In the field of mobile robots, KUKA is not a "newcomer", and now the new outfit is bound to show its fists.
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Manager of KUKA Mobile Robots ren Jingwei
Biography
Master of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
He has a keen sense of touch and unique insight into the industry, has rich experience from 0-1 industry breakthrough, new product development, multi-project operation of the leadership team and cooperation with industry partners, is good at opening up new industry fields and overseas market expansion, has rich project operation experience in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the United States, and has nearly a thousand domestic cluster AGV project development practice.
KuKA, which has an extensive and in-depth layout in the industrial robot track, has already broken the conventional business boundaries, and its highly automated robotic arms and high-precision machine vision system can make industrial production more intelligent and agile. Driven by major trends such as intelligent manufacturing and intelligent logistics, the "foot" of the robot has also become one of the important points of KUKA.
Not only independent research and development, but also to build an industry ecology
Adhering to the vision of continuously exploring innovative changes and determined to promote industrial change around the world and create a new generation of intelligent manufacturing and intelligent logistics, KUKA has achieved independent research and development and production in hardware and software with more than 100 years of profound technical accumulation and rich application experience in the industrial field, which has improved the compatibility, ease of use and universality of products and industry solutions, making product deployment time shorter and program implementation faster.
According to reports, in terms of hardware, KUKA AMR has a complete product series, including latent jacking AMR, composite collaborative robot, SMT AMR, PCB AMR, material box AMR, forklift AMR and roller AMR, etc., with complete product categories, which can meet the end-to-end intelligent logistics transformation and upgrading needs of the whole plant, and provide complete solutions for intelligent manufacturing in the whole process, the whole link and different industries.
In terms of software, KUKA AMR's self-developed mobile robot expert management system K-MReS software platform (KUKA Mobile Robot Expert System), based on a variety of complex AI scheduling algorithms, has flexible process orchestration and external equipment docking full coverage capabilities, which can realize the whole process of different types and brands of mobile robots in the factory, group intelligence, task execution, efficient collaboration, etc., support various industrial scenarios, and help customers create unmanned 3. Digital smart factory.
In terms of industry ecology, KUKA AMR has established friendly and cooperative relations with various enterprises in the industry. In Ren Jingwei's view, a good delivery experience is a prerequisite for creating an ecosystem. "We deeply realize that only by working with industry partners can we achieve the lofty goal of combining strong and strong and complementing each other's advantages." According to the specific scenario, we provide customers with complete, customized, optimal and cost-effective industry solutions to meet the actual scene needs of end users, so as to exert the greatest ecological value. ”
Three advantages to create a new pattern
In the field of mobile robots, KUKA is not a "newcomer". As early as 2008, KUKA has taken the lead in forming the AMR team and has developed a new generation of navigation technology - laser SLAM. From the localization of mobile robot hardware product research and development, to the transfer of the global R&D center of mobile robots to China, to THE OFFICIAL ENTRY OF KUKA INTO THE MIDEA Group AND SHANGHAI AS THE GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS OF KUKA AMR, IN THE PACE OF PROMOTING THE LOCALIZATION OF THE MOBILE ROBOT BUSINESS, IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO SEE THAT KUKA IS RELYING ON MORE COMPREHENSIVE PRODUCT PERFORMANCE, MORE APPLICABLE SOLUTIONS, AND MORE PERFECT CHANNEL ADVANTAGES TO BRING FIRST-CLASS EXPERIENCE AND ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS TO LOCAL CUSTOMERS.
Ren Jingwei, General Manager of KUKA Mobile Robots, believes that the advantages of KUKA AMR are mainly reflected in the following three aspects:
01 Pristine
Since its inception, KUKA AMR has taken natural navigation as the technical direction to create the design and system of mobile robots. From the perspective of applicability of working conditions, KUKA AMR products have more advantages in terms of safety, navigation robustness, scheduling planning algorithm, etc.;
02 Scene
High-quality products and solutions need scene polishing, Midea has more than 30 manufacturing plants around the world, with automation, digital upgrade needs, KUKA will take this as an opportunity to meet the internal needs of the United States while constantly polishing hardware, improve the applicability of system platform, algorithm platform, navigation platform, digital twin and overall solutions, and then provide more external customers;
03 Channels
Midea Group and KUKA Group have a number of companies specializing in logistics integration, such as Swisslog Swisslog. There are also system integration companies specifically for the automotive industry, through which KUKA can promote the application of mobile robot solutions to enhance global delivery capabilities, especially in foreign markets, KUKA's brand awareness will also help the development of the mobile robot business.
As a full-process intelligent manufacturing and intelligent logistics solution provider, KUKA AMR has always focused on the creation and precipitation of its own technology, from technology and product iterative upgrading, to scenario application, to industry solution landing, helping customers calmly cope with the many challenges brought about by intelligence and digital transformation.
Based in China, look at the world
With the gradual acceleration of the process of warehousing and logistics upgrading, AMR has been recognized and adopted by more industries. At the same time, the boundaries of technical application of products are also being broadened, which brings more challenges to amR's research and development work. "Whether at the software or hardware level, technicians need to better understand industry pain points, process flows, industry characteristics, etc., and deeply understand application scenarios to provide more suitable industry solutions." Ren Jingwei said.
Talking about the future development trend of AMR, Ren Jingwei believes that the individual intelligence of a single AMR is far from meeting the actual scene needs, and group intelligence and global intelligence are inevitable trends. "Deploying multiple AMRs of different types and manufacturers in the factory has become the norm, which will bring great tests to the scheduling system, for the current situation, KUKA AMR has been prioritized layout, K-MReS software platform can meet the urgent needs of group intelligence and whole plant intelligence and digitalization."
Through the K-MReS mobile robot management expert software platform, it is possible to realize the mixed scheduling of multiple different types and different brands of robots, task planning and execution, and at the same time can efficiently dispatch other equipment in the factory (conveyor lines, call boxes, electric doors, elevators, industrial robots, etc.), making the whole plant intelligent.
As a century-old expert in solutions in the industrial field, KUKA is constantly innovating and making product breakthroughs to create more valuable products and solutions. Ren Jingwei said: "We hope to be closer to the Chinese market and local users, through the combination of hardware products + software platform (navigation algorithm platform, scheduling planning platform, external equipment management platform) combined with the whole process of intelligent manufacturing solutions, based on China, looking at the world, for the global automation, intelligent upgrade to help." ”