The automation of aluminum alloy wheel production in china is imperative

After entering the 21st century, with the rapid economic development, China's advantage of cheap labor has quietly disappeared, especially in the relatively developed economic regions of the eastern coastal areas, where the labor costs of some companies are close to those of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. How to deal with the ever-increasing labor costs has become a problem that entrepreneurs in the manufacturing industry have to face.

For the aluminum alloy wheel manufacturing industry, automated production has become imperative, especially for aluminum alloy wheel manufacturers that dominate the market with OEM production.

From the perspective of the entire manufacturing process of aluminum alloy wheels, aluminum alloy wheel manufacturing companies should be labor-intensive enterprises. In addition to heavy physical work, almost every process has harmful pollution sources and potential industrial accidents: the risk of burns in hot processing processes, a large amount of flammable and explosive fuels and consumables threaten the safety of operators at all times; the toxic smoke and dust generated by aluminum liquid degassing and slag removal, the harmful steam of machining coolant, and the liquid paint, powder paint, pre-treatment liquid, etc. in the coating process will seriously affect the health of workers; and the ubiquitous roar and harsh noise will make you feel extremely bad. Therefore, in developed Western countries, in order to avoid the high labor costs brought by this kind of high-risk and high-physical work, business owners have long adopted automated production lines to replace some manual operations for the production of aluminum alloy wheels. In Asia, Japanese and Korean companies started automated production earlier, forming distinct regional characteristics. In mainland China, no aluminum alloy wheel manufacturer has really considered this issue, and there is no decent aluminum wheel automated production line so far.

The reason why Chinese mainland enterprises do not attach importance to the development of this aspect is, firstly, due to the inertial thinking in recent decades. In the past few decades, they lacked funds and technology, and their advantage was a large amount of cheap labor. In order to promote economic development, they made full use of this advantage, which was undoubtedly correct in terms of social environment requirements and economic indicators. Another reason is the rigid thinking of enterprise managers. With the development of the economy and the continuous expansion of enterprise scale, some enterprise managers still focus on the old development model, believing that the hardware investment of automated production lines is large and the gains do not outweigh the losses, without comprehensively considering the comprehensive benefits brought by automated production.