Tobacco Asia

Volume 20, Number 1

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tobaccoasia 55 If one compares hardware and manufacturing technologies, the majority of Chinese enterprises still lag – sometimes, by decades – behind their counterparts in developed countries. However, when it comes to the internet and communica- tions technology, the situation is drastically dif- ferent. A comprehensive look will quickly reveal that IT is arguably the only battleground where China is most certainly on equal footing with the western world. In fact, in some European coun- tries, the internet ecosystem even lags far behind the dynamic one that already exists in China – the local manufacturing industry's greatest asset it should be able to leverage when trying to over- take the competition. The integration between IT and China's manu- facturing capacity is intended to assist the People's Republic in breaking away its manufacturing in- dustry from many of the primitive processes cur- rently employed in production and manufacturing of various goods, giving a further boost to re- search and development on the one hand, and the process of sales and aftersales service on the other hand, while morphing production-based manu- facturing into more service-based manufacturing. Such a change would signal a new spurt of growth in the manufacturing industry, which is also a key point of industrial integration. Yuxi Cigarette Factory – the Integration Front Runner The Yuxi Cigarette Factory, affiliated with Hongta Group in Yunnan, has a well-deserved reputation as a leader in integrating information technology and manufacturing capacities. Walking across the floors of the leaf tobacco cutting workshop at the Yuxi Cigarette Factory, one can't help buy be struck by the sight of huge orange-colored robotic arms unpacking leaf to- A worker on the production line of Yuxi Cigarette Factory

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