2015, polishing workshop Dongguan long surplus Precision Technology Co., usually need to arrange 650 workers to maintain the operation of 10 production lines. Intensive human input, has been a key element of this enterprise was founded in 2010 to seek a foothold in the global market competition.
However, this workshop has now been abandoned, dark factory, old-fashioned manual polishing Closed have cobwebs on the device. In its next door, though still new grinding plant has 10 production lines, only it takes less than 30 workers to operate normally. In the huge plant in the phone quickly polished frame structure is not required light machine arm 60 and 10 automatic conveyor.
Pointing to the front of the new plant only a few people take care of, EPI precision chairman Chen Qi Xing said, this is only the first step in this enterprise "machine Substitution" program. 2017 years ago, this company plans to induction of a robotic arm to 1000, when the whole enterprise, background operation will not exceed 200 people, 80% of the process to achieve unmanned.
"Substitution machine enterprises not only to solve the employment difficulties, but also the industrial manufacturing automation, precision and intelligence to improve product quality and enhance the inevitable requirement." Chen Qi Xing said.
Being known as the "world factory" in Dongguan long surplus is not a "machine Substitution" isolated cases. Reporters from February 27 closing the seventh meeting of the Conference of Dongguan City, Fifteenth People's Congress was informed that this year the city will continue to vigorously implement the "Chi-made robot" program, focus on building the robot industry first Chinese city to build there is global influence of advanced manufacturing base.
Dongguan City Economic and Information Bureau chief economist, said Zhang Yu Ching 26, from September 2014 to December 2015, with manufacturing and processing trade enterprises in Dongguan known cumulative declaration "Machine Substitution" special fund projects total 1262 a total investment of 10.384 billion yuan.
"Our survey shows that 'Substitution machine' project is completed, and the enterprises labor productivity average of 65.25%, the average rate of qualified products increased from 89.04 to 94.44 percent, estimated to reduce labor 71253 people, The average unit cost fell 9.98 percent. "she said.
In the industry view, this is a hard-won "disruptive change." Since the 1980s, China, Hong Kong by undertaking, Taiwan textile, shoe bags, toys and other labor-intensive industries, in addition to subsequently became Japan, South Korea, the electronic components industry into the ground, gradually formed a Dongguan-based foundry the export-oriented economic model, and the achievements of the "traffic jam in Dongguan, the world's manufacturing emergency" manufacturing plant status. Peak period, where the foreign processing trade enterprises have more than 40,000.
However, by 2008 the global financial crisis will Dongguan pushed the cusp. Since then, about local foreign-funded enterprises "closures" market rumors continued, and in a number of business people and economists, although the judge does not comply with the reality, but also a considerable part of the outer exposed in Dongguan corporate long-term over-reliance on low labor costs, a serious lack of independent research and development capabilities, and then lead the market competitiveness in the rapidly changing market structure at home and abroad continued substantial weakening of fact.
Under the economic downturn crisis, a technological revolution and manufacturing innovations are launched silently Dongguan - Starting in 2014, Dongguan City, the financial arrangements for three consecutive annual budget of 200 million yuan of funds to finance a number of strong guide enterprises to take the machine to change people, technology, etc.-place upgrade, and then to the "world factory" to continue to maintain its position as a manufacturing center has brought new hope.
A substantial decline in production costs, is an important source of new hope excitation. Chen Qi Xing said, compared with the artificial skilled, just on the line robot can only be regarded as a "novice", but the quantity and quality of products is far more mature workers and experts. Hanging on the wall in the workshop production line comparison of the data show that since the robot posts, product defect rate from over 25% to less than 5%, while the production capacity from more than 8,000 per person per month increased to 21,000.
Of more concern is that the "machine Substitution" itself becoming a "world factory" a new economic growth point. In EPI precision, for example, the company has a team of 50 people dedicated to the production line machines Substitution matching experiments and research and development, as well as more than 600 skilled workers, can the robot production line for maintenance and repair. In addition, the companies also plan to conduct on the part of workers in skills training to meet the new job requirements.
Tommy Ching told reporters, Dongguan currently has approximately 400 intelligent equipment manufacturing enterprises, employing about 55,000 people in 2015, industrial output value of about 260 billion yuan.
In January this year, the Dongguan Municipal Government issued "One text" entitled "to develop intelligent equipment industry to build robots have global influence of the advanced manufacturing base of opinions", the industry was rated as China's most comprehensive system of support robot industrial development policy document, presented in 2020 and strive to achieve the goal of the industrial output value of 100 billion yuan.
This comment suggests that economic development, Dongguan has entered the transfer mode, adjust the structure of the new normal, increasing power in the face of conventional power weakened and intensified regional competition, the development of point must be placed on innovation, accelerate the formation of a new impetus to the development and competitive advantage . The robotics industry is Dongguan "Promoting demographic dividend bonus to the robot changes" an important part.
" 'Substitution machines' manufacturing industries both requirements, but also social progress, safety and protection of workers' rights requirements." Xu Jianhua, Dongguan Municipal Party Committee Secretary, said, "machine substitutions," focus area is characterized by significant duplication of effort and labor intensive there is a certain risk industries, especially labor-intensive enterprises, which help make employees more production out of certain risks, affect the health of the work environment.
The latest plan from the Dongguan city government shows that the Guangdong provincial government and the Dongguan Municipal Government will jointly invested 200 million yuan to set up special funds to finance leases with the CDB to carry out "zero down payment, zero threshold" ability credit program, Small and Medium Enterprises "change machine "and financial problems, while the investigation to find out the food, clothing, furniture, electronics and other industries the actual demand, focus on breakthrough" machine Substitution "common industry problems, and strive to form a replicated industrialization results.
Dongguan municipal government work report this year, suggests that 2016 will introduce a number of hotels in Dongguan international influence domestic robot leading enterprises, accelerate the formation of the body covering the key components, systems integrators, service providers robot industry cluster, and strive robot industrial output increased by 30%.
