In the process of the development of the entire social productive forces, the production tools are developing from the traditional type to the intelligent automation. Many points of view indicate that the era of digitalized intelligent production tools is approaching. In the development of the current machine tool industry, we can see that the proportion of CNC machine tools in the entire machine tool industry is increasing.

Liang Xunji, Honorary Chairman of China Machine Tool Tool Association once put forward such a viewpoint at a high-level strategic industry selection forum of relevant state agencies. “The machine tool as a production tool with intelligent characteristics is an epoch-making development of human production tools, and humans are welcoming one. The arrival of the era of intelligent production tools."

Liang Xunyi explained this point of view that the emergence of CNC machine tools marks the beginning of the development of intelligent machine tools. The history of development of machine tools backtracked from the appearance of the first CNC machine tool in 1952 to more than 50 years, including 30 years of maturity and 20 years of large-scale application. Especially in recent years, the intelligent function of machine tools has appeared one after another. The further increase marks the qualitative change in the development of machine tool technology.

In recent years, Yamazaki Mazak of Japan has developed smart spindle vibration control, intelligent thermal barriers, smart collision avoidance barriers, and language prompts; Japan Otsuka Corporation has developed the “thinc intelligent digital control system”. It shows that with the development of technology, the intelligent functions of the machine tool, such as production tools, will become more advanced and more and more. The development of human intelligent production tools is in the ascendant and has bright prospects.