The smart factory is in the ascendant, starting with the supply chain

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

Jack Ma: Smart factories are the general trend

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

With the application of big data and the Internet of Things, what is produced in the factory is based on the data, not the production of the factory to lead consumption. This also means that B2C will shift to C2C, bringing about huge changes in production and costs, and changes in the future manufacturing industry. It is not manufacturing in the simple sense of today, but creation based on innovation. It is intelligent manufacturing, with more coordinated production lines, more orderly material management, and more agile information feedback. On the contrary, low-end and poor manufacturing companies will be even worse. Ma Yun said at a trade fair in Xiamen.

There is no doubt that smart factories are the development trend of the manufacturing industry. From small batches of multiple products to large batches of customized production, change has become a constant theme. The advantages of smart factory product intelligence, production automation, and integration of information flow and material flow will all become reasons to replace traditional belt lines. Although Made in China is in an embarrassing situation of internal and external troubles, the next golden decade of Made in China has already begun, because the tough battle of 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 pace of production is accelerating, the market is changing rapidly, customer orders are changing frequently, and the management complexity of orders and materials has increased unprecedentedly. , 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?

It is not a smart factory without a strong supply chain to support it. 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, and materials may be misplaced or received incorrectly. All kinds of disadvantages have seriously affected the efficiency of warehouse management, reduced the storage capacity of enterprise warehouses, increased warehouse management costs, and restricted the development of enterprises. Strengthening the construction of the logistics distribution system should be paid attention to.

Supply chain: informationization is more cost-effective

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 the intelligent manufacturing era of highly coordinated and explosive efficiency values ​​of smart factories from market feedback to production and sales, the supply chain will play the role of logistics supply for the production line. If any link in the supply chain is disconnected, the efficiency of the production line will be greatly reduced. , Not only is it inefficient, but it has become a huge cancer.

Obviously, smart factories must strengthen supply chain management and promote industrialization with informatization in order to move towards smart manufacturing. It is a bridge for enterprises to move from traditional management methods to modern management models, and is the cornerstone of smart manufacturing. I am not sure what to fight for?