Xiaomi’s Second Smartphone Factory to be Completed by End of Year

On February 24, Wang Hua, General Manager of Xiaomi’s Public Relations Department, mentioned that the principle construction of the corporate’s second smartphone manufacturing unit in Beijing has been accomplished, and the entire challenge will be accomplished by the top of this yr. It is predicted that each one cell phone manufacturing traces will be put in within the new manufacturing unit by July 2024.

The manufacturing unit in Changping District, Beijing, covers an space of 58,300 sq. meters, and has manufacturing traces together with patches, board testing, meeting, machine testing and packaging. It is estimated to produce 10 million smartphones yearly.

Xiaomi‘s first smartphone manufacturing unit, positioned in Yizhuang within the southeast suburbs of Beijing, was accomplished on the finish of 2019, protecting an space of 18,600 sq. meters. Over 90% of clever gear there was produced by Xiaomi itself. Xiaomi‘s first foldable cell phone MIX Fold is produced there.

The Yizhuang Factory has the capability of producing a million smartphones per yr, which is 60% larger than that of conventional factories. It can also be a “dark factory”, with a totally computerized manufacturing line inside. Without even turning on the lights, meeting, testing and packaging can be accomplished by robots.

Behind the darkish manufacturing unit is probably the most cutting-edge applied sciences, together with AI, Internet of Things, edge computing, cloud computing, large knowledge, 5G, and many others. The integration of these applied sciences has improved the effectivity of the 5 core components of a manufacturing unit – manufacturing, gear, logistics, vitality and security.

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For instance, hundreds of elements want to be mounted on the mainboard of a Xiaomi cell phone. In the previous, 4 or 5 staff wanted to function a machine that did the work. Now, the gear can utterly do the job itself. There are solely 20 individuals in every shift within the board-making and testing workshop, however they’re in cost of greater than 200 items of clever gear. Every day, over 4,000 MIX Fold 2 telephones are rolled off the meeting line within the manufacturing unit.

Yizhuang Factory additionally has a board measurement system, central dispatching platform, parallel software program system and clever management heart. In order to construct this manufacturing unit, Xiaomi has invested in 110 firms making clever gear within the final three years.

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