportion of high-efficiency, precision, and high-performance molds that are mainly represented by intelligent molds accounts for about 35% of the total molds, reaching more than 40% of the later period of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and achieving more than 50% of the total. Long-term goals. (3) Continuously shorten the production cycle of the mold and improve the service life and stability of the mold. Firstly, the production period of the later period of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” is shortened by 20% to 30%, and the service life is increased by 20% to 30% than that of the present. Refinement to improve reliability and stability. (4) Continuously improve the level of digitization and informationization. In the later period of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, enterprises that manufacture high-efficiency, precise, high-performance molds basically achieved CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM integration, and more than 40% of companies basically implemented information management. The fifth mold automatic production is an important development direction, and it is still in the experimental practice stage. By the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, there will be more than 5 mold companies that can realize automatic mold production, and in the intelligent networked manufacturing technology and management of molds. There is a major breakthrough.