Intelligent manufacturing is a human-machine integrated intelligent system composed of intelligent machines and human experts. It can perform intelligent activities such as analysis, reasoning, judgment, conception and decision-making in the manufacturing process. Through the cooperation between people and intelligent machines, the mental labor of human experts in the manufacturing process can be expanded, extended and partially replaced. It extends the concept of manufacturing automation to flexibility, intelligence and high integration. With the emergence of intelligent manufacturing, the initial industrial manufacturing is driven by energy to information.

Every process of metrology and detection intelligent manufacturing is closely related to metrology technology. The intelligent manufacturing system can not only enrich the knowledge base in practice, but also has the ability to self-learn, collect and understand environmental information and self-information through measurement, and make analytical judgments and plan self-behavior. To achieve this ability to replace artificial intelligence, it is necessary to establish a means to obtain manufacturing process information at any time, and it is necessary to embed metrology energy into the whole process from product design to manufacturing. At present, all major industrial countries, without exception, regard intelligent manufacturing as the key to maintaining core competitiveness. In China's "Made in China 2025" plan, intelligent manufacturing has become an important measure to transform traditional manufacturing methods and become a manufacturing power in the information age. Since the measurement process runs through all links and the entire process of intelligent manufacturing, it becomes the information source of industrial production and the foundation of intelligent manufacturing.