Concern: Machine crocodile takes aim at the robot

At the Tenth China Manufacturing Expo held in Shenyang, the machine tool crocodile Shenyang Machine Tool exhibited its best-selling machine tools. At the same time, it exhibited an industrial robot that attracted the attention of exhibitors and professional visitors from home and abroad. The reporter's further investigation revealed that the current intensification of labor shortages has caused many machine tool companies to “smell” business opportunities. They have used their capital, technology, and talent to take advantage of the industrial robot market. In response, Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Die & Metals & Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, stated that machine tool companies have great technical advantages in cross-border entry into the robotics field, but only by increasing independent innovation can they improve their competitiveness.

Phenomenon Machine tool companies "cross-border" R & D robots During the current machine expo, Shenyang Machine Tool was undoubtedly one of the most popular booths. In addition to displaying several of its new machine tools, it also "exhibited unexpectedly" to display one of its products. The self-developed and designed secret weapon, wheel hub manipulator, was demonstrated on the spot and attracted the attention of many professional visitors. Some visitors also took a video of the manipulator's work and sent it to a well-known video site, attracting many users to “watch”.

In the domestic machine tool business, Shenyang Machine Tool is not the first to enter the industrial robot market. Four years ago, Guangzhou CNC, the largest professional supplier of numerical control systems in China, began to use its technological and human resources advantages to get involved in the research and development of industrial robots, and devoted itself to the production of "industrial robots that consumers can afford," and achieved a breakthrough. . At present, many RB type industrial robots developed by Guangzhou CNC have frequently appeared at major exhibitions. The data shows that these robots can be widely used in transportation, arc welding, gluing, cutting, painting, machine tool processing and other fields.

In fact, there are more and more machine tool companies aiming at the industrial robot market. In the face of ABB, Fanuc, Kawasaki and other major global industrial robot manufacturers to vigorously explore the Chinese market, many machine tool companies at the forefront of the manufacturing industry are not reluctant to watch the market being taken away by others, and they are all involved in robots in various ways. The field, and as a new profit growth point in the future. The reporter interviewed learned that, in addition to Guangzhou CNC and Shenyang machine tools, Huazhong CNC, Dalian machine tools and other predators have also begun to develop industrial robots. Zhu Zhiyang, chairman of the Youjia Group, once stated in an interview with the media that the industrial robot market is a field that You Jia must seize.

Increased labor shortage of business opportunities gave birth to new markets The reporter found that the reason why machine tool companies are keen to “cross-border” R&D industrial robots is in fact a great relationship with the increasing labor shortage. According to relevant domestic media reports, the labor shortage of SMEs in the coastal areas such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta is spreading to the north. There are "labor shortages" in the Northeast, Shandong, Beijing and Tianjin, with varying degrees of employment. 30%, nobody cares. For manufacturing companies that rely on intensive labor to win, the pressure caused by labor shortage is particularly evident.

Take Jimo, a city with a relatively developed manufacturing industry in Qingdao, Shandong Province, as an example, a reporter from the local statistical department released a statistical survey report last July. In the first quarter of last year, 71.6% of the 74 companies surveyed There are labor shortages in different degrees. The survey results show that 64.5% of enterprises have operating rate (that is, the proportion of production capacity of equipment currently used by enterprises for production and use accounts for the total production capacity of all equipment of the company), and the operating rate of individual enterprises is only 40%. The survey also showed that the lack of operating rate of enterprises is not because companies have no orders, but because they cannot recruit suitable workers.

Under heavy pressure, buying industrial robots instead of manpower has become a frustrating choice for many companies. An interview with this reporter found that at present, manufacturing companies in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, such as Zhejiang and Guangdong, are increasingly using industrial robots such as robots to replace the lack of labor. The Hong Kong UN General Assembly's Baiyun Plastic Products Factory in Fenggang Township, Dongguan, is preparing to introduce 16 injection molding robots on the basis of the previous period to ease the pressure on workers. Foxconn, which already has 10,000 robots, said that the robots will reach 300,000 next year, and the use of robots will reach 1 million units in three years.

“With such a large market, machine tool companies will certainly not surrender themselves.” According to Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Mould and Hardware and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, industrial robots can replace the current more and more expensive labor force, and at the same time improve work efficiency and products. Quality, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises, will be favored by more and more manufacturing companies. Of course, machine tool companies will not miss this new business opportunity. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that so many machine tool companies are gearing up and trying to gain a share in the field of industrial robots.

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“The industrial robots developed by our company have been on the market for half a year and the market has responded well!” On September 26, Mr. Zhang of Guangzhou CNC Company interviewed by this reporter said that the products currently launched by the company are mainly RB08, RB03 and other models. Robots, the market sales are not bad. He said that due to the labor shortage, many SMEs in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta region came to purchase robots. A considerable part of this is electronics, automotive parts and other production companies, the purchase of robots mainly used for painting, assembly, welding, handling and other processes. He also revealed that the price of an industrial robot is about 130,000 yuan, which is favored by SMEs.

When talking about why the company extended its reach into the robotics industry, Mr. Zhang told the correspondent that although Guangzhou CNC is a machine tool company, it has a very strong technology and talent advantage in the research and development of numerical control systems. condition. He told the reporter that the reason why Guangzhou CNC developed the industrial robot business is because, on the one hand, it has found that the user is in trouble with the user of the machine tool and needs industrial robots to solve the problem of shortage of workers. On the other hand, the robot gradually replaced Human labor is also a trend of social and economic development.

“The key application of industrial robots lies in motion control, and motion control is an important factor in ensuring the accuracy of machine tools. From this perspective, the relationship between machine tool manufacturing and robot manufacturing technology is very large.” Director of Shandong Rizhao Xiangrui Numerical Control Co., Ltd. Telling this reporter that industrial robots and machine tool manufacturing, it seems that there is no match for them. In fact, there is a certain relationship between the two. Machine tool companies can fully use the technical relevance to get involved in the field of robots. This is why Some domestic manufacturers of CNC machine tools can easily achieve "cross-border" reasons.

“I personally are very optimistic about the industrial robot market.” The company believes that machine tool companies have close contact with users. These user groups are themselves a very large potential market. Some processing equipment can be sold together with industrial robots. He told reporters that as the technical conditions mature, the next step, there will certainly be more and more machine tool companies involved in this area. It is also known that robots can not only alleviate the lack of work for machine tool users, but that machine tool companies can come in handy during the production of machine tools.

Weapons use "springboard" to quickly seize the opportunity to display data. As of the end of 2009, there were only 36,800 industrial robots in operation in China. The number was only 10.8% in Japan and 25.2% in Germany. It is estimated that by 2012, China's industrial robots can reach 60,400 units, and the market size of our country will reach more than 4 billion RMB each year in the next few years. Luo Baihui said that the "12th Five-Year Plan" is a key turning point in the development of China's industrial robot industry. The market demand also has a blowout-type development, and the demand is growing at an annual rate of 15% to 20%. It is estimated that by 2025, the entire robot market will reach 50 billion. Under the huge market demand, in recent years, a batch of production enterprises such as Shenyang Xinsong Robotics Company and Haier Robotics Company have emerged in the country. The joining of machine tool companies means that the camp of domestic industrial robots will become increasingly large.

Although the prospects of the industrial robot industry are promising, one phenomenon that should not be overlooked is that most of the machine tool companies' industrial robot projects are still in their infancy and have not yet reached a certain scale. Mr. Zhang of Guangzhou CNC Company admitted to the reporter that at present, there is hardly a second domestic machine tool company that is truly industrializing the robot except Guangzhou CNC. It is understood that early last year, Guangzhou CNC and related departments signed an agreement, industrial robots and other new product industrialization projects (industrial parks) will be located in Guangzhou Panyu. After the project is completed, it will form an industrialization base for handling industrial robots, welding industrial robots, spraying industrial robots, and stacking industrial robots. The annual output will reach 2,000 units/set.

Industry insiders point out that R&D of industrial robots does not happen overnight. It has high requirements for the company's capital, technology, talents, etc., and it needs to go through a long-term process. Dr. Sheng Xinjun, a lecturer at the Shanghai Jiaotong University Robotics Institute, said in an interview with this reporter that companies can rely on the strength of scientific research institutions to intervene in the robotics industry. Currently, many domestic research institutes have professional research and development personnel for robotics projects such as Shanghai Jiaotong University and Shandong University. Harbin Institute of Technology and other companies, machine tool companies can marry these research institutions, the two sides play their respective advantages, the scientific research institutions mature technology into products, quickly occupy the market.

Luo Baihui, the secretary-general of the International Mould, Hardware and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, although currently abroad, always pays attention to changes in the domestic machine tool industry. On September 27, during an exclusive interview with our reporter, Luo Baihui was not only confident in the machine industry's Nuggets industrial robotics industry, but also made many valuable suggestions.

Luo Baihui said that robot manufacturing is based on hardware, key components, software, system integration, and remote control. These five technologies. At present, the industrial robot technology is developing in the direction of smart machines and intelligent systems. Its development trend is mainly the modularization and reconfigurability of the structure, the openness of control technology, PC and networking, and the digitization and decentralization of servo drive technology. The practical application of multi-sensor fusion technology, the optimization of work environment design and the flexibility of operations, and the networking and intelligence of the system. This is the direction and development trend of domestic high-end machine tool product upgrades. Machine tool companies have mastered these technologies and it is inevitable to enter the field of robotics. However, it is necessary to comprehensively balance the advantages of their own companies in terms of technology, brand, capital, and market to position and develop robot projects.

Luo Baihui said that in the developed countries, the complete set of equipment for industrial robot automated production lines has become the mainstream of automation equipment and the future direction of development. Foreign auto industries, electronic and electrical industries, construction machinery and other industries have used industrial robots to automate production lines to ensure product quality and production efficiency. The use of these automated robotic industrial equipment sets will greatly promote the rapid development of its industry and enhance the manufacturing technology of its industry. More importantly, industrial robots will promote Chinese manufacturing to move toward machine automation, unmanned, higher value-added, and more innovative manufacturing. He pointed out that the concentration of domestically robotic robots in the Chinese market is only 30%, and the rest are all imported from more than 20 countries including Japan, the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Italy. The reason is that the self-owned brand is not enough, and the development of the self-owned brand and its automated equipment industry has become an urgent task.

The level of industrial robot technology is the core indicator of a country's manufacturing modernization. Luo Baihui said that with the domestic and foreign same industry and other competitors making major breakthroughs in the field of robotics, improving the level of technology and innovation, and the use of environmentally friendly eco-type technology will be an important manifestation of the competitiveness of manufacturers. If the machine tool companies cannot continue to innovate, the future competitiveness will be affected and there will be risks in technological innovation capabilities. In the field of industrial robots, machine tool companies should make full use of the capital platform, increase scientific research investment, continue independent innovation, increase core competitiveness, and lay a solid technical foundation for the sustainable development of the company.

He also said that at present, domestic companies are increasingly demanding industrial robots and automated equipment. In the face of the advantages of domestic and foreign companies in the high-end product market, the market competition for domestic robots has become increasingly fierce. Machine tool companies are developing high-end equipment industry, expanding their scale of operations, and nurturing new profits and business growth points. They need to consolidate their main business while maintaining their ability to continue innovation and achieve leap-forward development of new industries and new businesses. Keeping pace with the country's "12th Five-Year" industrial strategic transformation, we must grasp the rhythm of the country's industrial structure adjustment, seek the market with technology, brand, and quality, use technology innovation as the driving force, and use talent as the basis to expand industrial robots and automated equipment. In terms of scale, it still adheres to the development of the domestic market and foreign market, and seizes the market opportunities brought by the economic recovery, expands new application areas, and explores new product markets. Ensure the company's leading position in the domestic industrial robots and automated equipment industry. Build domestic first-rate, internationally renowned brands.

Luo Baihui suggested that when machine tool companies enter the field of robots, they should also pay attention to the following aspects. Firstly, to strengthen the R&D strength of enterprises and the intensity of scientific research investment, invest in advanced scientific research equipment, promote the close relationship between scientific research and production, promote the transformation of scientific research achievements of intelligent robots and automated engineering technologies; secondly, develop high-precision parameters, high sensitivity and high reliability independently. For robotic products that are safe, easy to use, and easy to use, changes mainly depend on the status of imports, enhance the ability of independent innovation, master the core technologies of automation control, etc. Finally, in terms of target selection, on the one hand, we must consider the development trend of the international robot market and technology. On the other hand, we must consider the needs of the country’s economic construction and social development, especially the technological transformation of state-owned enterprises, and the needs of industries such as agriculture, energy, and transportation, as well as basic implementation and urbanization.

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