As traditional manufacturing moves to China, developed countries in Europe, America and Japan are formulating and implementing new manufacturing strategies to maintain and strengthen their competitiveness. The EU believes that manufacturing is still an important force in promoting European economic development, but its content will change. It is a high-tech manufacturing industry, that is, knowledge-based manufacturing. Its mission is to rebuild European manufacturing and realize industrial structure. Modernization transformation.

To this end, the EU attaches great importance to the development of the CNC machine tool industry. From 2003 to 2015, the European Machine Tool Industry Exhibition (CECIMO) organized the European International Machine Tool Show. In odd-numbered years, the European International Machine Tool Show was held in Hanover, Germany and Milan, Italy. At the same time, the Technical Department of the European Machine Tool Industry Cooperation Committee was established to support the research and development of machine tools. There are several research plans that include some of the machine tools, such as the “EC7th Frame Work Programme (FP7)” and “Thematic Network Manufacturing. "Thematic Networkon Manufacturing Technologies, MANTYS", "Environmental Product Life Cycle Management for building competitive machinetools (PROLIMA)" and "NEXT Generation Production System" )"Wait. The following briefly introduces the main contents of the "Next-Generation Production System."

In order to increase the competitiveness of European manufacturing tomorrow, the European Community has funded 25 units of nine countries including the European Machine Tool Association, manufacturers, research institutes, end-users and banks to cooperate in the Next Generation Production. Research of Systems). The project funding is up to 24 million euros for a period of 4 years from 2005 to 2009. The Hannover Machine Tool Show in September 2007 organized a special report session on the project.

The next-generation production system project mainly includes the following five items:

(1) Green machine tools; (2) User-oriented intelligent machine tools; (3) Breakthrough high-efficiency machining processes; (4) New economic activity areas; (5) New training and promotion methods.

The expected goals of the next-generation production system project are:

(1) Improve the competitiveness of enterprises. Improve the competitiveness of manufacturing companies by increasing the productivity of production systems and product quality.

(2) Environment. Strive to minimize the environmental load of the production system and achieve sustainable development.

(3) Employment. A new generation of occupations, improving existing conditions so that women can also be competent in the manufacturing industry.

(4) Quality of life. Improve occupational safety, improve working conditions, and protect workers' health.

(5) Manufacturing image. Improving the image of manufacturing industry production and research is no longer a difficult and tiring job.