Guangdong: New Demand For Robot Industry Burst Forth New Vitality

Robots are regarded as the "Pearl of the crown of manufacturing industry". Their R & D, manufacturing and application are important symbols to measure the level of technological innovation and high-end manufacturing in a country.

In Guangdong, the industrial robot industry is booming. Robot manufacturing is produced and used for demand, and its application scope is expanding. Related enterprises are developing and innovating at more levels and higher levels.

The robotics industry will push the manufacturing industry towards high-end, intelligent and green in the future.

In the Guangzhou Limited by Share Ltd production workshop, the two "bottle blowing robot" integration has reached the final commissioning stage.

When the machine starts, the robot hands pick up a grain of food grade polyethylene particles, and to the other end, it is a finished beverage packaging bottle.

Zhang Songming, chairman of Da long long, briefed reporters that the next task was to fill robots, labeling robots and packing robots.

There is no need for a person to replace robots in the entire workshop process.

From the last century, in 90s, the production of simple packaging machinery, and then the design of the entire food packaging production line, into the packaging robot field, the company's business has expanded to design the entire intelligent chemical plant and outsourcing production enterprise packaging business, customers only need to operate on the other end of the intelligent chemical plant, waiting for all kinds of finished products sent to all parts of the country.

In Guangdong, there are more and more scenes like this.

Guangdong industrial robot enterprises, based on the needs of customers, research and develop the robot equipment needed by manufacturing enterprises, and even design integrated systems for enterprises, so that traditional factories can appear in the public's vision in a completely new mode, greatly improve the production efficiency of enterprises, and make the whole production process safer and more green.

Mutual promotion of production and demand stimulates enterprise research and development

In an intelligent factory in the power equipment industry, the production supervisor has just received an order and clicks the mouse to issue the production instructions.

After receiving orders, the robots automatically pick out the parts needed for production and send them to the workshop to assemble. The whole process does not require human participation. All of these rely on the intelligent plant manufacturing system introduced from Guangzhou.

"Now I only need to work in the office, and I can give the production leader the production plan, and I can understand the operation status of the project. It's much easier."

The director said.

Liu Shu, from Guangzhou state machine intelligent technology Co., Ltd., is the designer of the intelligent system. She believes that the intelligent plant system controls the whole production process of the workshop, including all links of human, machine, material, law, loop and measurement. It integrates all links and intelligent devices together, and can greatly improve the production efficiency of enterprises.

According to the actual needs of customers, robot enterprises have targeted the development of intelligent devices and systems, and have gradually become the norm.

According to the national robot industry development plan (2016 to 2020), by 2020, the annual output of autonomous brand industrial robots will reach 100 thousand units, and Guangdong should also vigorously build intelligent equipment and robot industry.

As a big province of manufacturing industry, the industrial robot industry in Guangdong is produced and used for demand.

"The development of industrial robots in Guangdong is spontaneous, not because capital enters investment, but originates in manufacturing, and has an industrial base, that is, both the demand and the application ends."

Liu Jia, assistant general manager of Guangzhou intelligent equipment research institute, said.

In recent years, Guangdong has promoted the production and demand to promote each other, and has made efforts to build an intelligent equipment and robot whole industrial chain ecology. The industrial development has achieved initial success, forming key components including upstream CNC system, motorized spindle, reducer, controller, servo motor and so on. The industrial robot body in the middle reaches, the intelligent manufacturing industry chain integrated in the downstream system, and the industrial system of intelligent complete sets of equipment, such as high-grade CNC machine tools, injection molding machinery, packaging equipment, building equipment and so on, are developed independently.

According to statistics, there are more than 500 robot related enterprises in Guangdong, and it has become one of the main industrial robot industry gathering areas in China.

Promotion and application to promote industrial development

Robot industry, as the carrier of traditional manufacturing industry toward intelligence and information, is of great significance in industrial development. Therefore, Guangdong chooses machinery manufacturing, electronic information, hardware and electrical appliances, textile and clothing, and other fields of development with good foundation and urgent needs. The implementation and promotion plan is implemented, and enterprises are encouraged and supported to give priority to autonomous robots and complete sets of automation intelligent equipment.

In 2015, Guangdong supported 100 key enterprises to implement the "robot application" project, which led to the application of industrial robots in more than 500 enterprises in the whole province. In 2017 and 2017, the number of new robot application projects reached 650 and 750 respectively, and 2015 to 2017 totaling more than 50 thousand kinds of industrial robots, of which domestic robots accounted for 50%.

From 1 to October 2018, the output of industrial robots in Guangdong province was 27 thousand and 400 (set), an increase of 36% over the same period last year, accounting for 23.1% of the total output of the country.

All localities in Guangdong province have also promoted the application of industrial robots in combination with their own specific conditions.

Guangzhou focuses on automobile and parts, packaging and printing, textile and garment industries; Shenzhen focuses on electronic information, home appliances and other industries; Zhuhai focuses on electronic information, marine engineering equipment manufacturing and other industries.

Government promotion is the beginning of the use, and the satisfaction of the enterprise is the driving force for sustainable development.

At present, the industrial robot industry has speeded up the R & D innovation to cope with the new demand of the application market, but the actual supply and demand docking still has problems.

The first is the cost.

In the most urgent demand for intelligent manufacturing enterprises, small and micro enterprises are the main body, but often limited funds.

In this regard, Guangdong has made efforts to improve financial support policies and increase fiscal and tax policy support. It continues to promote the exploration of robot equipment leasing and financial leasing mode, and establishes a guarantee mechanism for robot equipment leasing and financing lease, giving play to the role of financial leverage.

The two is research and development.

China's robot industry has developed rapidly, but after all, it started late, and there is still a gap with the leading technology abroad.

Guangdong province is committed to cultivating intelligent manufacturing backbone enterprises, hoping to achieve the demonstration and driving effect. At present, the province has nurtured 38 backbone enterprises.

At the same time, it is exploring the integration of enterprise innovation resources, striving to achieve breakthroughs in key parts manufacturing technology, and promoting the development of robot industry.

The new situation calls for higher demands.

The goal of the national intelligent R & D team is to endow robots with human agility.

The autonomous sorting robot they are developing has been able to scan the 3D objects in the scene by laser scanning and calculate the most appropriate grasping points of the target objects.

Zhou Yong, the chief engineer of the national machine, said: "the traditional industrial robot can not perceive the changes of the surrounding environment, and can only execute some preset instructions. The intelligent sorting robot can do some work according to the changes of the surrounding scene with the help of three-dimensional vision and artificial intelligence algorithm. In the future, it will be applied in many related fields."

From the beginning of the initial automation pformation to the current demand upgrading, many enterprises are no longer satisfied with the current level of automation, which forces robot enterprises to research and innovate at more levels and higher levels.

"Now many customers' demand is not only to buy back machines instead of labor, but also to upgrade information technology, digitalization and intelligence. This is also an inevitable trend in the development of robot industry."

Zhang Lunming, executive vice president of Robotics Research Institute, said.

On the other hand, robot enterprises are also seeking the docking of upstream and downstream industries chain.

In December 7, 2018, the Guangdong robot innovation center was unveiled in Whampoa District, Guangzhou. It is the third provincial manufacturing innovation center set up in Guangzhou, which is jointly established by the R & D and manufacturing enterprises of the robot and the upstream and downstream units of the industrial chain.

The innovation center will integrate the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau robotics industry research and research forces. In view of the two major pain points existing in the current core technology of the robot industry and the lack of high reliability, the core technology research and related application technology research will be launched to boost the innovation and development of the robot industry in Guangdong, Hongkong and Macau.

The development of industry and the formation of new kinetic energy can be seen as a brand and a product. What is invisible is the innovation system, manufacturing system, supporting system, and modern service industry supporting system.

In the past, Guangdong's manufacturing industry was leading, and its competitiveness came from a number of comprehensive manufacturing industrial clusters: home appliance manufacturing, electronic information, new textile printing and dyeing.

Even in the same industrial cluster in the same town, all parts and upstream and downstream supporting services can be combined in the most efficient way to form competitiveness.

In the face of the new situation, the traditional industrial advantages and industrial cluster advantages have not adapted to higher level competition in the past.

In the future, Guangdong will vigorously promote tackling key areas and core technologies, and the robotics industry will become an important part.

Guangdong will strive to build the robot's international high-end manufacturing industry cluster into a gathering place for the world's robotics innovation elements, the source of advanced technology and a demonstration site for manufacturing innovation.