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1. Top-level design ensures the rapid development of industrial Internet

The global outbreak of COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented impact on the real economy of mankind, and also created an urgent and realistic need for accelerating the development of the digital economy. In March 2020, the CPC Central Committee put forward a requirement to speed up the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks, data centers and industrial Internet. In the coming years, China will continue to invest a large amount of funds to support new infrastructure demonstration projects and projects. All the guidelines that have been issued at the national level and all the action plans that will be issued by the provinces and municipalities to implement the spirit of the central government will certainly provide strong policy guarantee for the high-quality development of digital economy in the next stage.

Industrial digitalization is a major component of the digital economy, and the manufacturing industry, especially the high-end equipment industry represented by aviation, aerospace and rail transit equipment, is an important component of high-quality development of the digital economy. High-end equipment industry has a high output value and wide supply chain, which plays a very important leading role in the development of industrial economy, and also represents the highest science and technology, process level and quality requirement in our industry. High-end equipment manufacturing industry is an important field for China’s industrial sector to realize innovation-driven development, management improvement and digital transformation and upgrading.

Since the 21st century, the “Industrial Internet” of the United States and “Industry 4.0″ of Germany have caused the transformation of the product development, production mode and manufacturing value realization mode of the global manufacturing industry. German Industry 4.0 and American Industrial Internet are not only the “multi-prism” to grasp the integrated development of information technology and industry, information technology and industrialization in the future, but also a new industrial development mode in which information technology has reached a deep stage. The core is to continuously enhance the overall competitiveness of enterprises, industries and even countries. With the development and application of industrial big data analysis, intelligent sensor network, industrial network control and other technologies, industrial Internet technology is developing from the initial point-to-point remote control and operation to a deeper direction of networking, intelligence, openness and service. The rapid development of industrial Internet has greatly led and supported the digital transformation of high-end equipment manufacturing industry.

2. Development trend and challenges of high-end equipment manufacturing industry

2.1 Digital development trend

Traditional high-end equipment manufacturing enterprises often increase resource input to achieve the growth of the extension type of development, this extensive mode makes their comprehensive capacity is not much improved, facing the dilemma of low efficiency. In the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the manufacturing industry must rely on the information physical integration system (CPS) to achieve collaborative design, supply chain, production and product service, and be in the ecosystem of global supply chain, and apply the Internet to realize Internet + smart factory [4]. From the perspective of industrial economy, with the mature application of intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet and other technologies, the development mode of innovation-driven new growth and service value chain extension is the new driving force for the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry, and also the direction of its transformation and upgrading.

With the continuous rise of domestic manufacturing costs, the factor-driven development mode of China’s high-end equipment manufacturing industry, which relied on manpower, resources and energy in the past, has reached the bottleneck, and it is urgent to change to the innovation-driven development mode. Attaching importance to innovation in product, technology and management is a key link to realize the upgrading of high-end equipment manufacturing industry and gradually realize the transformation from benchmarking to independent innovation.

High-end equipment manufacturing enterprises used to be at the bottom of the value chain, with heavy investment in equipment sites and low investment economic benefits. With the development of industrial Internet technology, the future economic growth point of high-end equipment manufacturing industry will be the comprehensive security value-added service model, forming service-oriented manufacturing. Collect massive operation data of intelligent equipment products through advanced Internet of things technology, apply industrial big data technology, improve product performance, and control the health status of products throughout their life cycle. Through the integration of manufacturing and service, the value chain from production enterprises to service enterprises can be extended.

2.2 Challenges faced by enterprises

As customers have higher and higher requirements for product functions, performance and quality, shorter and shorter development and production cycles, and lower and lower product prices, the complexity of high-end equipment products, the difficulty of manufacturing process and the degree of high customization have become huge challenges for enterprises. Facing the contradiction between the manufacturing characteristics of “multiple varieties, small batch and high complexity” and “high quality, short cycle and low cost”, high-end equipment manufacturing enterprises are faced with the most complex manufacturing problem throughout the full life cycle of high-end equipment — how to achieve high efficiency and full flexibility in the full life cycle.