As labor costs rise, traditional manufacturing profit margins are further compressed, and companies can only obtain greater returns by cutting costs.
In recent years, multi-joint industrial robots have been widely used in the manufacturing industry to perform welding, assembly, grinding, testing, packaging and other tasks. With the breakthrough development of driverless technology, mobile robots have begun to rise rapidly. These mobile platforms with autonomous navigation capabilities can reach every corner of the factory, easily complete the handling tasks of various materials, semi-finished products or finished products, and significantly reduce the cost of transportation. The company's labor cost investment.
In manufacturing workshops, the transportation of materials and products is a very common task. Completing a production task may require the circulation of a large amount of goods. If these tasks are handled manually, it will not only be inefficient, affect the delivery time, but also easily cause personnel damage. damage. Especially for the younger generation, they are even less willing to engage in such low-end, boring and low-paying jobs, and may even have bad emotions.
Compared with traditional human labor, mobile robots have lower costs. At present, the price of a better mobile robot is between RMB 200,000 and RMB 300,000, and a general worker needs to pay a salary of RMB 80,000 per year, which is RMB 160,000 based on two shifts. So using a mobile robot for transportation costs less than RMB 20,000. The cost can be recouped within a year. With the continuous breakthroughs in domestic core components, the cost of robot products has dropped significantly, and using robots will be more cost-effective than human labor.
In addition, in terms of flexibility, mobile robots are more flexible than traditional handling equipment. The new generation of mobile robots adopts laser SLAM navigation method, which has the function of autonomous obstacle avoidance and does not need to lay fixed guide rails or magnetic strips. In this way, a lot of trouble during deployment is saved, especially when the process is changed. Only the map and route planning need to be rebuilt inside the robot, thus further saving the cost of factory deployment.
Currently, mobile robots are mainly used in the manufacturing process to transport production materials, including loading materials from the warehouse to the production line, transferring defective products from production line to production line, testing and inspection of semi-finished products, and transportation of finished products, etc. wait. The use of mobile robots is not only to reduce corporate labor costs, but also to comply with the general trend of transformation and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing, so that factories can meet the requirements for equipment networking, monitoring and analysis under the industry 4.0 mode.
The China Mobile Robot (AGV/AMR) Industry Alliance and the New Strategy Mobile Robot Industry Research Institute will jointly publish the "Compilation of Classic Cases of China's Industrial Application Mobile Robots and a Collection of Technology Development Papers" at the CMR Industry Alliance Annual Meeting ( 2021 Edition)》
This collection selects 31 classic cases from 31 companies, covering many industries such as automobile auto parts, engineering machinery, third-party logistics, 3C electronics, medicine and medical care, both in terms of product innovation and technical strength. It is highly representative and is a classic work of mobile robots for industrial applications in China. The specific list of selected cases is as follows:
Mobile robots are deeply used in various scenarios
On a high-speed production line, any delay at any station will affect the entire process. line efficiency, therefore, production managers must ensure efficient and stable supply of materials in each production link. At present, mobile robots can reach a speed of 2 meters per second and can provide efficient material transportation. In the Industry 4.0 model, the production line may frequently change product types. Flexible production lines are a must. Mobile robots can plan independently and realize point-to-point transportation. Their scenarios in the flexible manufacturing industry will play a role. Great effect.
Currently, there are several application scenarios for mobile robots in workshops. The first is material truck handling. For example, a mobile robot transports ingredients to the warehouse area for storage, or to the distribution area for manual or automatic sorting, and then pulls it to the loading point for standby. The entire process is carried out under monitoring, and the operator can flexibly Adjust and optimize equipment operation paths to achieve higher efficiency.
The trend of the disappearance of the demographic dividend is irreversible. Traditional manufacturing will lose its advantages, and the intelligent manufacturing model based on technologies such as robots and the Internet of Things will be the core competitiveness of future factories. Facing the demands of the rapidly changing market, traditional factories must transform into smart factories, further improving the automation and flexibility of the production line to flexibly handle small batches and multi-batch production tasks, and using the next generation of information technology to maximize the benefits of the production line. change.
In the future, factories will use a large number of robots, but it is not entirely a matter of replacing humans with machines. At least judging from the current situation, unmanned production lines are still difficult to achieve. Therefore, human-machine collaboration will be the general direction of the future manufacturing industry, and robots will collaborate with workers to better complete production tasks.
In addition, the Industry 4.0 model will become the mainstream of future manufacturing. This model includes artificial intelligence , Internet of Things, virtual reality, robots and many other technologies. As an important part of Industry 4.0, mobile robots are moving towards high speed, high precision, more openness, flexibility and intelligence, and will be better integrated into intelligent production systems in the future. (Data refer to the Internet)
(Source: China Robot Network)
2022 Zhengzhou Industry Fair
Haiming & Zhenwei Qiangqiang Alliance
5.20-23, Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center
