Shipbuilding, the last labor-intensive industry for robots to enter?
On October 25, with the approval of the State Council, China State Shipbuilding Industry Corporation Co., Ltd. and China Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. implemented a joint reorganization and re-synthesis. The “big Mac” of the global shipbuilding industry was born. Before this, Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries plans to build 12.6 billion Yuan’s acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding in South Korea, and the desire to build a Korean “God Ship” giant, these news have brought unlimited space for imagination in the market.
The advancement of shipbuilding powers to shipbuilding powers
In recent years, the global ship market has maintained a three-pronged market structure in China, Japan and Korea. China has also surpassed Japan and South Korea to become the world's largest shipbuilding country.
The shipbuilding industry is a typical labor-intensive industry. In China, more than 90% of the shipbuilding industry is manufactured by humans, and the automation rate is only 30% of Japan and South Korea. Cheap labor was once a major advantage of China as one of the world's three major shipbuilding powers.
With the rising labor costs in China in recent years, the demographic dividend is gradually disappearing, and the labor cost advantage of shipbuilding enterprises has ceased to exist. What is more serious is that the shipbuilding industry is one of the industries of “bitter, dirty, tired and dangerous”. Chinese workers have become attractive, and China's shipbuilding industry is facing the problem of “labor shortage” and there is an urgent need for “machine substitution”.
According to statistics, in the cost structure of shipbuilding, labor costs account for about 30% of the total ship cost. If the shipbuilding industry can replace the machine, it will not only liberate the shipbuilding workers, but also promote the shipbuilding production process to reinvent the shipbuilding, improve the shipbuilding efficiency, ensure the production cycle, alleviate the cost pressure, and thus enhance the core competitiveness of China's shipbuilding enterprises. The transformation from a shipbuilding power to a shipbuilding power.
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