Recently, the home appliance giant in the field of intelligent manufacturing, setting off a new round of investment boom.
TCL Group invested 9.6 billion yuan to build an intelligent manufacturing base integrating modules and complete machines in Huizhou. It is expected to complete the first phase of construction in 2019 and complete the second phase of construction in 2021, with an annual output of 60 million liquid crystal panel modules Production of 35 million sets of LCD TVs is expected to reach full output after the annual output of nearly 90 billion yuan.It is Huaxing photoelectric in Shenzhen, the 11th generation and 8.5 generation LCD panel production line supporting the plant, put into operation will become the world's largest module and color TV 整机Integrated smart manufacturing base.
Haier Group signed a contract with Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone to invest in building COSMOPLAT Industrial Internet Center, Intelligent Manufacturing and Smart Logistics Center in Nansha, and will annually produce 5 million sets of smart air conditioners and GE white goods to be acquired by Haier will also be industrialized in Nansha. Meanwhile, Smart community, intelligent life experience center, artificial intelligence laboratory, Haier financial big data center, etc. The first phase of the project will have a total investment of about 20 billion yuan and after the project is completed, it is estimated that the total operating income in 5 years will be about 100 billion yuan.
Midea Group and Country Garden strategic cooperation plans to build smart manufacturing in Foshan unmanned plant, KUKA robot town.In addition, the United States and the Group is promoting its listing of Wellington Holdings (00382.HK) of the privatization, intends to spend about 18.5 Weidian has repurchased the remaining 31.37% stake in Welling Holding Co., Ltd. Welling has developed the core components server for robotics and will work closely with the United States-based KUKA Group in the future to further expand the industry segment of robotics and smart manufacturing .
At present, Gree has independently developed and produced a series of multi-axis robots, and its automated production lines have been applied to Yinlong New Energy Co., Ltd. In September this year, Gree also announced that it will use its resources in the intelligent equipment industry to attract the enterprises in the industrial chain to jointly build China's Luoyang Independent Innovation and Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Base project, the project total investment of about 15 billion yuan, after the completion of the project is expected to achieve annual output of more than 30 billion yuan.
This round of giants 'smart manufacturing investment fever, with the biggest difference from the past, is to' intellectual make 'ability to socialize.Especially Haier, the United States, Gree, is the smart manufacturing as a new round of help the company take off' second Runway. "In the past, the white giant's smart manufacturing investment, more services to their own, mainly a subsidiary of its automation, intelligent transformation.For example, Haier built eight Internet factories, the United States in Nansha, Wuhan Nowadays, they are required to export their accumulated intelligent manufacturing experience and capabilities to serve other industries and other enterprises in the society and make intelligent manufacturing a new revenue and profit growth point .
Chen Lucheng, vice president of Haier Home Appliances Industry Group, said in September this year that not only the home appliances, consumer electronics, home appliances and clothing enterprises and products can use Haier COSMOPLAT industrial internet platform to achieve mass production to large-scale customization, The current COSMOPLAT platform has been initially applied in 10 regions, 11 industries and 1,300. Take the clothing field for example, this year is expected to attract 100 million clothes, more than 1,000 garment enterprises COSMOPLAT platform to reduce inventory by 50% , Shorten the production cycle by 30%.
The socialization of their intellectual capabilities extends from hardware sales of robots and mechanical equipment to the output of software systems. Like Midea, in addition to selling industrial robots through its KUKA Group and Matsushita Electric Works, Yasukawa Joint Ventures, System also secretly force the United States has set up a 'Meiyunzhidai' companies, relying on digital transformation of the United States practice, as well as domestic and foreign manufacturing companies and software vendors to deal with the experience of the introduction of a series of auxiliary intelligent manufacturing software products have been applied In toys entertainment, supermarkets retail, apparel production and other areas, clients include Austrian fly entertainment, Yonghui Supermarket, Anta Group.
For example, Haier in Nansha, the COSMOPLAT center, smart manufacturing, smart communities, smart life experience center, artificial intelligence laboratory, etc., combined with the combination of intelligent manufacturing and smart communities, The industry, cities, entrepreneurship, want to form a 'create a city ecosystem'.
Why is there a new round of smart manufacturing investment hot? As 5G business has seen the dawn of China is expected to achieve 5G large-scale commercial use in 2020. 5G is smart home, smart community, the realization of broadband Internet industry is to achieve Internet of Things technical conditions.
China's industrial robots demand is exploding, high-tech industry research forecast 2017 growth rate will exceed 45% in 2017, significantly faster than the previous two years.China Machinery Industry Federation President Wang Ruixiang said that China has for four consecutive years become the world's first A large industrial robot market, is expected in 2020 will be increased to 150,000 units, the number of holdings exceeded 800,000 units.
Globally, China's manufacturing industry to maintain its advantages, smart upgrade is also an inevitable choice.Last week I went to Osram LED chip factory in Malaysia to understand that Malaysia's labor costs have been about 30% lower than China's coastal areas? 40%. In the event of a gradual demographic dividend decline, it must be made smartly to enhance efficiency and maintain cost advantages.
Lu Changyuan, director of the High-tech Research Robot Research Institute, believes that the investment layout of the home appliance giant in the intelligent manufacturing field has already started. The current acceleration reflects the arrival of the industry's 'card warfare' and the future competition is no longer limited to a single industry or a single product. The arrival of the smart era, the giants who aim to create their own 'ecosystem' to enhance overall competitiveness, access to smart era tickets.