Xiaomi Unveils New Smart Factory in Changping with Capacity to Produce 10 Million Flagship Phones Annually

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2024-07-09 12:48:40

It will have an annual production capacity of 10 million flagship phones, with the Xiaomi MIX Fold 4 and the new foldable Xiaomi MIX Flip being the first to employ it.

Image of the new Xiaomi Smart Factory in Changping (Beijing)

For some time now, digitization has become the key to success maximum efficiency in production processes. Lesson a Xiaomi he knows perfectly, since he is using the automation in production processes since 2019when its smart factory in Yizhuang (Beijing) started operating, which was also responsible for launching the brand’s first folding phone: the Xiaomi Mix Fold.

Well, now the Xiaomi co-founder Lei Junwho has been CEO of the company since 2010, just after announcing that a a new smart factory in Changping (Beijing) will be operational very soon. He communicated this through the main microblogging social network in China, Weibo, and also through his official account on X (Twitter), where he attached a video in which he appears while presenting it.

The new Xiaomi Smart Factory is 100% digitized and has the capacity to manufacture 10 million flagships per year.

The new Xiaomi Smart Factory in Changping has a 100% automation of key processes, so that it can work 24 hours a day without human workers supervising the process. Indeed, The machines will be able to cooperate with each other and the quality of production will also be controlled by intelligent self-developed machines, not to mention that the factory is able to create a dust-free environment on its own.

Therefore, there is no doubt that human presence will be minimal and the maximum investment is in digitization. According to Lei Jun himself, the new factory enjoys a area of ​​81,000 square meters and a total investment of 2.4 billion yuan is behind it. To give you an idea of ​​the dimensions of the matter, this would be approximately 329 million dollars or 305 million euros with currency conversion.

Promotional poster of Xiaomi's new smart factory in Changping (Beijing, China)
Promotional poster of Xiaomi's new smart factory in Changping (Beijing, China)

Xiaomi has focused on smart manufacturing since 2017, although it was not until 2019, as we said before, when they took their the first laboratory-level smart factory in Yizhuang. At that time, he was able to produce around one million smartphones per yeara more than significant difference compared to the smart factory that is scheduled to land soon, which promises to manufacture one mobile unit per second.

This factory has been certified as a national intelligent manufacturing reference company in China, so the Xiaomi Smart Factory in Changping has an annual production capacity of 10 million flagships. In addition, the company took advantage of the moment to announce that a The next generation of folding goods was created thereconsisting of the already leaked Xiaomi MIX Fold 4 and its first clamshell fold: the Xiaomi MIX Flip, revealing in its promotional poster that they will be launched this month.

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