The integration of machine tools and industrial robots is an inevitable trend in the development of industry and technology. In the future, both will bring about obvious technological progress and huge market prospects.
According to the China Robotics Industry Alliance, in 2013, China's industrial robot sales reached 36,560 units, an increase of 60% year-on-year, surpassing Japan to become the world's first robotic power.
According to the average life expectancy of robots for 10 years, the number of robots in China is about 130,000 in 2013, accounting for about 5% of the world's industrial robots. In terms of possession, it is still less than the 310,000 units in Japan in 2012, 16 in the United States and Germany. Wantai and South Korea's 140,000 units rank fifth in the world.
According to the current annual growth of industrial robot sales in China by 36% and Japan's compound annual growth rate of 4%, China's industrial robot possession is expected to surpass Japan in 2017 to reach the world's number one.
In terms of the number of robots per thousand people, there are only 23 units per thousand in China, less than 1/10 of Japan's, and a large gap with the world average of 55 units. From this perspective, the market demand for industrial robots in China is still broad.
The problem of labor shortages exposed from time to time in the coastal areas in recent years has increased the demand for robot replacements. Industrial automation in the manufacturing industry is an inevitable path for China's development. Although China has become a big manufacturing country, it has been difficult to make a significant change in the impression of a big but not strong one. To become a manufacturing power, industrial automation is the direction.
In the machine tool industry, the application of industrial robots also ushered in a golden opportunity for development.
Although the current share of industrial robots in the machine tool industry compared to other robot applications is still small, the trend has shown that the integration of the two will have a great future.
Machine tool loading and unloading application concentration
At present, in the machine tool processing industry, high processing precision and fast batch processing speed lead to automation of the production line body. Different hand gripping systems are used depending on the shape of the machined part and the machining process. With the rising labor cost, industrial robots have become the first choice of many machine tool manufacturers. Industrial robots can complete the automatic feeding/cutting, workpiece turning and workpiece reordering of workpieces, which can meet the fast and large-scale processing tempo. At the exhibition, we saw the successful application of Mitsubishi robots in the Dalian machine tool production line. The process of grasping, flipping and installing industrial robots is smooth and extremely accurate!
The loading and unloading of industrial robots is not only applied to the flexible combined machine tool production line, but also in the single machine application. In the booth of Tiandeng, we saw that the industrial robot of Eston, Anhui Province is loading and unloading the bending machine, which saves both. The labor force has extended the time of work.
FANUC industrial robots are also widely used for loading and unloading. FANUC industrial robots have been seen in many places in the exhibition. The long-term automation production line and Baoli automation production line are listed. Jiugong Technology exhibits automation. Metal forming systems, in the field of metal forming and stamping, the use of robots is a wise decision that fully guarantees safety while also increasing durability. The Baoli production line also exhibited a robot for loading and unloading machine tools.
Truss robots stand out
In the era of more and more high-speed and high-precision machining requirements, truss robots have emerged. The truss robots are also large-scale right-angle coordinate robots. These robots are fast, precise and strictly controlled according to the sequence of signal flow during the loading and unloading process. , batch, large parts processing flexible production line. In developed industrial countries such as Europe, America, Japan, agile flexible production systems consisting of high-speed machining centers and truss manipulators are already mainstream products. Truss manipulators transport parts in high air and directly transport the machined parts from one machine to another. The truss manipulator has auxiliary functions such as transportation between operations and automatic loading and unloading and material rotation. Because it is fast, precise and flexible, the structure is relatively simple and easy to combine. Therefore, it is heavily weighted by machine tool manufacturers.
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