A novel intelligent manufacturing mode with human-cyber-physical collaboration and fusion in the non-ferrous metal industry

The non-ferrous metal industry is one of the most important part in China’s process industry, and has an extremely important strategic position in national economy. However, in the smelting process of non-ferrous metal, there still exists many problems: 1) the production process of non-ferrous is long, the utilization rate of resource and energy is low; 2) the large amount of waste discharge in the production process has caused prominent environmental protection issue; 3) product homogeneity is serious and the added value is low. To solve these problems, we constructed a novel intelligent manufacturing mode with human-cyber-physical (HCP) collaboration and fusion from three aspects: 1) intelligent manufacturing system with HCP collaboration and fusion, 2) product service system based on ecosystem platform, and 3) sustainable business model, to realize the safe, efficient and green production for the non-ferrous metal smelting process. In the case study on the largest copper smelting enterprise in the world, the digital twin based manufacturing system collaborative platform architecture, product &service system framework, and sustainable business model canvas are built by the proposed intelligent manufacturing mode with HCP collaboration and fusion.