ABB: Full support for Chinese industrial manufacturing with robots

As early as 2006, ABB Group selected its global robotics business headquarters in Shanghai. The high-end equipment manufacturing industry headquarters in China is an uncommon decision for large multinational companies. It can be seen that ABB is optimistic about the market prospects of China's industrial robot application and early in the layout.

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“The application of industrial robots in China has maintained rapid growth. In 2008-2013, the sales volume of industrial robots in China increased by 36% annually. In 2013 alone, there were 36,560 industrial robots, which is five points of global sales. One of them was sold to China, a 59% increase from 2012, and China has thus become the world's largest industrial robot market. In 2014, the Chinese market is expected to sell more than 50,000 units.” ABB (China) Co., Ltd. Vice President, ABB Robotics Li Gang, President of Business China, told the World Manager.

Industrial robots are the most intuitive and effective form of industrial automation by "machine generation". Since the first industrial robot Unimate appeared on the US General Motors production line in 1961, the development has not stopped. In the decades of its initial development, it was mainly used in the automotive production field where high efficiency, reliability, and safety are required. Industrial robots were mainly used in the automotive industry when they entered China in the 1980s and 1990s, because in most industries, the inexhaustible labor force made the introduction of robots less necessary.

"But after entering the new century, China's economic situation has changed. A notable feature is the rise in labor costs and the decline in supply. At the same time, the attention of the working population to occupational health and safety is also growing." Li Gang pointed out that “How to liberate labor from simple, boring, repetitive work and engage in more valuable work is a problem that manufacturing companies and we are all considering.” “Compared to labor, robots can do something human unsuitable or Unwilling to do the work, for example, in a work environment with high corrosivity or high formaldehyde concentration, it is obvious that the robot is a more suitable choice than humans, and compared with the 80s and 90s after the simple repetitive work on the bored production line, The robot does not care about the work content, nor does it know the fatigue, and has higher labor efficiency. In the accuracy and cleanliness of the operation, the quality of the robot is also more stable, and the production loss is less than the manpower." Not only in efficiency, safety Other aspects of robots have significant advantages, in the past, the biggest obstacle to the application of enterprises - cost Industrial robots are gradually gaining advantages in this process. According to Li Gang, in the 3C industry, the robot can replace three workers in the board and the board. The cost of such a robot is 100,000 yuan in the early days of the coin. The service life is about 3-4 years. The maintenance cost required after the job is not high, and the wage and welfare expenses of the three workers are more than 150,000 yuan a year. In other words, using the robot for 1 year, you can recover the cost.

Cost is no longer an obstacle, and there is huge space in emerging industries.

After the cost is gradually being broken, the prospects of industrial robots in various industries have been greatly expanded. "Robots have great opportunities in many potential industries. In recent years, we have seen industrial robots used in 3C, sanitary products manufacturing, With great potential in logistics, mining, oil and gas, and electric vehicles, we have also seen successful cases of porting traditional industry applications to emerging industries.” Li Gang is very optimistic about the future development of the robot business.

“For example, the handling and palletizing of one of the typical applications of robots. In 2007, the customers of ABB robots mainly came from the tobacco industry. Because the value of the products of cigarettes is very high, the damage caused by manual handling will bring a lot of waste, so the robot first entered In this field, in the following years, robots entered the pharmaceutical industry with relatively high product value; in the food and beverage industry around 2010, the applications include food, dairy, salt, feed, etc., which we are currently seeing in palletizing applications. One of the emerging industries is bricks and coal mines. All this change took place in less than seven years, which gives us reason to believe that the potential of industrial robots is unlimited."

Industry case: People and machine collaboration

ABB has been deeply involved in the Chinese automotive industry and has cooperated with many domestic and joint ventures in China to build a large number of automated production lines for spot welding, handling and gluing. The production line can realize the collinear production of many different models, which improves the production flexibility; at the same time shortens the downline time of the vehicle to one minute or less, and improves the production efficiency; automatic welding and gluing greatly reduce the error caused by manual work. Improve vehicle quality.

In 2013, ABB became the first robot supplier in China to provide water-based adhesive system solutions, providing Volvo Auto Group's new production base in Chengdu with a total solution for robotic spray application integrating spray, glue and wipe. Water-based glue is an environmentally friendly water-based liquid noise-reducing material. The difficulty of the water-based glue-bonding process is that the water-based glue has high abrasiveness, is sensitive to temperature and pressure, requires wear-resistant pipe materials, reasonable pipe layout and glue temperature control. Volvo Cars uses ABB robots to spray water-based glue on the interior chassis of the car. After it solidifies, it can effectively reduce the noise and vibration generated by the car's overall operation, creating a quiet and comfortable driving environment for the owner. At the same time, it can greatly reduce the car. The content of volatile organic compounds in the environment will minimize environmental pollution and damage to human health, and improve the air quality inside the vehicle.

ABB has also had successful cases with its partners in 3C, sanitary ware and other emerging industries that still have a lot of manpower applications and small and medium-sized enterprises.

For example, ABB provides a stainless steel faucet grinding solution for Supor bathroom. In this case, the traditional stainless steel grinding work itself is very hard. Metal dust also poses a great threat to people's health. As workers' occupational health and safety awareness increases, The labor problems faced by the factory have become increasingly prominent. In the case of more exposed skin in the summer, the loss rate of workers has even reached nearly 100%. Under this circumstance, the factory chose to use the robot to polish, which not only solved the labor problem, but also improved the product quality, and the cost of the single product was reduced by 30%.

In September 2014, ABB launched the world's first robot YuMi, which is truly capable of man-machine collaboration. YuMi is the abbreviation of "You and Me" working together in English. It does achieve the harmonious coexistence of workers and robots and accomplish the same task together.

According to ABB, YuMi was originally developed to meet the demand for flexible and flexible manufacturing in the consumer electronics industry, and will gradually be applied to more market segments in the future. YuMi is a collaborative two-arm assembly solution with vision and touch. YuMi's dexterous arms are wrapped in soft materials and equipped with innovative force sensing technology to protect the safety of human colleagues. Safety is reflected in the various functions of this robot, making it work in an open environment.

From the precision parts of mechanical watches to the handling of mobile phones, tablets and desktop parts, YuMi can easily handle it with its precision, even with pin-outs.

This is the change that industrial robots bring to Chinese manufacturing. Robot companies represented by ABB not only continue to help the traditional industrial robot application industry such as automobiles to improve efficiency, but also play an important role in more and more emerging application industries such as 3C. "Emancipating people" from the boring production line is undoubtedly the only way to transform China's manufacturing industry in the future, and robots are the best substitutes.

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