In 2016, Industry 4.0 products will be gradually commercialized, with cybersecurity playing an important role

Information and communications innovation has driven the explosive growth of mobile device applications, unveiled the prelude to the era of the Internet of Things, and also stimulated the production side to use Industry 4.0 as the concept to initiate a comprehensive industrial upgrading campaign. The latest research of TrendForce's Top Industry Research Institute pointed out that as of the end of 2015, most of the Industry 4.0 solutions or products exhibited by German, Japanese, and American manufacturers were still in the showcase or laboratory stage and had not yet been commercialized.

Although there are no obvious research results in various countries in the near future, in order to seize market opportunities, manufacturers related to intelligent manufacturing, such as collaborative robots and networked machine tools, will be officially launched in 2016. Huang Li, deputy director of the Tuo Dai Industry Research Institute, said that these products have matured in technology, and their development still depends on customers' awareness and actual needs. In addition, the security of network connections and the development of standardization are the biggest key issues. Therefore, in addition to machine tool manufacturers, network companies such as Cisco Systems will play an important role. Some products of

are commercialized first and become an indicator of future market acceptance.

Huang Li said that most of the industry 4.0 technologies in research and development in various countries have not yet matured, and there is still some time before they can be transferred to manufacturers. Relatively speaking, robots and Machine tool manufacturers are developing rapidly in collaborative robots and networkable machine tools. After commercialization, the real growth of the market will not be realized until 2016-2017. The first type of product currently officially commercialized by

is "collaborative robots." Swiss company ABB launched the "Yu-Mi" collaborative robot with two arms, Germany KUKA launched the “LBR iiwa”, Fanuc launched the “CR-35iA”, YASKAWA launched the “MOTOMAN-HC10”, etc., most of which were launched in 2015 . The price of each product ranges from 16,000 Euros to more than 100,000 Euros. The

collaborative robot has few acute angles, and it will slow down or stop before touching a person. It is safe; the built-in vision system can directly pull the robot arm to move and teach actions. The robot will memorize the path and work on its own, with intelligence Ability to work together with the operator. my country Guangming Optoelectronics also launched a small collaborative robot at the Tokyo International Robot Exhibition in December 2015. The second category of

products is "network-connectable" machine tools, such as DMG MORI SEIKI, MAZAK, OKUMA, etc. have launched network-connected control systems and machine tools. The main feature is the ability to monitor the operating conditions of the machine tool from a distance, and the application software provided by a third-party company can also operate on it freely, without system restrictions, so the security and standardization of network connections will become the biggest development key .

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