Ceramics is one of the most distinctive products and industries in China, and the world knows China for ceramics. Guangdong with its own resources, market, location unique development advantages, has been leading the development of Chinese ceramics, and established as the strength of the ceramic base in China, existing in foshan and chaozhou ceramics are. As one of the ten famous brands in ceramic industry leader in the industry of guangdong, the types of product diversification development became a scenery line of the ceramic industry, at the moment in ceramic industry occupies very important position in the national and the world.

　　But over the years, the guangdong ceramics industry has faced many problems. Released recently, the guangdong environmental protection bureau of the central environmental protection inspectorate 4 designated by the guangdong problem investigation and handling status summary table "shows that as of December 12, 16, 2016 in guangdong province, guangzhou, zhuhai, foshan, shaoguan, dongguan, jiangmen, huizhou, zhanjiang, yunfu, yangjiang, shantou, jieyang and shanwei city unveiled the central environmental protection inspectorate complaint, 246 pieces of processing conditions, involved to 16 ceramics factory, two ceramics factory, there is no environmental illegal 13 ceramics factory was filed for investigation for environmental law, one is under investigation.

　　Environmental pollution caused by high energy consumption; There is little market for high-end products, a red sea for low-end products; Threshold is low, many small business and technical reserves, low market share of large enterprise groups, and so on a series of problems, let the "ceramic capital of guangdong to be hit.

　　Can continue to prosper in ceramic industry development, in addition to its profound historical background, there is another important reason is that the ceramic industry has become one of the economic source of income. Although guangdong is a major ceramic production province, but still is given priority to with the medium of product of pottery and porcelain, low value-added products, in the international market price is not high, in the process of development always is a high investment, energy-consuming, high pollution and low benefit. In addition, the production technology is backward, the innovation potential is insufficient, the talent shortage and so on causes the guangdong ceramics industry to face the crisis.

　　Held in guangzhou in May last year, "ceramic industry in guangdong province from 2015 to 2016 annual meeting and guangdong ceramics association member congress and the third ceramic art master located in guangdong province", the guangdong ceramic association, director of the 2015 guangdong ceramic industry status and work in guangdong ceramic association report pointed out that in 2015, the provincial ceramic industry main business income is 216.84 billion yuan, building ceramics production 2.52 billion square meters, fell 1.4% year on year; The output of sanitary ceramics was 409.19 million units, down 22.2% year on year. The production of daily (art) ceramic production was 4.84 billion, and it was down. In the first three months of 2016, 590 million square meters of construction ceramics were produced in the province, down 1.9 percent year on year. The output of sanitary ceramics was 12.176,000, down 19.1% year on year. In terms of exports, the total amount of porcelain products exported in 2015 totaled 143.45 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.1 percent, up from the year before, according to the guangzhou customs statistics. Total exports totaled $8.74 billion (38.4% of the country), up 13.0%, a 12.2% decline from the year before. Although industry faces unprecedented difficulties and pressure, along with the advancement of reform of the supply side, the acceleration of industrial structure adjustment and transformation and upgrading, product research and development, many enterprises continuously enhance innovation layout of intelligent manufacturing.

　　In recent years, there has been a high demand for intelligent manufacturing, and the personality of ceramic enterprises is seeking to escape the "mire" of the competition of homogenization through intelligent manufacturing. A ceramic enterprise, general manager of the nail is pointed out that the current existing problems in the manufacturing process of ceramic industry in China, he said, "the current domestic automation degree is not high, only a half automation, such as kiln, in spite of automation control system, but due to the unstable gas calorific value, such as voltage and current fluctuations, difficult to adapt to automation control system, only by manual adjustment. Unless it's ceramic industry supporting can reach standardization, will effectively promote the degree of automation. Compared with the domestic and foreign automation degree is high, so they need the whole line around 50 people can, and we estimate that need 200 talent can".

　　One industry source said: "at present, along with the rapidly rising labor costs and demographic dividend gradually disappear, the mode of production to flexible, intelligent, precise, building intelligent manufacture is a fundamental feature of the new system is imminent, the demand for industrial robots will present a sharp growth". Although the robot industry in China has made great progress, but compared with the developed industrial countries, there is a larger gap, the gap mainly concentrated in the robot combined with industry is not clear.

　　As the world's largest industrial robot application market in China, in the "made in China 2025" planning, overall arrangement is made for the robot as a key development areas. At present, the service robot has developed a series of representative products in scientific investigation, medical rehabilitation, education entertainment, home service and so on.

　　Held in April last year, the ministry of the robot industry development planning (2016 ~ 2020) "press conference, a relevant personage says, at the moment of the robot is in a big turning point, robots are from the" machine "to the" people "a shift, the shape of the" people ", the wisdom of "people", "human" dexterity, the agility. In 4.0 under the background of industry, the robot will have a new definition, a talk at the moment is the industrial robot manipulator, according to the new definition of manipulator is just part of it. Although the robot industry in China has been the development of faster, but some robots production enterprise, said, the head of the robot and ceramic industry combining site is not clear, that is to say, robot has not formally applied to ceramic industry at present. Indeed, different industries have different characteristics, the production process and technology of the robot it is important to understand the industry, for the industry to adapt to the machine body, the software programming, operating systems, etc., in addition to this, also be sure to dock with the more software and intelligent device, can realize the function of a richer, can better adapt to different production requirements. This is a huge project that requires resource integration to achieve optimal configuration.

　　Development and current situation of the ceramics industry in guangdong is a miniature of Chinese ceramics, the search for intelligent manufacturing is now the domestic ceramic industry focus on pursuit of goals, but in the present stage, most guangdong ceramic enterprises still stay in semi-automatic stage, large enterprise group a high degree of automation, the foundation of the development of intelligent manufacturing is relatively good, but the market share is low, and become the leading industry to limit in the transformation of intelligent manufacturing.

　　At the same time, intelligent manufacturing and not a single proposition, need more industry collaboration, ceramic enterprises to intelligent manufacturing this train ride there is still a long way to go. Moreover, the products of the ceramic industry are often not new, but quality and price. How to effectively monitor and control the production process, make the production process is in the best condition, save raw materials, reduce energy consumption and other consumption, improve product yield and quality rate is in ceramic industry, is also the Chinese ceramic industry to be crossing the gap.