智能制造工程的实现是“中国制造2025”的关键途径。智能制造网络化随着网络科技的发展而发展，而制造过程的智能化是智能制造工程的核心。制造过程的智能化主要是建造物理系统的数字化和支撑物理过程实现的环境系统的数字化，明晰环境支撑系统如何影响物理过程，以及它们之间的相互关系，才能建立智能制造工程的理论和技术。智能制造工程对人才的要求与以往的工科培养有所不同，需要有很强的数理基础。培养智能制造人才需经过工程科学的培养和相关专业设计、制造理论、技术、技能的培养，其中，工程科学的培养是必由之路。
Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering is the key to “China Manufacturing 2025”. Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering is composed of Webified Intelligent Manufacturing and Manufacturing Process Intelligence. Webified Intelligent Manufacturing will benefit from the network scientific and technical advancements, but the Manufacturing Process Intelligence, which is the core of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, is defined to be the digitization of constructed physical system and its correspondingly supporting environmental system in which the physical system is able to operate. The mechanism of Manufacturing Process Intelligence concerns of how the supporting environmental system influences the physical system, and vice versa. The study of mechanisms and their relations will create influencing theories and realization techniques. Therefore, the cultivations of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering talents will be distinct from the previous existed cultivations of engineering talents in that strong mathematical backgrounds configure the new talents. In this case, Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering talents must receive the training of engineering science courses, and, additionally, receive the corresponding professional scientific and technological skills. No matter what professions involved in the realization course of Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering, the engineering science courses necessitate the trainings.
