Driven by the "Industry 4.0" and "Made in China 2025" strategies, transformation and upgrading have become the only way for domestic automation enterprises to develop.This trip to the United States will lay a solid foundation for Foxconn's transformation into intelligent manufacturing, but also a warning for the domestic manufacturing industry.

Recently, The news that Foxconn is about to set up a factory in the United States has caused waves.As the world's largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn is officially a cheap labor force.Once the factory is set up in the United States, it will face many times higher labor costs. According to media estimates, the annual salary of the factory employees in Wisconsin is no less than 54,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to about 360,000 RMB.While in China, the average annual salary of foxconn's front-line employees is between 50,000 and 60,000 yuan, and the labor cost of building factories in the United States is about six times that in China. This is clearly a powerful relationship. So why did Foxconn make this decision?
Gou already realized that the era of cheap labor was over and that replacement by machines was inevitable.The United States, foxconn has chosen the high degree of automation of LCD business, the human cost of greatly reduced, rockwell automation will work with foxconn, a new American factory practice connected enterprises and industrial intelligent manufacturing concept of Internet of things, the deployment of advanced industrial iot solutions, make high efficiency top manufacturing system.

Driven by the "Industry 4.0" and "Made in China 2025" strategies, transformation and upgrading have become the only way for domestic automation enterprises to develop.This trip to the United States will lay a solid foundation for Foxconn's transformation into intelligent manufacturing, but also a warning for the domestic manufacturing industry.
At present, China's manufacturing industry still relies too much on low-cost labor. Only by using industrial robots to replace human labor on a large scale and realizing automation and improvement of precision in the production process, can production efficiency be fundamentally improved and reliable products with more quality assurance be produced.
From this point of view, Wei Sheng group is the best example.Weisheng group utilizes the latest seven-axis robot to cooperate with human to achieve a 45 percent increase in production efficiency and a 50 percent reduction in human cost.It used to take 20 people working continuously for a day to complete 5,000 electricity meters, but now five robots can complete it in about eight hours, greatly improving the production efficiency.

The rapid development of industrial Internet of things, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence has also brought a storm of technological innovation to the traditional manufacturing industry.In the future, more industrial equipment will join the system of industrial Internet of Things, which will greatly improve the intelligent level of operation and maintenance.

The automation of the production line and the intellectualization of the product itself are the two major trends in the development of China's manufacturing industry. Both of them are indispensable. Only by following the development trend closely can we not be eliminated by The Times.

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