数控技术是推动机械产品升级换代的关键共性使能技术。考虑到广大中小企业自身技术、资金等诸多障碍和市场失灵、组织失灵问题，共性使能技术在推广应用中存在严重的“死亡之谷”现象。“数控一代”示范工程的工作方针是以需求为牵引、以创新为动力、以企业为主体、“用产学研金政”紧密结合、重点突破、成功示范。“数控一代”示范工程将数控技术应用到典型行业的机械产品中，使装备和产品性能得到本质提升，加快机械产品整体升级换代和企业向可持续发展转型升级的步伐，在共性使能技术研发与企业创新生产之间的鸿沟上架起一座桥梁，取得了显著的成就，是共性使能技术推广应用的成功范例，为进一步在各个行业、区域全面普及数控技术及开展“智能一代”机械产品创新应用工程提供有益借鉴并奠定坚实的基础。

Numerical Control (NC) technology is a key and generic enabling technology to promote the upgrading of mechanical products. Considering the barriers in technology and capital, among others that affect small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and that may lead to market failure and organization failure, there is a serious "Death Valley" phenomenon in the application of generic enabling technology. The working principle of the NC Generation Demonstration Project is to take demand as traction, innovation as driving power, and enterprise as the main body of technological innovation; and then to combine multivariate innovation between industry, universities, academic research, finance, and government, break through at key points, and successfully demonstrate NC generation projects. The NC Generation Demonstration Project applies NC technology to the mechanical products of a typical industry, essentially improving the product performance. In general, it speeds up the overall upgrading of mechanical products and promotes the transformation and upgrading of an enterprise toward sustainable development. In this way, the NC Generation Demonstration Project bridges the gap between generic enabling technology R&D and enterprises’ innovative production. This project has led to some remarkable accomplishments, and is a successful example of the application of generic enabling technology. The NC Generation Demonstration Project provides a helpful reference and establishes a solid foundation for the further implementation of the comprehensive popularization of NC technology in various industries and regions.