2018年3月28日，大湾区•智启未来——广东省智能制造创新示范园、中德智能制造国际合作示范区启动仪式暨美的库卡智能制造产业基地动工仪式隆重举行。广东省副省长陈良贤、国家商务部投资促进事务局局长刘殿勋、佛山市市委书记鲁毅，及美的集团董事长兼总裁方洪波、库卡集团CEO蒂尔·劳伊特博士（Till Reuter）等政府领导及企业高管出席了活动。随着粤港澳大湾区规划被列入政府工作报告，顺德作为大湾区的智造脊梁将大力推动智能制造的全产业链发展，落实广东省智能制造创新示范园的规划。由世界五百强美的集团与世界级自动化巨擘库卡集团联袂成立的美的库卡合资公司，其智能制造产业基地将率先落户广东省智能制造创新示范园的核心区域，同时，这也是合资公司成立后的首个落地项目。
美的一直强调全价值链的卓越运营，通过打通产业链的上下游，实现最佳的板块协同，美的库卡智能制造产业基地将成为其“双智战略”布局中的重要一环。作为横跨消费电器、暖通空调、机器人及自动化系统、智能供应链（物流）四大板块的科技集团，美的深谙中国制造业的复杂与痛点，通过联动库卡集团在机器人与自动化领域的优势，双方有望将美的库卡智能制造产业基地打造成为研产销一体化的产业模式，未来倚靠粤港澳大湾区的发展势头，带动顺德乃至整个华南地区智能制造产业发展和升级。美的库卡智能制造产业基地及其相关产业的规划占地面积约1200亩，项目计划投入100亿元，分期建设包括智能制造基地、办公及研发区域、展示区区域、高端人才生活区域在内的全产业链智能制造科技园区。区内将涵盖智能制造、智能物流、智能医疗、智慧家庭四大业务板块。未来，区内将分批建设机器人制造中心、研究中心和应用示范中心等项目。
随着《深化粤港澳合作推进大湾区建设框架协议》的落地，如何协同产业发展，打造现代的产业体系，成为打造国际科技创新中心的新课题，无疑，美的库卡智能制造产业基地的规划明晰了这一路径，将成为粤港澳大湾区智能制造转型的桥头堡。为支持机器人产业的进一步孵化，园区还将布局包括驱动及控制系统、伺服电机等配套的核心零部件相关项目，并发展机器人系统集成及应用推广、机器人检测认证等相关产业。
为实现制造产业链优质资源的开发和整合，美的库卡亦计划引进智能制造产业上下游供应链企业，通过打造产业上下游的协同机制，增强科技园区的整体竞争力。倚靠粤港澳大湾区优势，一个占地数千亩、产值千亿、具有国际水平的示范性智能制造产业集群正隐隐若现。
Midea-KUKA Smart Manufacturing Industry Park Established in Guangdong, Marks the Era of ‘Smart Manufacturing in the Greater Bay Area’ in China
The Launching Ceremony of Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Demonstration Park and Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing International Cooperation Demonstration Zone and the concurrent Ground Breaking Event of Midea-KUKA Smart Manufacturing Industry Park took place in Shunde on March 28, 2018. The Vice-Governor of Guangdong Province, Chen Liangxian, the Director of Investment Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Commerce, Liu Dianxun, the Secretary of CPC Foshan Municipal Committee, Lu Yi, Midea’s Chairman & CEO, Paul Fang and Dr. Till Reuter, CEO of KUKA AG as well as senior management from both companies, attended this grand event. With the inclusion of the planning of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the Report on the Work of the Government by China's State Council, Shunde will have a strategic role to play by being the backbone of smart manufacturing in the Area. The city will exert all its efforts to develop the whole-value-chain smart manufacturing and implement the planning of the Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Demonstration Park. Midea-KUKA joint venture, a cooperation between the Fortune 500 Company and the world-class automation champion, is among the first to operate its Smart Manufacturing Industry Park in the central area of the Zone. This is also the very first project to have been launched after the setup of the joint venture.
It has always been Midea’s aspiration to pursue operational excellence along the whole value chain and to achieve optimal synergy by integrating different segments both upstream and downstream. The launch of the Midea-KUKA Smart Manufacturing Industry Park will be a key step to realize Midea’s ‘smart2’ strategy. As a technologies group with businesses in consumer appliances, HVAC, robotics and automation systems, and smart supply chain (logistics), Midea is well aware of the complexities and pain points of China's manufacturing industry. By leveraging KUKA’s expertise in robotics and automation, the Midea-KUKA joint venture expects to build in the Smart Manufacturing Industry Park a comprehensive industrial pattern integrating the R&D, manufacturing and sales functions. This way, the site could, by riding the momentum of the development of the Greater Bay Area, boost the future development and upgrade of the smart manufacturing industry in Shunde and even the whole South China. With an investment plan of RMB 10 billion, the Midea-KUKA Smart Manufacturing Industry Park and the related businesses will cover an area of approximately 800,000 m2. Functional structures, including the smart manufacturing base, offices and R&D labs, showcasing areas and apartment buildings for high-caliber personnel will be built in phases to form a whole-value-chain smart manufacturing hi-tech park, which would feature four major businesses, namely, smart manufacturing, smart logistics, smart healthcare and smart home. Also to be built in phases in the future would be the robot manufacturing center, the R&D center as well as the application demonstration center.
Along with the materialization of the Framework Agreement on Deepening Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation in the Development of the Greater Bay Area, there has arisen a new topic for the creation of any international science and technology innovation center, which is how to build the modern industrial system by coordinating industrial synergy. The master plan of Midea-KUKA Smart Manufacturing Industry Park has undoubtedly given a clear answer to that, and it would become a vanguard in the transition into the smart manufacturing pattern in the Greater Bay Area. In order to further incubate the robotics industry, related projects including the development of drive and control systems, and the development and production of critical parts such as servo motors will be scheduled. Also to be developed will be some related industries, for instance, robot system integration and application extension, and robot testing and certification.
In pursuit of its ambition to develop and integrate valuable resources in the manufacturing industry, Midea-KUKA has also planned to create synergy by inviting companies both up and down the value chain of the smart manufacturing industry to set up their presences in the Industry Park so as to strengthen the Park’s overall competitiveness. Backed by the favorable conditions of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, an international exemplary industrial cluster of smart manufacturing of over 1,450,000 ㎡ in land area and RMB 100 billion in output value has started to take shape.
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