The development trend of printing industry under the wave of artificial intelligence

As early as the 1950s, the concept of artificial intelligence was proposed. At present, many heavy physical and repetitive labor of human beings have been replaced by machines, and artificial intelligence has penetrated into more fields and links of People's Daily life and work, "replacing" human judgment, thinking and decision-making. So as to further improve production efficiency and improve people's quality of life.

In 2013, the "Industry 4.0" proposed by Germany is the industrial revolution with intelligent production as the element. The process of world industrialization is only more than a hundred years old, but it has experienced four industrial revolutions. The changes brought about by each revolution were enormous. In 2015, China issued the "Made in China 2025" plan, which includes intelligent manufacturing engineering in the five major projects, once again clearly pointed out that intelligent manufacturing as an important direction of the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing.

In recent years, the rapid development of a new generation of information technology: 5G, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, etc., is bringing great changes to enterprise production and people's lives. Many domestic brands of industrial robots such as drones, unmanned vehicles, robots, intelligent sensing and control equipment, intelligent detection and assembly equipment, intelligent logistics and warehousing equipment have also reached the international advanced level in terms of performance indicators and application fields.

The increasing maturity of new technologies provides a strong technical guarantee for the implementation of smart factories, and also reduces cost pressure for the industry. The printing industry has also undergone great changes in recent years, such as the use of magnifying glasses to observe the accuracy of overprinting and other issues in the past, and now the automatic detection equipment can automatically detect the lack of graphics, color and other problems. At the same time, intelligent equipment such as robots and automatic palletizing are also increasingly appearing in the operation and production of printing enterprises.

A basis for printing intelligence

01 Internet and the Internet of Things

The concept of "intelligent manufacturing" not only refers to the intelligent production link, but also runs through all the processes of enterprise activities, and even should integrate the resources of the entire industry. Therefore, the technology of the Internet and the Internet of Things is essential.

First of all, it is necessary to rely on the Internet information technology to achieve the combination of the Internet and traditional industries, so as to enhance economic productivity by industrial upgrading. The Internet of Things is an important part of the new generation of information technology, that is, the Internet of things connected. The core and foundation of the Internet of Things is still the Internet, its client can be any item, information exchange and communication between things. The Internet of Things is an important basis for the intelligent internal production of printing enterprises. Through the Internet of Things technology, enterprises can collect the information of all the automated warehouses, unmanned transport vehicles, robots, production machines, workshop sensors, etc. of the entire enterprise through a single "brain", and control them to achieve production optimization.

At the same time, printing companies through the Internet and Internet of Things technology, remote control of all pre-press, printing, post-press equipment, access to all relevant information, so that a variety of resources to achieve higher utilization.

02 Big Data

Nowadays, we are in the rapidly developing information age, and the communication between people is more convenient. Ma Yun once said that the future era will not be the era of IT, but the era of DT. DT stands for data technology. In the author's opinion, for printing enterprises, the value of big data is mainly reflected in the following aspects: first, make full use of big data for precision marketing and lock target customers; Second, use big data to analyze future market changes; Third, use big data information to actively explore new ideas and new blue oceans for transformation.

03 Artificial intelligence technology

At present, many fields of robots can replace or help people complete a variety of work, all boring, dangerous, toxic, harmful work, can be shown by the robot. In addition to being widely used in the field of manufacturing, robots are also used in other fields such as resource exploration and development, disaster relief, medical services, home entertainment, military and aerospace. Robots are important production and service equipment in industrial and non-industrial industries, and they are also indispensable automation equipment in the field of advanced manufacturing technology.

The printing industry in people's impression has always been "dirty, messy, poor" image, although the printing environment has gradually improved, but the noise, odor and other problems are difficult to completely solve, coupled with the traditional printing method usually takes a long time to work, with machines instead of manual is also an inevitable trend. In the past, several people operated one machine, but with the advancement of technology, it is now possible for one person to operate multiple machines. The printing shop of the future may completely abandon manual labor.