In China, driven by the tide of "machine substitution" has been the world's largest industrial robot market for two consecutive years. From 2015 years ago in the third quarter performance, the 2015 China industrial robots shipments kept fast growth. In respect of robot using density, China is still lower than the world average, China's manufacturing industry is the huge market demand and development potential, OFweek industry research center, a senior analyst at pan, is expected in 2018 China's industrial robot sales will break through 150000, when China's ownership will overtake Japan as the world's first robot.

Shipments continued growth Robot in enterprises

In China, driven by the tide of "machine substitution" has been the world's largest industrial robot market for two consecutive years. From 2015 years ago in the third quarter performance, the 2015 China industrial robots shipments kept fast growth. In respect of robot using density, China is still lower than the world average, China's manufacturing industry is the huge market demand and development potential, OFweek industry research center, a senior analyst at pan, is expected in 2018 China's industrial robot sales will break through 150000, when China's ownership will overtake Japan as the world's first robot.

The Chinese market in 2005-2018 industrial robot sales trend diagram (Taiwan)

Rapid advances in the robot industry at the same time in China, including shenyang siasun, delft, guangzhou CNC, and when the new ace, etc., a batch of domestic robot manufacturing enterprises have begun to emerge. According to OFweek industry research center statistics, as of the end of December 2015, domestic robot company number 1026. The largest gathering robot manufacturers in guangdong province, 285, 156, followed by the zhejiang province second; Other areas such as jiangsu, shandong, Shanghai, Beijing, anhui, liaoning, and chongqing respectively 125, 89, 108, 58, 56, 45, and 40.

But compared with foreign manufacturers, domestic robot brand in the enterprise scale, technology strength, talent team, industry experience, or the brand influence and so on various aspects have very big difference, most domestic enterprises still stays in the imitation and assembling stage, few truly independent research and development ability of enterprises, enterprise core competitiveness is not strong.

China robot number (home)

Foreign brand share Homebred brand performance

Along with the market gradually opening, foreign brands have a toehold in every corner of China. Especially in 2015, the frequent foreign manufacturers, significantly speeding up the China market strategic layout. To have a library card first robot engineering center signing in shunde, ABB in zhuhai after set up wholly owned subsidiaries and to carry out the robot application integration services. Marriage and yaskawa electric have on August home appliance giant midea group, fully into the Chinese electrical appliances manufacture 3 c electronic market, fanuc, plans to set up in the center of the central fanuc robotics engineering center. At this point, library card, ABB, yaskawa motor, four giants in the field of fanuc robots have all in place, the sword refers to China's vast manufacturing market.

At the same time, domestic manufacturers operating conditions are worrying. OFweek industry research center statistics, in 2015, the Chinese business ontology general robot industry growth, of which more than 80% during the first half of the manufacturer ontology business year-on-year growth, only 20% of companies fell; But from the point of profitability, the main business percentage of loss-incurring enterprises as high as 70%. In other words, more than 70% of the business enterprise ontology are losing money.

OFweek industry research center, a senior analyst at pan thinks, although, under the national policy to promote domestic robot manufacturers business scale expands unceasingly, but the lack of core components technical lead to enterprise production cost is high, the profitability of enterprises is not optimistic. And, in response to the rise of new domestic brands, foreign companies are taking the price means to further weaken the market competitiveness of domestic robots. Pan is expected in 2016, will be increasingly fierce competition in the field of robot body, most of the domestic manufacturers of ontology will struggle on the break-even point.

Robot into 2.0 man-machine collaboration become a hot spot

From intelligent extent, robot has two attributes, attribute is a machine, another is the person's property. The first generation of robots or traditional robot more biased towards the machine properties, namely, as a kind of special equipment to replace human work, mainly expand human muscle function, do some physical strength live, such as handling, stacking, welding, spraying, assembly and so on some need human to complete the hard, monotonous, boring work. The first generation of robots have a common characteristic, they often can only work under the environment of work structure, namely can only in the case of programming in advance, do some programmatic, repeatability and stipulation of the work. Realized functions from the point of view, most of the robots lack of environmental awareness of force sensing system, visual function and function, and no touch function, just as people have no eyes, no nervous system, the sense the real-time change of the external environment, not good for communication and exchanges with the outside world, so it cannot adapt to the complex work independently under unstructured environment and space.

In addition, the flexibility, dexterity operation level, the robot's operation ability remains to be further promoted, especially in smart phones, laptops and tablets, and other consumer electronic products assembly production. On the one hand, the existing robot products in terms of accuracy, the performance can not meet the requirement of the technology in the field of the new; On the other hand, as the 3 c consumer electronics product life cycles are getting shorter, in terms of production mode to switch to robot flexible production and flexible manufacturing is also put forward higher request. Security is one of the robot is very important problem. At present most of the robot is working on the inside of the fence, isolated from the rest of people, the future trend of the robot will need to solve the problem of man-machine coordinated operation, especially in how to guarantee the safety of human beings.

Human-machine collaborative robot on behalf of the product

Source: OFweek industry research center

Back in 2015, the man-machine collaboration concept is already on the tuyere, especially on Shanghai GongBoHui, new products have made its debut on the collaborative robot, has become the focus of the industry. Has appeared on the market at present the collaborative product mainly includes a proud optimal robot, ABB robot arms YuMi, KUKA iiwa robot, and fanuc CR - 35 ia green robot, etc. This kind of robot generally have safety function, once detected someone touch will stop work, thrust will cleverly avoid by people. From the evolutionary path, robots are getting towards 2.0, and toward the human-computer interaction, man-machine communication, man-machine integration in the direction of development.

Ten years of promise Sword refers to manufacturing powerhouse

In 2015, China's manufacturing sector made a commitment across ten years. "Made in China 2025", is actually to German industrial docking 4.0 and Internet industry in the United States, and draws the outline of the development blueprint for the next 10 years China's manufacturing industry. With "made in China 2025" be born, of the top ten key areas, including robot to a national strategy, instantly become synonymous with tall on the robot, and obtain the domestic each big media focus on hot topics.

Around the world related strategy of robot

Source: OFweek industry research center

In global manufacturing, however, Germany has included XiMenZiAn berg factory and plant, Bosch rexroth Humboldt 4.0 industry benchmarking, American companies such as ge is also in the field of industrial Internet aggressive to pilot layout, with the first mover advantage of developed countries have 3.0 in the industrial stage and 4.0 higher level stride forward industry, and China's manufacturing industry is on the way of industrial or forward industrial 3.0 2.0.

In the next 10 years, adjust and opportunities coexist. Is both the transformation and upgrading of China's traditional manufacturing and global manufacturing competitiveness is the key of the golden age, and one through the "smart" made in China to realize "overtaking corner", the practice of manufacturing powerhouse dream of historic development opportunity. Global manufacturing competition has started, represented by a robot of a new generation of high and new technology will be a new round of technological innovation and industry transformation of a magic weapon to win. Who is able to gather the manufacturing crown at the top of the pearl, who can win the initiative of manufacturing in the future.