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Dec 22, 2021

Industrial robots enter the boom cycle

Less than half a month after the headquarters of Eston, the first domestic robotbrand in the Greater Bay Area, settled in Shunde, On September 1, The first phase of Haichuang Robot Intelligent Manufacturing City was announced to be capped and the second phase of construction was started.


On the same day, Guangzhou Zhongshe Robot intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. and other projects also signed an investment and construction agreement. A 10-minute drive away, Prizilin Robot also came to the site in the scorching heat and proposed to jointly build the area into a "Silicon Valley" of the robot industry. There are the same area of the United States kuka phase ii construction in full swing, blue fat robot to accelerate the improvement of project planning...... Along with the blueprint comes a sense of urgency.


According to the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the production of domestic industrial robots in january-July was 205,094 sets, up 64.6% year-on-year. Tianyan data synchronization shows that China has more than 84,000 industrial robot related enterprises, the national industrial robot has entered the boom cycle.


In this trillion-level new "track", Foshan robot has already run first, but how can it run further?


Combined energy storage


The combination of government and enterprise has grown from scratch

Local enterprises took the lead in the transformation

This investment gathering, more like a robot "circle of friends" party.


This party coincides with the beginning of the school day, so Liu Changsheng, chairman and general manager of Guangzhou Zhongshe Robot Intelligent Equipment Co., LTD., compared to the scene, the enterprise landed in Shunde, Foshan, like ushered in the "new semester", is a new opportunity and a new journey for the enterprise.


Foshan has been preparing for this "new journey" many years in advance.


In 2018, Midea Kuka settled down in Beijiao, Shunde. As one of the four major robot families in the world, Kuka's layout opened a new situation for foshan's robot industry pattern.


A few months after the construction of Midea Kuka phase I, Country Garden invested in The Prizhilin Robotics company was established. Both projects are expected to start production in 2019.


"The robot industry is the government's strategic vision of development, and is deeply integrated with the active transformation of enterprises to work together." Wang Shifu, vice dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, said in an interview with Nandu that the government has made forward-looking layout planning for the robot industry, and local enterprises have actively made layout and accelerated transformation. The whole region reflects the combination of government and enterprise.


The energy build-up, which began three years ago, is already bearing fruit.


Since 2018, Midea Kuka project has settled in Tanzhou Exhibition Area, and the project has built 10 robot production lines. By July this year, the park has produced and sold more than 15,000 robots, and the output value is expected to exceed 2 billion yuan this year, double that of 2020. In April this year, Midea Kuka Phase II was officially launched, with a planned investment of about 800 million yuan and a planned construction area of 370,000 square meters. It is expected to complete the construction area of 140,000 square meters in March 2022, and the overall completion and acceptance will be completed in March 2023.


Midea group reported a 25.14% year-on-year increase in total operating revenue in the first half of the year, with the closely watched robotics and automation systems business recording a 32% year-on-year increase in revenue, according to its 2021 interim report. During the reporting period, kuka order amount increased by 52.2% year on year; Revenue increased 30.9% year on year; After-tax profits rose more than 100 per cent year on year.


That is to say, although the "plate" of robots in Midea Group cannot be compared with HVAC and household appliances, the growth rate has been considerable.


Look at Country Garden. With a planned investment of over 30 billion YUAN, The R&d and application of Bozhilin Robot project continues to make new breakthroughs. At present, nearly 4000 r&d talents have been introduced and trained, and more than 50 construction robots are being developed. More than 30 of them have been put into construction site test and application, and 18 of them have been put into commercial application. Pilot demonstration of batch application has been carried out in multiple scenarios, including "13th Five-Year plan" national Key RESEARCH and development program demonstration project and intelligent construction pilot demonstration project of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in 2021.


At present, how about the commercial application of construction robots? Have new business growth points appeared? At the recent online 2021 interim results release conference of Country Garden group, Mo Bin, president of Country Garden Group, responded that Country Garden is conducting a comprehensive orderly split of "one building" through the application of construction robots, BIM technology, new building materials and assembly, forming a cluster effect of construction robots. After the cluster effect is formed, safety, quality and cost will match. It is still a dynamic process. As things stand, each robot is two to three times more efficient than a human.


Cluster effects go from weak to strong

"Crossing the River Dragon" accelerated to the ground

About 4 kilometers away from The Bozhilin robot, about 10 minutes' drive away, the first phase of Haichuang Dazu Smart City, with an investment of more than 2 billion yuan, was just capped last week.


It was a sweltering afternoon at the outdoor conference, and many of the attendees' shirts were soaked with sweat and glued to their backs, but that didn't stop the "circle of friends" around them from cheering. In addition to Bozhilin robots, guangzhou Zhongshe Robot Intelligent Equipment Co.,Ltd and Estun Automation Co.,Ltd have just landed in SAN Long Bay.


Nandu reporters particularly noticed that the investment promotion meeting was not selected in a third party business venue, but one of the robot projects, but this did not prevent many robot enterprises to go to the weather under the sun and rain. This is not only the government to vigorously promote the robot industry forward-looking, action and appeal, but also the robot industry in Foshan began to accelerate the "group" development.


Lin Zhibin, general manager of development affairs department of Guangdong Bozhilin Robot Co., LTD., said that he hoped to build the robot town into the "Silicon Valley" of the robot industry together with various robot enterprises.


As one of the "crossing river Dragon" introduced by village transformation, Haichuang Robot Intelligent city building is an industrial achievement introduced by Shunde using village transformation land. The project covers an area of 225 mu with a total investment of 6 billion yuan. It will build a modern intelligent manufacturing industrial park integrating intelligent RESEARCH and development, production, pilot test, office and living.


This project is led by the leading enterprises of Ethnic robots, and actively undertake spillover industries in Shenzhen. So far, 23 enterprises have been introduced to Shenzhen. Among the 67 enterprises introduced in the first phase of the project, 74% are from Guangdong and Shenzhen enterprises.


: robot co., LTD., vice general manager of shenzhen, the xian-li wang introduces, in the family and the robot intelligence to build the park, but the robot is first domestic machine layout build artificial robot high-end digital factory, with a total investment of 300 million yuan, planned annual output of 15000 sets of various kinds of robots, intelligent cooperative robot 10000 seven axis, output value of 3.2 billion yuan.


In addition to the leading drive, this "group" also lies in the depth of linkage and cooperation, in addition to Midea and Kuka, this year the world's top ten industrial robot enterprises Kawasaki robot and Shunde local enterprise Longshen strong joint venture, 100 million yuan to establish guangdong Longqi Robot Co., LTD., located in Chen Cun Rhein Industrial Park.


In addition, Nandu reporters learned from sanlong Bay Shunde Area construction Bureau that the blue Fatty robot RESEARCH and development and operation headquarters project landed in June this year, the planned investment of 740 million yuan, the project is currently improving the planning map. It is expected that a number of robot projects will be launched this year, including Tuoye Intelligent Headquarters Intelligent Factory, Winhe Robot global R&D and industrial application demonstration base, etc.


New "track"


Domestic industrial robots into a new outbreak period

In fact, the "lively" is not only foshan. In addition to the longitudinal time axis of robot development, the robot industry has entered the boom cycle and switched to a new track of rapid development.


Let's start with a couple of numbers.


According to statistics, the current national robot density is 79 units per 10,000 people, which still lags behind the world average of 91 units per 10,000 people and is only half of that of Japan and Germany. The market potential of robot application in the future is huge. At present, China's industrial robot density and the world's leading countries are still a certain gap, but has become a global industrial robot demand.


Another data from the "China Robot Industry Development Report" shows that the global robot market in 2020 will reach about 32.79 billion US dollars, and the scale of China's robot market will also reach 71.19 billion YUAN.


China produced 31,342 sets of industrial robots in July, up 42.3 percent year on year, according to industrial production data released by the National Bureau of Statistics last month. From January to July, the output of domestic industrial robots was 205,094 sets, up 64.6% year-on-year.


Data from Tianyan shows that China has more than 84,000 enterprises related to industrial robots. In terms of geographical distribution, Jiangsu has the largest number of industrial robot-related enterprises, with more than 18,000.


Yaskawa robot at tanzhou Exhibition in Foshan


Back to Foshan.


Nandu reporter searched the number of "industrial robot" enterprises and related institutions in Foshan more than 2,000 through Tianyan search, and expanded the search keyword to "robot", and the number has exceeded 3,000.


Although the robot industry has made remarkable achievements in recent years, there is still a lot of room for development in terms of volume and scale. By the end of last year, foshan has a total of CNC equipment, 3D printing and intelligent manufacturing industry of industrial robots more than 320, including robot r & D and production enterprises reached 110. The total output value of robots and intelligent equipment is estimated to have exceeded 90 billion yuan last year.


In the first half of this year, a survey report by Caijing Intelligence Showed that more than 16,000 industrial robots were used in foshan enterprises, and there were more than 240 industrial enterprises in the robot industry.


The next acceleration of foshan robot is in the next five years.


"The 14th Five-year Plan of High-quality Development of Manufacturing industry in Guangdong Province" includes five strategic emerging industries of intelligent robot, and takes Foshan as the core layout city. It proposes to build a leading domestic and world-renowned robot industry innovation, research and development and production base. Based on cities including Foshan, the demonstration application of industrial robots in high-end manufacturing and traditional pillar industries will be promoted. Among them, Foshan focuses on building intelligent manufacturing industrial base and robot Valley to promote the integrated application of industrial robots in key industries such as home appliances, ceramics, textiles and furniture.


Prospects & Challenges


Foshan Manufacturing

Provide huge application scenarios for robots

At the beginning of this year, Foshan issued the implementation opinions on cultivating and developing "2+2+4" industrial clusters. It proposes that by 2025, the output value of four industrial clusters, including intelligent manufacturing equipment and robots, will exceed 300 billion yuan.


With the acceleration of the construction of key projects that have been launched in the past year, the next one to two years will be the completion and operation period of important projects. In three to five years, the economic benefits of these key projects and the park will be officially implemented.


This benefit will be realized first in Foshan.


As the 14th Five-year Plan of Guangdong Manufacturing industry proposed to promote the integrated application of industrial robots in key industries such as home appliances, ceramics, textiles and furniture, the strong application market of foshan's local manufacturing industry is the first wave of dividend in the development of Foshan's robot industry. Clear to the "manufacturing city" the development path of foshan, on the one hand, use of huge market demand to guide enterprises to carry out intelligent transformation, insisting that intelligent manufacturing as gripper to promote transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, introduced a drive robot applications and a series of supporting policies of industrial development, vigorously support leading enterprises widely used robot intelligent equipment. In the past five years, foshan's investment in industrial technological transformation has ranked first in Guangdong province for five consecutive years. It has promoted the transformation of more than 6,000 industrial enterprises and applied 13,300 robots.


Next, this application scenario will be further released.


In Foshan, the huge manufacturing industry has provided a broad and diverse application market and development space for the development of robot industry.


Last year, the number of market entities in Foshan increased from 483,000 to 940,000, and surpassed 1 million in April this year. There are 7,727 industrial enterprises above designated size, and 26 enterprises whose main business income exceeds 10 billion yuan. Among them, several important pillar industries in Foshan are facing an important and critical period of digital transformation.


Take Shunde District as an example. At the foundation laying ceremony of Midea Kuka Phase II in April this year, Wang Yong, head of Shunde District, listed a series of data that more than 300 industrial enterprises above the scale in Shunde have implemented "robot replacement", and more than 5,000 robots have been used in total. In the next three years, 1,500 enterprises will carry out the "machine replacement" project.


This judgment is echoed by entrepreneurs.


In the recent foshan entrepreneurs · mayor face-to-face consultation forum, many entrepreneurs also talked about the robot in the manufacturing industry transformation and upgrading of the close relationship and the huge application market.


"The transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry requires the participation of robots." Chen Hongbo, vice president of Guangdong Jiateng Robot Automation Co., LTD., said that the most important thing in this process is to promote the application of government and enterprises together, sublimate in the application, grow in the application, gather talents, form an industrial chain, a supply chain, and then form an ecology, and achieve new forms of business.


The transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry requires robots, and the development of the robot industry is inseparable from the strong manufacturing application scenarios. Guangdong macro stone laser technology co., LTD., vice general manager of YuHongBiao thinks, foshan has a solid industrial foundation, electrical appliances, machinery and equipment, furniture, ceramics, and so on industry cluster effect, the transformation and upgrading of foshan should closely around and rely on the industry foundation, the key industries, including the industrial robot, must rely on industry foundation, In this way, foshan can walk out of the characteristic industrial transformation and upgrading road.


Urgently need to break through key components

Strengthen the industrial chain

Opportunities and challenges coexist.


Entering the trillion-level new track, Foshan robot industry is still facing the bottleneck to be broken through.


"Foshan Industrial Robot Industry Chain and Supply Chain research report" shows that the industrial robot industry chain mainly includes key components in the upstream, robot manufacturing and downstream system integration.


The development of industrial robot industry in Foshan relies on manufacturing industry and has formed a relatively complete industrial chain at present.


Among them, in the manufacturing of key parts, reducer field to Guangdong Tiantiai Robot Co., LTD., Guangdong Starlight Transmission Co., LTD., South China Sea Pearl River reducer Co., LTD., Hong Quansheng mechanical and electrical equipment Co., Ltd. and other enterprises as representatives; The field of servo motor is represented by Mercer (Guangdong) Servo Technology Co., LTD. The control system field is represented by Foshan Huashu Robot Co., LTD.


In the whole machine manufacturing process, guangdong Jiateng Robot Automation Co., LTD., Kuka Robot (Guangdong) Co., LTD., Foshan Wharton Equipment Technology Co., LTD., Foshan Huasu Robot Co., Ltd. and other enterprises as representatives.


In the system integration process, represented by Guangdong Tigwei Robot Technology Co., LTD., Foshan Longshen Robot Co., LTD., Guangdong Lixunda Robot System Co., LTD., Xinpeng Robot Technology Co., LTD., through deep subdivision application, it has formed strong competitive advantages in several subdivision fields. Among them, Tegway robot focuses on the welding field; Longshen Robotics mainly focuses on non-standard integrated automation applications of robots in household appliances, automobiles, food and other industries. Li Xun da to stainless steel products industry as the entry point; Xinpeng mainly develops robot integrated application system for ceramics, sanitary ware, hardware, sanitary ware and other industries. At present, the market share of sanitary ware ceramics reaches 70%.


The report points out that in the overall pattern of a complete industrial chain, 80% of enterprises in Foshan are concentrated in the downstream system integration link, while the upstream key parts manufacturing and midstream ontology manufacturing are relatively weak.


On the trillion-level new "track", Foshan wants to win in the long term. In addition to vigorously promoting the application of robots and the development of foshan's robot industry chain, it is more urgent to break through key components and promote the integrated development of production, learning and research.


That is to say, the future "Foshan made" robot should not only have strong "hands-on ability", but also have the core technology independent smart "brain".


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