The necessity of micro see transformation Micro point of view, automated machinery and equipment than the traditional mechanical equipment has the following outstanding superiority, and these advantages are from automation system contains the power of the computer.

It can work out the complicated parts such as curve and surface of traditional mechanical equipment. Since the computer has high computational power, it can calculate the amount of motion of each axis instantaneous and accurately, so it can be complex into complex curves or surfaces.

Automation of processing can be realized, and flexible automation can be improved by 3 ~ 7 times more than traditional mechanical equipment. Since the computer has the memory and storage capacity, the input program can be memorized and stored, and then automatically executed in the order specified by the program, thus realizing automation.

Automation machinery and equipment as long as the replacement of a program that can realize the automation of a workpiece processing, hence leading to the automation of single piece and small batch production, so called "flexible automation is realized. The precision of machining parts is high, the size is small and the assembly is easy, no need for "repair".

Can realize the concentration of multi-process, reduce the frequency of the parts in the mechanical equipment. Automatic alarm, automatic monitoring, automatic compensation and other kinds of self-regulation functions, can realize long time unattended processing.

The benefits derived from these five derivatives. Such as: reduce the labor intensity of workers, save the labor force (a person can watch many sets of mechanical equipment), reduced the tooling, shorten new product development cycle and production cycle, can make a quick response to market demand, and so on.

These advantages are not imagined by the predecessors, and are a great breakthrough. In addition, the automation of mechanical equipment is the basis of the transformation of FMC (flexible manufacturing unit), FMS (flexible manufacturing system) and CIMS (computer integrated manufacturing system). Automation technology has become the core technology and basic technology of manufacturing automation.

2. Macroscopic view of the necessity of transformation,

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the army and civilian machinery industry of industrial developed countries began large-scale application of automation machinery and equipment. The essence is to use information technology to transform traditional industries, including military and civilian machinery industry. And add information technology to its products, including artificial intelligence. Because of using information technology to the foreign army and the people in-depth reform of mechanical industry informatization (call it), eventually making their products in the international military and civilian goods on the market competitiveness greatly enhanced. And we are 20 years behind developed countries in the traditional industries of information technology transformation. Such as mechanical equipment in the ownership in our country, the proportion of automation machinery and equipment (automated rates) in 1995 to only 1.9%, while Japan has reached 20.8% in 1994, so every year there are a large number of import of mechanical and electronic products. This also explains the necessity of mechanization of mechanical equipment.