The relocation of Apple's production line shows that 5g industrial interconnection and intelligent manufacturing have limited help for manufacturing in China

Apple will move its production line to Southeast Asia 、 Indian transfer , It shows that cost is still the first consideration of the manufacturing industry , So-called 5G Industrial interconnection 、 The support of intelligent manufacturing to made in China is too limited , What made in China should consider is how to improve the production efficiency of the manufacturing industry 、 Reduce manufacturing costs .

Apple and Foxconn chose Vietnam 、 One of the important considerations for India to build a production line is the cost , The labor cost in Vietnam is only about 40% of that in China , The labor cost in India is only one fifth of that in China , The ultra-low labor cost helps to reduce the assembly cost of mobile phones .

by comparison , Now, the monthly income of the production line employees of Foxconn Zhengzhou factory can reach... Under the condition of overtime 6-7K, If you add social security and other costs , The labor cost is nearly ten thousand , However, even so, we still face the problem of insufficient staff , Foxconn had to offer 90 Extra reward for full day attendance 9000 Yuan reward , This shows the high labor cost .

Foxconn has great strength , At the same time, only customers like apple, which is rich and powerful, can afford such a high salary , For those weak manufacturing enterprises , I'm afraid it's hard to afford such a high labor cost .

In addition to labor costs , The land that has been rising in recent years 、 Energy and other costs also bring great pressure to the manufacturing industry , Under the rising cost , It is difficult for the manufacturing industry to raise the price of products , This can be seen from the fact that the three major e-commerce companies in China are still fighting a price war , Under the attack of labor cost and sales end , It is conceivable how difficult the manufacturing industry is facing today .

Facing the heavy pressure on the manufacturing industry , The parties began to propose 5G Industrial interconnection 、 Intelligent manufacturing, etc , We hope to replace manual production with automatic production , However, the existing reality shows that there is little hope for the realization of all this .

A communication enterprise once took an aluminum plant as a case , However, looking at the performance of the aluminum plant, we find that its net profit margin is only 3% about , The so-called 5G The industrial application part is to add real-time video surveillance , Such an approach is just adding to the cost , For aluminum plants, they are really willing to adopt these so-called 5G Application increases production costs ？

In fact, for 2B For the market , The Internet of things has provided them with facts , The three major operators in China have developed 14 Billion internet of things users , Among them, China Mobile has 9 Billion internet of things users , However, the business of China Mobile shows that these Internet of things users ARPU Only 1 It's about five yuan , The income generated is only 100 Billions more , Less than a fraction of mobile phone users , This shows that cost control is the first for enterprises , increase 1 The cost of yuan is not very willing , What's more, the expensive 5G The application? ？

As for intelligent manufacturing , Foxconn has also pushed , However, Foxconn still chooses to assemble manually iPhone, The reason is that people are more flexible , And the equipment cost of Intelligent Manufacturing 、 The cost of energy is too high , So Foxconn chose to go to Vietnam 、 India and other regions with low labor costs transfer , This shows that the cost of intelligent manufacturing is too high, which leads to its preference for manual manufacturing .

China's import and export data also give proof , China's trade surplus mainly comes from the textile industry , The assembly industry is still one of the important sources of China's trade surplus , Foxconn is still the largest export enterprise in China ; As for high-tech industries , The two major export categories are mobile phones and PC, Mobile phones are manufactured on a contract basis iPhone、 Xiaomi is the largest exporter of domestic mobile phone brands ;PC Dell, which is OEM , The largest domestic export PC It's Lenovo , They don't ridicule Lenovo and Xiaomi as assembly enterprises .

in general , For made in China , Cost is still the first factor , I'm afraid it's not a good thing for any increase in manufacturing costs in China , and 5G Industrial interconnection 、 Is smart manufacturing really useful for Chinese manufacturing ？