It is well known that industrial robots are an important part of a large number of automated production lines. Demand for industrial robot products is rising rapidly as Chinese manufacturers speed up the pace of automation under pressure from labor costs and industrial transformation. China is now the world's second largest market for industrial robots, and is expected to overtake Japan as the world's largest market by 2014.

Business model of industrial automation

From the perspective of business model, industrial automation can be divided into four types: product type, integrated solution type, customized machine type and distribution/system integration mode. Among the four types, we favor two types of enterprises. Product enterprises can form scale effect. Comprehensive solution enterprises have comprehensive brand competitiveness and low customer maintenance costs. At present, most domestic enterprises are in the two types of customization and distribution/system integration modes. Some enterprises with advantages gradually transform from a dedicated aircraft solution to an integrated solution.

Industrial automation is a cross industry, a wide coverage: involve including inductive components, detection sensor, transmitter, all kinds of measuring devices, actuators, automatic adjustment and control unit, the big small and medium-sized equipment control system to integrated optimization scheduling and coordination system and enterprise integrated management system, etc. Meanwhile, the application fields include robot, motion control, nc machine tool and process control in manufacturing industry.

Industrial robot application speeds up the industry production automation

Industrial robot is an absolutely important component in current automatic production. Its large-scale production and application play an obvious role in accelerating the realization of industrial automation.

At present, industrial robots are directly similar to human producers in automatic production lines. They have the advantages of fast and stable production. The application of industrial robots in most large-scale production will be the general trend of future development. The market for industrial robots is growing rapidly. At present, the price of industrial robots is high, among which the domestic products are as large as 600,000 yuan per set. Even if the domestic products are cheap, they still need 160,000 yuan. While high prices have discouraged most small and medium-sized enterprises from making large-scale purchases, they have not stopped enthusiasm for automation. Domestic industrial robot demand growth will continue to grow at a high speed.

Robotics is a forward-looking and strategic area of high technology. In recent years, industrial robot technology is developing towards intelligence, modularization and systematization. More importantly, with the development of industrial robots in a deeper and wider field and the improvement of robot intelligence, the application scope of robots is still expanding. As the main representative of digital and intelligent technology, robot will become an important symbol to measure the level of industrial automation in a country.

Changes brought about by Internet of things technology to industrial automation

At present, the industrial production in the massive shift in the direction of automation, but as the constantly put on the commercial applications of the Internet of things and cloud platform application, in the field of industrial automation development has a tendency to upgrade to a higher level, namely intelligent production.

, experts say, industrial automation technology trends include miniaturization design of decentralized architecture, function integration, real-time synchronous link, more precision control of axial operation and functional safety of ascension, and on the application of the special platform support, etc.

A higher degree of functional integration can make the design simpler and cheaper, and also help to reduce the size of products, thus becoming the general trend of industrial control equipment. In this case, the discrete system design is no longer in line with the requirements. Only SoC and ASIC with high degree of integration, or even FPGASoC with both sex and integration, can demonstrate the design advantage.

High-end equipment planning to support the robot application market will blossom

Five-year 'high-end equipment manufacturing industry development planning ", hereinafter referred to as "planning" will intelligent transformation, satellite equipment development and application development has begun to implement at present, this suggests that the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry planning has entered substantial operational level.

As an important part of the strategic emerging industry, high-end equipment manufacturing industry "twelfth five-year" development train of thought from the five key breakthrough direction, aviation equipment, satellite and application, rail transportation equipment, Marine engineering equipment and intelligent manufacturing equipment. According to the plan, high-end equipment sales will account for more than 20 percent of the equipment manufacturing industry by 2015, and annual sales are expected to reach 6 trillion yuan.

Data show that the intelligent equipment industry is about 300 billion yuan, more than market monopolized by foreign manufacturers and domestic manufacturers, share is low, intelligent instrumentation and control system for 10%, industrial robot and special equipment for 20%, intermediate nc machine tools is 20%, high-grade CNC machine tool was 1%. The target set by the plan is that by 2015, the sales revenue will reach 1 trillion yuan, and the domestic market share of high-end intelligent equipment and basic manufacturing equipment needed by key industries of the national economy will reach 50%. In 2020, the sales revenue reached 2 trillion yuan, and the domestic market share reached 70%.

The first funds have been allocated to subsidise the manufacture of smart equipment. The first batch of smart manufacturing equipment to be subsidized has 19 projects, with a state subsidy of 950 million yuan. In particular, in order to support intelligent manufacturing equipment enterprises to expand the market, the state will allocate the first set of subsidy funds, which will be as high as 25% of the product sales price to edm filter

According to the official of the equipment industry department, the plan predicts that the annual sales value of high-end equipment manufacturing will be more than 6 trillion yuan by 2015. Previously, a picture of wood has also expressed a similar view, he said, "strive to through the efforts of 10 years or so, high-end equipment manufacturing industry become the pillar industry of national economy, sales output value accounted for more than 30% of the equipment manufacturing industry, high-end equipment to meet domestic market rate more than 25%."

In the transformation process of emerging industries and traditional industries, robots play the role of "catalyst". In construction machinery industry, robots are on the production line for the spot welding, arc welding, painting, assembly, such as work, can not only ensure the stability of product quality, improve labor productivity, and also can improve the working conditions and labor intensity of workers. Usher in rapid development in recent years, China construction machinery industry, to upgrade transformation, enterprise want to in the fierce competition to grab a bigger share of the market, get rid of the homogeneity of the product competition, must strengthen the production line automation level, vigorously introduce robot is indispensable.