To explore how the robots and intelligent manufacturing integration

Recently, the "robot and intelligent manufacturing high-end forum" held in Hefei University of Technology, Robotics experts from all over the country and the manufacturing industry gathered together to explore how robots and intelligent manufacturing through the depth of integration, help Hefei build robot industry gathering area, to achieve Robot Technology and Industrial Innovation.

Three decades of accumulation, from small to large

Intelligent manufacturing extends the concept of manufacturing automation to more flexible, intelligent and highly integrated. The robot is a representative of high-end smart equipment, has been hailed as "the crown of the top manufacturing pearl."

Robot replacement of artificial production is an important future development trend of manufacturing is to achieve the basis of intelligent manufacturing, but also the future of industrial automation, digital, intelligent protection. "Why smart manufacturing needs robots?" KUKA Robot (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. manager Li Shaofei said in the conference speech: "a lot of unfriendly working environment, such as dangerous goods manufacturing, chemical industry, military industry, population aging brings labor shortage , Artificial training costs are too high and other reasons, the robot pushed to the cusp of intelligent manufacturing. "Therefore, around the automotive, machinery, electronics, dangerous goods manufacturing, defense industry, chemical, light industrial applications, industrial robotics will become intelligent manufacturing In the smart equipment representatives.

December 18, 1987, China successfully developed the first fully-made robots - smelting steel robots on the 1st. At that time, the Beijing Iron and Steel Institute researchers after four years of efforts to achieve a number of key breakthroughs in the core technology to fill China's industrial robots in the control system technology gaps. After nearly 30 years of development, China's robot industry from scratch, from small to large, has been formed in the robot R & D design, manufacturing, engineering and application of spare parts supporting industrial clusters. Public data show that in 2014, China reelected world number one industrial robot market title, robot sales in China increased by 56% to 57,000 units. Although China's robot technology and industry has grown from the "runner" to "parallel", but compared with the developed countries there are still significant gaps.

Today, the traditional manufacturing industry in the process of transformation and upgrading, the robot industry has been high hopes. In 2015, the world robot conference held in Beijing, President Xi Jinping said in his congratulatory letter, China will be robotics and intelligent manufacturing into the national priority areas of scientific and technological innovation. In recent years, policies, capital and many resources are rapidly tilting toward robotic and intelligent manufacturing.

The pain of the new period, how to from strong to strong

"Robot power from the big country to focus on core components R & D is the key." The delegate, Chongqing solid high-tech Yangtze River Research Institute chief engineer Li Wanlong introduction, the controller is the robot's brain, mainly used to publish and transmit action instructions. The modern manufacturing industry has high requirements on the openness of the industrial robot controller. It requires that it can be transplanted between different platforms and can interact with other application systems. Solid high-tech relying on years of experience in motion control, focus on providing the core control technology platform, open generic robot controller is one of important R & D results.

"The low conversion rate of technological achievements, is the constraints of China's smart manufacturing across the development of the 'pain point'." Shanghai Demeko Automotive Equipment Co., Ltd. President Ding Yudong introduced at the meeting, China's robot technology research level and the gap between foreign and not so big, the key is "production and research with" not close. On the one hand, scientific research units in the scientific and technological achievements "hidden in purdah"; the other hand, the lack of core technology companies "Aoao feeding." Resulting in scientific and technological achievements can not be rooted into productive forces, enterprises can not borrow "ladder" climb. "KUKA robot manager Li Shaofei that China's robot technology and industry need to borrow" intellectual "development, he also KUKA robot, for example, analysis of the German robot development road.

Expert analysis, the robot in the domestic intelligent manufacturing industry is also a common problem, manifested as: new application development immature, leading to idle robot; integrator is not strong professional, robot use function is not perfect; professional debugging, maintenance personnel Shortages, small problems can not be resolved in time; lack of necessary routine maintenance, robot life shortened.

In order to solve these problems, the experts put forward some countermeasures and suggestions, such as introducing excellent integrators, focusing on training and joint, speeding up the promotion of advanced technology in the industry, giving priority to simple and feasible projects, gradually improving the quality of use and training personnel; To help end-users, training a group of professional robot equipment maintenance personnel and so on.

Robot Anhui army, into the industrial core

In October 2013, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the province's strategic emerging industry cluster development pilot implementation plan to support the province to build the robot industry agglomeration pilot. 3 years, the province actively implement the "Wu Ma together" Industrial Robots Industrial Agglomeration Demonstration Zone development supporting funds, focusing on support for industrial robot technology research and development, industrialization, demonstration and application and product testing, industry technical training and other service platform. Today, the development of Anhui robot is eye-catching. In 2015, the province's industrial robots output of more than 2,200 units, ranking the forefront of the country. As the province's robot industry, the city, Hefei has established a strategic alliance of technological innovation of the robot industry, there are 35 member companies. "Thirteen Five-Year" period, the coalition will jointly create a robot industry in Hefei City, the "golden period."

The holding of the "Robot and Intelligent Manufacturing High-end Forum", will be developed for the development of robot industry in Hefei planning decision-making reference to promote the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing. One of the organizers of the forum, the Intelligent Institute of Hefei University of Technology, signed an agreement with KUKA Industrial (China) on November 10, 2015 to build a "Smart Institute - KUKA Research Center", which is one of the R & Big step. Prior to this July 10, 2015, Harbin Institute of Technology robot project also settled in Hefei Economic Development Zone. Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences, the relevant person in charge said, is gradually shifted from technology R & D robot manufacturing, robotics from the military to civilian areas to expand.

He said that Hefei has the strength to become an important influence in the domestic manufacturing industry, intelligent manufacturing base, the National Manufacturing Innovation Center. "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the hospital through the construction of robot technology research and development and product testing and testing base, carry out basic research and key components of robot research and development, promote the standardization of the robot industry, and strive to key components development, industry standard preparation, robot control personnel Training to achieve a breakthrough, to promote the development of Hefei robot industry an important force.