Midea's air-conditioning automation coverage led the home appliance industry

Midea's air-conditioning automation coverage led the home appliance industry

Midea Air-conditioner Guangzhou Nanshazhi Industrial Park has opened its first smart factory for the first time. It is the first air-conditioner manufacturing smart factory in China and even in the world. It is reported that this intelligent factory has two intelligent production lines and nearly 200 robots. It can monitor the entire process of production and distribution of customer orders from time to time, greatly increasing the automation rate of production and improving quality.

Wu Wenxin, vice president of Midea Group and president of the Home Air Conditioning Division, said that any country should rely on long-term development for survival. The most basic is manufacturing. Intelligent manufacturing has become a major trend for future development. Whether it is Germany's Industry 4.0, the US's industrial Internet or China's manufacturing 2025, all talk about intelligent manufacturing.

The development of the manufacturing industry can be traced back to the first industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century, namely the 1.0 era, with the steam engine as the representative, the invention of the steam engine, and the motive force from the age of farming to the era of industrialization; the second is the end of the 19th century, with electricity as the mainstay. Automated, mass-produced production, represented by Ford Motors, manufacture of parts and machines, and automation for the third time. Since the last century, information and manufacturing have been combined to realize automation and robots. Robots, robots with higher automation are called automated manufacturing; today's German Industry 4.0, Made in China 2025 is the fourth industrial revolution, namely intelligent manufacturing.

What exactly is smart manufacturing? Through the intelligent manufacturing system, to create intelligent products, is a manufacturing model under the support of an information physics system. Currently, Midea has six factories for home air conditioners, including the Wuhan factory and the Guangzhou factory as home air conditioning demonstration factories and smart factories. These include equipment automation, production transparency, logistics intelligence, management mobility, decision-making data, all transparent, using information technology highly intelligent integration together to form the entire intelligence system. The essence of intelligence is to improve product quality, improve product stability, control costs and time, and meet consumer needs.

As of 2015, "US Air-conditioning Intelligent Manufacturing" has invested a total of 1 billion yuan, the average automation rate has reached 16.9%, while the air-conditioning industry's current automation rate is an average of 7%. US Air Conditioning currently uses 562 robots and saves 22,000 workers. It can be seen that the intelligent manufacturing capability of Midea Air Conditioning can not be underestimated. Now it has a leading production line for smart home appliances and automation in China, and has seized the commanding heights of the intelligent industry in the home appliance industry, and has become a model for the home appliance industry.

Midea's air-conditioning automation coverage led the home appliance industry