Innolux

2018: Reduction of 10 thousand people because of robots

The Taiwan producer of Innolux displays among which clients of HP Inc., Dell and Microsoft, is going to reduce in 2018 more than 10 thousand jobs within the program for industrial automation building. It was announced on February 6, 2018 by the chairman of the board of directors of the company Tuan Hsing-chien.

To end of this year our personnel will decrease to less than 50 thousand people whereas at the end of the 2017th in the company there were about 60 thousand employees — the company executive at a press conference said.

He also added that by the end of 2018 he up to 75% of production Innolux will be performed by exclusively robotic systems, Nikkei tells.^[1]

Chairman of the board of directors of Innolux Tuan Hsing-chien

According to Taipei Times, the program for automation of production lines is implemented in Innolux since 2007. Then the total number of staff of the company most of which part of the enterprises is located in Taiwan reached 100 thousand people. For last decade Innolux invested billions of dollars in upgrade and automation of the factories, as will allow it to cut down the staff half.

According to Tuan Hsin-chene at the initiative of which in Innolux began to expand use of the robotic equipment, the undertaken measures allow to solve a problem of deficit of labor power, to increase product quality and to reduce cost of production.

The salaries promptly grow in China, and without factory automation systems to constrain labor costs very difficult — the chairman of the board of Innolux who is also the adviser for display technologies for Hon Hai Technology Group parent company (Foxconn) and the Japanese producer of electronics Sharp belonging to it explained.

Innolux uses robots to assembly and transportation of displays for tablets and notebooks, and further is going to extend this successful experience and to lines of release of TV-panels. Also it is going to expand implementation of sensors, Big Data technologies and elements of artificial intelligence.^[2]

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