Shanghai, July 3, /2024 - At present, the trend of homogenization competition in the collaborative robot industry is significant. In addition to the "eighteen martial arts" competition of collaborative robot manufacturers, upstream parts companies, head automation companies, and traditional industrial robot companies are competing to launch new collaborative robots! If collaborative robot manufacturers want to conquer the commanding heights of the industry, they must achieve product positioning differentiation and batch application scenarios.
"Driven by customer demand, the reshuffle of the collaborative robot industry is accelerating," said Ji Feng, executive director of Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing, in an interview with Gaogong Robotics. "Companies that do not have excellent product performance and do not have the ability to land in batches will face the risk of being eliminated."
In short, the second half of the competition for collaborative robots will revolve around the proposition of "how to find landing scenarios and use technological innovation to form strong product competitiveness to meet the diverse needs of customers".
High-tech robots have noticed that collaborative robot manufacturers represented by Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing have begun to break through the circle.
Building a base for the automotive industry
Scene, scene, scene!
This is one of the greatest challenges facing collaborative robot manufacturers.
From the industrial field to the commercial field, and then to the agricultural scene, collaborative robot manufacturers are constantly trial and error, constantly paving the way, constantly trying new technical routes and product solutions, trying to find a foothold for the survival and development of enterprises in the above fields.
But from the overall proportion, the industrial sector is still the main battlefield of collaborative robots, and the penetration rate continues to increase. In addition to 3C electronics, the automotive industry has jumped into one of the key areas where collaborative robot manufacturers compete to invest resources and carefully layout.
Under the trend of electrification and intelligent new energy transformation, the automotive industry is facing the most intense competition. The development cycle of new cars is rapidly shortened, and the development cycle of domestic cars is generally within 24 months or even shorter. Parts are rapidly iteratively upgraded, production processes are becoming more and more complex, and production lines are frequently adjusted, facing unprecedented challenges.
In the vast market, there are unlimited opportunities in the automotive industry. The development direction of customization, flexibility and intelligence in the automotive industry has become the mainstream trend of the current automotive industry. Industrial robots, as one of the main automation equipment in modern industrial production, have also ushered in new requirements.
Jifeng said: "When doing market surveys, I can clearly feel the strong demand of the main engine factory for the future intelligence of the production line, and its urgent need for related equipment manufacturers to have the ability of flexible production. We judge that collaborative robots will become the mainstream direction of light industrial robots in the future!"
As the only company in the industry to develop "collaborative robots + automotive intelligent parts" with two-wheel drive, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing has made two decisions:
The first is to use the automotive industry as the "base" for the company's development. In terms of strategy, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing takes a step-by-step approach, expanding from the main engine factory to the upstream core parts supplier. At present, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing's cooperative customers include Volkswagen, General Motors, Hongqi, SAIC, CRRC, Xiaopeng and many other well-known enterprises.
The second is to face the trend of industry involution, and form a comprehensive differentiation advantage in technology, products, and operating systems.
In terms of technology, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing takes flexible intelligent motion control technology as the core, and its full range of collaborative robots, in addition to reducers, such as servo motors, servo drives, encoders, controllers, teaching devices, joint mechanisms, and other components, are all self-developed.
In terms of products, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing's car-grade high-speed collaborative robots have formed three series of product matrices of C, G, and X, all of which comply with IATF16949:2016 international automotive quality system standards, and have successfully built a 5G + car-grade "robot intelligent manufacturing robot" international cutting-edge intelligent manufacturing production model.
In terms of the system, the automotive industry values not only the quality of the product itself, but also the company's control of the overall quality system. As a first-level supplier to the entire vehicle factory, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing's Product Research & Development, production, testing, and operation systems also benchmark the automotive industry.
At present, the layout of Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing in the automotive industry has blossomed, and its collaborative robots can be used in various scenarios such as grinding and polishing, dispensing and gluing, screwing, machine tool loading and unloading, quality inspection, visual sorting, and welding in the automotive industry.
Based on quality, leveraging the trillion-dollar market in the automotive industry
The robot noticed that behind the excellent results of Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing, it is obvious that strategy and differentiation alone are not enough to explain everything.
The more crucial thing is whether the product is convincing. As the so-called "clever woman is difficult to cook without rice", if the product is insufficient, even if it achieves temporary success, it will not have long-term repurchase.
Through the core technology of flexible intelligent motion control, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing's self-developed "car-grade high-speed collaborative robot" meets the characteristics of high speed, high rigidity, high precision, high safety and traceability, which is enough to explain why Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing has won the favor of automobile companies.
In terms of high speed, the cooperative robot made by Changguangxi Intelligent has a maximum speed of 210 °/s for the base, shoulder and elbow joints, 360 °/s for the three wrist joints, and a maximum speed of 4m/s for the end.
In terms of high rigidity, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing adopts a self-developed high-response driver to match a servo motor with low inertia and low torque fluctuation, which makes the robot arm more rigid. At the same time, it also solves the contradiction between flexibility and rigidity of collaborative robots.
Jifeng introduced that the car-grade collaborative robot combines rigidity and softness, with both motion rigidity and robot application flexibility, which can effectively distinguish between general disturbances and collisions. By fusing 3D vision, lidar and other sensors, the collaborative robot can achieve a more compliant control effect, while also achieving safety protection.
In terms of high safety, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing provides customers with multi-level safety protection measures that integrate security cameras, lidar, and safety carpet combined control to detect the external environment and ensure human-machine safety. At the same time, in the design of the product, there are three safety processors inside, which can still be safely and reliably shut down if there is a sudden power failure. Secondly, when the product is abnormal, it can also record relevant data and take safe protective actions.
Force control is also a major reason for the high safety of Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing's products. Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing adopts two methods of joint current loop and end-mounted force control sensor to realize the force control function of the robot. Based on the high-performance robot body and high-precision model algorithm, combined with the built-in temperature sensor of the joint, based on the friction online identification technology, the coulomb friction and viscous friction are accurately automatically identified and compensated, and the safe flexible mode is quickly switched to after the collision is felt to ensure that no further collision damage is caused.
It is worth mentioning that the collaborative robot controller of Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing adopts high-speed EtherCAT bus technology, which has high control system bandwidth and strong real-time performance. It can expand three additional axes to form 9-axis dynamic linkage control. Through EtherCAT bus technology, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing's collaborative robot can achieve efficient and real-time motion synchronization with machine vision, servo system architecture and other components.
In terms of traceability, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing has adopted the "black box" function. It is understood that the black box is a high real-time data server inside Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing products, which can save industrial field data and facilitate fault traceability. At the same time, it also supports remote assistance to help customers solve problems efficiently. It is worth noting that in the case of background data synchronization, the black box can also provide early warning, timely discover the current possible fault types and give suggestions for handling faults.
In addition, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing noticed that the needs of automakers are not limited to a single scenario, but rather run through the entire production cycle and post-maintenance of automobiles.
In Jifeng's opinion, in the process of a car from production to delivery, the most important thing for automakers is the R & D and testing stage, which is not only the stage where the automaker invests the most, but also the most demanding stage for collaborative robot manufacturers.
At present, the X series collaborative robotic arm of Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing has passed the high and low temperature test of -30 ° C to 80 ° C, can operate stably in extreme environments, has obtained the European standard one zone explosion-proof grade certification, and meets the requirements of IP68, corrosion resistance and other vehicle-level applications. It has been applied to the R & D testing and production of many well-known vehicle manufacturers.
Based on quality, supplemented by effective differentiation strategies, "Automotive Intelligent Parts + Collaborative Robots" two-wheel business drive, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing is leveraging the trillion-dollar market in the automotive industry.
Jifeng said: "At present, Changguangxi Intelligent Manufacturing has reached cooperation with Volkswagen, GM, Tesla and other automobile OEMs, as well as Magna, ZF, Bosch and other core auto parts suppliers. In the future, the company will continue to adhere to quality and technological innovation as its core competitiveness, and continue to expand the market application field and product line."
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