Vivo has just inaugurated its new smart manufacturing plant in China earlier today (15th July 2020). The plant is located in Changan Town, China, and will be capable of producing 70 million units every year.
The center is located adjacent to Vivo’s global headquarters and has a total area of 216,000 square meters, a construction area of 345,000 square meters, and had Vivo invest about 2 billion yuan (roughly 285 million US Dollars). The site will focus on production with quality high quality development. When making the new manufacturing plant, the Chinese tech giant didn’t simply fix the shortcomings of its previous production line but rather rebuilt it from the ground up as a smart manufacturing plant.
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The new center is composed of individual buildings which include factory buildings, office, employee dormitories, and power centers as well. Vivo has achieved a high production capacity and efficiency with the new factory, being able to produce 6 million units every month. This translates to more than 70 million units within a year. Adding this with its four other smart manufacturing plants, Vivo now has a total production capacity of over 200 million units of various smart products.
Vivo’s new smart manufacturing plant plays a big part in the company’s efforts to be a completely “self-developed and self-produced” smartphone vendor. The company’s investment in research and development has been continuously increasing, with the new site also placing an emphasis on more efficiency, less wastage through recycling warehouses, and intelligent management of spaces and resources.
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