New production capacity of mainland panel factories has been launched one after another, causing an oversupply situation, causing panel prices to collapse and impact on Taiwanese panel manufacturers. The display industry is fiercely competitive, and Taiwanese panel manufacturers

Jiwei.com News, new production capacity of mainland panel factories has been launched one after another, causing an oversupply situation, causing panel prices to collapse and impact on Taiwanese panel manufacturers. The display industry is fiercely competitive, and Taiwanese panel manufacturers are stepping into new areas in order to ensure the continuous growth of operations through new attempts.

Among them, smart retail, which has been discussed in recent years, has become a must-fight place for military strategists. Whether in smart stores or unmanned stores, the application of new technologies is closely related to the panel. Aiming at this new business opportunity, manufacturers such as AUO, Qunchuang, Huaying, and Jiashida have successively launched their layout to enter new markets.

QingChuang promotes unmanned retail solutions

During this year's CES exhibition, the Foreign Trade Association joined hands with the Taiwan panel factory - QingChuang Optoelectronics and the supply chain to create a "smart retail theme pavilion" to attract high interest from American retail channels and e-commerce channels. Yang Xiang, general manager of Qunchuang Optoelectronics, said that new retail trends swept the world, and the integration of high-tech smart screens and human-computer interface systems is an important key to the upgrade of new retail.

As early as August 2018, Qunchuang built a family group science store in Tainan. It uses more than 200 monitors in one store alone, imports self-checkout and IoT device monitoring, and uses a variety of Qunchuang Optoelectronics' electronic screens, electronic billboards, refrigerator transparent screens, etc., which have now expanded to many specialty stores in South Taiwan.

At that time, Hong Jinyang, chairman of Qunchuang Optoelectronics, once said that a new era of virtual and real economy that integrates hard and soft is coming, and the retail industry is equipped with innovative technology to increase consumer value experience and pocket share. Hong Jinyang said that Qunchuang has assisted the formation of the new retail market with its many years of machine manufacturing capabilities, and integrates the new retail display ecosystem with its panel technology capabilities.

Hong Jinyang said that innovation is not about giving up the past, but based on the past, doing more value-added and diversified development. He believes that Qunchuang’s R&D and business team will bring more innovative upgrades to Tainan and Taiwan.

Auto rushes to take the new retail train to establish Chuangli Space

In recent years, the panel industry has been fiercely competitive, and AUO has been able to maintain strong profitability in a fierce environment, which is inseparable from AUO's diversified business strategy. AUO is actively developing new panel application fields and investing in products with high gross profit margins. In addition, recently, news has been reported that AUO will be involved in fields such as smart retail.

On September 12, AUO announced that it would enter the long-term care market across the Taiwan Strait, in addition to health care, it also locks in areas such as smart retail.

AUO has scrambled to take the new retail train to establish a profit space. The company is mainly engaged in intelligent retail integration services, with cloud services as the core, and combined with business partners as the retail field, providing new generation of online and offline soft and hard integration services.

AUO Chairman Peng Shuanglang said that the new business groups developed at this stage are the fastest development of smart retail. At the same time, he also pointed out that AUA's smart retail not only provides panel technology, but has connected the entire value chain from the upstream panel to system integration, and even content management.

Huaying rushes into the electronic shelf label market and launches reflective LCD panel

Last year, Huaying also entered the electronic shelf label market and launched reflective LCD panels. Huaying has actively transformed in the past two years and expanded the industrial control and commercial application markets. Lin Shengchang, general manager of

huaying, said that online shopping is now quite popular, physical sales are moving towards smart stores, and there will even more and more unmanned stores in the future, and electronic shelf labels will become a must-have. In addition to cooperating with electronic paper industry players, Huaying has also developed LCD reflective panel electronic shelf labels, which have been shipped at the end of 2018 and are presented in color, animation, etc., which is richer and more beautiful than black and white. In addition, Huaying has entered a harvest period in non-consumer application markets such as in-vehicle and industrial control. In 2018, the revenue contribution of in-vehicle and industrial control will reach 40%, and in 2019 it will challenge 50%.

Jashida proposed five new retail solutions

htmlOn January 18,Jashida held an intelligent retail forum, publishing five major solutions including "precision interactive marketing", "customer self-service", "advertising monitoring management", "marketing big data analysis", and "energy-saving management", and showing results on the client.Jiashida cited "store flow analysis" as an example and stated that through data, they suggested that customers adjust their manpower period and site configuration, reassign store highlights, and drive their overall revenue growth rate to 20%.

In addition to citing actual cases of Taiwan's retail intelligence, Jiashida will also showcase solutions such as BenQ Zhulu, BenQ Energy, Youtong, Partner, Yixin Information and other solutions. By solving customer pain points and importing intelligent solutions, we help customers improve operational efficiency, increasing revenue by 20% compared to before importing solutions. Li Changhong, general manager of the Jiashida Intelligent Solutions Business Group, said that by mastering the core software capabilities of ERP ( enterprise resource planning ), the group has become the best partner for AIoT smart retail by mastering the core capabilities of ERP ( enterprise resource planning ).

He pointed out that Jiashida provides a trusted platform, has the ability to add software value, and integrates an experienced construction team and a professional maintenance service network to grow with customers in the continuously upgraded smart retail market. (Proofreading/Aki)