Chapter 537: The Intelligent Era

The surprise appearance of Segway Hot Wheels directly made everyone's enthusiasm for this World Congress burn more vigorously, and their expectations for the next new products have also increased a lot. Facts have proved that Yang Xing will certainly not just do a hammer sale. In the next three days, the many unique products and novel experiences that lived up to expectations did make the participants feel that the ticket price was worth the high price, especially the many new concepts promoted by Yang Xing and others at the conference, which undoubtedly gave everyone a refreshing feeling.

Yang Xing, who once again attracted the attention of the crowd at the opening ceremony, announced in public that the group's slogan "making life smarter" should be put into practice, starting with the "smart home" solution proposed last year, and this year, the "smart office" and "smart manufacturing" solutions will be launched one after another, and start from oneself. In the next ten years, the entire group management will be fully intelligent and open up a "smart era".

Everyone is easy to understand the "intelligent office" solution. Zhongxing's Nebula Electronics, Xingdou Research Institute and Xingdong Network have shown a complete set of information office solutions at this conference. It is proposed to use supercomputers and servers all over the world to connect Zhongxing International's continental branches through high-speed fiber networks to transmit a large amount of office information and summarize and distribute it in real time. The usual cumbersome and lengthy decision-making and business guidance processes are not only compressed and flattened, but also spread important information everywhere, and there will be no threat of failure and paralysis. The key is that the office efficiency is greatly improved, saving a large amount of traditional information flow methods such as fax and file transfer. This system called "Star Core" will also establish a huge database to provide data support for many commercial operations of Zhongxing International.

However, the "intelligent manufacturing" plan proposed by Yang Xing caused a huge debate in the venue. When Yang Xing looked down on his face, he said that in the next ten years, the manufacturing department of Zhongxing International will use a large number of industrial robots to replace repeated dangerous positions and improve production efficiency. The demand is as high as one million units, almost all the listeners present thought Yang Xing was crazy.

In addition to buyers, suppliers, scientific researchers and a large number of representatives of surrounding supporting manufacturers who attend the World Conference every year, many people are sent by competitors of Zhongxing International, which is an open secret. At that time, the international mobile phone manufacturers sent industrial spies to infiltrate the headquarters of Zhongxing International to learn about the details of the opponents, but Yang Xing took the initiative to publish patented technology to attract supporting manufacturers to settle in the industrial park, which made Dongfang Yunyi, a commercial spy, lose his wife and his troops.

Now, the new products released by Zhongxing International at the annual World Conference make competitors feel that it is easier to understand the actual situation from public than to secretly momo. Moreover, there are no eternal opponents in the mall, and it is common for industry competitors to become partners in the blink of an eye, so it is common for competitors such as Sony, Samsung, and General Motors to appear at the World Conference.

The enemy always knows themselves best. Their first reaction is to calculate what Yang Xing said. Everyone is a colleague, and it is not uncommon to use a large-scale assembly line to use hundreds of industrial robots, but at best it can only be used as a substitute for workers in a special repetitive process. With Zhongxing International based in China and hiring a large number of workers, it is not necessary to replace ordinary workers with expensive industrial robots.

After rapid development in recent years, Zhongxing International has especially established several intensive star cities as industrial bases, which has greatly reduced the transportation time between various processes in the industrial chain and saved a lot of warehousing and material transportation costs. The concentrated production of a large number of workers has also made the low labor costs and high organizational discipline of Chinese workers to the extreme. Coupled with its leading technological advantages, Zhongxing International's manufacturing companies can not only meet the production needs of its products, but also take over the overseas OEM business of many multinational companies. The number of workers has risen sharply, reaching nearly 150,000.

Now Yang Xing proposed to use millions of industrial robots. Everyone knows that an industrial robot can replace at least a dozen or twenty ordinary workers and is valuable. What is the concept of one million? Is it possible to replace millions of workers? Does he want all of his factories to be produced by robots?

What's more, there are less than one million industrial robots used in the world at this time. Even Japan, the most advanced in the field of industrial robot research, has no company with such ambitions. How can we explain Yang Xing's remarks are not crazy?

In fact, at the end of the year-end meeting of Zhongxing, Yang Xing's subordinates also raised great objections to this issue. The strongest objection was Yang Xing's father Yang Rongguang. In his opinion, the group finally established the throne of the king of cost control in the industry. Due to the huge manufacturing cost advantages of Zhongxing International in the industry, a large number of foreign manufacturers can only set up factories in emerging countries such as low-cost areas, or directly choose between OEM companies like Zhongxing International. This is the time for a great time.

Yang Xing suddenly launched the goal of purchasing one million industrial robots, promoting the intelligence of manufacturing, improving the level of the industrial chain, and reducing the number of simple workers. Although the idea is wonderful, it is too early, which runs contrary to the idea that the group is recruiting troops to do a big battle.

As a result, although Xingchen Manufacturing will definitely gain a large supply share among the million industrial robots proposed by Yang Xing, Xingchen Manufacturing has the highest opposition to this plan. Yang Xing had to patiently explain that this was a move to prepare for the overall long-term interests of the group.

He took out a survey report. Although the group's manufacturing and OEM business are booming, he calculated the accounts for everyone here. It showed that the products that foreign commissioned the group to OEM are worth $100, of which $40 is raw materials, $20 is other people's design and R&D expenses, $10 is brand promotion expenses, $20 is profit, and processing and transportation expenses only account for 10. Of these 10, their share is less than $3, and the real profitable part is only $1, sometimes even less than $1.

Such low processing costs are because we only have comparative advantages in cheap labor and cannot obtain the high-end added value of the product. Yang Xing reminds his subordinates that they can now organize large-scale production with a large number of hard-working rural surplus labor to achieve small profits and quick turnover. However, this situation cannot continue. Migrant workers from the mainland can still be satisfied with a few hundred yuan in wages, but as time goes by, their various requirements will gradually increase. Now Zhongxing International is already famous in the industry for high wages and good benefits. As workers' wages grow, the biggest reliance on the cost advantage of low labor will soon disappear.

And as this group of workers grow old, whether their next generation can still receive such low wages as they are now and continue to repeat the monotonous work of their parents may not be guaranteed. In an enterprise that has no hope of promotion and cannot meet welfare benefits, requiring workers to work for decades is probably just a fantasy. If one day they cannot recruit enough people to start work, what should the future of the company do? This is the biggest prerequisite for Yang Xing to purchase millions of industrial robots.

This analysis finally calmed the debate within the group. The more they thought about the boss's words, the more they felt chilled. The boss's beware of danger in times of peace is indeed very long-term. Now, due to its comparative advantages, China has become a gathering place for most low-end manufacturing industries in the world. "Made in China" has defeated the basic manufacturing industries of many countries, and China's low-priced products are unstoppable.

But Yang Xing obviously saw the crisis in this prosperous era and the alarm bells were deafening. The domestic manufacturing industry is huge, but not strong, and its added value is very low. "Eighty-million shirts cannot be exchanged for a bo-sound aircraft" is a true portrayal. In the field of high-end manufacturing, the long-term control of the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries has not improved. They have just given up the simple and repeated low-level manufacturing industry and bet on high-tech fine manufacturing and R&D design.

A typical example is that after Jobs' return, Apple completely gave up its product production line, retained its R&D, design and management department, and gave all its product production to Nebula Electronics and two other Taiwanese OEM companies. As a result, the new Mac computer made a stunning success in Europe and the United States due to its unique shape and color. Its excellent sales results finally helped Apple get rid of its losses. It is said that Jobs is fiddling with a number of "epoch-making new products", and Nebula Electronics' annual report seems to treat it as a strong new rival.

In addition, Yang Xing proposed to use industrial robots to replace ordinary workers for repetitive and simple labor. He wanted more workers to obtain better professional abilities through vocational training, and the group's manufacturing capabilities should gradually climb to the high-end field. According to the idea of ​​the "intelligent era", with the help of information advantages, the group's manufacturing capabilities will develop towards the goal of intelligence, networking and jing refinement. Chinese workers are the best workers in the world, but they cannot always stay at low-level work and build a bigger and higher stage for them. Only then can the group truly enter the "intelligent era".

Regardless of whether Yang Xing was crazy or not, the series of supporting implementation measures he proposed made people realize that he did not speak nonsense. After the initial shock, everyone realized that this was a big business opportunity. Only Germany, the United States and Japan can provide high-quality industrial robots on the international level. Even if most of the million industrial robots promised by Yang Xing were in their own hands, the rest would still be large orders. In addition, industrial control chips, electronic components, software and so on related industrial robots will not be missing. Companies such as Ximén, Hitachi, and General Electric are all ready to take the initiative at the conference.
Chapter completed!