Machine Tool Industry Transformation and Upgrade Machine**

In 2011, China's construction machinery market showed a trend of “high before and after low”. In January 2012, continuing this trend, the sales volume of major engineering machinery subdivided products dropped sharply year-on-year. Although there is no shortage of factors such as New Year's Day and Spring Festival's "two-in-one", it reflects more on the market's depression. In 2012, the construction machinery industry is expected to “go low before high”. According to the research of the International Model Association Secretary General Luo Baihui, Zoomlion began to purchase welding robots to replace expensive welding workers; Huaxi Energy's newly-built production line will use industrial automation equipment in large quantities, a typical representative of domestic labor-intensive industries. - Foxconn’s ambitious proposal to “add 1 million robots to replace artificial labor in the next three years”, which undoubtedly reflects the fact that domestic manufacturing and industrial automation have become “indissoluble.”

During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the main theme of the domestic industrial economy is “transformation and upgrading”. The machine tool as the “working machine” will play a crucial role in it, and it needs to provide green, efficient and cutting-edge production equipment for other manufacturing fields. Therefore, whether it is from the perspective of the development of the industry itself or from the perspective of the interests of the entire country, the transformation and upgrading of the machine tool industry are the general trend. Only by completing its “self-cultivation” can our country's machine tool industry become stronger, which in turn can drive the overall optimization and upgrading of China’s economic structure.

Although the machinery industry as a whole has strong periodicity, it is affected by the fluctuation of fixed asset investment growth. However, because certain subdivided products are just the basic equipment or key equipment necessary for the economic restructuring and upgrading, they will be deducting “contrarian” industries. Focus on industrial automation and other sub-sectors. Among them, industrial robot manufacturing is a field where major equipment manufacturers want to intervene. Whether it is a traditional machinery manufacturing enterprise or an electric enterprise, they all hope to get a share of the future industrial robots.

Not long ago, ABB’s Robotics Division held its third Asian partner seminar in Shanghai. It is said that this year's annual seminar is the largest one since the implementation of the ABB Robotics Partner Program. A total of 13 robots have been demonstrated live and 10 technical seminars have been organized.

Yaskawa Electric, a manufacturer of industrial robots, has used robots to solder circuit boards that are widely used in electronic devices in Shanghai; Omron, an electronic device manufacturer, has also installed a sensor system in its Shanghai factory. This system is detected on the production line. Workers can be notified of substandard products.

There are also many domestic machine tool manufacturing companies intending to exert great efforts in industrial robots. For example, Shenyang Machine Tool, Dalian Machine Tool, and many numerical control equipment manufacturers, Zhu Zhiyang, chairman of Youjia Group, made it clear that the industrial robot market must be occupied by Youjia. a piece of field.

In response to the investment boom in the industry, Luo Baihui, the secretary-general of the International Die & Metals and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, said in an interview with the media that the industrial robot market has opened and the demand for the world robot market is about to erupt. China is potentially huge. The market demand has already begun to emerge, the investment prospect of the machine tool enterprise entering the robot field can be expected. It is hoped that this domestic manufacturing company can accelerate its pace so that competitors from the Nuggets can feel strong pressure and no longer use this opportunity.

1. As machine tool companies enter the robotics industry, there is no other reason why industrial robots can replace the current more and more expensive labor force, but at the same time improve work efficiency and product quality. It is understood that Foxconn robots can undertake assembly tasks for precision parts of production lines, and can also replace manual work in poor working environments such as spraying, welding, and assembly, and can manufacture molds in conjunction with CNC mastering machines such as ultra-precision milling machines to increase production efficiency and replace Some non-skilled workers.

It can be said that the use of industrial robots can reduce the scrap rate and product cost, improve the utilization of machine tools, reduce the risk of defective parts caused by workers' misuse, and bring a series of benefits, such as reducing labor Dosage, reduce machine tool wear, speed up technological innovation, improve enterprise competitiveness, etc. The robot has the ability to perform various tasks, especially high-risk tasks, with an average failure period of more than 60,000 hours, which is more advanced than traditional automated processes.

The use of industrial robots has the following advantages: First, to improve working conditions. Gradually improve production efficiency; Second, stronger and controllable production capacity, accelerate product upgrading; Third, improve the processing capacity of parts and product quality; Fourth, eliminate boring and odorless work. Save labor: fifth. Provide a safer working environment, reduce the labor intensity of workers, and reduce labor risks. Sixth, improve the machine tool. Seventh, reduce the workload in the process and reduce the production time and inventory; eighth. Improve the competitiveness of enterprises.

In the face of global competition, manufacturers are using industrial robotics to help produce high-quality products at reasonable prices. A company that wants to gain one or more competitive advantages and realize robotic automated production will be a means to promote business development.