At the end of the speech, Zhou Chao met with his colleagues' enthusiasm 'chase and intercept', while at the China Household Electrical Appliances Technology Conference in 2016, so sought after by Japan's FEEL GOOD CREATION Co., Ltd. Director YUI YUI Yukie.
At the 2017 China Household Electrical Appliances Technology Conference held on November 2, the topics and topics of intelligent appliances for home appliances are the top priority while the topics of smart appliances for home appliances are extremely hot. In view of the speech "Planning and Design of Appliance Smart Factory" Concerned, booked a good interview had to postpone the future.
China Light Industry Changsha Engineering Co., Ltd. Design Director of Smart Industrial Design Zhou Chao
Smart Factory is by no means a simple 'machine substitution'
In the mouth of the general public, there is absolutely no mention of the word "machine substitutions" in reference to a smart factory, and in the media reports of recent years, speculation about job substitution caused by unemployment has been frequently reported. ?
Zhou Chao told China Household Electrical Network reporter, people referred to as "machine substitutions" first think of automation. However, automation is just the tip of the iceberg, lean, information technology, digitalization, visualization, greening is also a significant smart factory Features.
For example, factory layout and logistics lean can greatly improve operational efficiency. The information management system can realize the interconnection and effective integration of system, equipment, components and personnel information, and the green production can realize environmental protection, energy saving and the like.
In Zhou Chao's view, the role played by the appliance smart factory is not limited to the manufacturing enterprise.With the advent of smart factories can greatly improve production efficiency, but also greatly enhance the overall response speed for the home appliance sales model evolved from the pressure to fight money Flexible custom production provides the basis for protection.
Appliance smart factory called the whole industry chain 'smart'
As the maturity of smart home appliance factories continues to improve, some changes have been made in the formulation of flexible manufacturing.From the beginning, home appliance enterprises are more customized, and now large-scale customization is gradually being rolled out.
Zhou Chao told reporters that there is a deep-seated reason behind this change of formulation.
At present, China's automobile industry and home appliance industry are at the forefront of other industries in the field of smart manufacturing and assembly in China, however, the home appliance industry is in a rather 'thin' area compared to other industries, and the investment in smart factories has a huge amount. Therefore, As the basis for the realization of home appliances intelligent factory profit maximization is the home appliance business to consider the primary issue.
Although personalized customization can achieve high-end, differentiated transformation, but after all, the scale is limited.Relying on big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to achieve large-scale customization, both high-end transformation, but also to expand the scale of production, to maximize the intelligent factory potential.
Zhou Chao said that at present China's home appliance industry's intelligent manufacturing strength has come in the forefront of the world. China's home appliance factory terminal smart manufacturing process does not exist obvious technical bottlenecks, and now China's household electrical appliance enterprises need to further enhance the entire industrial chain supporting capacity.
In fact, the iPhone X is a good example of the spit outflow from the production to mass production, the iPhone X there has been obvious production capacity and component supply problems.While the capacity problems are gradually solved, but the problem of component supply is a ' Chronic disease '.
Zhou Chao said that now China's household electrical appliance enterprises in the industrial Internet platform can achieve a high level of intelligent manufacturing, but differentiated products need 'shaped' parts are not good to solve the appliance business in their own growth, but also need to simultaneously grow ' Foreign aid 'strength.
Smart Factories and Shared Factories Have 'Relatives'
In the wake of the smart manufacturing boom in China, the 'shared factory' hit an unexpected surprise in 2017 with a new mode of production-sharing shareholding and e-commerce depth, sparking sparks again by the Internet and manufacturing industries.
'Shared factory is not a new thing in fact, the previous foundry, OEM and similar.' Zhou Chao told reporters that the shared factory and smart factory, although not a concept, but the results do have some similarities.
Zhou Chao said that both the shared factory and the intelligent factory achieve resource sharing and digesting production capacity through informationization, while the second aspect is leanization, both of which integrate resources and maximize the utilization of resources. The point is that smart factories use technology to achieve leanness, and sharing factories is more of a commercial mode of operation.
In the context of manufacturing upgrading, both the smart factory and the 'shared factory' are undergoing automated upgrades, and machine substitution is inevitable.
'Machine replacement is the result of the development of social productivity, as machine replacement will not cause a large area of unemployment, I think we should use a historical perspective.' Zhou Chao said that in the short term, machine substitution will make part of the foundation Sex workers are unemployed, but this does not mean an increase in the overall number of unemployed people. On the one hand, unemployed workers can be transferred to other industries such as electricity service providers, restaurants and other service industries. On the other hand, the number of basic workers is reduced, but the number of skilled workers Demand will inevitably increase.In the long run, the substitution process of the machine is actually a process of industrial upgrading and personnel structure upgrading, industrial transfer and personnel transfer.