Midea-Kuka Smart Manufacturing Industry Park Established in Guangdong

The launching ceremony of Guangdong Intelligent Manufacturing In-novation Demonstration Park and Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing International Cooperation Demonstration Zone and the con-current ground breaking event of Midea-Kuka Smart Manufacturing Industry Park took place in Shunde on March 28, 2018. Midea-Kuka joint venture (JV) 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 JV.
 
The launch of the Midea-Kuka Smart Manufacturing Industry Park will be a key step to realize Midea’s ‘smart2’ strategy. By leveraging Kuka’s expertise in robotics and automation, the Midea-Kuka JV expects to build a comprehensive industrial pattern integrating the R&D, manufacturing, and sales functions. With an investment plan of RMB 10 billion (US$ 1.5 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, show-casing 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.
 
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.

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 m² in land area and RMB 100 billion (US$ 1.5 billion) in out-put value has started to take shape.