为了能对流程制造业未来的发展方向有更加深刻的认识,本文从流程制造业中各行业的共性特点出发,将分析的视角从单一行业拓展到整个流程制造业,立足于热力学和熵等概念,对流程的本质及本质性特征进行了清晰深入的分析研究,构建了以“流”–“程”、“物质”–“能量”–“信息”、“规模”–“效率”三组重要因素为主的本质性分析框架,并对化工流程和磷化工流程案例进行了本质性分析。结果表明流程制造业发展的根本方向是要追求整体系统的熵增量趋向最小,而不是仅追求流程系统的熵减而忽视了外部环境系统中产生的熵增。要使整体系统的熵增趋向最小,不仅要关注流程系统的经济效益,同时也要提高资源和能源、环境效率。效率的提升本质上需要技术的改进、升级、创新来提供支撑,在流程系统中技术的改进升级可以小幅度提升流程系统的效率,而将颠覆性创新技术引入流程系统则可能使效率大幅度提升。 In order to have a deeper understanding of the future direction of the process manufacturing industry, starting from the common characteristics of the various industries in the process manufacturing industry, this article extends the analysis perspective from a single industry to the entire process manufacturing industry, based on the concepts of thermodynamics and entropy , The author analyzes the essential and essential characteristics of the process clearly and deeply, constructs the information “” flow “- ” process “, ” material “- ” energy “- ” information “Size ” - “efficiency ” three main factors of the main analysis of the essential framework, and the chemical process and phosphorus chemical process cases were essentially analyzed. The results show that the fundamental direction of the development of process manufacturing is to pursue the trend of the entropy increment of the whole system to the minimum, instead of pursuing the entropy reduction of the process system and ignoring the entropy increase in the external environment system. In order to minimize the tendency of the entropy increase of the whole system, it is necessary not only to pay attention to the economic benefits of the process system, but also to improve the resources, energy and environmental efficiency. The improvement of efficiency is essentially supported by technical improvements, upgrades and innovations. The improvement of technology in process systems can slightly increase the efficiency of process systems. The introduction of disruptive and innovative technologies into process systems may increase the efficiency significantly .