The first two days, the author went to participate in a food processing and packaging machinery exhibition. At the exhibition, I looked at all kinds of high-tech equipment. Seeing the product names are almost all 'smart' 'automatic', etc. At the time of the advantage, we also take the lead in saving the labor cost and reducing the labor cost. We associate ourselves with the fact that there are already food companies in China that have realized the 'unmanned factories' by introducing relevant intelligent equipment. The wind of intelligent manufacturing has become increasingly fierce in China's food-related industries. On the one hand, food machinery and equipment that is intelligent and less man-operated, and food machinery and equipment that requires a lot of manual work on the one hand, what choices will food companies make? The author believes that this choice is closely related to the following three aspects.
regional difference
In China's vast territory, regionalism is a vocabulary that has to be said. Of course, in some coastal areas of China, a number of large and medium-sized food enterprises have been developed, and their production capacity and financial strength are extremely strong. They used intelligent food machinery equipment to assist in the production earlier. Like Wahaha, as an old-fashioned food company in Zhejiang, it extended its reach to intelligent equipment in the development process and established a smart production pilot for the food and beverage industry.
However, in some poverty-stricken areas, the construction of food enterprises is mostly for the purpose of hematopoietic and poverty alleviation. In addition to purchasing the necessary food machinery and equipment, the other links are mostly artificially produced, which not only solves the production problems for the enterprise, but also opens the means for the local people to get rich. In this case, such food enterprises introduce more traditional food processing equipment.
Equipment prices
Nowadays, intelligent equipment is becoming popular, but compared with traditional food machinery equipment, such smart equipment is more powerful because of the research and development, and the price is generally high. At present, China's labor structure is upgrading, and many food companies feel ordinary. Workers are difficult to recruit, especially in some labor-intensive positions, but there is a small increase in wages. But even so, replacing a full set of smart equipment still makes most food companies feel struggling, and it takes years to calculate the cost.
For some small and medium-sized enterprises, it is not realistic to invest a large amount of money in a one-time replacement of equipment. Considering the problems of enterprise capital turnover and rational use of equipment, most food enterprises will choose to gradually replace intelligent food machinery and equipment. Therefore, traditional food machinery and equipment are It will exist for a long time.
Talent is hard to recruit
Traditional food machinery and equipment have existed longer in China than smart equipment, and there are many related operators, and there is no need to have too much equipment knowledge related to hiring people. Although most intelligent equipments currently play the flag that the equipment itself can detect faults, it is not necessary. It is doubtful that the operation of equipment and maintenance require more talents. At present, such operations in China are in a state of shortage, and often require higher salary to attract these people.
With the increasing slogan of smart slogans, the Ministry of Education has issued the “Artificial Innovation Plan for Higher Education Institutions” and put forward the goal of “improving the talent training system in the field of artificial intelligence”. Major universities have also begun to set up artificial intelligence corresponding courses. In the next few years, the shortage of such talents will have some links.
To sum up, intelligent manufacturing has become a major trend in the development of manufacturing industry. Intelligent food production equipment has unparalleled advantages in liberating labor and improving production efficiency. From the perspective of historical development, it is inevitable to replace traditional food machinery and equipment. However, this replacement process, traditional food machinery and equipment in the field of poverty alleviation, prices and other aspects still have a strong advantage. I believe that intelligent food machinery and equipment to replace traditional mechanical equipment is inevitable, but this process is slow, gradually replace, food Mechanical equipment enterprises should also maintain a certain degree of vigilance while relaxing their hearts, and strive to upgrade the equipment to adapt to the development of the times.