Industrial pipelines are widely used in industrial and mining enterprises, public institutions and other industries, and are distributed in urban and rural areas. Part of the industrial pipelines belong to pressure pipelines (the pipelines under the supervision of the technical quality department of the State Market Supervision Bureau), which belong to the pressure pipelines with the most types of industrial pipelines' technological processes, the most complex changes in the production and manufacturing environment, the more types of media transported and the more stringent conditions. See Figure 1 for the scope relationship between industrial pipeline and pressure pipeline.

Industrial pipeline is a system with a wide range of applications. The concept of industrial pipeline includes: connected equipment and facilities, pipes, valves, pipe fittings, supports and hangers, etc. It is one of the most important transportation systems, which is also known as aviation, highway and railway.