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 12 months 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.
Based on GizmoChina, it maintains a very 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 ‘struggle room’ of the Sensible Manufacturing facility in a second video, proven beneath.
Completely automated “lights out” factories, after all, have been round a short while. Japanese robotics firm Fanuc Ltd, for instance, opened its first absolutely automated line again in 2001, and in response to CNN Cash, by 2003 it had a manufacturing facility close to Mt Fuji wherein robots have been constructing different robots, round 50 a day, working 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 remedy points, whereas additionally serving to to enhance the manufacturing course of. That is actually unbelievable! This platform blew our colleagues away after they first noticed it.”
Step into the center of our manufacturing facility, the “Struggle 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 your entire manufacturing facility to have self-perception, self-decision-making, and self-execution capabilities, and might independently diagnose gear issues, enhance course of flows, and understand full-scenario digital administration from uncooked materials procurement to supply, turning into a real sensible manufacturing facility that may evolve by itself.”
Fairly outstanding stuff, and definitely a style of what is coming worldwide.
Supply: Lei Jun
