Robots: Seize the opportunity period for the development of the robot industry

Robotics recently released several latest robot products and applications. Among them, the highly integrated control system SIRSUN SIRC2.0 intelligent robot controller has achieved a major breakthrough in the localization of key robot components and can be directly applied to 6/7-axis tandem robots, composite robots and other products.

A reporter from China Securities News recently visited the headquarters of a robotics company located in the "China Smart Valley" in Hunnan New District, Shenyang. Xu Fang, the company's technical director, said that the golden development period of the robot industry may be in these five years. The company insists on independent research and development, creates intelligent products, expands the global industrial chain, and is ready for the next take-off.

Industry insiders said that the current competition in the industrial robot market is fierce, and many leading domestic companies already have advantages in many application scenarios, but they need to break through the bottleneck of low brand awareness.

Complete product line

When you walk into the robot company's factory, you immediately enter a world of robots. In a factory the size of a standard football field, different types of robots are arranged in different areas, and their simultaneous appearance is quite shocking. The light blue floor is smooth and clean, with almost no oil stains visible. Technicians debug and assemble these finished or semi-finished robots in an orderly manner. Under the "command" of technicians, the cute "Pinecone" service robot carried the plate back and forth to practice; the parallel robot quickly grabbed objects...

As a leading enterprise in the domestic robot industry, the company's products include industrial robots, service robots, special robots and system integration products and services, with a complete product line.

Zhao Liguo, the company's vice president and secretary to the board of directors, said that the company has formed a complete industrial chain integrating unique technology, core components, leading products and industry system solutions.

In the view of technical director Xu Fang, the “most complete product line” was developed through multiple technical breakthroughs, which reflects the independent research and development capabilities of domestic robot brands. Xu Fang said that the company is good at technology, and many problems that cannot be solved will come to the company to solve the problem. By constantly gnawing on these "hard bones", the company's robot product types are becoming more and more complete, and the industrial chain is becoming more and more complete.

The clean vacuum robot produced by the company has filled the domestic gap. Du Zhenjun, director of the company's innovation and major projects department, said that the company is currently the only company in the Chinese market that can produce clean robots.

Xu Fang said that at that time, to develop the semiconductor industry in China, it needed its own chip equipment, but it was stuck in the core component of the vacuum manipulator. On the one hand, developed countries and regions do not sell clean vacuum robots to us individually, but only complete systems; the price of a single robot is US$150,000, while the packaged system costs US$900,000. On the other hand, the import of these equipment from the United States is strictly reviewed and the entire process takes at least nine months, which seriously affects the development of domestic semiconductor equipment. After painstaking research and development, the company finally developed a clean robot with independent intellectual property rights and promoted the market price of clean robots to become more reasonable.

The company also cooperated with well-known hospitals to develop the first domestic ablation medical auxiliary robot for tumor treatment.

Continuously launching new products has become the key for the company to seize market opportunities. In the first half of the year, the company invested 74.24 million yuan in research and development, a year-on-year increase of 260.34%. Zhao Liguo said that in the domestic market, only the company can compete with overseas companies in the high-end field, and the company can basically make products that overseas companies can make. Xu Fang said, "The company's 50% customers are all old customers. We continue to innovate and launch new products, and there are new 50% customers every year."

The semi-annual report shows that the company achieved operating income of 1 billion yuan in the first half of 2017, a year-on-year increase of 15.47%; net profit was 180 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.67%. In less than ten years since its listing, the company's annual operating income and net profit have expanded approximately five times.

Adding “wisdom” to Chinese manufacturing

The robot company's factory is a smart factory, with a giant integrated equipment running. Each robot independently completes procedures such as picking up, transporting, assembling, testing, and warehousing finished products. It is truly a "robot production robot."

Xu Fang said that this kind of smart factory is also called a digital workshop smart platform and is one of the company's key smart manufacturing platforms. The company's own intelligent workshop can produce 5,000 robots per year, and it is not a problem to even produce 10,000 robots per year at full capacity. At the same time, the company provides smart factory customization services, tailor-made smart manufacturing equipment for enterprises in different industries, and supports the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

Manufacturing, especially high-end manufacturing, is the core competitiveness of a country and region. At present, intelligent manufacturing has become a national strategy. Experts said that smart factories integrate robots, the Internet, information technology and smart equipment to improve intelligence in production, quality control, logistics and other links. This is also the development direction of robot manufacturing and production.

It is understood that the price of the intelligent platform produced by the company ranges from tens to hundreds of millions of yuan, and has been used by many companies. At present, the relevant cooperation projects between the company and China National Nuclear Corporation are progressing smoothly, and some workstation projects have been completed and accepted. In addition, the company planned and implemented a digital factory project for ZTE.

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