At the  13th National Conference of Extenics, Professor Tan Jianrong from Zhejiang  University, a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that in the new  situation of energy conservation, green sustainable development, the  manufacturing industry is facing with a situation of transformation and  upgrading, low-power, high efficiency, and friendly environmental production  methods are urgently needed. Therefore, the design and manufacture services are  becoming key aspects, and the use of extension methods will expand the research  fields of design and manufacture

In the special  report ‘Key Technology of Digital Design and Extension Design’, Prof. Tan vividly  showed the application and prospect of Extenics in areas such as manufacturing  industry, green manufacturing, energy conservation, etc. He also added that the  application of basic-element theory in innovative design technology and  knowledge reasoning made reproduced product a better performance, which  indicated basic-element theory to play an instructive role in product  recycling. Representatives were inspired by Extenics’ application in  engineering fields.

In  recent years, as a member of the State Key Laboratory for CAD & CG in Zhejiang University, Prof. Tan has more than 10  graduate students who have used Extenics as a guide for extension configuration  and modular design. The study of level product configuration information  technology and the integration between industrialization and information  technology had made remarkable achievements by using extension methods.

Extenics  is a new discipline founded by Chinese scholar Cai Wen in 1983, designed to  resolve contradictory problems with formal methods and innovation. Currently,  scholars from more than 20 provinces and cities in China are studying Extenics, and  applying the extension theory based extension innovative methods to the field  of design. Tan’s team had made groundbreaking in extension theory research.

For his outstanding contributions in application  of extension theory, the Extension Engineering Society, Chinese Association of  Artificial Intelligence now has appointed Prof. Tan as the consultant and  honorary director of the Academic Committee of Extenics.