Since 2010, the staff anticipated "N jump" so that the world's largest manufacturing plant - Hon Hai Group ("Foxconn" the parent company) stand on the cusp. Controversy never constant - though Foxconn's military management and efficiency philosophy advocating been criticized, but it was also filled with its overtime payment norms, the working efficiency of excellence in the country I am afraid that few manufacturers can and - internal systems the contradictions and struggles to promote Foxconn had to accelerate the transformation of the road looking for.

Last week, Foxconn and China's largest telecommunications company Century Internet Data announced strategic cooperation, Foxconn chairman Terry Gou revealed at the press conference, go to "fourth decade" Hon Hai transition roadmap has been gradually revealed: from the manufacturing plant to become realized MachinetoMachine (machine to machine) manufacturing companies and big data companies. His transformation is Hon Hai was established in 2020 to complete the schedule.

"OEM kingdom" turned

"Wending is the beginning of our century transformation and interconnection, a signal (signal)!"

April 23, Gou tight itinerary devoted two hours of spare time at night for the signing ceremony Foxconn and Century Internet's "Platform." "And interconnected century Wending (marriage) is the beginning of our transformation, a signal (signal)!" Gou said the two preliminary planning, the next-generation data center joint venture in Tianjin, Shenzhen, Kaohsiung and Guiyang expand cooperation in advance. And in March of this year, Foxconn just Guizhou Province Gui'an New Area Administrative Committee Foxconn green tunnel construction contract data centers, research centers, investment amounted to 220 million yuan.

Gou and Foxconn to invest big data and cloud enthusiasm, and worries concomitant foundry business. Hon Hai's latest filing shows the major listed companies published by Hon Hai Precision, 2013 Hon Hai Precision annual income of NT $ 3.95 trillion yuan (about 130.33 billion US dollars), an increase of 1.3% - less than 15 percent set by the beginning of the year 1/10 target. Over-reliance on certain brands of OEM business, and in sharp contrast to the OEM factories and brands margin, also planted a time bomb for Hon Hai.

Gou hope that the next decade could increase revenue more than doubled to NT $ 10 trillion yuan (US $ 330 billion), and business diversification. From the construction of the new data center can also be a glimpse of Gou's ambition for change.

"We are now designing a mold, you can at the same time on the Internet, the cloud with customers, suppliers and the design and manufacturing units at the same time to see a blueprint for discussion. Given a suitable tolerance, used to take a week's time, now 15 minutes you can get. "Gou said," We century Internet to build a platform for future open platform, Hon Hai has accumulated millions of molds and manufacturing processes, the concurrent engineering in the cloud, everyone can see that blueprint. century Internet technology and our experience combine to give third-party manufacturers, logistics companies, service companies to provide data services. "

"Virtual and" territory

"We have achieved many factories producing lights, no staff, entirely by mechanical and robotic."

Conference, Gou great interest to show the picture of the two depict the future PPT Foxconn, but while the speech while playing 15 minutes, the projector are not projected. "Within a year or two, the phone can control the projector, the content in the cloud, a key control on adjustable good. Now the situation is the cloud, network, server has not binding."

Gou gestures Road, now we use instant messaging tools Wechat (micro-channel), WhatsApp, LINE is limited to the field of family entertainment and social life, the GDP value created is limited. But in the future, combining a variety of cloud applications, in addition to social family entertainment, you can also accomplish much in work, education, safety, health, and property transactions in areas such as environmental protection and transportation of life. "The Internet can be of big data will be managed hundreds of thousands of machinery can be realized through the clouds Machine to Machine series. Future messages you receive in WhatsApp, Wechat not go to dinner, but under a screw which machine may after three days there are loose dangerous. "

In Taiwan, "Hon Hai corporate patent cloud computing center" to save the whole of Hon Hai's patent data, "patent cloud" spread its global production base, after a century of cooperation with the Internet, the two sides will achieve patent sharing.

Gou predicted that 20 years later, a lot of repetitive work will be replaced by machinery, "such as going to the supermarket to buy a bottle of water, and soon Foxconn machinery will help you to move back home." He said Hon Hai even with Tsinghua University to study how the network receives a bowl of instant noodles, like receiving a book on the network, a movie, "We in research with Tsinghua University, the noodles through genetic engineering after nano particles become, then quickly through the network to the front of you, 20 years later, it is not impossible. "

However, to receive instant noodles more reliable than the network directly is multifunctional robot research Foxconn, Hon Hai Precision blessed to be invested in technology to automate business is involved in the production line, also known as "robots" project. "We have achieved many factories producing lights, no staff, entirely by mechanical and robotic."

"90 employees" online recycling

"Education network by transmitting the cloud, so people are constantly learning. Now Foxconn factory has become a university network from a factory."

For Hon Hai, "OEM empire" is to draw on cheap labor and land resources in the continent and nutrients to grow, with annual growth of business expansion and revenue, Gou is already the owner of 150 million people. However, to Gou could not understand is that his empire staff always make people think of consecutive suicide, sweatshops, strikes, fighting, part-time factory sister and other negative image.

"80% to 90% of employees prefer to work overtime to earn more money in the future be able to buy a house in their hometown." Gou says once at the shareholders meeting to show Foxconn internal management problem is not so serious media coverage. However, the problem of junior staff let him start thinking, for 90 people, education is probably more important than money. He said that Foxconn has recently entered into a strategic cooperation with NetDragon, to make every employee can accept the network cloud education.

"Education network by transmitting the cloud, so people are constantly learning. Now Foxconn factory has become a university network from a factory."
Gou emotion, 90 young people, repeated mechanical work is not desirable, they can be seen in the mobile Internet a variety of information, their ability to accept information is superb, but the ability to judge the information is very poor. "Learning is a lifelong thing, learning is more important than learning, learning is execution, is to enhance the capacity. Know not to do it, always stay in the know of the stage. 'Learning' experience can tell you how to make a judgment, so young To enhance the sense of the learning process. "