The Chinese Robot Market Has Become The Focus Of Global Competition
時(shí)間：2020/5/20 關(guān)鍵詞：YongPu Precision 瀏覽量：15291
2014 was a very important year for China's robot industry, which inherited the robot boom of 2013 and went even further. Industrial robots are surrounded by loud discussions from all over the world. No matter who talks about the third industrial revolution and industry 4.0, and no matter who mentions advanced manufacturing and the new technology revolution, they will talk about robots. Among them, the topic of China's robots has become a larger focus.
China's robot market has become the focus of global competition
Statistical data show that driven by the warming demand, the domestic industrial robot market sales continue to be active. In the first half of 2014, a total of 6,400 industrial robots were sold, which is 66.8% of the total sales volume of the whole year last year. It is expected that the total sales volume of domestic industrial robots this year will exceed 15,000 units, an increase of about 30% year-on-year
In 2013, China purchased and assembled nearly 37,000 industrial robots, among which foreign-funded robots were mostly high-end industrial robots with 6 axes or more, which almost monopolized the high-end industry fields such as automotive manufacturing and welding, accounting for 96%. Domestic robots are mainly used for handling and loading and unloading robots, which are in the low-end fields of the industry. Domestic robots in China still need to be improved in many places. In response to this, global robot industry researcher Lao Baipu said that it is imperative for China to catch up from low-end manufacturing to high-end manufacturing. China's robot market has become the focus of global competition. Our country should rely on scientific and technological innovation, independently develop, and learn from foreign advanced technology. It is better to use domestic parts as the foundation for the development of domestic robots, to integrate as the best way for the rapid development of domestic robots, and to occupy the market as a competitive strategy.
Good policy support; whether domestic robots can continue to develop is the focus of media attention
Driven by industrial policies and led by market demand, Dongguan City issued the "Dongguan Action Plan for Enterprises to Replace Workers with Machinery (2014-2016)" and the "Dongguan City Special Funds Management Measures for 'Machine Replacing People'" in August 2014. Among them, Guangdong Zhaoyu Intelligent Equipment Robot, a local enterprise, once hoped to share the policy benefits of high-end intelligent equipment and strive to become a leading brand in China's manufacturing automation industry through the extensive application of central material supply systems, robotic arms, and industrial robots in the injection molding industry, to achieve "unmanned factories" and "unlit workshops". However, the increasing number of new enterprises are also actively involved in the robotics industry, which undoubtedly brings greater pressure to Zhaoyu Robots. Recently, the reporter tried to interview Zhaoyu,the legend has already closed Taiwanese enterprise, through the phone provided by the Robot Association about how it came back to life and rose againmysteryly, but the person in charge of the enterprise never answered the phone. In the long run, in-depth mining of domestic potential markets, expanding the application fields and industries of robots, is the only way to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the domestic robot industry.
Global robotics industry researcher Liao Baipu pointed out that the widely used fields of industrial robots are still in the automotive manufacturing industry. The transportation and assembly of car steel plates, and even grinding and spraying, are mostly completed by robots. The core components of a robot include three items: the control system, servo motors, and reducers. Among them, reducers are completely imported, while domestic research and development capabilities for control systems and servo motors are limited in the scope of application for robots. Due to the low production capacity and small output of domestic manufacturers, the price is higher and the cost is higher when importing components. On the other hand, foreign manufacturers can press the selling price to the cost price of domestic manufacturers, or even below the cost price, directly forcing domestic manufacturers to exit the market because of the low cost. Take reducers as an example, this small part used in the joint of a robot costs up to ten thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan per piece. A six-axis robot made in China is sold for about ten thousand yuan, and the reducer alone occupies nearly half of it. In 2014, the output of domestic six-axis robot bodies was less than 2,000 units. The entire domestic robot market was occupied by the "Four Great Families", and the market share of all domestic robot companies together was less than 30%.
Before this, Ye Ting, the chairman of Guangdong Zhaoyu Intelligent Equipment Robot, once posted in his circle of friends that China's industrial robots lack talent support and capital investment in the field of basic research. To solve the problems of load capacity and precision at the same time, design and process is also an aspect. Japanese companies have a research team of more than 100 people just for the development of reducers. This number is unattainable by any robot company in China at present, and Zhaoyu Robot did not choose to cooperate with international giants. Basic research usually requires a lot of years to invest before it can pay off, and Zhaoyu Robot's previous thin profit model of selling equipment is not enough to support a large amount of research and development investment, thus further leading to vicious competition in the low-end manufacturing field. Therefore, in addition to hoping for cooperation with EFult and Eston, it is also preparing to "high-tech" to find sea turtle talents, in order to hope to narrow the technological gap with foreign countries in the shortest time.
