This discipline uses theories and methods of system theory, information theory, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence to solve the technical problems of operation, management, R&D, production, and service in the industrial manufacturing process. Additionally, according to the whole life cycle of products, it realizes the intellectualization of R&D, design, and manufacturing of products through intelligent perception, human-machine interactive learning, autonomous decision-making, and automatic execution technologies. From the perspective of system theory, it studies the structure model, operation mechanism, and technology system of manufacturing enterprises; from the perspective of information theory, it studies the evolution law of its management mode, operation mode, product development design mode, and production and manufacturing mode; from the perspective of cybernetics and artificial intelligence, it studies the theory and methods of cooperative control, intelligent decision-making, and optimization in complex manufacturing and operation management process. This second-level discipline shows the deep fusion and integration of information technology, intelligent technology and manufacturing technology, which is an interdisciplinary discipline of automatic control, computer, management science, and mechanics.