What should we do if the manufacturing industry cannot resume work or the number of people on duty is insufficient?
The epidemic of pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus continues. Recently, many places have returned to work. However, only a few employees are on duty, and some of them cannot return to work without epidemic prevention materials. Under the epidemic, China's manufacturing industry is facing a major challenge - problems such as insufficient resumption of work, limited logistics, and difficult supply of raw materials are emerging one after another.
In the current critical period of epidemic prevention and control, the most heart wrenching and sad ones are probably the entrepreneurs and bosses of small and medium-sized enterprises. They are unable to start and resume work for a long time, constantly accumulating costs for the enterprise and consuming its cash flow, leading to difficulties for some small and medium-sized enterprises with weak savings.
In such a difficult situation, labor-intensive entrepreneurs and bosses will play a crucial role. How can they lead the company through difficult times and put it back on track?
How to deal with it? It is urgent for machines to replace humans and for smart factories to replace traditional factories. What strategic advantages can smart factories bring to industrial production?
Save labor and reduce costs
With the emergence of the labor shortage problem in enterprises, the way for enterprises to face high labor costs is to improve labor productivity. Therefore, more and more production enterprises are beginning to introduce unmanned moving vehicles. For enterprises, the most attractive advantage is that unmanned handling can save costs. Unmanned moving vehicles can work non-stop 24 hours a day and can replace 100 laborers in certain production processes, requiring only 1-2 people to supervise. This not only greatly reduces labor costs, but also has much higher work efficiency than manual labor.
Addressing low production efficiency
Faced with an increasingly complex competitive environment, efficient and high-quality product output is the basic guarantee for enterprises to occupy the market faster. However, the current difficulties in recruiting workers, low human cost efficiency, and high error rates have been constraining the development of most enterprises.
Solved the issue of flexibility
柔性差意味着更多的人力投入，如过去的磁导航、色带导航等，一旦路径变动就需要重新铺设磁条、粘贴色带等，不仅耗时耗力，并且伴随着后期一系列的维护工作及费用，费力不讨好。
解决了成本预算问题
制造业的生产成本由三部分构成：直接材料、直接人工、制造费用，降低成本同样要从这三个方面入手。
解决了精度要求问题
电子、光纤等对精度要求近乎苛刻的行业，单单依靠人力，无法完成上下料的精准对接。
解决了传统制造业技术落后的问题
智能化工厂成为企业转型不能错过的课题，而如何在转型的当口接起挑战，一部分企业仍处于观望状态，但是殊不知，AGV小车的大军已经打入了国内外标杆企业的大门。
文章来源：高空机械工程
