China Shift to “Smart Manufacturing” Faces Challenges Amid Labor Shortage

China Shift to “Smart Manufacturing” Faces Challenges Amid Labor Shortage

In a factory on the upper floor of Zhongwei’s plant in Suzhou, a team of engineers works around a rotating machine, striving to keep up with the next generation of manufacturing equipment in China. Their task is part of a broader effort to solve one of the most pressing issues facing China’s 6 million manufacturers: how to remain competitive despite rising labor costs due to an aging workforce.

Zhongwei manufactures automated factory lines that, unlike their mechanical predecessors which operated assembly lines at a fixed speed, now use Maglev conveyor systems that can move products between workstations at different speeds […]

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