Lei Jun: Apple also adopts the OEM model. Why is Xiaomi an assembly plant?
Although Xiaomi uses the foundry model, it is not a simple assembly plant. Lei Jun stressed that the design, research and development, quality control and other aspects of Xiaomi mobile phones are dominated by Xiaomi, and the foundry is only responsible for the production process.
Xiaomi Smart Factory realizes 100% automation of key processes, 100% digitalization of industrial production, autonomous diagnosis of equipment problems, improvement of process flow, and digital intelligent management of all scenarios. This makes Xiaomi Smart Factory a truly intelligent factory that can evolve itself.
Compared with Apple, which does not have its own factory and relies entirely on contract manufacturers to produce its phones, it is also assembled separately around the world in order to share the risk. Therefore, the degree of automation and digitalization of Xiaomi's smart factory is much higher than that of Apple's foundry.
