Intelligent Manufacturing in China: : Innovation Drive and Responsible Innovation

Abstract

More than a decade ago, when it came to Made in China, we thought more about cheaper products with less technical content, but now we can see from the Made in advertisements in Times Square in the United States, that China's products have become more and more intelligent, personalized, and globalized, which has shaped a new era of Chinese into the world. This is China's Intelligent Manufacturing. Whether it is Haier, Gree, Huawei, Ankai or Zhigao, what these brand products represent is the current development status and characteristics of China's Intelligent manufacturing: innovation drive as the driving force and responsible innovation as the development concept. In the past decade, China's industry has gradually shifted from the traditional Made in to Intelligent Manufacturing, which reflects the continuous efforts of China's transformation and upgrading, and the actual effect of innovation driven by manufacturing. This paper mainly includes four aspects: Firstly, it introduces the overall situation of the transformation and upgrading of traditional to “Intelligent Manufacturing” and the ethical issues it contains: outlines the background of traditional Chinese and discusses the reasons why traditional needs transformation and upgrading and its developing direction, analyzes the ethical connotation and problems in the process of transformation and upgrading. Secondly, this paper discusses the innovation-driven demand of intelligent manufacturing, discusses the position and role of innovation in China's development concept, expounds the relationship between innovation and China's intelligent manufacturing industry, and analyzes the elements of China's intelligent manufacturing to realize innovation-driven: (1) research and development, (2) talents. Thirdly, it discusses the relationship between “responsible innovation” as a newly developed concept of international technology development strategy and China's “intelligent manufacturing”: introduces the background, concept, framework and approach of “responsible innovation” and introduces a China case of engineering development within the framework of Responsible Innovation. Finally, this paper explores the issue of social governance innovation in China's “intelligent manufacturing”, and how the “intelligent manufacturing” could be regarded as the balance and impetus of innovation, development and sustainability in China.