The demographic dividend has gradually disappeared, labor costs have risen, and young groups have 'escaped' manufacturing factories... These have caused China's manufacturing industry to face severe labor shortages. In this environment, the rise of the industrial robot industry has become the crack. The key to achieving the automation of manufacturing industry and accelerating the development of intelligence has become a veritable 'the pearl of the crown of manufacturing industry'.
'Growing fast' and 'waiting for breakthrough' are two key words in China's industrial robot industry. The data shows that China has been the largest consumer market for industrial robots for five consecutive years and is still in an accelerated growth stage. 136,000 units, an increase of 60% compared with 2016. However, foreign companies are represented by the global four-family robots (ABB, KUKA, FANUC, Yaskawa), and their market share in China is about 70%. The market share is small, and the domestic robot industry is mostly concentrated in the middle and low-end areas. In terms of 'three core components', the technical barriers of international giants are still very high.
However, in recent years, domestic robot companies that have challenged this situation have begun to appear. Shanghai Card Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the festival card), which was established in 2014, is one of the most concerned ones. With their hands, they light up the wisdom sparks, they use the original scientific and technological strength to break through, break through the technical barriers of international giants, launch an impact on the high-tech core of robots, and continue to gain gratifying results on the road of 'helping China' to become a technological power.
In the wave of business globalization, Chinese entrepreneurs who understand technology, have feelings and vision, emerge in an endless stream, and the international stage, the founder of the card, Mr. Li Mingyang and the co-founder Mr. Wang Jiapeng are representatives of the middle. From the very beginning, I saw the industry. He has a huge market prospect for robots, he has locked his business into industrial robots, and created a festival card. From the beginning, he used the application of robot technology to realize the packaging automation of gift-type high-end milk, and solved the automation and informationization of chemical fiber packaging through robotics and industrial information technology. In the field of collaborative robots, we will break through the technical blockade, help new energy, auto parts and other enterprises to achieve flexible manufacturing, and find opportunities for Chinese industrial robots to 'turn over the road.' In 2017, the revenue of the card has reached tens of millions of yuan. It is estimated that this year's revenue will be nearly 200 million yuan. In addition, the card also received a 15 million A round investment from Hejun Capital and A+ round investment of 60 million yuan from Fang Guang Capital. Even under the strict foreign competition and core technology blockade, The card-creation team is still stepping into the industrial collaborative robot market, developing domestically-made robots with market influence, and becoming a technology newspaper. Practitioner and demonstrators.
In July 2014, a festival card company consisting of a group of engineers and professors was officially registered. The design drawings of the first intelligent system of the card were also presented at the same time. In October of that year, the intelligent system prototype design of the card was designed. Completed and found the first customer. In 2015, the technology and products began to be promoted in domestic dairy production enterprises and entered the top five dairy companies in the country. Starting in 2016, the card attempts to change the same labor-intensive textile industry. , Research and development of the spandex automatic sorting and packing system in the field of chemical fiber. In addition, the card is cutting into new energy, automotive parts and other fields.
However, while the card is expanding in the field of intelligent equipment systems, it also sees the gap in the core technology between China's industrial robot industry and international giants. As Mr. Li Mingyang said, 'Chinese manufacturers have weak technical capabilities, all of which are integrated. The core technologies of the main and key components are all in the hands of foreign companies. The same products, foreign manufacturers will sell to Chinese manufacturers at a price several times higher than the foreign price, and Chinese manufacturers can only accept.
Under this circumstance, the card and Shanghai Jiaotong University set up a joint intelligent equipment research center to carry out the frontier research and development of the core technology of the robot body. The Institute of Robotics of Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the earliest scientific research institutions engaged in the field of robotics in China. With deep accumulations, this accumulation blends with the open business vision, allowing them to find the opportunity in the 'sandwich' - collaborative robots, and to attack the city in this field, triumphantly.
After three years of research and development and commissioning, the card-based collaborative six-axis robot will be mass-produced by the end of 2017. This collaborative robot, named 'Little Help', aims to provide convenient technology and products to many production and processing industries. And adapt to the characteristics of different industries to meet a variety of different production scenarios, such as the loading and unloading of machine tools, the capture and packaging of products on the assembly line, dispensing and so on. Unlike traditional industrial robots with high thresholds, The user can perform programming operations through the mobile terminal APP/PAD, and the operation interface is simpler, realizing the robot's 'fool' operation.
In addition, traditional industrial robots, which assist robots, usually cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and after the mass production of small robots, the price will be greatly reduced. After the technical barriers to product use disappear, the terminal price drops sharply, many small and medium-sized businesses or even individuals or The family can be a user of the small robot.
General Secretary Xi Jinping gave instructions at the academician assembly of the two academies: Robots are the jewel of the top of the manufacturing industry. Its research and development, manufacturing, and application are important indicators for measuring the level of technological innovation and high-end manufacturing in a country. Key areas. China's outstanding robotics companies, including the Festival Card, are converging their powers, breaking the monopoly of the industry, liberating people from heavy physical labor, leading China's 'intelligence' to move forward, let the world witness China Wisdom and technology power.