Xiaomi Corporation (MI) - Smart Factory - Industry 4.0 - Industrial Engineering 4.0

 

June 4, 2021

On May 20, 2021, the founder of Xiaomi Corporation Lei Jun announced: “Xiaomi is building the second phase of the smart factory, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2023. When it is completed, the factory will have an annual production capacity of 10 million high-end smartphones

On August 11, 2020, at the Xiaomi cooperation 10th anniversary, Lei Jun showed the Xiaomi smart factory to the public for the first time. With a total construction area of 18,600 square meters and an investment of 600 million yuan, applying the large-scale of automated production lines, 5G networks, robots, big data, cloud service platforms, and other technologies, the Xiaomi smart factory is a "black light factory" that can realize the entire factory production management process, mechanical processing process, packaging, storage, and transportation process, It can produce more than million smartphones per year.

Most of the equipment in the factory is independently developed by Xiaomi and Xiaomi Investment Company, and the degree of localization is extremely high.

Xiaomi is using Huiling Technology’s Z-Arm series robots arm assembling the mobile phones. The Z-arm series robot arm adopts an integrated drive and control design without an external control box, which greatly saves the equipment space, and its lightweight structure, flat and foldable arm can flexibly back and forth in some narrow spaces. It is very suitable for the light industry.

Over the years, Lei Jun and the subsidiary company of Xiaomi Group: Shunwei Capital, and Xiaomi Ventures have continued to work on the smart manufacturing industry chain, and it also set up an industry fund to support the growth and development of intelligent manufacturing.

Four years ago, Xiaomi began to conceive of the realization of completely unmanned production in the field of consumer electronics production.

 Lei Jun also told  the public that in the future, Xiaomi will make efforts to provide smart factory solutions to the entire manufacturing industry to improve production efficiency.

 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/xiaomis-second-phase-smart-factory-completed-2023-hitbot-robotics/

Introducing Xiaomi Smart Factory | MWC 2023

Xiaomi

 2 Mar 2023   #ConnectedFuture

We're proud to introduce Xiaomi Smart Factory! A fully-automated assembly line that is capable of manufacturing over 1 million flagship smartphones in a lights-out plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jb6PP4APc

Mi Mobile Factory Tour - How SmartPhone are Made in India? 

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Mi Mobile Manufacturing Factory Tour - How Mobiles are Made in India?

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Recently we were invited to visit The Xiaomi mobile Manufacturing unit in Sri City, In this video we showed and explained the each steps that includes in MI mobile manufacturing process, also we had a chance to talk to Mr.Murali(President of Xiaomi India) ,so we asked him few interesting questions that generally on peoples mind about Xiaomi. 

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How Smart Phones Manufactured 🔥, Xiaomi SmartPhone Factory Tour -  In Telugu 

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7 Dec 2022 

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Xiaomi unveils its most advanced factory -  10 million flagship smartphone production capacity

Feb 18, 2024

The official opening of its smart factory in Changping, Beijing. It  has  a self-developed production line capable of churning out over 10 million flagship smartphones per year. 

https://www.gizmochina.com/2024/02/18/xiaomi-inaugurates-smart-factory-beijing-10-million-unit-capacity/

 

Western Digital - Prachinburi Plant - Industrial Engineering 4.0 - WEF - McKinsey Light House Plant

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - Computer Aided Industrial Engineering: Work Systems Analysis in Industry 4.0

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Press Releases

Western Digital Enables Industry 4.0 Transition With High-Endurance Storage Solutions for Industrial-Grade AI, ML And IOT Applications

Smart Factories and IoT Devices Benefit from Reliable, Low-Power Storage Solutions Built to Thrive in Varied Environments

SAN JOSE, CA - September 19, 2019

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-in/company/newsroom/press-releases/2019/2019-09-19-western-digital-enables-industry-40-transition-with-high-endurance-storage-solutions

Western Digital Turned a Million Machines into Connected Data and Improved Its Utilization of Testing Slots and Reduced Maintenance Time and Cost

September 29, 2021

Western Digital started its Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) efforts seven years ago. 

The company decided to start by tackling testing processes, an operation that takes place only after manufacturing and assembly are complete.  

Testing times

Storage devices undergo exhaustive testing and stringent validation processes. Hard drives may undergo several weeks of testing.  Jackie Jung, Western Digital’s global operations VP of strategy and chief of staff leading the company’s 4IR efforts, came out with a question, “can we predict more so that we can test more efficiently?”

“Testing processes needed a rethinking”

Together with a group of domain experts, Jung began investigating different variables that could help predict hard drive health.  A few months later, the team had advanced algorithms crunching through more than 2,000 parameters that could reliably point to a hard drive’s health condition in real time. This allowed testing and optimization processes to be tailored for each drive produced. 

The team carefully integratde the algorithm-based testing into high volume manufacturing. Once in production, testing efficiency improved by a remarkable 15%.  

It was a data science home run and the beginning of a prodigious transformation of Western Digital’s manufacturing, supply chain, and operations. 

Hard data

Enterprise hard drives are where the ginormous data of the digital economy lives (think search engines, social apps, and the massive data of cloud-based services).  Cloud giants maintain so much data that they buy hard drives in the thousands, tens of thousands, and some even hundreds of thousands. “The world’s largest cloud companies can deploy a million drives”

Any quality issue for these titans is both a potential disaster to their services and a gargantuan headache. Imagine having to service 30,000 data center components. It’s not outlandish; it’s the brave world of hyperscale.  To ensure utmost reliability, the testing and qualification of enterprise hard drives is rigorous, exhaustive, and extraordinarily long. 

The sea of testers

Qualifying an enterprise-grade hard drive can take up to four weeks. With Western Digital’s manufacturing site in Prachinburi, Thailand, producing more than 100,000 enterprise hard drives every day, the factory depends on a huge amount of testing slots to keep operations from bottlenecking. 

Altogether, there are more than 1 million slots today and the number will be rapidly increasing. These slots are sprawled across automated machines the size of a bus. Some with more than 12,000 slots. If the slots were stacked on top of each other, they’d reach more than 40 miles high, far into the Earth’s mesosphere (where meteors burn up). 

Keeping this army of sophisticated machines as productive as possible is no small challenge. Even if only 0.5% of tester slots report an error, that’s still over 6,000 slots that need attention every day. 

A web of connected assets

Peter Pang knows every crevice in the belly of the HDD test slot beast. As the director of automation and test systems engineering at Western Digital, his team of engineers is responsible for everything from developing the test routines to working with hundreds of technicians to keep systems running. 

He also knew that the daily maintenance of these testers was labor-intensive and slowing things down. Whenever a slot would shut down due to a failure, a technician would frequently need to grab a 12-foot ladder, climb up, remove the slot, and take it to a lab to investigate the issue. 

So, Pang teamed up with manufacturing engineers, analytics teams and IT. Together, the cross-functional team turned the ocean of standalone testers into a web of connected assets. 

“We had to link standalone testers from different vendors and generations spanning 15 years”

Testers can now provide real-time data about hardware health and operational conditions. Slots can be addressed from a remote station without technicians having to leave their desk.

And, machine learning algorithms have learned how to pinpoint root cause issues and automatically perform self-healing operations. 

The amount of data collected every second by this bustling operation is staggering; the outcome impressive — a 6% improvement in hardware utilization or 78,000 slots.

“Being a smart factory is not about how much data is collected,” said Pang, “it’s about the quality of data and understanding what to do with it.”

Data science cavaliers

Since their first success, Jung and Western Digital’s senior director of data science, George Ng, have been at the heart of Western Digital’s Herculean transformation. The company has upskilled thousands of its factory workforce, multiplied productivity, and reduced emissions through data-driven logistics. 

https://blog.westerndigital.com/smart-manufacturing-million-machines-into-connected-data/

Western Digital - 2022 Story - pdf file - 31 pages

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/collateral/company/western-digital-FY2022-ourstory-summary.pdf

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/western-digital_how-western-digital-turned-a-million-machines-activity-6849010597279924226-I5US/

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Industry 4.0 Injection Molding

 

2020

https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=19547

2024

https://teknologisk-videndeling.dk/digital-technologies-for-the-plastic-industry/

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Volkswagen - Industry 4.0 - Industrial Engineering 4.0

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - Computer Aided Industrial Engineering: Work Systems Analysis in Industry 4.0

Rao, Kambhampati Venkata Satya Surya Narayana; Rathod, Aniket.  IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2021): 49-54.

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2016

May 26, 2016 

VW offers its vision of Industry 4.0.

Fabian Fischer, head of internal processing in VW's Group Research unit for Materials and Manufacturing.

Serious 4.0 work for VW only began in 2013, Fischer said, but it's progressing quickly. The company has finished a prototype car where each part has RFID chips or similar technology for traceability.

https://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20160526/NEWS/160529882/vw-offers-its-vision-of-industry-4-0

2019

Volkswagen 4.0 – the production systems of tomorrow are being developed in the Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden

World first: The headliner for the e-Golf is now being fitted by a robot as standard.

03/14/19Company Press Release

The Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden is continuing to develop into the Volkswagen Group’s primary test location for trialling innovative technologies. In conjunction with the Wolfsburg and Emden factories, the Gläserne Manufaktur is part of a “technical centre” project. The primary idea is to achieve automation of complex work steps within assembly. The first project at the Dresden site is a world first – the headliner for the e-Golf is now being fitted by a robot as standard. This manufacturing step will also be used in production of the ID from the end of 2019 at Volkswagen’s Zwickau plant.

Dr Andreas Tostmann, member of the Board of Management for Production and Logistics of the Volkswagen brand: “We want to achieve a 30% improvement in productivity in the Volkswagen brand factories by 2025 compared to 2018 to ensure our competitiveness in the long term and to make a decisive contribution to improving the profitability of the Volkswagen brand. To achieve this, the factories must become faster, leaner and more efficient. The various technical centre projects in Wolfsburg, Emden and Dresden make an important contribution to this by testing innovative technologies.”

The innovations in Dresden are supported by Volkswagen Brand Planning and Wolfsburg plant engineering. Other projects at the Dresden site include the automated assembly and removal of the car doors and the human/robot collaboration.

Note: A clip for automated installation of the e-Golf headliner is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIg9wfjx81E 

Volkswagen boosts line efficiency in car manufacturing with Siemens Industrial Edge

Siemens Knowledge Hub YT video

 5 Dec 2023

Juergen Jaskolla, Manager Digital Production Management at VW and Tobias Siegel, Head of Product Portfolio Management of Startup Apps at Siemens AG talk about the challenges of efficiency losses in discrete manufacturing lines and how Siemens Industrial Edge and Industrial Apps (in this case especially OT Connectors and Performance Insight and its cycle time analysis feature) can create transparency in an easy and scalable way, so that optimization potentials can be pointed out clearly to derive the right actions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wuwj-FyXEk

Unilever - Sonepat Plant - Industrial Engineering 4.0 - WEF - McKinsey Light House Plant

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - Computer Aided Industrial Engineering: Work Systems Analysis in Industry 4.0

Rao, Kambhampati Venkata Satya Surya Narayana; Rathod, Aniket.  IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2021): 49-54.

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Unilever - Sonepat

To improve agility and cater to diverse product segments, reduce costs in an inflationary environment and improve sustainability, Unilever Sonepat implemented 30+ Fourth Industrial Revolution use cases in its E2E supply chain. Top use cases included boiler and spray dryer process twins, as well as customer data-informed no-touch production planning and inventory optimization. This improved service by 18%, forecast accuracy by 53%, conversion cost by 40% and Scope 1 carbon footprint by 88%. The use of biofuels enabled by a boiler process twin also supports livelihoods for local farmers.

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The Coca-Cola Company - Ballina Plant - Industrial Engineering 4.0 - WEF - McKinsey Light House Plant

 Industrial Engineering 4.0 - Computer Aided Industrial Engineering: Work Systems Analysis in Industry 4.0

Rao, Kambhampati Venkata Satya Surya Narayana; Rathod, Aniket.  IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2021): 49-54.

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The Coca-Cola Company - Ballina

Ballina site, the company’s largest concentrate manufacturing facility, delivers over 3,500 SKUs to 68 countries. To enable growth, build resilience and address increasing portfolio complexity, the site implemented digital, and analytics use cases. As a result, it improved cost by 16% while expanding its SKU portfolio by 30%, and led Fourth Industrial Revolution scaling across the network of 17 sites.

Schneider Electric Hyderabad Plant - Industrial Engineering 4.0 - WEF - McKinsey Light House Plant

 

Industrial Engineering 4.0 - Computer Aided Industrial Engineering: Work Systems Analysis in Industry 4.0

Rao, Kambhampati Venkata Satya Surya Narayana; Rathod, Aniket.  IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings; Norcross (2021): 49-54.

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Schneider Electric is constantly leverages  new-age technologies to meet ever-changing customer needs. 

The Schneider Electric Smart Factory in Hyderabad recently earned the recognition of an Advanced Lighthouse by the World Economic Forum. The Hyderabad smart factory has leveraged Schneider Electric’s Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) based EcoStruxure Solutions backed by AI deep learningp learning, IIOT infrastructure, and both predictive and prescriptive analytics.

Schneider Electric, on Thursday (29 Sep 2022), hosted the ground breaking ceremony of  state-of-the-art Smart Factory at GMR Industrial Park in Hyderabad (It will be second facility in Hyderabad).

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com//small-biz/sme-sector/schneider-electric-lays-foundation-of-its-new-smart-factory-in-telangana/articleshow/94529941.cms

Manish Pant  

Executive Vice President for International Operations | Member of the Executive Committee | Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric's Hyderabad factory in India has been recognized as a Sustainability Lighthouse by the World Economic Forum.  This recognition marks a hat-trick win for Schneider Electric after our Lexington plant in USA (2021) and Le Vaudreuil plant in France (2022) received the same status.We will continue to invest in #4ir technologies and expand our manufacturing capacity in the country. 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manishpant01_world-economic-forum-recognizes-schneider-activity-7143318090011848704-M-if/

Over four years, the plant reduced its energy consumption by 59 per cent, improved waste optimisation by 64 per cent, decreased CO2 emissions by 61 per cent, and reduced water consumption by 57 per cent.

To improve energy efficiency and thereby reduce CO2 emissions, the Hyderabad team focused on the highest energy consumers in the plant: air compressors and chillers. An IoT-enabled device, Equaliser 4.0, was installed to regulate the compressors, thereby improving their efficiency. For the chillers, a data-driven energy management system with closed-loop control was fitted to constantly monitor and adjust energy consumption in real-time, optimising energy efficiency.

https://www.themachinist.in/news/8225/schneider-electric-hyderabad-factory-recognised-sustainability-lighthouse#

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