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The development history of the global science and technology shows that each industrial revolution has brought overturning changes to manufacturing. Three revolutionary breakthroughs had been made for manufacturing technologies in the past from thesteam engine era to the electricity erathen to the as mechanized production era. And now we are facinganother industrial revolution represented by robot, 3D printing, industrial internet, artificial intelligence, etc. in the 21st century. The UK government currently put forward the strategy of “high-value manufacturing”; Germany come up with its idea of “industry 4.0” and the US launched the concept of “industrial internet” to promote the intelligent manufacturing development; we can see that the whole world is engaged in the automation technology boom.

Recent years, as the Chinese population dividend is disappearing gradually and the new generation particularly the post-90s is not willing t, many enterprises face a bigger challenge in labor shortage and what’s worse, they have to pay higher and higher labor costs. However, the rising labor cost is driving the growth of a huge robotics automation market. The traditional industrial nations in the Europe and the Americas which are in the wave of “re-industrialization” hope to make the manufacturing backflow and realize the goal of highly intelligent manufacturing by launching supportive polices. Therefore, we can conclude that the age of cheap labor power will never come back; meanwhile, the high-efficiency robotics production will be the trend for manufacturing industry in the future and the automation technology will be more attractive to manufacturers.

As the “World Factory”, what should China do to seize the opportunity in the new industrial revolution? And what challenges will the automation enterprises face? As a postal for Chinese high-tech industries, OFweek, will integrate industrial information and invite internationally renowned entrepreneurs, experts and scholars of the industrial automation field to discuss Chinese manufacturing transformation and upgrading as well as the development opportunity for automation industry. Therefore, we will host OFweek Industrial Automation Forum 2014. Welcome to join us!

At the meantime, in order to help enterprises better understand the current situation and the development trend of the industry in 2014, review the products made by outstanding companies and promote innovation, OFweek will team up with industry associations and leading experts to launch the “OFweek Automation Awards 2014” and the “Technology Innovation Award 2014”, “Best Designed Product Award 2014” will be awarded. Please take an active part to register for it.

• Representatives who are engaged in electronics industry, automobile industry, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, high-speed rail and rail equipment, engineering machinery, electric power equipment, petrochemical industry, new energy, pharmaceutical manufacturing, food and beverage and many other industrial automation applications fields;
• Core technology technicians and directors who work on R&D and design of the industrial automation;
• Researchers who are from the industrial automation technology schools or universities and designing institutes;
• Supporting units in the research and manufacturing of the industrial robots.

Note: The detailed schedule will be released in September 2014. Please stay tuned.