In general, wiring harness processing is a very mature industry. But the industry, which has been around for more than 30 years, is still constrained by labor and skilled workers. "Low-cost" manual processing, in today's manufacturing industry, is no longer the main attraction for customers. Especially in the automotive industry, which requires a high level of consistency, more and more machinery is involved, less and less manual links, so that efficiency, yield, consistency and overall cost reach new heights. How to improve the proportion of automated production and mechanical manufacturing, rather than in the labor production mode, has been a new issue in wire harness processing industry.
Foreign wire harness processing equipment is relatively advanced. On the one hand, industrial equipment wire harness stems from the early start of the automotive industry in the region where it is located. Almost all equipment manufacturers have accumulated corresponding strong application technology for many years. The brand identity, quality identity, especially the higher technology identity established by the imported equipment manufacturers and foreign and joint venture wire harness factories on the basis of the previous cooperation, makes the imported equipment occupy a larger share in the Chinese market. For example, European Komax and Schleuniger, And Japanese Shin Ming and ShinMaywa and Kamu JAM.
The domestic automobile industry started late, but it develops very fast. With the new rise of new energy vehicles, the process upgrading of consumer electronics, and the continuous updating of automation equipment, the Chinese market has become the growth engine of the global wiring harness industry, and the wiring harness industry is also facing new opportunities and challenges. According to The chairman of Junquan Automation Ni Junquan revealed in a recent interview, the domestic private wire harness factory has achieved large-scale, penetration rate is also rapidly improving. Domestic equipment has been recognized by customers for its high cost performance, fast response and low after-sales cost, and has a large market advantage in price and after-sales service. However, the domestic equipment factory is too slow to digest the core technology of the world leader, especially in terms of intelligence. To develop rapidly, it is necessary to respect and meet the core demand of wire harness factory for quality, technology and cost of new energy vehicle wire harness.

"Made in China 2025" clearly proposes to "promote intelligent manufacturing as the main direction", promote the transformation of the manufacturing industry, and realize the transformation of China's manufacturing industry from large to strong. Automation is the basis and premise of digitization and intelligence. Although automation of some benchmark wiring harness enterprises has achieved great development in recent years, the local automation level of most wiring harness factories is still very low, many of them are manual labor, and wiring harness processing is still labor-intensive industry. These two years, many wire harness enterprises focus on manufacturing execution management system MES, and actively promote enterprise transformation. However, we should see that the premise of MES for production information management of home appliance wiring harness is two points: one is a high level of automation (up to 4.0); Second, what data should be collected and how. Therefore, industry 4.0 is both an opportunity and a challenge for the wire harness processing industry. No matter the current automated production or the future intelligent production, wire harness can not be separated from the media of data transmission and power supply. The intellectualization of industrial equipment, on the contrary, will be more dependent on wire harness, which is a development opportunity for wire harness processing industry.