Young people today aren’t willing to work on factory floors, said Shirley Zhou, IT director at Midea, a home appliance giant based in southern China.
To prepare for a future in which an aging population will further limit the labor supply, Midea has embarked on a three-year plan to incorporate more technology into its 34 factories.
The challenge for factory efficiency in the future is a problem of education on digital knowledge, not age, said Junsong Peng, vice president and chief digital officer of software company SAP China. BEIJING — Factories in China are turning to technology to […]
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