BEIJING: China’s manufacturing sector is increasingly defining the global benchmark for industrial speed, scale and technology adoption, and is reshaping how advanced factories are built globally, says Joerg Gnamm, head of global manufacturing at Bain & Company.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with China Daily, Gnamm said China’s industrial advantages are not limited to cost, but extend to system-level capabilities.
“What stands out in China is the combination of scale, speed and the ability to integrate across the full value chain,” he said.
“That is what enables what we call impact at scale.”
Gnamm said China’s manufacturing ecosystem remains structurally distinct due to its complete domestic supply chains and rapid innovation cycles.
“China has almost the entire value chain within one country at massive scale,” he said. “That creates a different environment for deploying advanced manufacturing.”
He added that the country’s factories are characterised by unusually fast feedback loops between production, engineering and customers, allowing companies to iterate products and processes at high speed.
A third advantage, Gnamm said, is organisational discipline in scaling innovation. — China Daily/ANN
