The World Is Facing Difficulties In Employment. See How Textile Giants Use Robots To "Arm" The Production Workshop!

Recently, the media broke the news that Foxconn will suspend factory building in the United States - "the cost of labor is too high."

As a result, Trump's "question" was brought in, so did he not want to build a factory?

Terry Gou, the genius, responded particularly witty. Since Trump took office, the economy has improved and the unemployment rate has dropped sharply. The unemployment rate of Foxconn in Wisconsin has dropped from 6% to 2%, and workers are hard to find.

Source: US government

Terry Gou's reaction is a major phenomenon in the United States - recruitment is difficult.

One of the main reasons for the difficulty in recruiting workers is the issue of wages. The lower level of manufacturing jobs can not provide enough salaries, so that a new phenomenon of employment is called "Gig economy" in the United States.

Source: FED

According to the definition of BBC, Gig economy is a manifestation of "deep in the labor market, characterized by the existence of short-term contracts or the existence of a large number of freelancers, instead of long-term and stable work".

Because of the increasing leverage ratio and the structural problems of social stereotypes, the unemployment rate is getting younger and harder to obtain employment. There is another explanation behind it, that is, young people are playing N short-term jobs to support their lives.

Source: Statista

The study shows that the reason for the unemployment of young groups is mainly because they receive higher education than their parents, so they have a strong sense of self and their cognition of work value.

The attractiveness of "meaningless" and "low-level" jobs is decreasing.

As a demand side, enterprises also increasingly dislike young people, and mature skilled labor with enough skills is more valued.

The Southeast Asian region, which has been favored by investors because of cheap labor costs, is also facing the pressure of rising labor costs.

Recently, as the second largest country in garment manufacturing, Bangladesh broke out a large-scale labor strike, involving more than 4500 textile and garment enterprises, and about 50000 textile workers participated in the strike March.

They demand only one "raise salary".

The strikers came from factories such as H&M, WAL-MART, Tesco (Tesco) and Hardi (Aldi), which made up about 27000000000 euros worth of clothing last year.

Forbes has previously said that workers in Malaysia, Thailand and Burma demand wage increases of more than 50% in 2018.

According to fortune, workers with minimum wage in Southeast Asia have succeeded in obtaining higher base wages, which makes factories and manufacturers either invest more in the area or seek lower cost solutions.

According to the Nikkei Asia review, the Japan trade promotion agency survey found that in the past 4 years, wages rose from 11% to 91% in factories in the capital region of Southeast Asia.

It is understood that since 2017, the wage level in Southeast Asia has soared: the minimum wage in Vietnam, Indonesia and Kampuchea is rising simultaneously.

Among them, Vietnam was divided into 4 districts, which rose by an average of about 7.3%; Indonesia increased by about 8%; and Kampuchea gained about 9%.

"Wage increase" is the demand of Southeast Asian textile workers. It also highlights the universal phenomenon of labor difficulties worldwide, and it is also a headache for domestic textile and garment enterprises bosses.

At present, many ordinary skilled workers in the domestic textile industry can get a monthly salary of more than 6000 yuan, while skilled personnel often earn more than 8000 of their monthly salaries.

The labor cost of enterprises is increasing day by day. On the one hand, the talent gap is large, and the industry can not get enough fresh blood supplement.

On the other hand, talents are becoming more and more expensive and more and more difficult to stay.

Enterprises often spend a lot of effort to train a group of technical personnel. Training well is not necessarily able to stay.

Citing a survey by CCTV economic news reporter: in the past five years, the material cost of textile and garment processing has increased by about 10%, but the increase of labor cost has reached 35%.

At the end of last year, there were frequent changes in front-line workers in weaving, dyeing and finishing enterprises.

The difficulty of employment seems to be particularly prominent in 2018. As early as late January, there were textile factories early announcements of recruitment in various groups.

It is more difficult to employ skilled workers.

The employment problem is a commonplace topic in textile market in recent years, and it is also a key problem that has to be solved directly.

In 2019, the employment problem of textile enterprises will become the primary issue of the industry.

Few talents, expensive, hard to stay, and high cost of training.

Therefore, some enterprises have begun to pform and upgrade, enabling robots to replace the increasingly expensive labor.

In recent years, longer-term chemical fiber and textile giants have begun to layout intelligent chemical plants, replacing machines with machines.

Although a huge amount of capital needs to be invested in factory intelligent pformation in the early period, in the long run, it is not only the same but also a decision to be made.

Under the background of weak demographic dividend, technological innovation has become the best choice.

Innovative technologies such as cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence are entering the factory of the textile industry. The "Internet +" of the manufacturing industry is being armed to another production workshop.

In the workshop of the chemical fiber giant, dozens of robots are waving "arms" busy, they are 24 hours of continuous stacking of cake, and employees only need to look at the screen in the background, the information, state and quality of each cake are displayed on the screen.

And intelligent workshop like this has now covered all aspects of production, packaging, testing and so on.

Overall, with the weakening of China's labor cost advantage and the continuous improvement of product quality, the above several directions from chemical fiber to the entire textile industry is also an inevitable trend.

At the same time, Chinese workers will also change their positioning and skills as the market changes.

But any change will be painful. How to deal with the pain and minimize its cost is the key to the successful completion of the revolution.