- The autonomous factory operates 24/7
- This is an improvement on the previous smart factory of 2019
- Annual production on 11 production lines is 10 million phones
Xiaomi’s autonomous factory will completely do without workers | photo: Xiaomi
The idea of replacing human workers with robots is nothing new. Chinese Xiaomi however, by integrating artificial intelligence, it has taken its autonomous factory to a whole new level. The existing 2019 factory has currently seen a significant upgrade and increased capacity from one to 10 million phones per year. He wrote o tom server NewsBytes.
The factory learns itself thanks to AI
The facility, located in Beijing’s Changping district, is described by Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun as a truly automated mass production factory capable of producing the upcoming MIX Fold 4 and MIX Flip foldable phones.
On an area of approximately 80 thousand square meters, there are 11 production lines that can work continuously 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without the need for human intervention. He controls everything Artificial Intelligencewhich not only identifies and solves production problems, but also optimizes the entire production process.
Xiaomi’s autonomous factory will produce a new generation of foldable devices | photo: Techclusive
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People only supervise
Although the factory currently operates without human presence on the production lines, there are still several people monitoring the Xiaomi Hyper Intelligent Manufacturing Platform (IMP) from what Jun denotes like War Room. IMP is designed to improve process flows, decision making and command execution. At the same time, it can manage complete digital operations from the purchase of raw materials to the shipment of final products.
Automation is a trend
Xiaomi is not the only one replacing human workers with machines. For example, in 2016, a Taiwanese OEM downsized Foxconn reduced its workforce by 60,000 by replacing them with round-the-clock machines. From other industries we can mention, for example Teslawhich wants to use humanoid robots to produce cars.
Even one of the largest American e-shops in the world uses autonomous machines en masse in its distribution centers and warehouses Amazon. From 2021 to June 2023 alone, it increased the number of its robots from 350,000 to more than three quarters of a million.
Source: mobilizujeme.cz
