The age of robots in China has come

According to the International Robotics Federation (IFR), in 2013, 70% of global industrial robots were concentrated in 5 countries, with China overtaking Japan for the first time in the world and selling up to 37,000 units. However, the use density of Chinese industrial robots is only 23 (per million workers), while Japan is 332 units, Germany is 273, and China is also well below the international average of 58 units.

In order to regain competitiveness, it is becoming more and more common for Chinese traditional manufacturing enterprises to introduce robots. Small to ceramic sanitary ware enterprises, large to Haier, the United States, Foxconn and other frequently have millions of employees of the manufacturing giants. Thus, in China, it is basically a week that a new robot company is created.

Under the pressure of cost and transition, many cities in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta have begun to implement the "Machine substitution" program, which provides the opportunity for the small robot company, which has already begun to change the low-end manufacturing enterprises. Unlike low-end manufacturing plants, for more advanced digital factories, it is now not the problem of robots replacing certain production segments, but how to use robots in new manufacturing models.

Break

Although the domestic "robot" named the number of enterprises have thousands of, but the real servo-driven, control systems, robotics and few of the main body technology. The biggest fear now is that Chinese robots have gone the way of Chinese traditional manufacturing, the low-end of High-tech industries. There are a lot of small companies abroad, they only do a certain technical link, but do very well. So there are a lot of domestic robot companies to buy around the world, get back to assemble, this piece and robot technology has basically no relationship, but a how to manufacture, processing, assembly problems, but it comes to money fast, so many people willing to do.

With the use of robots in the automotive industry is becoming more saturated, the first way for domestic robots to break out is the use of high-end manufacturing.

For example, a clean (vacuum) robot is needed in semiconductor production. For domestic semiconductor manufacturers, if they want to import a foreign clean robot, foreign governments will be strictly inspected for three months, because the clean robot belongs to high-end equipment, it needs to investigate whether to use in the military field, it will take three months, this inspection cycle is very unfavorable to the enterprise. In addition, clean robots are generally standard models, Chinese enterprises have no way to ask, can only buy this universal model, which is very inconvenient to the actual production. At the same time, a clean robot product does not have two years of trouble-free operation is no enterprise dares to use.

From the robot industry chain, upstream is the core components, the middle is the robot body, downstream is system integration. The ontology supplier is responsible for the production of the main body, its product standardization degree is high, can batch production. System integrators, according to the specific needs of downstream customers, the unit product composition can be achieved production system, plays a role in the bridge. Subject to the backwardness of China's industrial base, the core components such as reducer, such as basic dependence on imports. However, in the ontology and system integration, many domestic companies still have great opportunities.

The second way to break through is to transform the traditional industries.

As the global manufacturing industry shifts, China has many industries that are already non-existent in developed countries, such as hardware building materials, ceramic sanitary ware, these enterprises are large in number. Because the foreign robot industry is accompanying the automobile to grow up together, is not familiar with these traditional professions. China's traditional manufacturing must follow a different path from foreign countries. Europe and the United States to take the road is very unique, it requires automatic, the best factory is no one, this in China's traditional industry is not go.

Generation

For the larger assets of the household appliances industry, or the entire 3C industry, the current level of use of robots is lower than the car, but higher than the traditional industry, this is the robot market in the future third point of outburst. But the market for domestic robots, not so easy to swallow.

"Compared to other industries, home appliances are not willing to pay and drag, a robot application project bidding, can let more than 10 of robot enterprises to quote and report scheme, after the general selection of the cheapest." For example, Evter participated in the bidding of a home appliance manufacturer's robot project, the light bidding cycle for several months, and finally other companies involved in bidding to survive, leaving Evter, the final 5 million of the project proposal to the decision-making level there, and the life was cut to 3 million. "A person in the industry told reporters," and home appliances manufacturers of some relatively simple technology, after a small amount of procurement, they have learned to produce their own robots. ”

But in some High-tech production links, there is no robot technology accumulation of household electrical appliances Enterprises, "production for their own" is not a suitable path. The reporter visited the giant factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, "We also set up a robot department, first from the production line of automatic tooling, as well as a number of simple auxiliary manipulator, and large general-purpose robots from the outside to buy." "Patrick, general manager of Zhongshan Manufacturing company, said to Chinese entrepreneur," The attitude of the grand is very pragmatic, only to do with their own production processes closely related to the robot, now the major brands of the general robot competition is fierce, the industry price has been very transparent eww141006cyx.

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(editor: Lvguang)