Construction machinery industry is a strategic industry that provides technology and equipment for national infrastructure construction, and is also the most important sub-industry in equipment manufacturing industry. It belongs to one of the key areas encouraged by the state for development. With the development of science and technology, intelligentization has become the mainstream trend in the development of construction machinery, which not only effectively improves the work efficiency, but also reduces the cost. Facing the fierce global competition, it is extremely urgent for China's construction machinery industry to take the road of intellectualization.

Development trend of construction machinery

For a long time, the global market for construction machinery and technical products has been dominated by the United States, Japan, Western Europe, Russia and other large international enterprise groups. After more than a decade of development, China's equipment manufacturing industry has also made remarkable achievements. Chinese enterprises represented by Zoomlion, Sany, XCMG and Weichai have initiated a wave of overseas MERGERS and acquisitions and led the comprehensive upgrading of China's equipment manufacturing product technology market brands.

However, at present, China's equipment manufacturing industry is still large but not strong. As the focus of low-end product processing and manufacturing industry shifts to southeast Asia and other developing countries, the reindustrialization strategy of developed countries leads to the rapid development of high-end manufacturing enterprises, and China's equipment manufacturing industry faces challenges in its global position. To cope with this challenge, the intellectualization of products and production process will become an important weapon for China's equipment manufacturing industry to win in the strong global equipment market.

Then, how will the construction machinery industry achieve intelligence? The most intuitive manifestation is the introduction of robots. At present, many enterprises have used robots in the production process for welding, painting, assembly and other work on a large scale. From 2005 to 2015, the average annual sales growth rate of industrial robots worldwide is expected to be 9%, while that of Industrial robots in China is expected to reach 25%. By 2015, China's robot market demand is expected to reach 35,000 units, accounting for 16.9 percent of the global total, making It the largest robot use market.

At present, it is a common phenomenon to use intelligent robot in product production. When more people think of intelligent products, they often think of unmanned driving. This technology is also pursued by many construction machinery manufacturers and continuously researched and developed.

One of the earliest companies involved in driverless cars was Caterpillar, which began its successful development of driverless technology for mine dump trucks in the 1980s. From 1994 to 1995, caterpillar automated 777D mine dump truck was launched and gradually entered the market in 1996. It is understood that caterpillar's driverless 789 mining vehicle has been applied so far, and its effect has been recognized by customers.

With the globalization of economy and the informationization of society, the market competition is increasingly fierce and the customer demand is increasingly diversified. In order to survive and develop the typical industry of construction machinery in the face of the cruel situation of international competition in the domestic market and the challenges of new technology and new process, we must solve the problem of TQCS, that is, to meet the needs of different customers with the fastest listing speed (T), the best quality (Q), the lowest cost (C) and the best service (S). The most effective way to solve this problem is intelligent manufacturing. Intelligent manufacturing is the goal of "Made in China" efforts. China is a manufacturing power. Now, changes in domestic and international situations and rising labor costs have made the transformation and upgrading of China's construction machinery industry imminent.

Forward-looking industry institute released by the China state construction engineering machinery manufacturing industry in 2014-2018 market demand forecast and investment strategy analysis report points out that the high-end equipment manufacturing industry is a high and new technology as the leading, in the value chain and the core industrial chain link, determine the strategic emerging industry, the competitiveness of the whole industry chain is the backbone of the modern industry system, is promoting industrial transformation and upgrading of the engine. At present, China's 12th Five-Year Plan puts forward higher requirements for the development of the construction machinery industry, and intelligent manufacturing based on flexible production, automation and digitization will become the new standard of the industry. It is estimated that China's construction machinery industry will invest 100 billion yuan in fixed assets in 2015, of which 30 billion yuan will be invested in intelligent manufacturing. This will make the overall intelligent manufacturing level of the domestic construction machinery industry step up to a new level at the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan.