China’s industrial robot industry has entered a period of rapid development
For many years, China has been the world’s No. 1 industrial robot application market and one of the fastest growing markets for industrial robots. Recently, the reporter visited and investigated several listed companies in the robot industry together with Shenzhen Stock Exchange to understand the development status and future trend of the industry. Insiders pointed out that there is still a certain gap between the domestic industrial robot products and the international level, but the key technologies of the core parts are gradually catching up with and surpassing, and the domestic replacement of industrial robots is accelerating. In the future, China’s industrial robot industry is expected to continue to maintain high-speed growth.
Domestic technology gradually catch up with and surpass
In terms of structure, the industrial robot is composed of four parts: reducer, servo motor, controller and body. However, the top three components with the highest technical difficulty have been monopolized by foreign-funded enterprises in recent years, and the manufacturing of domestic robot machine is seriously controlled by others in terms of supporting key components. At present, this situation is gradually changing.
According to insiders, at present, there are not many domestic manufacturers with independent research and development and production of controller, servo motor, reducer and other core parts of robots. With the vigorous support of the state and the rapid increase of market demand, more and more domestic manufacturers have emerged. At present, China has taken breaking through the key core technologies of robots as an important strategy, and domestic manufacturers have solved some problems in the field of key core parts such as reducer and servo motor.
Take Easten as an example, the company is one of the few domestic manufacturers with independent intellectual property rights of robot core parts such as controller, AC servo, reducer, etc. the various core parts produced by the company are widely used in the field of automation control, and the market share is among the top among domestic brands.
“After years of research and development and investment, the company’s industrial robots and intelligent manufacturing system products have obvious advantages in welding, stacking, loading and unloading, bending and other fields. Some products, such as bending robots and their working units, have reached the international leading level.” Wu Bo, chairman of Easton, told reporters.
Xinshida has independent intellectual property rights in the control and driving technology of the robot body, and has independently developed innovative products such as 6-DOF Industrial robots, SCARA and network servo systems. Ji Yi, chairman of the board of directors of the company, introduced that the company's SCARA robots are targeted at international brands. The sales volume of self-produced robot bodies in the first half of this year has exceeded 1000, establishing the leading position in the domestic robot and motion control industry.
“At present, major breakthroughs are being made in the key technologies of core parts, and some small batch industrial applications have been realized, reducing the external dependence of core parts of the industry.” The person in charge of a domestic reducer manufacturer said that this would not only reduce the cost of domestic robots, but also break the restrictions of foreign brands.
The functions of capital market appears
With the promotion of the capital market, some companies have successfully raised funds to expand their production lines to seize the market scale and voice; Some companies cooperate with enterprises in mergers and acquisitions to lay out the industrial chain and industry-leading technologies. While driving the improvement of performance, technology and scale, it also promotes the rapid growth of China’s industrial robot industry.
If XinShida successfully raised 880 million yuan by issuing convertible bonds. “From the perspective of future development trend, the company’s robot product capacity is insufficient. One of the convertible bond investment projects is to solve the problem of insufficient robot product capacity.” The relevant person in charge of the company said.