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Seebit: Strive to build a robot that can see and think
Liu Linxiang Hu Yanan
Robots are the "pearls at the top of the crown of manufacturing", and robots with "3D vision" and "super computing power" are undoubtedly the most shining existence in the pearl. As a leading provider of industrial intelligent software and hardware in China, Hunan Seebit Robot Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Seebit") continuously improves the production efficiency and quality level of the industry with advanced intelligent manufacturing products, and builds a "new quality productivity" in the field of industrial intelligence.
As a technology company with rapid development in recent years, since its establishment in 2018, Seebit has been deeply engaged in heavy industry and automotive intelligent manufacturing. At present, the company has gradually built a robot workstation and intelligent production line product system with "software-defined intelligence" as the core, providing high-quality products and low-cost, fast-delivery full-stack intelligent solutions for various industries.
Unremitting innovation, using science and technology to solve the pain points of the industry
Traditional heavy manufacturing often requires a lot of manual work. However, for workpieces that are often more than ten meters long and weigh several tons and complex production needs, manual work is not only inefficient, but also has great safety risks. Intelligent automation upgrading has become the most urgent need of the heavy industry manufacturing industry.
"Since its establishment, our company has made clear the goal of 'empowering industrial development with intelligent manufacturing technology'. Taking the cutting and handling of steel plates as an example, the required profiles are different, and it is difficult for manual and traditional automation to meet the needs of multiple varieties and small batches. Liu Tingting, deputy general manager of Seebit, told reporters that after more than a year of research and development, a set of steel plate cutting intelligent cutting and sorting production line based on "AI + 3D vision" has been developed. The sorting production line was used for the first time in the "Lighthouse Factory" of Sany Heavy Industry Changsha No. 18, which can accurately and efficiently guide the robot to automatically detect, classify, pick, polish, palletize and other processes of plasma-cut steel plate parts.
The reporter saw in the factory workshop that more than 100 robots operated accurately and orderly in the newly planned flexible production island, and the robots automatically sorted steel plates, and the robotic arm automatically welded the turret and outriggers. Various types of AGV vehicles carry "heavyweight" components and automatically pick, transport and unload goods in the workshop. Jiang Qingbin, deputy general manager of Sany Heavy Industry Pumping Company, told reporters that this sorting production line not only helped the factory save more than 60% of labor costs, realized the automatic flexible sorting of tens of thousands of steel plate parts, but also increased the sorting capacity several times, and effectively achieved cost reduction, quality improvement and efficiency increase.
The intelligent blanking and sorting production line of "AI+3D vision" is just the epitome of Seebit's high-tech empowerment of new quality productivity. In order to solve the problem of shortage of welders and difficulty in recruitment, Seebit has developed an intelligent flexible welding workstation for automatic welding without teaching and programming. The product can guide the robot to carry out welding operations efficiently, accurately and stably, greatly improve the efficiency and quality of robot welding, and realize the flexibility and automation of robot welding. At present, it has been widely applied in construction machinery, rail transit, automobiles and photovoltaic industries, providing a strong boost for the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.
At the same time, in order to solve the problems of low efficiency of traditional quality inspection and high difficulty coefficient of large-size workpiece measurement for high-precision measurement scenarios, Seebit has developed an MVM large-size high-precision online measurement system with independent intellectual property rights. In order to solve the problems of difficult production and assembly quality management, low manual detection efficiency, and lack of statistical analysis of problems, Seebit has developed an online detection system with flexible online detection, high accuracy, and preventing the wrong and missing parts from flowing out of defective products...... In the past 6 years, Seebit has obtained more than 200 patents, and a number of core products have been delivered in a large area in the fields of construction machinery, automotive industry measurement, and intelligent logistics, filling the domestic gap in heavy industry intelligent sorting production lines, large-size high-precision three-dimensional measurement, and high-brightness surface defect detection. In 2023, the company will be awarded the title of "Little Giant" Enterprise at the National Level.
Build a platform to make industrial intelligent development visual
Industrial vision is the use of computer vision technology to automatically identify, position, detect and other operations on various images in the industrial production process, so as to achieve automated and intelligent production. Through industrial vision technology, companies can greatly increase the level of automation of production lines, reduce manual intervention, reduce costs, and improve production efficiency.
"AI is a very important part of industrial vision. In recent years, we have developed an AI machine vision development platform, the 'Yingsuan' platform, to provide customers with a one-stop development environment and service support such as data management, annotation, model training, conversion, deployment and online operation, so as to realize remote, efficient and zero-code vision application development and deployment for customers, and efficiently empower a variety of industrial scenarios in the field of intelligent manufacturing. Deng Junjie, general manager of the Sightbit Detection Division, told reporters.
In 2024, Seebit announced the completion of the application upgrade of the "PaintPro Paint Defect Detection and Automatic Grinding and Polishing Repair System", which is tailor-made for automobile OEMs, which can realize automatic and accurate identification and efficient repair of paint defects in the automotive coating process, greatly improving the efficiency and quality of inspection and repair, reducing human interference, enhancing the stability of detection, and providing strong technical support for automobile manufacturing quality control.
"The reason why our products can be implemented quickly and accurately is due to the self-developed intelligent software platform. As another brain, the 'Kunwu' platform efficiently empowers the agile development, visual testing, rapid deployment and continuous operation and maintenance of the project, greatly shortens the commissioning cycle of robots and software systems, and ensures the high quality and rapid delivery of on-site work. In the next step, we will further improve the dual-engine function of the software platform and strive to apply it to more industrial vision scenarios. Deng Junjie said.
Set sail to the sea and be a Chinese business card for the development and application of industrial intelligence
For a long time, the high-end market of machine vision has been monopolized by foreign brands. Compared with European, American and Japanese companies, there is a certain gap between domestic companies in chips, optical lenses, and the performance of the whole machine. In order to enhance the market competitiveness of Chinese enterprises, Seebit has expanded its core business to many countries and regions around the world with high-quality, high-reliability and cost-effective intelligent products.
In the field of automobile manufacturing, Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea have always occupied a large market share. There is a huge demand for intelligent dimensional measurement and defect detection in all links from the production of auto parts to the production of complete vehicles, and Seebit has set its sights on this market.
It is worth mentioning that the MVM large-size high-precision online measurement system created by Seebit Robot has broken the monopoly of foreign technology. At the same time, it has also been delivered to many automotive OEMs and parts manufacturers in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and other regions, continuing to provide strong support for the digitalization of quality management in the global automotive industry.
"Next, we will further expand overseas markets, provide customers with the ultimate technical services and after-sales support, and deeply integrate AI technology and 3D vision into the manufacturing industry." When it comes to future development, Liu Tingting, deputy general manager of Seebit, is full of confidence.
Reporter's Notes:
In just 6 years, it has grown from a small and micro enterprise of more than 10 people to a national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprise, and has grown into a leading enterprise in the field of AI machine vision and industrial intelligent software. In the face of the gap in the demand for intelligent dimensional measurement and defect detection in the automotive industry, Seebit is not afraid to compete with foreign established manufacturers, and focuses on tackling core technologies, surpassing the performance of foreign products, and breaking the market monopoly. With the rise of the domestic automobile industry, Seebit aims at the needs of domestic car companies to take advantage of the momentum and realize the new quality productivity in the field of industrial intelligence to empower and improve the quality of the manufacturing industry.
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