Recently, the "new infrastructure" with a scale of up to 35 trillion yuan has become a new hotspot of the market and investors. This national strategic measure aims to "accelerate the construction progress of 5G networks, data centers and other new infrastructure", which demonstrates China's determination to promote the current and future economic growth with high-quality digital innovative development, and gives China's industries the opportunity dividend of innovative development. How can the laser equipment industry, as the upstream of the manufacturing industry, cope with and integrate into the wave of "new infrastructure"? The relevant person in charge expressed their views on the future development of the laser equipment industry.
 

How does the laser equipment industry respond to the development of industrial intelligence under the "new infrastructure"

The Chinese economy is moving towards high-quality development, and the new era requires new infrastructure. The "new infrastructure" includes Industrial Internet, ultra-high voltage, intercity high-speed railway and urban rail transit, 5G base station construction and other fields. The levels and dimensions involved are deeply related to the laser equipment industry. The laser industry has huge future environmental opportunities.

The relevant person in charge stated that the implementation and development of new infrastructure have further promoted the development of China's innovation driven industrialization process. As the upstream of industrial manufacturing, laser cutting is bound to enter a high-speed development stage. How to innovate and develop the laser industry to fit the new trend of industrial and information technology integration development in the context of "new infrastructure" with high innovation, high stability, and high quality is an urgent issue that needs to be considered and solved.

New Infrastructure Accelerates Innovation and Transformation in the Laser Equipment Industry

In the long run, the foundation of informatization in China's industry is still weak, digitalization has not been completed, let alone high intelligence, and many standards among equipment are not unified. The implementation of "new infrastructure" makes Industrial Internet promising.

Industrial Internet is the basis for the development of intelligent manufacturing, which can provide common infrastructure and capabilities. Intelligent manufacturing mainly requires two foundations: firstly, industrial manufacturing foundation, including advanced processes, materials, technology, and manufacturing capabilities; The second is the foundation of networking and digitization, which is a network formed by connecting equipment, products, customers, business processes, employees, orders, and information systems. Data is collected and analyzed through the network, and the relevant results are used to improve production efficiency and reduce resource consumption.

Based on the basic needs of the above two aspects, the relevant person in charge stated that the focus of intelligent manufacturing development is how to achieve "intelligent processing", which includes two directions: firstly, continuous innovation and transformation in technology, including automation, technology, and manufacturing processes; The second is how to use information technology and digitization to create a universal laser industry solution and a production line that liberates more labor force, known as the "intelligent factory" or "intelligent production line". According to relevant data, high-power cutting and welding will still be the largest application field of laser equipment in 2023, and there is still broad space for high-power domestically produced devices.

The future has arrived: three major directions of integrated development

In recent years, the laser cutting market has grown rapidly, and the construction of intercity transportation, logistics, municipal construction, and IoT base stations will continue to drive up the trend of the laser cutting market. The person in charge stated that as the upstream industrial chain of industrial manufacturing, laser cutting, based on the "new infrastructure" policy, will focus on the following aspects for future development:

1. Technological innovation. Speed innovation "is the core value. The structural optimization and upgrading of China's industrial manufacturing industry is bound to drive the integration, innovation, and development of various industries. Guided by "new infrastructure", we will accelerate the integration and development of new generation information technology and sheet metal manufacturing technology in a "vertical" manner. We will take sheet metal cutting intelligent manufacturing as the main direction of deep integration in the laser industry, and address the bottlenecks and weak links that constrain the development of sheet metal cutting, accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading, and improve quality and efficiency; Promote and innovate horizontally from dimensions such as automated processing and ultra-high power, and create globally innovative and differentiated laser intelligent solutions to meet the multi scenario application needs of "new infrastructure".

2. Market orientation. Insight into customer needs and clear direction of customer interests are the cornerstone of sustainable development for enterprises. Focusing on customer demand and starting from processing quality, efficiency, and cost, we provide customers with the most matching intelligent production solutions.

3. Globalization. In the future, utilizing global resources and markets, strengthening the global layout of industries and international exchanges and cooperation, forming new comparative advantages, comprehensively improving the open development level of China's intelligent manufacturing industry, and creating global laser intelligent solutions.

Intelligent manufacturing has become an important development direction in the manufacturing industry. In recent years, laser technology, as an advanced processing technology form, has been perfectly integrated into the overall solution of intelligent manufacturing. The automated production form is more intelligent due to the increasingly mature laser processing technology.

The overall solution for laser intelligent manufacturing has changed the original manufacturing mode in design. In the traditional production line process segments covering cutting, welding, marking, etc., these traditional process segments have been more replaced by advanced processing technology solutions such as laser. Whether it is the demand for controllable quality, production efficiency and product efficiency, personalized customization, or ultimately building an intelligent factory for human-machine interaction, advanced laser intelligent manufacturing overall solutions are undoubtedly indispensable units.

Nowadays, driven by leading manufacturing enterprises, the implementation and application of intelligent manufacturing and intelligent factories are bringing profound changes to traditional industries.

About HGTECH: HGTECH is the pioneer and leader of laser industrial application in China, and the authoritative provider of global laser processing solutions. We have comprehensively arranged laser intelligent machine, measurement and automation production lines, and smart factory construction to provide overall solutions for intelligent manufacturing.