Intelligent manufacturing engineers and technicians are distributed in six categories of industries: machinery and automation, defense and transportation equipment manufacturing, information technology, new materials manufacturing, emerging medical manufacturing and energy and environmental protection. Through the Collingwood (China) data statistics, it has more than 13 million members of the manufacturing industry related to the number of talents in the six categories of industry reached 2.48 million, of which mechanical and automation talents, information technology talents relative to the most. Intelligent manufacturing graduates of the employment direction is mainly in three areas, one is the technology enterprises, the current intelligent manufacturing field of science and technology companies or more, with the development of the industrial Internet, the future of the intelligent manufacturing field will be one of the hot areas; the second is the intelligent manufacturing field of scientific research institutes; the third is the traditional manufacturing enterprises.
Intelligent manufacturing equipment technology is China's general institutions of higher learning specialties, through the learning of this professional course, familiar with the automation of the production process equipment, especially pneumatic, hydraulic equipment necessary basic theory and skills, the use of modern high-tech pneumatic and hydraulic equipment installation, debugging, operation, maintenance, testing and technological transformation and other work, to cultivate with a solid theoretical foundation and strong professional operation skills of automated production equipment. Cultivate highly skilled personnel with solid theoretical foundation of specialty and strong operation skills of automation production equipment. Specialized core courses and the main practical links: electrical and electronic technology, computer control, material transfer technology, sensors and detection technology, programmable controllers, frequency conversion basics and applications, automatic production line technology, automatic production line management and maintenance, metalworking internship, electrical internship, and so on.