In 2017, fleetingly, the industrial automation industry has gone through a year of vigorous and vigorous. Looking back at this year, there are always some people who are delighted with the technological progress, and there are always some big events that shake the entire industry. There are always some unexpected data that are hard to forget.
Xiao Bian teased out the top ten core data of 2017 in the field of industrial automation. He spoke on data, observed the direction of the automation industry, and perceived the progress of the automation industry.
1. Heritage Craftsmanship: Focus on 104 small and strong champions
On January 17, 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Federation of Industrial Economics announced the list of the first batch of individual champion champions (cultivation) companies in the manufacturing industry, with a total of 104 companies on the list. The single champion of manufacturing industry refers to a company that has long focused on certain specific product segments of the manufacturing industry, leading international production technology or technology, and has a single product market share ranking among the top companies in the world.
The strong manufacturing base of Japan and Germany is a large number of unnamed champion companies with hundreds of years of history. Economic development needs to shift from the pursuit of "quantum" to the pursuit of "quality", from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing powerhouse. It is no longer appropriate to unilaterally pursue the expansion of scale, and the "supply-side reform" on the direction of the national policy is also being forced. The transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry has developed in quality. When China transitions to a manufacturing powerhouse, only the spirit of craftsmen can make great achievements. The small, strong and beautiful stealing champion will be the manufacturing trend.
Attachment: List of Manufacturing Industry Individual Champions in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
2. The biggest bankruptcy in the history of Japanese manufacturing! Chinese buyers throw 11 billion orders
On the morning of June 26, 2017, Japan Takada Corporation, which was deeply troubled by operating an airbag recall problem, applied to the Tokyo District Court to apply the country's "Civil Rehabilitation Law" to enter bankruptcy protection procedures and was accepted. The initial problems with Takada airbags began around 2000, but due to insufficient attention in the early days, Honda only recalled 4,000 airbag problem models in 2008. After 2009, as the investigation deepened, more and more companies announced the recall of their products, and the quantity even reached the tens of millions.
So far, recalls and other costs have made Takata have been losing money in the past three years and have been forced to sell subsidiaries to pay fines and other debt. As of the end of March 2017, Takada's total liabilities exceeded JPY 1 trillion, setting the largest liability scale in the history of Japanese manufacturing.
According to the restructuring plan, after Takada filed for bankruptcy, the company will be split into two new companies. The new company will inherit Takada's core business such as airbags and seat belts, and will transfer it at a price of 180 billion yen (about 11 billion renminbi) to the American subsidiary Baileys, which is owned by Ningbo Sheng Electronics. The old Takada company is responsible for assuming all the debt and debt settlement. Ningbo Junsheng Electronics was established in 2004. In 2016, it invested US$920 million in the acquisition of Bailide. In 2011, it successively acquired major European and American auto parts companies in the areas of electronics and robotics.
3. Foxconn production line has deployed 40,000 robots
As the demographic dividend gradually weakens and the labor costs continue to increase, robot replacement will be the future direction of global manufacturing. In the future, more and more application scenarios will emerge with the development of robots and related technologies. "Machine substitution" brings not only improved quality, but also saves costs for a large number of companies.
Taking the labor-intensive foundry company Foxconn in the new situation is facing the pressure of transformation and upgrading. According to foreign media reports, Dai Jiapeng, general manager of the Foxconn Automation Technology Development Committee disclosed to CNA News that there are more than 40,000 self-developed Foxbots. "Industrial robots are fully involved in the company's production process. According to the plan, by 2020, the automation rate will reach 30%.
Compared with traditional manpower, the biggest advantages of industrial robots are efficiency and low cost. If a factory requires three mature welding workers, then the factory will need to spend 216,000 yuan per year. Industrial robots will be depreciated with 10 years of service life (including maintenance costs). The annual cost is about 50,000 yuan, so you can get Out, with the same benefits, the cost of industrial robots is only 23% of the human cost.
4.GE300 billion acquisition of Baker Hughes, or global TOP1 oil service provider
In July 2017, GE completed the Baker Hughes acquisition. After GE merged its oil and gas equipment and services business with Baker Hughes, the new company was named "Baker Hughes, a GE company", and it is expected that the company's year will be merged. The operating income will reach US$32 billion and the business will cover more than 120 countries. The new company will surpass Halliburton and compete directly with Schlumberger for global TOP1 oil and gas service companies.
Baker Hughes is the world's third-largest service company providing products and services to the global oil development and processing industry. It has extensive experience in drilling, completions, and production of oil and gas well products and services. The combined new company has approximately 70,000 employees. GE holds 62.5% of the shares. The original Baker Hughes shareholders hold 37.5% of the shares of the new company.
5. Global industrial network market: Wireless technology has the fastest growth, with fieldbus below 50%
Wireless technology is increasingly favored by machine builders for innovative automation architectures and new control solutions, including automated solutions for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) through tablets or smartphones.
Although wireless technology only accounts for 6% of the online market, it is the fastest growing sector for industrial communications, with a year-on-year growth rate of 32%. In the wireless communications market, WLAN wireless LAN accounts for 4% of the market, followed by Bluetooth 1%.
For the first time, the fieldbus market accounts for less than half of the global industrial network market. According to the latest analysis of HMS, a Swedish network expert, the number of safety nodes on the fieldbus accounted for 48% of the total market during 2016, which is a significant decrease from the 58% market share in 2015.
However, fieldbus is still the most widely used object in the current industrial environment, and its advantages of simplicity and high reliability are favored by many users. According to HMS analysis, the sales of fieldbus are still growing, which increased by 7% in 2015 and 4% in 2016.
6. From asset tracking to machine self-healing, the Industrial IoT will exceed $1 trillion
More and more companies are beginning to realize the tremendous benefits brought by industrial IoT in reducing costs and improving equipment efficiency. Industrial IoT has become a key factor driving market growth. According to the latest report of NavigantResearch, the US market research organization, by the year 2027, the global IIOT equipment, software and services will exceed the 1 trillion US dollar mark.
Sensors are the main devices for sensing data information in industrial IoT systems. Sensors are becoming more and more intelligent under the wave of informatization, and they are creating amazing market opportunities. Nokia has reached a partnership with Bosch Connectivity Equipment and Solutions Strategy, which will further help companies easily deploy sensors, smart applications and industrial IoT solutions.
Unscheduled downtime in industrial production often causes huge losses to the company. This kind of problem cannot be achieved in the past, but today the new generation of information technology represented by the Internet of things, big data, and cloud computing is bringing about new changes. Recently, Augury, an industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology company, launched a cloud-based intelligent diagnostics platform that enables close-in monitoring of equipment to predict failure events. IoT sensors can not only monitor the machine's weaknesses, but in the future they can also allow the machine to be automatically repaired, and the collection of massive data will allow the machine to heal itself.
7. Domestic industrial robots increased by 50% year-on-year to 35,073 units
On May 25, 2017, the press conference of the 2017 World Robotics Conference was held in Beijing. Cao Gang, deputy inspector of the Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the industrial scale of China’s robotics industry has been expanding. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the output of industrial robots has reached 72,400 units in 2016, an increase of 34.3% year-on-year; from January to April this year, the output of industrial robots in China was 35073 units, an increase of 51.7% year-on-year.
The development of the robot industry in China has made new progress. Mainly manifested in robotic robots and other high-tech robot products have been pushed to the market, voice recognition, image recognition and other robotic intelligence technology has reached the international advanced level; not only industrial robots, service robots have begun to be applied to medical surgery, rehabilitation , food and beverage, firefighting public services and other fields; the use of confidential reducer for robots has achieved mass production and application, and servo motor controllers have also made new progress; some companies have already achieved certain international competitiveness in the subdivided fields, and their market share has gradually increased. We have made new progress in technical product standard certification, joint venture cooperation, and seminars and exchanges.
On the whole, China’s robots, especially industrial robots, are still dominated by middle and low-end robots, and the share of robots with six-axis or higher multi-joint robots is relatively low.
8. 85% of servo motors under the rapid development of Chinese industrial robots are still foreign brands
With the acceleration of the pace of automation in China, China will become a big super robot country in the future, and the demand for industrial robots will increase substantially. However, in the industrial machinery market in China, 85% of the current servo motors are foreign brands, while most of the local companies are still in the research and development stage, and there are almost no industrialized industrial robot servo motors.
Servomotors are generally installed at the "joints" of robots. The joints of the robots are driven by the servo system. The more joints, the higher the flexibility and accuracy of the robot, and the more servomotors to be used. As domestic servo motors have yet to be upgraded, the development of domestic robots is difficult.
Domestic servos are generally longer and rough in appearance; secondly, the reliability of signal connectors has been plagued by criticism; the other core technology of servo motors is high-precision encoders, especially multi-turn absolute encoders used in robots. Depends on imports. At present, the domestic servo motor OEM manufacturers based on market share, most are imitation Japanese servo motor design, power is less than 3kw, with medium and low power. The 5.5-15kw medium and large power servos did not, resulting in the application of some equipment, because there is no a high-power servo motor and drive support, and was forced to give up the entire system.
9. Zhongshan launches 1 billion smart manufacturing industry fund
On the morning of March 22, 2017, the inaugural meeting was held in Zhongshan City Science and Technology Finance Innovation Promotion Association (hereinafter referred to as “Kechuanghuiâ€). Kechuanghui is jointly initiated by Zhongshan Finance, a technology-based enterprise, and units and associations that promote the combination of innovation elements and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The Municipal Science and Technology Bureau is the competent business department, and is registered and registered by the Civil Affairs Bureau as a cross-border non-profit organization. Social organizations are important platforms for communication with government agencies, financial institutions, high-tech companies, universities and industry associations to integrate social innovation resources. Under the jurisdiction of major theme clubs, the New Third Board Investment and Financing Club and Smart Manufacturing Investment and Financing Club have been established. There are three major associations in the promoters of the Science Innovation Club, including the Entrepreneurs Association, the Enterprise Federation, and the Association of High-Tech Private Enterprises, serving thousands of member companies.
This year, the Smart Manufacturing Club plans to jointly build a smart manufacturing company in Zhongshan City and build a collaborative innovation center to provide a one-stop innovation service for the majority of Zhongshan manufacturers. And the introduction of German Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing vocational education into the Zhongshan platform, with the education and equipment iterative updates to enhance the transformation of traditional business development. At the same time, it is planned to launch a 1 billion yuan smart manufacturing industry fund this year, which will help the company's intellectual manufacturing development.
10. Galanz Smart Factory: 15 seconds to complete the electric steam oven cavity manufacturing
Galanz, one of the world's largest microwave oven suppliers, established the world's first automated electric steamer production line at its production base in Zhongshan. It requires only three technicians to operate, saving manpower by 72% and increasing production speed by 16 times.
Since 2014, Galanz has successively conducted in-depth cooperation with equipment manufacturing companies such as Italy and Germany. In the automation of production lines such as microwave ovens, washing machines, dishwashers, and electric steam ovens, the investment amount is equal to the sum of input over the past 20 years. In 2016, Galanz developed and introduced the first automated assembly line for microwave ovens. The production efficiency was increased by 38.89% over the previous period. In the same year, Galanz also introduced a fully automatic electric steam oven chamber production line with a production cycle of 15 seconds per unit.
Galanz, general manager of Galanz microwave oven manufacturing company, stated that in 2016, Galanz will integrate and optimize the allocation of manufacturing resources, and continuously increase production capacity and staff efficiency. In 2016, the average ergonomic efficiency will increase by 15.76% year-on-year. In 2017, the company will continue to optimize the production process and ensure that the overall efficiency is further improved by 30. %.
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