While the domestic daily chemical manufacturing industry is still in a low value-added environment, the focus of the finished product manufacturers is still focused on the marketing module at the downstream of the industrial chain, and they do not pay too much attention to the product manufacturing process itself. At present, the disadvantages of this "short board" can be hidden temporarily. However, after the market becomes more and more mature, this "short board" will eventually affect the water holding capacity of "the whole barrel", and the lack of product quality control ability will also be exposed.
"A very important difference between domestic daily chemical enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises such as P & G lies in the control and guarantee of their product quality, and manufacturing process automation is the best guarantee for product quality control. Automated production can not only control product quality, but also become the standard equipment for daily chemical production. At present, there are more than 4000 large and small daily chemical enterprises in the domestic market, and the market reshuffle is inevitable. It is the most important to experience continuous reshuffle in the market In the end, there may only be about 2000 enterprises left, and automation may be an important standard to measure whether enterprises will be eliminated, "said Xufeng, general manager of cosmetics and pharmaceutical equipment branch of Shanghai Light Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd., when talking about the current automation prospect. At the beginning of this year, "difficult recruitment" has become a difficult problem for daily chemical enterprises. Even the person in charge of Guangzhou daily chemical enterprises lamented to reporters that the enterprise recruitment in previous years has now become "robbing" people, and the enterprise human cost has also increased by 35%. However, the difficulty in recruiting workers is only a precursor to the gradual decline of the demographic dividend. This trend will become more and more obvious in the next few years. In the long run, the tightening of labor supply and demand and the rise of labor costs will gradually become the norm.
"The mechanical equipment used in the first production line of Shanghai Jiahua can produce 70 bottles of a certain type of cosmetics in one minute, with a great degree of manual participation. Moreover, under such high-intensity labor, employees are very tired, and operators need to rotate several batches. However, after the automation upgrade this year, only two employees are required to supervise a production line, and the automatic production line can basically complete the filling and other production processes, which greatly The labor cost is saved. After installing automatic equipment, the production capacity of Beijing Dabao SOD honey production line increased from 120 bottles / min to 180 bottles / min, and the production efficiency increased by 50%. After the addition of automatic production equipment, the number of employees in Dabao production line will be reduced by more than 300, "said zhangxinlong, general manager of Shanghai Feipu Technology Development Co., Ltd., when talking about the changes brought about by automation to daily chemical enterprises.
Even if the enterprise can achieve satisfactory results in efficiency improvement and quality control, the road of automation upgrading of domestic daily chemical enterprises still has a long way to go. The greatest benefit of the automatic transformation of production line is to ensure the quality of products and improve efficiency. However, the cost account of enterprise automation upgrading also discourages small and medium-sized enterprises. The transformation of a set of automatic production line equipment means a capital investment of at least several million yuan or even tens of millions of yuan. Therefore, daily chemical product manufacturers also have great concerns.
Xu Feng told reporters, "At present, there are few domestic daily chemical enterprises that can undertake such a large-scale investment, and only Bawang and other listed companies and large enterprises can undertake it. Even for LiBai, naais and other enterprises that have the strength to bear the upgrading cost, because their products are mainly washing powder, and the profit space of washing powder is low, enterprises will be very cautious about such a large-scale investment, so there is no big move for the time being.". In addition to large-scale capital investment, automation upgrading has other requirements for daily chemical enterprises. Zhangxinlong told reporters, "automation upgrading is not a simple mechanical upgrading, which has higher requirements not only for system integrators, but also for the staff operation and management methods of cosmetics manufacturers."
