Intelligent manufacturing (IM) is composed of intelligent machine and human experts intelligent man–machine integration system, through the analysis of man–machine cooperation to the production process, reasoning, judgment, and decision-making activities such as intelligence, can expand, extension and partially replace human experts in the manufacturing process of mental work. It updates the concept of manufacturing automation, expands it to flexibility, intelligence and highly integrated, with self-sensing, self-learning, self-decision-making, self-execution, self-adaptation and other functions.