Recently, a seminar on market demand analysis, technology and capital support for the Chinese gear industry, as well as a cooperation and docking meeting between Chinese and foreign enterprises, was held at the Saixiang Hotel in Tianjin. There were over 300 representatives present, each from various units in the gear industry chain both domestically and internationally.

This conference firmly grasps the two major breakthroughs in anti fatigue and long-life gear manufacturing technology, as well as the industrialization of self owned brand automotive automatic transmissions. It advocates for integrated innovation in mechanics, electronics, hydraulics, control, and information technology, and calls for technology, capital, and domestic and foreign industry university research cooperation with me as the main force.

German Industry 4.0 is a hot topic at this conference. The attending representatives had a heated discussion around German Industry 4.0, combined with the current situation and future of China's automotive gear industry, demonstrating a sense of crisis, urgency, and responsibility.

Entering German Industry 4.0

Lv Yuanqing, CEO of Archimedes Technology Network, delivered a special report titled "Entering German Industry 4.0" at this conference. The German government proposed the "German Industry 4.0" strategy in the "High tech Strategy 2020" released in November 2011, aiming to support the revolutionary development of new generation technology in the industry and maintain Germany's competitiveness.

The German Industry 4.0 strategy is to create new manufacturing methods and build intelligent factories through information physics systems. Information physics systems refer to sensor networks that are tightly connected to the real world, effectively applying the powerful computing power of cyberspace to the real world. During the manufacturing process, all data related to design, development, and production will be collected and analyzed by a sensor cluster to form an autonomous and operational intelligent production system.

German Industry 4.0 is known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In the next 10 years, human intelligence based on information physics systems will enter the fourth industrial revolution led by intelligent manufacturing. The digitalization of the entire manufacturing process of products through module integration based on information technology will form a highly flexible, personalized, and digital product manufacturing and service model.

Lv Yuanqing pointed out that "German Industry 4.0 has presented us with a brand new industrial blueprint. In an intelligent and networked world, the Internet of Things and service internet technology will penetrate all key fields, gradually changing and creating new value, restructuring the industrial chain, disappearing traditional industry boundaries, and generating various forms of cooperation.

German Industry 4.0 is a global market development movement initiated by Germany. Li Shengqi, Secretary General of the China Automotive Automatic Transmission Innovation Alliance, said in an interview with reporters, "The Chinese automotive gear industry should conduct in-depth research on German Industry 4.0, learn from it, leverage it, promote deep integration of manufacturing processes and business management systems, and achieve high degree of flexible configuration of production factors

The current situation is worrying

Compared to the grand blueprint of German Industry 4.0, the Chinese automotive gear industry, like many other industries, is out of reach.

A few years ago, during a good market situation, many manufacturers in the domestic automotive gear industry competed to expand production scale without sufficient information collection and analysis, resulting in severe overcapacity. Currently, the production capacity of the entire industry has reached 1.8 times the actual market demand, and there are a large number of low-quality and inefficient redundant construction capacity among them