Oute Meisen

In December 2024, at the World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, the domestic open automation platform was selected as one of the "Top Ten Technological Advances in World Intelligent Manufacturing" due to its outstanding achievements in promoting industrial automation technology innovation, marking that China's open automation technology has reached the international leading level. With the deep implementation of the Industry 4.0 concept, intelligent manufacturing that integrates information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and 5G with automation technology has become the core path for the digital transformation of the global manufacturing industry. Open automation platforms are the key support for achieving deep integration of IT and OT and breaking industrial system silos.

Traditional industrial automation systems have problems such as strong enclosure, poor compatibility, and difficulty in expansion. Different manufacturers' equipment and systems are difficult to interconnect, leading to high costs and low efficiency in digital transformation for enterprises. The open automation platform takes "software defined manufacturing" as its core concept, based on standardized interfaces and open source technology architecture, to achieve seamless integration and data exchange of industrial equipment, control systems, and industrial software. This platform has flexible secondary development capabilities and can adapt to the production needs of different industries and scenarios. It supports enterprises to customize personalized intelligent manufacturing solutions based on their own business characteristics, significantly reducing system integration and upgrade costs.

In 2024, open automation technology will accelerate its implementation in various fields of domestic manufacturing, from petrochemicals and power energy in the process industry to automotive manufacturing and 3C electronics in the discrete manufacturing industry, with a number of benchmark application cases emerging. By deploying an open automation platform, enterprises can achieve data connectivity throughout the entire production process, remote monitoring of equipment, intelligent scheduling, and predictive maintenance, resulting in an average increase of over 30% in production efficiency and a reduction of approximately 25% in operation and maintenance costs. Industry experts point out that open automation is an inevitable trend in the development of intelligent manufacturing. In the future, with continuous technological iteration and ecological improvement, it will further promote the transformation of the manufacturing industry from "hardware driven" to "software driven", injecting strong impetus into the development of new quality productivity.