The 80,000-square-meter (860,000-sq-ft) facility, positioned within the Changping district on the northeast outskirts of Beijing, follows a pilot good manufacturing unit in Yizhuang, which produced about one million items a yr of the corporate’s Combine Fold smartphone.
“There are 11 manufacturing traces,” says Xiaomi Founder and CEO Lei Jun in a brief video, embedded beneath. “100% of the important thing processes are automated. We developed our whole manufacturing and manufacturing software program to realize this.”
The brand new manufacturing unit will produce Xiaomi’s upcoming foldable telephones, the MIX Fold 4 and the MIX Flip – to be launched later this month – spitting them out at a charge of about one each three seconds, 24/7.
In accordance with GizmoChina, it maintains a very clear manufacturing setting, with micron-level mud elimination – which might clarify the operating-theater-style robes and caps worn by the small variety of people working within the ‘conflict room’ of the Sensible Manufacturing unit in a second video, proven beneath.
Completely automated “lights out” factories, after all, have been round a short time. Japanese robotics firm Fanuc Ltd, for instance, opened its first absolutely automated line again in 2001, and based on CNN Cash, by 2003 it had a manufacturing unit close to Mt Fuji through which robots have been constructing different robots, round 50 a day, operating completely unsupervised for as much as a month at a time.
However Xiaomi could have taken issues up a notch, by permitting the AI mind of the manufacturing unit to autonomously develop and optimize its processes over time.
“What’s most spectacular,” says Lei Jun, “is that this platform can establish and resolve points, whereas additionally serving to to enhance the manufacturing course of. That is actually unimaginable! This platform blew our colleagues away after they first noticed it.”
Step into the guts of our manufacturing unit, the “Warfare Room”. Our Xiaomi Hyper IMP (Clever Manufacturing Platform) is the mind of the operations, proactively fixing points and optimizing manufacturing.😎 pic.twitter.com/6ZWhOm5wle
— Lei Jun (@leijun) July 9, 2024
A Weibo put up expands on this, one part translating roughly to the next: “the 100% self-developed ‘Xiaomi Pengpai Clever Manufacturing Platform’ is the mind of the manufacturing unit, injecting soul into the manufacturing unit, permitting your complete manufacturing unit to have self-perception, self-decision-making, and self-execution capabilities, and might independently diagnose gear issues, enhance course of flows, and notice full-scenario digital administration from uncooked materials procurement to supply, turning into a real good manufacturing unit that may evolve by itself.”
Fairly outstanding stuff, and positively a style of what is coming worldwide.
Supply: Lei Jun
