Industry 4.0, China made the Great Leap forward?

Before and after the Spring Festival, China's manufacturing industry is not very good news, the company closed overnight, the boss attempted suicide, the workers strike, international capital has been evacuated, as well as the National Federation of Labor Unions and Foxconn related to overtime and human nature of the big discussion, and the Spring Festival after the routine labour shortage is to China's manufacturing problems have a wide range of backgrounds and reasons, but can be a short period of time to explode such a large area of the crisis, it is fully explained that "Made in China" has reached the point of not reform. Coincides with this time, the Germans put forward the concept of Industrial 4.0, swept the world, but also let the Chinese manufacturing vaguely see a glimmer of light, so, Chinese practitioners only spent two weeks to draw the Industrial 4.0 blueprint and Hype line map, ready to do a good job.

However, it is embarrassing that Chinese manufacturing has lagged behind the world average in times such as machinery, electricity and information automation, and that the wonders we have created in the past have been done more by the hands of Chinese workers. Nowadays, China in the introduction of Industrial 4.0 concept does not lag behind the developed countries in Europe and the United States, but to truly transform into a specific workshop also appears to lack the internal strength, not to mention, China still has to balance the interests, employment and GDP factors, and related industries, technical talent reserves is also a headache problem ... These problems are poorly co-ordinated, and the industry 4 will only reappear in the "Great Leap forward" tragedy.

Wisdom Factory, what is industry 4.0?

Last April, the German Hannover Industrial Exposition, the industrial 4.0 concept turned out, quickly in the world, and let more than 5,000 enterprises amazing. In fact, Industrial 4.0 is simply to "improve efficiency", but specific to the implementation level is involved in a multitude of industrial chain.

Industry 4.0 was officially defined as the "fourth Industrial Revolution", with the previous mechanical, electrical and information technology, with epoch-making significance. Germany's proposed strategy aims to transform manufacturing into an intelligent one by making full use of the combination of information and communication technology and cyberspace virtual systems. In the foreseeable future, intelligent factory, intelligent production, intelligent logistics will become the Industrial 4.0 era of the three major themes, and thus derived from automation, 3D printing, radio frequency technology, industrial Ethernet, such as hundreds of billions of manufacturing industry chain. Only from these rough definitions, China to complete the Industrial 4.0-era production model, the biggest challenge from the technical personnel.

As we all know, China has long been in the low-end manufacturing industry, our young people are often told to "eat big bitter, resistant to great labor" to happiness, more is a kind of the most primitive work, and in talking about "new technology, new ideas, new tools of production", always received 2~3 top rebellious hat.

In fact, China's manufacturing industry, due to lack of talent and institutional reasons, In the industrial 3.0 are far behind the developed countries in Europe and the United States, for example, in terms of automation level, the current number of robots per million workers have 23 units, the German figure of 273 units, Japan and South Korea is more frightening 300, even some cutting-edge manufacturing industry to introduce advanced equipment, set up a high level of automation production lines, but also rely on foreign technology, strong as Fuji Kang output To the robot, also difficult to meet their own needs, but also had to spend huge sums of money from SoftBank to buy, as for other large data, sensor technology, China also has no advantage to say, so, Chinese manufacturing want to enter the Industrial 4.0 era, more important is to make up lessons and sound development system.

Industry 4.0 will destroy those industries?

As mentioned above, Industry 4.0 will derive a large number of related ancillary industries, such as automation, large data and 3D printing, etc. But it also means that the Industrial 4.0 era will eliminate some jobs, the most direct threat is the assembly of women on the assembly line, who, for a year or so, sell their youth and physical strength, but remain the most insecure group in the entire industrial chain, when their survival is threatened by the most primitive means of resistance, such as parades , such as a strike, such as demanding overtime, such as going to Dongguan ... How to rehouse these groups of knowledge capital is also an important subject before the Chinese manufacturing Industry 4.0, which will cause great harm to social stability.

Because of the Internet, information technology, everything networking in the Industrial 4.0 era has become mature, large data technology estimates will be more and more transformation, these technologies for the traditional industries have greater lethality, for example, when the Internet automatically send data, manufacturing data statisticians, analysts will be reduced by 90%, truly unmanned; People who know the manufacturing industry know that in the entire production of enterprises to spend 30% of people to complete supervision, inspection, handling and other work, the industry called IPQC (Online quality assurance), VI, and once the sensor, high-definition scanners and other technologies mature, these people will lose their jobs. In addition, one of the themes of Industry 4.0 is intelligent Logistics, which may bring about subversive changes to the entire economic form, and many experts talk about the industry 4.0, also invariably put forward a concept: personalized custom ERA.

With the popularization of science and technology, such as mobile phone core, battery capacity and assembly methods are increasingly seen in the newspapers, so that consumers "participate in customization" desire more and more strong, that is, we do not want to let others design their own mobile phone. In fact, in the Industrial 4.0 production lines already on display, wireless radio frequency technology, industrial Ethernet, online bar code, two-dimensional code ratio, image recognition, robot applications and other technologies have made some breakthroughs, they are consumers with producers, production equipment, raw materials, such as direct connectivity. The intelligent factory will adopt the consumer mode, directly to consumers, eliminating intermediary dealers and unnecessary logistics costs. In short, the future of the wisdom of the chemical plant will be a design, research and development, production and sales of large economies, the current international division of Labor will be with the advent of the 4.0 era of industry reshuffle.

Does industry 4.0 have a position in China?

Right now Industrial 4.0 has been fired very hot in China, mainly because our manufacturing industry is in an awkward position: on the one hand, because of the continuous financial crisis, the developed countries in Europe and the United States are increasingly aware of the importance of the real economy, more and more high-end manufacturing is returning to the mainland, a recent Japanese famous watch company to transfer capacity back to the mainland, Microsoft closed the Dongguan and Beijing mobile phone manufacturing plant, and This is only a few foreign capital evacuated representatives, Nike, excellent Uniqlo and other companies have moved the factory back to the United States, on the other hand, the cost of domestic production factors and policy changes, low-end manufacturing is moving to Southeast Asia, Samsung, Foxconn began planning in Vietnam, Indonesia and other sites to build plants. In fact, China's manufacturing industry is not so keen to explore the industrial 4.0 model, but rather because "it really can't go on"!

China into the Industrial 4.0 era, not only to face the challenges of the lack of high-level personnel, but also to face the embarrassment of the low-end human surplus, more to "industrial 3.0" before the absence of a heavy cost. Of course, the most ironic thing is that the German media people directly called for "Industrial 4.0 times, we do not take China to play!" "They are disgusted by the Chinese people's wanton imitation and disrespect for intellectual property, even though our businesses are very rich." In addition, since Alibaba listed, the electricity dealer's fire has burned all over China, it is becoming a major trend, but as mentioned earlier, the future of the wisdom of the factory will be a comprehensive ecological park, the electric business will not be independent, the new technology will bring the revolutionary power to Cuikulaxiu to destroy the traditional business model, by that time, The crown of ordinary merchants will be reduced to ashes.

Perhaps, the author is too pessimistic when talking about industry 4.0, at least the Chinese manufacture also has the Prime minister in support, but the policy's good does not replace the technology precipitation and the industry creative culture atmosphere. The Chinese made the miracle by the hands, but also a full impact on the development of a generation, but missed a lot of opportunities for reform. This can only say: I wish Chinese manufacturing in the industry 4.0 times, all the way!

(Science and technology new discovery Constantine/Wenweixin public number: KEJXFX)

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)