As unmanned supermarkets and unmanned vehicles enter the sight of people, no one factory has caught the eye. According to a recent video showing that the network has become popular, thousands of square meters of frozen dumpling factory in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, there are no more dumpling workers, replaced by endless robots and interspersed with ordered tracks on the ground. From the dough, filling and filling the dumplings, it is a completely clean and streamlined line. The soft dumplings on the skin can be accurately grasped and placed by stout robots. The sorting robot has a gripper with a suction cup, which will not damage the fragile quick-freezing dumplings. The palletizing robot is tireless to repeat simple movements. Producing the same dumplings, this factory used 200 people in the past, and now it can compress up to 90% of the labor, and most of the work is done in the control room and laboratory. The dumplings "unmanned factory" is just a microcosm of many unmanned factories. Into the “unmanned factory†in Dongcheng District, Dongguan, Guangdong, the grinding workshop of Jinsheng Precision Components Co., Ltd., 50 machines that blinked with signal lights, polished one by one mobile phone structure parts day and night. Between the robot squares, the blue robot grabs the material accurately from the AGV cart and puts it into the process. Only three technicians monitor the machine in real time and remotely control it. The project was listed as the first batch of smart manufacturing special projects in the country. According to Yellow River, the general manager of Jinsheng Precision Intelligent Manufacturing Group, the number of employees in the plant area has been significantly reduced from the original 204 to the current 33, and the future goal is to reduce to 13 people. At present, the product defect rate has decreased from the previous 5% to 2%, and the quality is more stable. Many enterprises in the Pearl River Delta have gone through the first echelon of smart manufacturing by creating a “unmanned factoryâ€. In Guangzhou, the government proposes that more than 80% of manufacturing companies in the city will use industrial robots and smart equipment by 2020; in Foshan, government subsidies will support robot companies. At present, there are more than 300 intelligent equipment manufacturing enterprises above the scale in the city, and Lixun has emerged. , Jiateng, Yi Xuesong, and other well-known companies in the field of robotics; in Dongguan, the government's 2016 No. 1 Wenli promoted 50 robotic-intelligence projects and promoted the implementation of “machine substitution†automation project transformation from last year's 9 From the end of June to the end of June this year, Dongguan City received a total of 530 machine substitution projects, all of which will reduce the number of workers employed by about 36,000 people. In 2000, a factory in the Pearl River Delta used a monthly salary of 500 yuan to hire a glue sprayer. After 14 years, it is difficult to get workers on the job with 3,000 yuan. Behind the “unmanned factory†boom in the Pearl River Delta is precisely the turning point of the demographic dividend facing China's manufacturing industry. In the past two years, industrial robotics, a strategic emerging industry, is a dazzling landscape in the industrial increase of the Pearl River Delta. In some of the high-temperature bonding lines of Midea's air-conditioner production, operators are required to remove the evaporator from a high-temperature drying oven at 39°C for 2-3 meters before moving it to the high-voltage wire stand. This seemingly simple action requires the worker to repeat 3600 bendings, turning around and other actions every day. The operating environment is extremely hot and difficult, resulting in a consistently high turnover rate. After the beautiful group introduced the robot to work on this link, the entire assembly line was smooth. Midea Group's 2013 smart manufacturing upgrade project has invested a total of 750 million yuan, the overall efficiency has increased by over 23%, and more than 30,000 employees have been saved. It is estimated that due to the automation upgrade in 2013, the direct labor cost of the Home Air Conditioning Division of the United States has decreased by more than 8 million yuan, and the company has achieved an increase in the treatment of its employees. Under the situation of returning labor, this has become a guarantee for the factory's stable labor force. In the wave of transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industries, a number of corporate rookies engaged in robot R&D and production emerged in Foshan, including Ai Lebo, Lixunda, Jiateng, and Dingfeng. They mainly produce AGVs and injection molding machines. Parts such as manipulators, smart stamping robots, water cutting machines, and red-punching robots are widely used in ceramics, mechanical equipment, metal processing, and logistics distribution. Individual companies have rapidly grown into invisible champions of segmented industries. For example, Li Xun has become a leader in polishing and polishing robots. Jiateng has developed a smart handling robot that is at the forefront of the industry. Professor Zhang Tie of the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at South China University of Technology said that intelligent industrial robots can replace certain monotonous, frequent and repeated operations under long-term or dangerous and harsh environments in industrial production, which can reduce labor intensity and labor Risks, improving the production efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises have become an important platform for industrial production upgrading. According to data from the International Federation of Robotics, the number of Chinese robots has grown rapidly over the past few years and surpassed Japan in 2016, ranking first in the world. Some people worry that with the promotion of “unmanned factoriesâ€, employment will be affected. However, according to the current level of development, it will take some time to replace robots with robots on a larger scale. In the process of transition, training for workers to adapt to new positions will also reduce the risk of unemployment.
