A Brief Analysis of the Development of the Wire and Cable Industry and Quality Test Technology in Shaanxi Province in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

As the “industrial blood vessel” of the national economy, wire and cable products underpin the safety of infrastructure and power systems. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the transformation of cable quality testing from manual operation to intelligent mode. As a major energy base in China, Shaanxi Province has formed a distinctive cable industrial cluster, yet faces prominent problems such as low intelligent quality test level and insufficient high-end supply. This paper sorts out the development status of Shaanxi’s wire and cable industry, analyzes the bottlenecks of traditional quality test technology, and elaborates the enabling value of AI from four dimensions: defect identification, non-destructive testing, whole-process quality control, and intelligent supervision. On this basis, it summarizes the practical challenges of AI-industry integration, and proposes targeted development paths including building a provincial AI quality test service center, promoting industry-university-research collaboration, upgrading industrial clusters, formulating local standards and constructing an intelligent supervision system, so as to provide references for the high-quality development of Shaanxi’s cable industry.