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Smart factories are in the ascendant, start with the supply chain


When it comes to smart factories, we think that all machines on the assembly line are connected to the network, automated and efficient, and customized production can be realized, but can your supply chain keep up?

Jack Ma: The general trend of smart factories

Ma Yun said that the next 30 years belong to the manufacturing industry. What kind of manufacturing industry does it belong to?

With the application of big data and the Internet of Things, what the factory produces is driven by data, rather than factory production leading consumption, which also means that B2C will be transferred to C2C, bringing about huge changes in production and costs, and future changes in manufacturing It is not manufacturing in the simple sense of today, but innovation-based creation. It is intelligent manufacturing. The production line is more coordinated, the material management is more orderly, and the information feedback is more agile. On the contrary, low-end and poor manufacturing enterprises will be even worse. Ma Yun said at a trade fair in Xiamen.

There is no doubt that the smart factory is the trend of manufacturing development. From small batches and multi-products to large-scale customized production, changes have become a constant theme. The advantages of intelligent factory products, production automation, information flow and material flow integration will become the reasons to replace the traditional belt line. Although Made in China is in an embarrassing situation of internal and external troubles, the next golden decade of Made in China has begun, because the battle for Made in China 2025 has begun, and smart factories will bring us into the era of customized manufacturing.

Smart factories: the need for stronger supply chains

We might as well imagine that the production rhythm is accelerating, the market is changing rapidly, customer orders are changing frequently, the management of orders and materials is more complex than ever, and supply chain managers (purchasing management, production planners, warehouse management) are too busy and still make mistakes. , Is such a factory profitable? Coupled with the rise in labor prices and the shortage of technical talents, how can material management and customer order management be agile and transparent?

Without a strong supply chain to support it, it is not a smart factory. Taking warehouse logistics management in the supply chain as an example, warehouse management in many enterprises is still based on manual operations. Without systematic guidance, materials may be placed in the wrong place or received incorrectly. Various drawbacks have seriously affected the efficiency of warehouse management, reduced the storage capacity of the enterprise warehouse, increased the cost of warehouse management, and restricted the development of the enterprise. Strengthening the construction of logistics distribution system should attract attention.

Supply chain: informatization is the essence

It is foreseeable that in the future when robots are widely used in the era of smart factories, information management systems based on the Industrial Internet of Things will also be popularized to meet the needs of complex products with multiple varieties, small batches and multiple functions. In an era of highly coordinated and highly efficient intelligent manufacturing from market feedback to production and sales in smart factories, the supply chain will play the role of logistical supply for the production line. If any link in the supply chain falls off the chain, the efficiency of the production line will be greatly reduced. , and even not only ineffective but become a huge tumor.

Obviously, a smart factory must strengthen supply chain management and use informatization to drive industrialization in order to move towards intelligent manufacturing. It is a bridge for enterprises to move from traditional management methods to modern management modes, and it is the cornerstone of intelligent manufacturing.

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