Haier Group / 海尔

EP271 探访“柔性制造”工厂：是谁让你“想要就能买到”？ adds Haier’s commercial central-air-conditioning factory as a 柔性制造 case. The source uses 卡奥斯, manufacturing digital twins, modular customization, and AI visual inspection to show how Haier handles large, customized equipment in a discrete factory layout.

Haier Group appears in 79.各位领导，但凡咱学点博弈论：契约理论如何解释职场管理 through its 人单合一 management model. The episode says the model attracted attention and even entered Harvard Business School classroom discussion, but it uses Contract Theory / 契约理论 to question whether turning internal colleagues into customer-like market actors should be generalized.

The source treats Haier as a boundary case for management experimentation. Market mechanisms can sometimes activate initiative, but firms exist partly because hierarchical coordination can reduce transaction costs where contracts are incomplete, knowledge is proprietary, or repeated negotiation is too expensive.

Connections

• COSMOPlat / 卡奥斯, Flexible Manufacturing / 柔性制造, Manufacturing Digital Twin / 制造数字孪生, Modular Customization / 模块化定制, Manufacturing Digital Thread / 制造数字主线, and AI Visual Quality Inspection / AI视觉质检 - smart-factory branch added by EP271.
• 人单合一 - management model discussed in the episode.
• Internal Marketization Limit / 企业内部市场化边界 - source-specific critique of over-marketizing firm interiors.
• Contract Theory / 契约理论 and Incomplete Contract / 不完全契约 - theory frame used to explain why firms exist.
• Workplace Incentive Design - broader management-incentive context.