The 80,000-square-meter (860,000-sq-ft) facility, positioned within the Changping district on the northeast outskirts of Beijing, follows a pilot sensible manufacturing facility in Yizhuang, which produced about 1,000,000 models a yr of the corporate’s Combine Fold smartphone.
“There are 11 manufacturing strains,” says Xiaomi Founder and CEO Lei Jun in a brief video, embedded beneath. “100% of the important thing processes are automated. We developed our complete manufacturing and manufacturing software program to attain this.”
The brand new manufacturing facility 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 fee of about one each three seconds, 24/7.
In line with GizmoChina, it maintains a completely clear manufacturing setting, with micron-level mud removing – which might clarify the operating-theater-style robes and caps worn by the small variety of people working within the ‘battle room’ of the Sensible Manufacturing facility in a second video, proven beneath.
Completely automated “lights out” factories, in fact, have been round a short time. Japanese robotics firm Fanuc Ltd, for instance, opened its first absolutely automated line again in 2001, and in line with CNN Cash, by 2003 it had a manufacturing facility close to Mt Fuji during 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 might have taken issues up a notch, by permitting the AI mind of the manufacturing facility to autonomously develop and optimize its processes over time.
“What’s most spectacular,” says Lei Jun, “is that this platform can establish and clear up 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 facility, the “Conflict 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 submit 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 facility, injecting soul into the manufacturing facility, permitting the whole manufacturing facility to have self-perception, self-decision-making, and self-execution capabilities, and may independently diagnose gear issues, enhance course of flows, and notice full-scenario digital administration from uncooked materials procurement to supply, turning into a real sensible manufacturing facility that may evolve by itself.”
Fairly exceptional stuff, and positively a style of what is coming worldwide.
Supply: Lei Jun
