Around 1.3 million workers produce at Foxconn technology, including Apple, Sony, Intel, Dell and HP. Yet in any case. Because the company is relying heavily on robots. All the production of the roads without any people.
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production at Foxconn (Wuhan, 2012)
for several years, the technology group develops Foxconn so-called Foxbots. The company announced the self-designed and manufactured by the manufacturing robots, which over time will take larger and larger parts of the production. In the meantime, the company has produced 40,000 Foxbots, Dai Jia-peng of Foxconn Automation Technology Development Committee, and communicated to the magazine, “Digitimes”. Every year a further 10,000 robots should come to that, other companies should be able to buy Foxbots.
Foxconn who manufactures the iPhone for Apple, Sony, Intel, Dell and HP are among the customers. The company has taken this year, in addition, the electronics group, Sharp. In the past there had been criticism of the working conditions at Foxconn. As a response, the company had declared to want in the future to a robot.
Foxconn had carried out in a three-step process to automate the production as much as possible and at the best completely. In the works of the Chinese cities of Chengdu, Shenzhen and Zhengzhou, there is prepared a total of ten production lines, which get along completely without human workers, so Dai.
robots must be similarly flexible as people
As a company is the target automation rate by 30 percent by the year 2020. The challenge is that the devices must be designed to be flexible, that you can be transferred every few months as new production tasks.
In the spring of this year, there had been reports that Foxconn released alone in the factory in the Chinese city of Kunshan in Jiangsu province, 60,000 of the 110,000 work force and robot wants to replace. According to the latest known Figures from the year 2015, Foxconn has 1.3 million employees.
The company has not declared and has always been, to strengthen their automation, the Problem of unemployment. People could then take on higher-skilled Jobs in the factories, in the fields of Design and quality control, for example. For the Chinese society, it could still bring greater challenges, if companies like Foxconn to replace hundreds of thousands of workers by robots.
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