Foreign reporters impressed by smart factory in WND

Jabil Circuit (Wuxi) Co, located in the Wuxi National Hi-tech District Integrated Free Trade Zone, has managed to improve efficiency by more than 10 percent by using "smart vehicles" to transport products.

The smart vehicles, colored orange and black, move in an orderly manner, stacking products to a certain height before moving automatically to the loading area. If the car encounters obstacles or personnel, it stops automatically and resumes its original route when the path is clear.

Such a scene attracted a group of foreign reporters from countries including Japan and Kazakhstan, who took part in the "Show Jiangsu" interview event on Feb 21.

Ruslan Suleimeno from Kazinform Agency learned that the company has applied 5G and internet of things technologies to automate the transportation of packaged products from the production line to the loading area.

Jabil Circuit (Wuxi) Co is a company that provides design, manufacturing, and after-sales services for communication, storage, IoT, new energy, smart meters, semiconductor equipment, automotive electronics, and consumer electronics for multiple well-known electronics companies worldwide.

In recent years, the WND Integrated Free Trade Zone has formed a development pattern based on integrated circuits, electronic information, and communications, with international trade, logistics distribution, cross-border e-commerce, and testing and maintenance as supporting industries. It is now home to well-known companies such as Jabil Circuit, SK Hynix, and Seagate. In 2022, the zone earned a total operating income of 150 billion yuan ($21.76 billion), and the total output value of the zone's industrial enterprises above designated size was 93.7 billion yuan.