American Reindustrial Made in China Are You Ready?

The recent wave of "reindustrialization" in the development of the manufacturing industry in the United States and other Western countries has been described by the industry as a sign of the third industrial revolution. This signal has sounded a warning for China's manufacturing industry from a global perspective. At the same time, China's manufacturing industry is also facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. A common view is that intelligent equipment with customized features will promote China's manufacturing transformation and will become the key to this process.

On December 6th, Apple CEO Cook announced that he would take some of Apple’s production lines back to the United States (before Apple’s strategic focus was in Asia, especially in China). In addition, they included General Electric, Chrysler, Hewlett-Packard, and Nike. Brands have also joined the tide of return one after another, and have shifted their production lines back to the United States.

All of this stems from the new strategy of U.S. President Obama on the U.S. manufacturing industry - "reindustrialization." Previously, U.S. capitalists placed low-end parts of their manufacturing industries in underdeveloped countries, commonly known as OEM business (represented by Foxconn's OEM factories in the mainland), while the United States and others rely on the high profits of finished products to enjoy wealth. The spire part of the tower of gold.

The low-end part of the U.S. manufacturing industry mentioned above has attracted cheap labor in Southeast Asia (including other underdeveloped countries), and at the same time has solved the unfavorable factors such as high labor costs in the United States. With the continuous increase in labor cost and management costs of the above-mentioned underdeveloped countries (including China's foundries), this favorable factor no longer exists. This year, several outbreaks of worker guilt in the Foxconn factory in mainland China directly affected the production pipeline of its employer, Apple, and the brand image of Apple was hit. In addition, the backflow of manufacturing industries can also partially solve the employment problems in developed countries such as the United States.

The re-industrialization of the United States coincides with the long-term description of the third industrial revolution. It is generally believed that the re-industrialization of the United States is by no means a return to traditional manufacturing. It will spawn a new mode of production, and smart devices with customized features will be widely used and will become a major trend.

Therefore, the re-industrialization of the United States is a signal of the third industrial revolution. The United States will seek a leap forward in its manufacturing industry by restructuring domestic manufacturing. As the first black president in the United States, Obama promoted a series of reforms, including the enactment of the latest laws, including the development of new industries. Reindustrialization is a combination of institutional innovation and technological innovation. Institutional innovation is promoted by the government (which also includes the financial system), and technological innovation is promoted by emerging industries. In the development of emerging industries, high-end manufacturing equipment has become the top priority for innovation.

Specific to China, our manufacturing industry is in danger of being left behind. This is definitely not alarmist.

As we all know, the broad manufacturing industry can be divided into four links: production, logistics, assembly, and testing. Production equipment is easy to standardize, and the frequency of innovation is not high, such as machine tools. The latter three categories are difficult to achieve standardized design and research and development, especially as quality supervision. In the detection process, the future trend must tend to be customized for smart devices.

Although the concept of custom equipment is not popular in Chinese manufacturing, it is common in the United States and other Western developed countries. The reproduction of the Chinese production line to foreign equipment has gone through a path of introduction, digestion, and absorption. However, it is limited to standardized equipment. However, the smart customized equipment has always been unsatisfied and difficult to introduce into China.

The first is the issue of demand satisfaction. Foreign R&D forces are far from Chinese companies (not only in terms of distance, but also include language barriers, cultural barriers, etc.). Due to the fact that they are not close to China's manufacturing production lines, equipment with distinctive colors cannot be effectively developed; Secondly, even if Chinese manufacturing companies try to cooperate with foreign equipment suppliers for R&D, they are unable to afford the high tuition fees because of the above-mentioned high communication costs. Third, China’s R&D companies are too scarce.

As a typical intelligent testing equipment supplier in China, Dr. Cui Zhongwei, Chairman of Beijing Leadong Instrument Technology Co., Ltd., and a mechatronics engineer, have a lot of feelings about the development of smart custom testing equipment. He believes that taking manufacturing product testing as an example, the separatist battle between innovation and traditional methods has already begun. For enterprises that need quality inspection of products, the most urgent testing needs come from the most labor-intensive Locally, in the factory inspection workshops in the future, dozens of hundreds of workers are no longer needed, but two or three people are looking at one or two smart testing devices. “The model of custom detection is compared with traditional detection methods in the same field of competition between cars and carriages. Intelligent manufacturing will change China’s future production methods”.

In spite of this, due to the unawareness of the enormous value of customized equipment in innovation and research and development, many domestic manufacturers are still skeptical about the use of customized equipment. There are many people who are on the sidelines, and only some forward-looking companies are in this respect. A clearer understanding is a dilemma in China's manufacturing industry: one side is the trend of the moment, while one side is still timid and stagnant.

Therefore, in addition to R&D-oriented companies like Beijing Congbang, which should go deeper and deeper and increase the power of marketing, it also depends on the guidance and support of national policies and government agencies. In addition, the media and related organizations are responsible for the majority of manufacturing enterprises. In-depth understanding and public reporting of in-depth issues will also contribute to the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.

Things are artificial. The enlightenment given by the re-industrialization of the United States will lead us to pay more attention to the role of innovation in the industrialization of science and technology, and intelligent equipment will also provoke a stir in the process of promoting the upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.