There are no humans working the new Xiaomi production lines – this new Smart Factory is 100% automated. Indeed, the company says the system is smart enough to diagnose and fix problems, as well as optimizing its own processes to “evolve by itself.”The 80,000-square-meter (860,000-sq-ft) facility, located in the Changping district on the northeast outskirts of Beijing, follows a pilot smart factory in Yizhuang, which produced about a million units a year of the company’s Mix Fold smartphone.”There are 11 production lines,” says Xiaomi Founder and CEO Lei Jun in a short video, embedded below. “100% of the key processes are automated. We developed our entire production and manufacturing software to achieve this.”
Source: Xiaomi’s self-improving factory: 10M+ phones a year, untouched by humans
