Hardware manufacturer Foxconn, a Taiwanese odm and oem manufacturer, will in the coming years a part of its workforce replaced by robots. The company wants to reduce costs by one million robots to its production lines.
The majority of the 1.2 million employees of Foxconn are working in factories in Southern China: ‘only’ two hundred thousand employees are working in Taiwan and other countries, while the remaining million workers in the Chinese factories work. Currently, the workers accompanied by a smaller ten thousand robots on the production lines, but according to Foxconn founder and ceo Terry Gou over the next three years to change.
Next year want to Gou three hundred thousand robots in its factories to work and about three years that number has grown to a million robots. The larger share of robotized production should lead to a reduction in labor costs and the efficiency of the production increase. The robots would be simple, repetitive tasks, such as painting, welding and assembly, for their account. The company manufactures hardware for a number of large companies, including Apple, Asus, Intel, Dell, and MSI.
The company came in the past in disrepute because of bad working conditions, a high zelfmoordpercentage among employees and low wages. The increased wages of Chinese workers, what profit margins under pressure. In addition to factories in China, Foxconn is also manufacturing facilities in low-wage countries in Eastern Europe, India, Mexico and Brazil. About any redundancies did Gou no statements.