Nowadays, the exchange activities of countries in science and technology, culture, finance and other fields are becoming more and more frequent, and technology and personnel are also speeding up the flow among the world. As one of the representative technologies in manufacturing industry, 3D printing has a profound impact on traditional process, production line, factory mode, industrial chain combination, etc. With the promotion of 3D printing technology, the manufacturing process of petrochemical equipment, engineering machinery and other equipment has been continuously innovated, and the manufacturing process has been further optimized.

The speed of 3D printing technology research and development is accelerating

3D printing, as one of the important technologies to promote the upgrading of manufacturing industry in China, has been strongly supported by national policies in recent years. In the national plan for promoting the development of the national added materials manufacturing (3D printing) industry (2015-2016), released in 2015, 3D printing was clearly listed in the national strategic level. Since then, the relevant departments in various regions of China have also issued corresponding policies to promote the practical application of 3D printing.

In the environment of policy encouragement, many scientific research institutions have also increased their investment in 3D printing technology research and development, and actively cooperate with universities to promote the progress of 3D printing frontier technology. At the same time, more and more enterprises began to enter the 3D printing field, and invested a lot of energy in the research and development of 3D printing frontier technology and professional talents training.

With the joint efforts of scientific research institutions, universities and enterprises, 3D printing technology research and development speed is accelerating, and the application degree in many fields is also deepening. Up to now, 3D printing has been widely used in aerospace, automobile, ship, nuclear industry, mold and other fields. In the field of automobile and ship, 3D printing has gradually become an important way of product design and rapid prototyping.

3D printing promotes intelligent upgrading of petrochemical equipment

As the application scene of 3D printing is increasing and the application degree is deepening, the commercial value of 3D printing is gradually released. In order to promote the petrochemical, mining and metallurgy industries to upgrade to the modernization and automation direction, practitioners in relevant industries have begun to actively learn 3D printing, big data, Internet of things and other technologies, and actively promote the application of these technologies.

In the field of petrochemical equipment manufacturing, 3D printing can meet the needs of high precision, short-time consumption and complex components, so it is adopted by more and more petrochemical industry practitioners. The petrochemical equipment researchers can modify the sample drawing of petrochemical equipment by using 3D printing technology and computer, graphic design software and other equipment and tools, and can also see the three-dimensional model of the whole petrochemical equipment, and then improve the unreasonable points. In this way, valuable time can be saved in the design stage and the R & D cost of new products can be reduced.

It is worth noting that after 3D printing technology, some unnecessary links in the manufacturing process of traditional petrochemical equipment are simplified, the product structure integrity is improved and the assembly cost is further reduced. In addition, 3D printing provides great design flexibility, which can provide strong technical support for the development of some special equipment needed by petrochemical industry.

Manufacturing technology will be further improved in the future

In the past two years, the development of petrochemical industry in China is good, and the role of high-tech in the development of petrochemical industry is becoming increasingly obvious. In 2018, the production of China's petroleum and chemical industry was stable and the added value continued to increase; the overall benefit of the industry continued to be better. All of this is inseparable from intelligent chemical equipment.

With the help of the advantages of intelligent petrochemical equipment, the manufacturing efficiency of petrochemical products has been improved, and the cost of manufacturing petrochemical products is reduced. These are all helpful to explore new ways to realize the transformation of operation mode by 3D printing and Internet of things, and promote the enterprises to actively improve their comprehensive competitiveness under the impact of the intelligent wave.

In fact, the petrochemical industry in China is developing in the direction of large-scale, high-tech and intensive, and the industry is also facing a series of difficulties in the process of forward development. Facing the new development reality, petrochemical enterprises will accelerate the launch of integrated product chain and new products with high technology content and high added value, so as to promote the quality upgrading of petrochemical products. The use of 3D printing technology to improve the intelligent level of petrochemical equipment, is helpful to improve the quality of petrochemical products.

Influenced by the concept of green environment protection, energy conservation and high efficiency, petrochemical equipment researchers will pay more attention to the built-in function and corresponding energy consumption of the product when developing new products, so as to reduce the pollution of dust and promote the environmental protection. In the future, it is believed that with the unremitting efforts of researchers, more petrochemical equipment with complete functions and excellent quality will be developed and new impetus will be injected into the long-term and healthy development of petrochemical industry.