Under different era backgrounds, it is inevitable that traditional industries will make corresponding changes based on actual conditions. For example, the manufacturing industry uses machines instead of human labor to operate, which seems to be an inevitable choice of the times. As the world's largest OEM giant, Foxconn has previously purchased a large number of robots to replace people's work to a certain extent.
. According to relevant information some time ago, BYD has also embarked on the path chosen by Foxconn and plans to purchase 9,000 robots for battery and automobile manufacturing. So why have Foxconn and BYD both embarked on the road of automation one after another?
Since several tragedies in 2010, in order to retain employees and increase their sense of trust, Gu Taiming has increased the basic salary of Foxconn employees by 160%. However, in this way, the labor costs required by Foxconn continued to increase, and even increased its net profit, which was unfavorable for Foxconn itself, so Terry Gou made up his mind to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to use robots instead of human work. In fact, it also proves that Terry Gou's choice is a driving force for Foxconn to move forward.
On the one hand, after Foxconn used robots to replace human work, the most obvious benefit was the reduction of labor costs . Although the initial investment in purchasing a robot is very huge, these costs are one-time investments, and at least in the next five years, you only need to pay the corresponding maintenance costs. In comparison, labor costs are a long-term and unestimated investment. It is understood that Foxconn's cost of adopting robots is only half of the labor costs when creating the same benefits.
On the other hand, the production operation method of robots has also improved the efficiency of Foxconn production workshop . It is understood that after Foxconn used robots to replace human work, the production equipment became more transparent and visual, and the work of the entire assembly line can be controlled in real time through big data analysis. Against this background, the per capita output of Foxconn workshops increased by 20%, the quality rate of products also increased by 30%, and the inventory was also reduced by 33%, achieving the dual goals of quality improvement and efficiency improvement.
It can be seen that Foxconn's choice to use robots instead of human work is correct, and Foxconn's ranking among the top 500 people is also inseparable from the choice to replace human work. In fact, looking at the entire manufacturing industry, it is not just Foxconn that introduces robots to replace human work. For example, many technology and manufacturing giants such as Gree , Huawei , Xiaomi have also set off a trend of unmanned factories, and BYD has also stepped up the layout of machine operations. So what is the development path of BYD robot factory?
For BYD, if you want to truly embark on the road of robot factories, the first step is to replace its human resources production line with an automated production line for industrial robots. In other words, BYD needs to conduct relevant debugging of the factory stations so that the entire workshop and even the entire factory can be reborn, especially the parts that are most likely to replace manual labor, such as machine addition, winding, assembly, and handling.
Secondly, what kind of industrial robot to choose is also a practical consideration . For BYD, it mainly focuses on producing and manufacturing new energy vehicles, so in this way, the industrial robots needed are generally 20kg6-axis. However, this type of robot is currently monopolized by the international ABB, FANUCh, Kaka , and Yamkawa . Coupled with the epidemic and rising international raw material prices, BYD may encounter more obstacles when purchasing such robots.
Under such circumstances, domestic robot manufacturers and integrators have more development opportunities. BYD can cooperate with domestic manufacturers such as Huichuan , Eston , Xinshida , and integrators that integrate robots into the factory are also concentrated on domestic brands.Against the backdrop of domestic manufacturers catching up, the convenience of BYD's cooperation with them is also obvious.
The main reason why BYD chose to embark on the same development path as Foxconn is the pressure on labor costs . With the disappearance of China's demographic dividend, the labor costs required by manufacturing factories have increased significantly compared to before. For BYD, it has nearly 300,000 employees, and the labor costs incurred by so many employees undoubtedly bring great burdens to BYD.
Not only that, updates and iterates its production lines accordingly for the needs of industrial competition, which is also the trend of the times. For a rapidly developing company like BYD, insufficient production capacity is the biggest obstacle to its development, but if you blindly increase production lines, production personnel and other investments, there may be more risks. In contrast, the method of using robots to replace human work caters to the basic needs of the Internet era, and can also increase production capacity, thereby making up for the impact of insufficient production capacity.
For the development path of BYD's robot factory, Gree Group's chairman Dong Mingzhu gave affirmation, Dong Mingzhu believes that factory automation is a requirement of the times and should not be limited to the reduction of ordinary employees' positions brought about by automation. On the contrary, the focus should be on the talent training of controlling robots.
It is undeniable that with the development of the times, simple human work no longer caters to the trend of the times, and robots replace employees does not mean that human beings will be completely eliminated. On the contrary, the future era needs talents who can control robots, that is, technical talents.
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