Led by Innolux Chairman of the Board and CEO, Hsing-Chien Tuan, the Automation Department is currently actively striving to meet the goal of “Lights out manufacturing.” If this operation is a success in Innolux’s Tainan factory, at the end of the year it will be duplicated in every factory in Mainland China, substantially reducing the impact of labor shortages.

The “Automation Development Team” has been established for seven years at Innolux and is responsible for this important engineering project.

The Automation Development Team has already been established for seven years at Innolux and is lead by General Director Wang Minzheng. The department was set up at the Innolux factory in Longhua, Shenzhen. With seven years of development and nearly a thousand employees, it has a production capacity of nearly one hundred automated devices each month, and it is nearly 100% automated, which safeguards the competitiveness of Innolux’s unique production lines.

Innolux President Jyh-Chau Wang notes that in the past it took nearly three months to upgrade the yield rates for panel manufacturing to 90%. However, after building automated production lines, yield rates of over 90% can be reached in only three weeks. The system assembly yield rates have increased between 300% and 500%, and the system side yield time has been drastically reduced from several months to under a month.

In addition to speeding up the process of automating production lines, Innolux is also expanding its recruitment of new talent, while also increasing existing employees’ salaries in order to retain talent. Analysts believe that Innolux’s increasing employees’ salaries and recruiting new employees on a grand scale will be mean strong development for the panel board industry in the second half of the year.

(Tr/Phil Swenney)