In the field of pharmaceutical equipment, the discussion and application of intelligent concept is gradually deepening, because it not only represents the level of development of advanced pharmaceutical equipment, but also become the direction of joint efforts of pharmaceutical equipment enterprises in various countries. With the market competition coming to a climax gradually, intelligent pharmaceutical equipment has not only become the competitive advantage of equipment enterprises, but also a favorable weapon for pharmaceutical enterprises to improve their core competitiveness.

The author has learned that in the current pharmaceutical industry, some pharmaceutical equipment enterprises have made positive preparations for exploring and realizing intelligent pharmaceutical production and applying intelligent pharmaceutical equipment in different ways. According to the industry statistics, there are four main ways, first, the existing pharmaceutical equipment, automation control system and information management system to improve, expand and improve.

Second, some pharmaceutical equipment enterprises, through merger, integration and business expansion, improve the level of automation, networking and intelligence of existing pharmaceutical equipment products as well as the vertical comprehensive integration ability from bottom to top. Third, for the medical equipment of intelligent supporting equipment, such as AGV vehicles. Fourthly, through the national pilot demonstration project of intelligent manufacturing or the new factory and workshop project, explore the establishment of the demonstration model and model of intelligent manufacturing in the pharmaceutical equipment industry.

However, from the current level and status of automation and informatization in China's pharmaceutical industry, industry analysis shows that China still has a process of exploration, progress and continuous improvement on the basis of r&d and production of intelligent pharmaceutical equipment. And different pharmaceutical equipment, different drug production process will present different intelligent content and form.

Take the intelligent equipment of traditional Chinese medicine as an example. With the increasing demand for traditional Chinese medicine, the traditional production mode of traditional Chinese medicine can no longer meet people's requirements. In addition, the competition between traditional Chinese medicine enterprises is increasingly fierce. Most enterprises choose to change the mode of TCM production, and intelligent pharmaceutical equipment becomes an important tool for TCM enterprises to realize modernization and intelligent production.

Some experts compared and analyzed the way of producing liuwei dihuang pills in the past and present. In the past, traditional Chinese medicine enterprises only decocted and boiled herbs together, and then extracted and purified them, which would lead to the lack of research and control on the effective content and changes of different batches. Now, by monitoring the production process and investing in intelligent pharmaceutical equipment, traditional Chinese medicine enterprises can stabilize the effective ingredients of products within a controllable range and improve the manufacturing quality and drug quality.

However, it is more difficult for pharmaceutical equipment enterprises to help pharmaceutical enterprises to realize intelligent production due to the complex components and mechanism of TCM. "At present, in the aspect of traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical equipment, a lot of equipment is still mainly imported, and the modular, digital and intelligent pharmaceutical equipment suitable for the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine production needs to speed up the development and promotion. The expert said, "the intellectualization of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy needs modern technology, and also needs to use intellectualization to insert the 'wisdom' wing for traditional Chinese medicine production."

From the current level of intelligent equipment technology mastered by pharmaceutical equipment enterprises, the key to achieve true "intelligent manufacturing" and "intelligent factory" is to deeply integrate the new generation of information technology with the industrial manufacturing process. From the following aspects, pharmaceutical equipment enterprises should improve the level of intelligent, automatic, digital and network equipment and establish the basis of intelligent pharmaceutical equipment.

From the perspective, pharmaceutical equipment enterprises should actively adopt big data, industrial Internet, cloud computing and other new generation of information technology, establish data center and support service platform based on these technologies, so as to achieve and realize the purpose of intelligent decision-making, optimized management, system development and service, and thus improve the competitiveness of pharmaceutical enterprises.

Although China's intelligent pharmaceutical equipment technology is not yet mature, but most enterprises have made efforts in this area, and have some achievements. Many pharmaceutical companies have also improved their competitiveness with the help of smart pharmaceutical equipment. In the future, pharmaceutical equipment enterprises also need to establish the correct concept of "intelligent manufacturing", study the compliance of various types of intelligent equipment and systems under the intelligent manufacturing mode, and explore the road of intelligent manufacturing in the pharmaceutical equipment industry.