20th International Forgemasters Meeting - IFM 2017

Intelligent Manufacturing (IM) technology belongs to the advanced & the new production technologies. Recent years, China government published several policies to support the discrete production type industry including open die forging industry to develop IM. However, there is few of the open die forging plants responding actively. Comparison with the volume production type industry, the open die forging plants is facing greater difficulty and challenge in developing IM technology. In this paper, the main difficulties and the reasons are analyzed based on the production characteristics, the technology foundation and the existed realistic situation in the open die forging plants. The inherent meaning of IM and the necessary to develop IM for open die forging industry are studied based on the economic profit data and the background investigation, statistics and analysis. The urgent problems to be solved first and the priority to be done by IM for the open die forging industry is proposed based on the actual requirements of the open die forging industry and the manufactures,. Considering the combining the basic survival needs and the necessary foundation of developing IM for open die plants, 6 techniques or research achievements are proposed by this paper based on many year continuous studies. Those technical achievements construct the basis to develop the advanced IM in Chinese open die forging industry. Based on the above technical achievements, the basic progress routine map for Chinese open die forging plants to develop and realize IM is given generally. The study may attract more researchers to study on the IM for open die forging industry, it may provide reference idea for the open die plants to develop IM in order to realizing transforming & upgrading, it may also have certain valuable for software and hardware suppliers of the open die forging plants to adjust and to improve their future products and services. Keywords: Open die forging; Intelligent manufacturing; Key technology; Development; Routine; Study