Foxconn, the main manufacturing company of Apple, Samsung and now Microsoft, is in a transition towards full automation of their factories, in other words, human labor is being replaced by machines. Foxconn plans to carry out this transition in a process that consists of three phases and some of them have already been completed in several of their factories.
Dai Jia-Peng, general manager of the Committee for the Development of Automated Technologies of Foxconnn, explains in what consists each phase:
In the first phase, Foxconn aims to establish positions of automated jobs for jobs in which the workers are exposed to risk, or are dangerous.
In the second phase, the line of whole production will be handled by robots. And in the third phase, the entire factory will be automated, requiring the minimum of personnel assigned to the production, logistics, testing and inspection.
According to the provides the own Jia-Peng, the factories located in Chengdu, Shenzhen and Zhengzhou have already achieved the second and third phase.
To bring this epic transition, Foxconn has been willing in the manufacture of 40,000 "Foxbots", and according to the data of the company, is able to be manufactured up to 10,000 of these robots a year that meet functions of manufacturing.
The automation, gives Foxconn a series of advantages compared to the competition which include: fast production lines, hand labor is cheap (relatively) and mostly comply with the demands of their customers in the shortest possible time. The drawback, by counterparty, is that they have eliminated thousands of jobs that to some extent impact on the Chinese economy.
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