Recently, several media reports, in order to reduce Labour costs rich ZhiKang robot, introduced in its factory in kunshan city jiangsu province, and a 54% cut in the number of workers, from 110000 to 50000. Rich ZhiKang for foxconn, a subsidiary of science and technology, after foxconn responded this message for the kunshan city government public disclosure is also foreign media reported. While foxconn spokesman liu kun on "China business news" reporter said, foxconn is upgrading industrial automation at present. This message is not from foxconn. Our reporter called kunshan city government, also is not the latter.
But in recent years, manufacturing workers frequently exposed, declining performance information, such as beauty, has publicly responded library acquisition card group is due to China's manufacturing costs began to rise rapidly, in Labour costs, the RMB exchange rate appreciation and higher energy costs, labor costs rise faster than productivity growth is the main reason. Observers said Liang Zhenpeng senior industry economy, it is imperative to upgrade industrial automation. Different enterprises in the face of the different time will make a different choice, also will be the industry reshuffle.
Deny laid off workers
A few days ago, according to the American CNBC website news, rich ZhiKang is located in kunshan industrial zone has been laid off 60000 employees, with robots instead of production, reduce labor costs. Learned, kunshan city, jiangsu province is one of the main electronics manufacturing center in China, here is to speed up the strategic transformation in electronics industry and rich ZhiKang lots of robots to replace human contract, such as true, foxconn will cut 50000 jobs, and, according to some media reported earlier that the kunshan city government according to the survey, as many as 600 companies had planned to introduce machines in the near future. Kunshan has a total of 4800 Taiwanese companies, more than 60% of GDP. If automation plan goes well, may be forced 2.5 million people out of work. To this, our reporter called foxconn, foxconn spokesman liu kun to respond to our reporter, foxconn has not laid off workers, and online reports that rich ZhiKang is located in kunshan industrial zone has been laid off 60000 employees as false news, "we have noted, media reported recently in the running state of kunshan park kunshan park staff number is actually in the past between natural decrease in 67 as a result, and is not cut." Mr Liu said. And reports of foreign media reported data from kunshan city government, and journalists call the kunshan city government, kunshan city government response also did not publish this data.
Foxconn technology plan of the "lean" is not passive layoffs, spending cuts loss condition. Around 2010 foxconn has useful robot instead of workers, now the plan is carried out systematically. Mr Liu says that industrial automation transformation is to make the enterprise has a large number of technical personnel and patents, to ensure that the group is in the lead. In recent years, industrial automation and industrial transformation and upgrading is the current push forward the development strategy, government also encourage local enterprises in kunshan city upgrading of industrial automation. In addition, rising labor costs, low labor efficiency, and to promote the measures of upgrading industrial automation enterprises. Machine can replace artificial free part of the staff, make its more complex work, improve the production efficiency, so as to guarantee the quality of employees. Foxconn, continuously introducing robot, cut staff Numbers, the purpose is to reduce costs, improve corporate profits.
It is understood that foxconn recently is a disguised form of thin body. As apple reported earnings in the first quarter of 2016, the decline in sales caused attention, the performance of the whole smartphone and PC market is not optimistic, foxconn for apple, huawei, lenovo and so on OEM assembly orders on some PC, mobile phone is also reduced, some production line there is labor lost. Shenzhen zone plate production lines long told reporters that the appearance of his department is mainly responsible for posted iphone glass membrane, to accept the order of the first half of the season, after August is the peak season, in the case of low season before generally need more than 60 workers, and now only two dozen workers. At present, foxconn workers salary is mainly made up of basic salary and overtime, the interviewees said, "this months order less, our overtime pay less, also do not work overtime we pay less, so that some people leave automatically."
"Downsizing" to accelerate the industry reshuffle
Labor needed less and less, the robot is becoming more and more obviously has become the trend of the manufacturing industry upgrade.
It is understood that as the large home appliance enterprises in recent years, manufacturing spare no effort to production line automation renovation, foxconn, midea, haier, and other large manufacturing workers frequently revealed plans. But at the same time, the machine to replace people in many enterprise is not new. Such as the United States of 2015 and as "one of the four big families" global robots Japan yaskawa motor industrial robot is established and the company service robot, and for the price of 29.2 billion yuan this year purchase kuka robot company in Germany.
At present, Chinese enterprises' layoffs strictly speaking cannot be called "cut", workers should call. Layoffs are active behavior, downsizing is passive behavior. Downsizing is mainly the result of a robot alternative plans to introduce. The more robots to use, the greater the amount of corporate downsizing. And companies choose robots instead of human is mainly considering the labor tension in recent years, the rapidly rising cost of Chinese labor, home appliance industry veteran observers liu buchen thinks, robotics and artificial, there is a big difference between the robot manufacturing will be great help for production standardization, standardization is the large-scale industrial manufacturing of the key factors. Can improve the product uniformity and roa, thus to improve competitiveness of "made in China" in the world. Workers, in fact, is the necessity of enterprise transformation, far from the crisis, may still opportunities. "Enterprise of intelligent manufacturing 2025, layoffs and factory automation has a direct relationship." Liu buchen thinks. In addition, Liang Zhenpeng also said: "enterprise automation upgrade is the trend of The Times, the enterprise to upgrade of automation of production line, improve input-output ratio, improve the production efficiency, improve the enterprise management status, the number of employees don't need so many, layoffs are normal." At the same time, liu buchen prediction, different enterprises have different practices in the face of the new age, some companies in this round of the automatic upgrade will naturally be eliminated in the competition. "Because of the strength of enterprises, have the funds to realize robot production, reducing labor costs improve enterprise profitability; who don't have the strength of enterprises, no cash to buy a robot, will have to bear the shortage and high labor costs at the same time, leading to its competitiveness further to fall. To form the strong stronger and the weak weaker situation. This is shuffle."
It is important to note that "at present, the mainstream enterprise robot plan is still in the process of pushing, industry reshuffle is still in progress, not when the dust settled. Three years later also is expected." Liu buchen said.
