After 3 years, the Industry Fair has returned to offline. The 23rd China International Industry Fair has set up 9 exhibition areas, covering the entire industrial chain. Among them, the heavy exhibition area robot exhibition area, the scale has surpassed the Hannover Industry Fair in Germany, bringing together more than 350 robot industry chain enterprises to participate in the exhibition.
The reporter found many Pudong enterprises, both multinational giants deeply cultivated in Pudong, as well as domestic potential unicorn companies, before their industrial robot products are "settled" in the "Zhangjiang Robot Valley Future Experience Hall", in this industry fair, in addition to bringing "best-selling products", but also brought a series of first robots.
ABB Robot, one of the world's four largest robot manufacturers, unveiled a full range of innovative robot automation products, solutions, software and services on a booth of nearly 800 square meters, with the theme of "Robots, Infinite Possibilities", and unveiled a full range of innovative robot automation products, solutions, software and services, including two new products: ABB's first modular software platform OptiFact? and the new IRB 1090 industrial education robot.
"Robotics is experiencing significant growth due to labor and skilled talent shortages, supply chain uncertainty, and a vastly increased global demand for more sustainable and efficient operations." "In this regard, more and more companies are turning to robotics and automation to build corporate resilience and achieve smarter, faster and more efficient operations," said Ma Sikang, President of ABB's Robotics Business Unit. The new OptiFact software platform helps companies collect, manage and analyze data from plant equipment, optimize decision making, and improve processes and performance. Our new IRB 1090 industrial-grade educational robot will help the next generation acquire more skills to better adapt to the new era of automation. ”
The reporter learned that OptiFact™ is ABB's first modular software platform that can help companies capture and build business value by collecting, managing and analyzing data from hundreds of factory equipment. OptiFact increases productivity by up to 20% by reducing downtime and optimizes plant decision-making by tracking KPIs and avoiding major failures.
The IRB 1090 robot (payload 3.5kg) is ABB's new masterpiece focusing on education. The IRB 1090 supports fully customized education units, is powered by ABB's OmniCore controller, and is STEM.org certified. Each robot comes with free access to 100 RobotStudio, ABB's leading offline programming simulation software. The launch of IRB 1090 aims to bridge the skills gap in robotics education and lay the foundation for students' future jobs.
In the face of China, the world's largest and fastest growing robot market, ABB announced in December last year that its 67,000-square-meter robot super factory in Pudong was officially put into operation in the "Zhangjiang Robot Valley", and more "robots" exported from Pudong not only serve China, but also serve the world.
Elite Robot, which acted as a "barista" in the "Zhangjiang Robot Valley Future Experience Hall", also "came" the site of the work fair.
Elite Robot, with the theme of "Let the Impossible Happen - Collaborative Leadership, Carbon Seeking Intelligent Manufacturing the Future", brought four new members of the "CS family": CSH series, CSA advanced series, CSR rotary body series and CS explosion-proof series, many of which are "world premieres", together with EA series, ultra-thin MINI control box, etc., showing Elite efficient R&D capabilities and brand innovation.
In line with the trend of flexible manufacturing methods, Elite chose collaborative robots as the future product and technology direction. Taking the automobile manufacturing industry as an example, it has always been the most important application market for industrial robots, and it is also the earliest industry to apply automation and deploy robots. With the rapid growth of new energy vehicle sales and the transformation and upgrading of digitalization and intelligence in the automotive industry, the industry is more in demand for robots that are "comfortable".
At this industry fair, the CSR rotary body series collaborative robot brought by Elite is specially optimized for screw locking, gluing, grinding, polishing, deburring, welding, cutting and other tool output can rotate itself or tool output as a rotary body and optimize the model, showing a more relaxed and flexible for meticulous manufacturing links.
According to the staff of the Aelite booth, compared with the traditional general-purpose collaborative robot, the CSR series can not only complete the screw locking of any posture, but also more suitable for a wider range of product sizes, meet the angle in a small space, and the process requirements of various complex workpieces.
At the work fair, Elite also exhibited 16 application workstations, covering machine tool loading and unloading, spraying, welding, gluing, disorderly sorting, assembly, screw locking, food processing and other application scenarios. At present, Elite Robot has launched diversified and wide-coverage automation solutions from process industry to discrete industry, to new retail and new business, showing the breadth and depth of exploration in subdivided application fields.
The development of the robot industry is known as the "pearl at the top of the manufacturing crown". Zhangjiang Robot Valley takes high-end medical robots as the core, focuses on characteristic industrial robots and intelligent service robots, and takes robot key components and robot key control software as breakthroughs to form an industrial development pattern of "one core, two key points and two breakthroughs".
At present, the park has introduced ABB Robot Empowerment Center, Shanghai Robot Industry Technology Research Institute Innovation Center, Bionic Robot Laboratory, Guochuang Industrial Software Research Institute, etc. to build a robot ecological industrial system.
Responsible Editor: Xu Ling
Text Yang Zhenying
Source: Pudong Release