The core of "made in China 2025" is intelligent manufacturing and quality engineering. Intelligent manufacturing and quality improvement need a lot of manufacturing science and technology support. The emergence of new materials, especially lightweight new materials, will lead to the emergence of new technology, and the new technology will inevitably lead to the demand of new process equipment and precision mold. Therefore, the demand of new materials and diversified manufacturing will bring huge impact to the precision die industry, and the intelligent mold has brought infinite space and possibility for mold forming and manufacturing. Based on the Internet of things, the combination of network and intelligent manufacturing mode is the future manufacturing industry and the main development direction of precision mold technology.

(1) Precision mold integrated manufacturing cell and technology began to popularize.

Customers' demand for mold parts has changed from single part to multi part and multi process combination. Mold integrated manufacturing cells with various new functions have emerged one after another. In addition to the functions of automatic feeding, stamping, lamination measurement, thickness grouping, iron core combination and product output, hinge assembly and connection, the die also has the process combination processes of complex motion structure, in mold heating, forging, local thermal control, in mold welding, tapping, local injection molding, in mold cutting and in mold detection. In particular, new technologies such as in mold hot cutting of plastic parts, in mold hot cutting of boron steel plate and variable edge blanking of pen shaped iron core of electric motor have created a new era of integrated manufacturing cell of mould. Mold products continue to develop in the direction of large-scale, precision, high-performance and integrated manufacturing cells.

(2) Commercial Internet extends to precision mold and its industrial chain.

With the rapid development of "cloud manufacturing" and "Internet +", the commercial Internet has broken through the traditional business model of product sales and extended to mold and its industrial chain. In addition to mold website, traditional large retailers such as Wal Mart began to extend to the manufacturing industry and its industrial chain. Many mold processing equipment enterprises have also connected to the Internet, and actively created the "mold manufacturing + Internet" mode, which effectively promoted the transformation and upgrading of the mold industry.

(3) 3D printing will be more widely used in precision mold manufacturing.

The application of 3D printing in the production of mold cavity is of great significance to the development of mold technology, and it is a new trend of cavity mold development. Metal additive reduction combination manufacturing technology is an important direction in the field of 3D printing. At present, the high-precision manufacturing of complex metal parts is realized by 3D layer by layer additive forming combined with high-speed milling to determine the thickness of the layer and profile reduction finishing. This technology will continue to be applied in the field of mold manufacturing (also an important way to realize intelligent mold).

(4) The intellectualization of precision mould has reached a new level.

In the plastic mold and die-casting mold industry, intelligent control of mold cavity pressure, temperature, flow and cooling process has appeared, and mold intelligence has begun to enter the fast lane of development. In addition, the intelligent mold processing equipment is rapidly promoting the intelligent manufacturing of mold, making the intelligent mold of our country to a new level.

(5) Lightweight new materials bring new opportunities and challenges to automobile panel mold and large plastic mold.

With the development of automobile lightweight, new lightweight materials emerge in endlessly, especially aluminum magnesium alloy, the third generation high strength steel, plastics, composite materials, sandwich materials and so on, which have become the important support of automobile parts, put forward high requirements for forming technology and die, especially for automobile panel mold and large plastic mold. Domestic mold enterprises have begun to respond to this change, and launched the development of lightweight new materials for automobile panel dies and large-scale composite mold.