In recent years, the profits of injection molding companies have become lower and lower. While customers are requesting price reductions every year, labor costs and plant rents have also increased year by year. Customer price reduction and factory rent cannot be unilaterally changed, so the only thing left is to reduce labor costs, but labor costs cannot simply depress wages, otherwise the loss of employees will be very serious.

In fact, reducing labor costs is not only due to the high cost, but also another consideration. Because the environment of the injection molding workshop is relatively harsh, most of the employees in the injection molding company are still born in the 80s. Those born in the 90s with a little bit of education and knowledge are absolutely unwilling to work. Working in the injection molding workshop means that the aging of employees is getting more and more serious. At present, there has been a phenomenon that employees in injection molding companies are difficult to recruit. It is conceivable that the post-80s generation will be 40 or 50 years old in another 10 years. Most people may not be able to continue to work. At this time, the post-90s and 2000s are unwilling to enter this industry. So the automation of the injection molding workshop is a must in the future. The way to go.

Regarding the automation of the injection molding workshop, some companies have already been in the forefront, such as Gree and other large companies. A distinctive feature of these companies is that their products are relatively large, mold quality and injection molding parameters must be stable, otherwise the cost of batch scrapping is high, and the cost of manual transportation to and from the product workshop is high, so they must be at the forefront of the industry. And they also have the capital strength to invite a good mold team, injection molding team and automation team to cooperate in these things.

But in fact, there are many small injection molding companies whose products are relatively small, and the mold quality and injection molding technology level are average, resulting in unstable production. The quality of the products mainly depends on manual selection or secondary processing. However, in recent years, as the quality of customers has become more and more stringent, manual inspections can no longer meet customer needs, and the production of defective products itself is a waste of cost, and there is always negligence when relying on human inspection.

For such companies, in the future, either factories will move to Southeast Asia where labor is lower, or they will fully embrace automation, and they will be able to use machines and resolutely do not rely on labor, reducing personnel to the extreme.