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China Issues National Standards for Steel Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has released three national standards targeting scrap steel plants, digital twins, and multi-base resource coordination in the steel industry.
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The Brief
China News Service reported that the State Administration for Market Regulation issued three national standards focused on scrap steel intelligent factory design, steel factory digital twin systems, and multi-base manufacturing resource collaborative management to support advanced manufacturing technical systems.
The standard for scrap steel intelligent factory design sets an overall architecture spanning factory equipment and infrastructure, platforms, and applications, while formalizing rules for intelligent design, production, logistics, management, and integrated optimization.
The digital twin standard establishes a three-tier architecture encompassing target entities, digital entities, and twin applications, dividing twin models into digital, knowledge, and intelligent categories with tailored construction guidelines.
The multi-base collaborative management standard uses an application and platform layered distributed architecture defining quality, production, logistics, spare parts, and performance functions, reducing duplicate design and adaptation work for enterprises across planning, design, selection, and integration.
Why it matters
Following publication, the standards systematically fill smart manufacturing demand gaps across scrap steel plants and digital twin fields, opening technical pathways for multi-base coordination to advance steel sector manufacturing capabilities.
China context
The standards address long-standing steel industry challenges involving long processes, numerous procedures, and complex interfaces, where facilities previously faced inconsistent design specifications, repetitive system development, isolated data, and difficulties coordinating resources across multiple bases.
Key Takeaways
- 1China's market regulator issued three national standards anchoring scrap steel factories, digital twins, and multi-base collaborative resource management.
- 2The scrap steel standard establishes a layered framework covering equipment, infrastructure, platforms, and integrated intelligent operations.
- 3The multi-base standard outlines five collaborative functions across distributed tiers to reduce redundant enterprise design and modification efforts.
Sources
- 钢铁智能制造相关国家标准发布 让智能体系建设有章可循 — China News Service · 11/1/2026