Foshan enterprises invested heavily in automation to ease the pressure on employment

China Paint Network
News: The second phase of the 117th Canton Fair recently opened, the current Canton Fair to consumer goods, furniture, ceramics and other light industrial products export-oriented.
Reporters visited kitchen utensils, home furnishings, furniture and other industries in Foshan enterprises learned that enterprises generally reflect the sales situation is basically stable, the foreign trade situation this year is expected to be more optimistic, but rising labor costs have become a major burden on labor-intensive enterprises, in order to improve product competitiveness, many enterprises choose to layout automation production equipment.
Labor costs generally rose
in the course of the reporter's visit, enterprises generally reflect that the first quarter of this year's sales compared with the same period last year, some enterprises said a steady rise. Shunde District Yilong Furniture Co. , Ltd. mainly produces and sells office furniture, its manager Chen Jinwei mentioned that in the first quarter of this year, the company's revenue increased by 15% year-on-year, is expected to grow by 30% this year.
good sales, rising labor costs have become an important factor affecting export competitiveness for labor-intensive enterprises. Foshan Yio Technology Industry Co. , Ltd. production vice president Mr. Zhao admitted that the furniture industry labor costs generally rise, but almost all processes of furniture production need to be carried out manually, due to increased labor costs, products almost no profit, enterprises are barely supported.
the gap between workers and the production of enterprises has become very passive. Letong Industrial Sea Parrot stainless steel products Co. , Ltd. mainly produces stainless steel tableware, the company's foreign trade director Pan Yingjun mentioned that the company's polishing workers from the New Year holiday home to now, there are half did not come back. Because of the large gap in workers, the company had to reduce the manual grinding process, some processes first with the machine to complete polishing and then let workers secondary processing.
, the labor shortage is even more severe for companies that rely entirely on manual production. Shunde District Huashun Casting Co. , Ltd. Deputy General Manager Yan Yan said that the production of cast iron products are basically manual production, the current labor costs multiplied, because cast iron products on the technical and physical requirements of workers are very high, production has appeared in the case of green and yellow. "We have no choice but to walk."
to solve the employment pressure in many ways
for the employment problem, there are enterprises through outsourcing to reduce the pressure. Chen Zhenhua, manager of United Xinsheng Travel Products Co., Ltd., mentioned that the annual increase in the cost of human resources 10%, had to choose the way of processing, outsourcing business to foreign enterprises to do. "The orders we can't make will be outsourced to Jiangmen's factories, where their local workers are cheaper and the profits from outsourcing are about the same as our own."
also have enterprises choose to lay out automatic production lines. Foshan Hongqiao Furniture Co. , Ltd. Middle East regional manager Duan Xinxin mentioned that because of the difficulty of skilled workers, enterprises began to carry out technical transformation of the factory. Hongqiao furniture last year built three new plants, a total area of more than 100,000 square meters, a total investment of 200 million yuan, of which, automation equipment investment of several million yuan. "We will make technical improvements in the opening and stainless steel brushing and glazeing, which will first be applied to the production process of the table."
furniture mentioned above also has plans to invest more in automation equipment. Chen Jinwei said that the company has used automation equipment in the opening of small plastic parts, this year will increase investment.
are more entangled: while investing in automated equipment can reduce the number of workers they employ, costs do not fall significantly.
South China Sea Huijiang Tableware Co. , Ltd. manager Kong Decheng said that the company produces stainless steel tableware mainly stamping and polishing two steps, at present, their automatic punch has been used for a year, but product polishing still have to rely on labor. "The cost of polishing the cutlery machine is too high." Kong Decheng said that the amount of early investment in automation equipment is very high, because the current market competition is too fierce, enterprises have not enough stable order volume to support this cost input.