2025-02-25
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China has built over 30,000 basic level smart factories as part of of a nationwide push to accelerate industrial digitalization and intelligent upgrading.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the initiative under the Smart Factory Gradient Cultivation Action has also seen the creation of 1200 advanced level and 230 excellence level smart factories.
This achievement highlights the significant progress that has been made in reshaping the country's manufacturing landscape.
The 230 excellence level factories distributed across all 31 provincial regions in China and covering over 80% of manufacturing sectors have carried out nearly 2000 advanced scenarios including smart warehousing, AI powered quality inspections and digital research and development.
On average, These factories are 28% shorter in product development cycles, 22% higher in production efficiency, 50% lower in defect rates and 20% lower in carbon emissions.
The ministry, alongside five other state agencies, jointly launched a smart factory gradient cultivation action last year and classified smart factories into four tiers based on technological maturity and integration depth, namely the Basic level, the Advanced level, the Excellence level and the Pioneer level.
For instance, Basic level smart factories are required to develop foundational capabilities in digitization and networking.
This involves deploying the necessary smart manufacturing equipment, industrial software and systems centered around typical scenarios of smart manufacturing.
By doing so, they can achieve real time data collection, automation of key production processes, enhance the informatization of production and operational management, and utilize intelligence exploration in certain aspects.
Moving forward, the Ministry has vowed to expand Excellence level smart factory promotion and prepare to launch Pioneer level Cultivation, aiming to further promote the expansion, deeper integration and elevated evolution of intelligent manufacturing.
This is special English Chinese scientists have developed a prototype for a new class of aerial and terrestrial cross domain robot designed for missions such as Mars exploration.
Weighing just around 300 grams, about the same as an Apple, the robot can roll on the ground and take flight to pass over obstacles.
It was created by a research team at the Harbin Institute of Technology.
The team has developed multiple versions of of the aerial and terrestrial robot, achieving an endurance time six times longer than similar sized unmanned aerial vehicles.
These robots can be used to perform tasks such as monitoring, probing and maintenance.
They can be adapted to different terrains and equipped with manipulators to perform screwing or pressing actions.