Du Gang, CSIC Deputy GM, and his party made an investigation on promotion of intelligent manufacturing (IM) on March 1, where DSIC Chief Engineer Cai Zhuyi and heads in relevant departments have been accompanying his investigation.

During his investigation, Du Gang and his party have listened to Cai’s reports about IM background, automatic & digital processing status, development target in the 13th Five-year Plan, and major promoting tasks and key works, where the participants held a discussion on how to plan and implement the IM promoting work.

Du Gang and his party have gone deep into the grassroots, acquiring the detailed promoting work of IM in DSIC. In the front-line sections and offices of the design institute, Du held a friendly exchange with the design employees, inquiring the design characteristics, key technique and design period from time to time. In the Steel Structure Company, Du listened to the report concerning the construction scheme, organization chart, status analysis and anticipated objective for the project of digital ship block fabrication workshop. Entering the digital workshop, he asked about the latest progress and achievements. In the Steel Machining Company, he looked over the feeding and cutting status of hull plates, communicating relevant issues with the site workers.

Du has fully affirmed the performances of DSIC achieved in positively promoting the construction of automatic production line and digital workshop and building up an IM shipyard. He added DSIC has paid high attention to the promoting work of IM and defined the responsibilities for various originations so as to enable it to sustain the development of enterprise as a new enabler in the 13th Five-year Plan and next period. He wishes DSIC could further optimize the top-layer design based on benchmarking with the advanced enterprises home and abroad, constantly streamline the basic software management and speed up drawing a new blueprint of development for DSIC’s IM in accordance with the idea of overall planning and step-by-step implementation.