In recent years, the development of emerging technologies has brought about a new era of industrial reform. The current industrial revolution will deeply integrate the new generation of information technology with modern manufacturing industry and production servicing businesses to promote transformation and upgrading. As it is the foundation of the manufacturing industry, intelligent equipment plays an important role in the reform. In this paper, we propose an innovative design method to help design intelligent equipment. Firstly, referring to the architecture of the Cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) and industrial big data, we proposed the architecture of the method and defined the different layers to process the data. Then, for the acquired external data, we put forward an algorithm which was combined with the technology of CIoT and industrial big data, to help designers analyze and make decisions. Finally, we …