5SHY3545L0020  The term “lighthouse factory” appeared for the first time in the just-released Shenzhen government work report. Behind such a “futuristic” new formulation is Shenzhen’s determination to consolidate the basic plate of manufacturing and promote the development of manufacturing to digital transformation.

The lighthouse factory has been called “the most advanced factory in the world”. Back in 2019, Foxconn, based in Shenzhen, was recognized as a beacon factory by the World Economic Forum in Davos and the consulting firm McKinsey for its high degree of automation and its ability to “function even when the lights are off.”

5SHY3545L0020  Behind the continuous improvement of the level of automation is the steady progress and strong momentum of Shenzhen’s manufacturing industry. This year’s Shenzhen Municipal Government work report released a set of bright data: Shenzhen’s total industrial output value above designated size ranked first in the country for three consecutive years; Industrial added value exceeded 1 trillion yuan, an increase of 5%; industrial investment reached 137.2 billion yuan, an increase of 27.1%; The added value of strategic emerging industries reached 1.21 trillion yuan, accounting for 39.6 percent of regional GDP. There were 1,769 new industrial enterprises above designated size, 134 new state-level specialized “little giant” enterprises, and 19 national manufacturing individual champion enterprises.

As the foundation of the city and the foundation of the strong city, Shenzhen manufacturing has formed a “formation” of large enterprises such as Huawei, Industrial Fulian, CIMC, Huaxing Optoelectronics, and many backbone enterprises such as Mindray, Dazu Laser, and DJI.

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5SHY3545L0020  In order to consolidate the basic plate of manufacturing industry, Shenzhen spared no effort. Since last year, China Electronics Group headquarters settled in Shenzhen, Honor 3C product line was completed and put into production, Hustar Optoelectronics T7 project phase I production, SMIC International chip production line expansion and other projects accelerated, BYD Shenzhou-Shantou Automobile Industrial Park, re-invested Tianke third generation semiconductor construction started.

The government work report proposed to promote the deep integration and innovation of advanced manufacturing and industrial Internet, promote the digital transformation and development of manufacturing, build a number of lighthouse factories, and build the national artificial intelligence innovation and application pilot zone and the national digital economy innovation and development pilot zone.

5SHY3545L0020  Huang Tianhua, a member of the Municipal Committee of the CPPCC and a member of the Party Committee of the CIMC Group, told reporters, “Since we started the ‘Digital CIMC’ action in 2017, the production efficiency has increased by 125% in 2021, and the time required to produce a 40-foot box has been shortened from 120 seconds to 78 seconds.”

In particular, he mentioned that containers, as a typical traditional manufacturing industry, can not achieve such results today if it is not timely digital transformation.

In the process of digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, technologies represented by 5G, industrial robots, sensors, big data, and artificial intelligence have woven an “industrial Internet”. With its blessing, a large number of enterprises in Shenzhen have not only achieved their own upgrades, but also brought new changes to all walks of life.

For example, the factory of Huaxing Optoelectronics introduced machine vision into panel detection, and used 5G technology to analyze and process a large number of 4K and 8K images generated in the detection, which greatly shortened the quality inspection time, reduced product quality defects, and improved the comprehensive yield; Through the industrial Internet, the clothing company Win Ling Zhi Shang transforms the production line and shortens the traditional clothing cycle from 20-30 days to 7 days, so as to achieve personalized customization of women’s clothing. Huawei Cloud’s FusionPlant AI platform is applied to OpAI production line, which improves the cutting algorithm of furniture sheets by 2%, making the best use of each sheet, and saving tens of millions of yuan in annual costs.