The start of the financial crisis by the end of 2008, many industries around the world has hit. Is the exception, but there is one industry that is industrial robots.

Explosive growth

In 2008 China's labor costs soaring, let industrial robots have a shot. When the industrial robot sales reached 7500 units in China, the number is one third of the total sales of the first 24 years.

The following four years, industrial robot sales continue to present high growth momentum. There is growing demand for domestic, forming a winner-take-all situation of domestic and foreign products. According to rough statistics of China machinery industry federation: in 2010 China's import robot 23400 units, up 130%; Import amount is $528 million, up 69% from a year earlier. Robots imported 2011 38000 units, up 62%; The import amount is $866 million, rose 64% year-on-year.

The Chinese market in 2011, known as the outbreak of the growth of industrial robots. Kuka robot (Shanghai) co., LTD., chief operating officer, Mr. Zou said in an interview with China's industrial press, 2011, kuka robot sales in China to achieve the triple digit growth. Since the first quarter of this year, although the economic environment changes, but there are still some companies for high growth momentum, some products are in short supply. Shenyang siasun robot automation co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as the siasun), 1 ~ 3 months to realize the business income is 230 million yuan this year, up 47.79% from a year earlier. Net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies of more than 2600 ten thousand yuan, up 37.45% from a year earlier.

Shanghai Toshiba machine co., LTD., controlled machine department zhi-wei hu told China industry news reporter, in the first quarter of this year's shipments in China for 20, is better than last year. Japan nachi nachi (Shanghai) trading co., LTD., a senior teacher liu xd told reporters that this year, every month of the shipments is much higher than last year.

To compete

As a product of modern industrial intelligent, mass production and application of industrial robots, began in the sixties and seventies of the last century. Japan fanuc after decades of efforts, the company now has become the world's industrial robot manufacturing giant. In 2011, the industrial robot sales breakthrough 250000, sales of 3400 units in the same year the Chinese market.

China's industrial robot market development, the earliest started in foreign companies. In 1997, fanuc robots in Shanghai; In 2000, kuka robot automation equipment (Shanghai) co., LTD. Was set up. Early application mainly in the field of auto industrial robots. Shanghai gm, guangzhou Honda, fanuc robots are main force; And German car company, such as Volkswagen, Benz, BMW, is preferred to the library card.

Ten years ago, sales of industrial robots is not small. By 2000, China's industrial robot's just more than 3500 units. But the number jumped into the 30000 to 2008. Industrial robots in handling, welding, assembling, spraying, coating, such as the widely application of the production process, make domestic industrial robot makers also have ambitious space.

Siasun backed by the Chinese academy of sciences shenyang automation, listed in 2009, is currently the domestic main board only industrial robots in listed companies. Siasun robot in 2011 sales revenue of 780 million yuan, up 42% from a year earlier. And the annual output of 5000 ~ 10000, compared with annual sales of billions of dollars in the large companies abroad, siasun obviously also belongs to a rising star, but from the point of the domestic industry status, of Chinese enterprises, represented by siasun, highlight more quickly development.

Guangzhou nc equipment co., LTD. The robot business time but 4 years, but has been working with companies like byd, zhuhai gree to promote application of robot on the production line, and with the guangzhou machine tool plant, Shanghai machine tool plant 3 and other several domestic machine tool manufacturers to cooperate. Nc in April this year, guangzhou panyu district in guangzhou new industrial park investment 450 million yuan, covers an area of 170000 square meters, the construction period is 4 years, the main production of industrial robots and precision electric injection molding machine, numerical control equipment. Including postpartum of industrial robots and expects to produce up to 2000 / set, the new output value of 260 million yuan.

At the same time, foreign companies are also strive to localization, to strengthen the competition from domestic companies. Fanuc LTD in December 2011, the headquarters of the industrial robot is a new factory formally put into production, the capacity will reach 5000 units, is twice as great as ever. It is understood that the main assembly plant a total area of 40000 square meters, parts processing factory covers an area of 15000 square meters, is currently the world's largest factory robots. Rice Ye Shan general manager said, the robot's world demand is growing, the company will rectify production system, to fully meet the demand of the world. For the Chinese market, fanuc has 20000 square meters of production base in Shanghai, are mainly used for secondary development, some technical research and development, application experiments, system integration, installation, debugging and spare parts service.

Other foreign companies are considering localization. Zou tao said that robots will be imported from abroad involves transportation cost and delivery time. Therefore, in the long run, the localization of the foreign capital enterprise has become a trend. Want to achieve in a short time, however, the localization is unlikely, many parts also need to be imported from abroad.

Nachi nachi agrees the gradual localization is proposed. Liu xd said, now the company's products are imported, hope can be localized in the future, but in the next year at the earliest. With fanuc compared to the same type, same application in the field of product, the price of that wisdom nachi varies with each other, with the hope that could improve the competitive advantage with the aid of localization in the future.

The new power

In 2007, when the industrial robot outside of the application in the automobile industry to one half the size of the, characteristics of the industrialization of the industrial robot began to emerge. Its manufacturer, has become a new power manufacturing.

Manufacturers of industrial robot group in terms of production, marketing and promotion of relatively independent operation began, form an integral part of the trend is more and more obvious. From the aspects of marketing, product promotion, mainly follow the exhibition industry to develop customers. To the automotive industry to promote products, for example, will attend the auto show; To the foundry industry promotion, attended the casting show; To the welding industry promotion, attended the welding show. In June 2012, after the 17th Beijing Essen welding and cutting "fair, it exhibited 174 robot. Library card is the seventh straight to participate in the exhibition, in the area of 126 square meters booth, shows the audience the library card KMC motion control system, CNC system KU pride KA. The CNC grinding system, library card adaptive compensation, and launched KUKAMyArc welding package for metal industry comprehensive solutions. Fanuc robotics is in 17 partners booth display the 27 yellow machine; Guangzhou CNC also travelled throughout the country, from nanjing to guangzhou machine tool exhibition of automation, they can be seen. But dispersed exhibition, after all, the strength of consolidation. Therefore, when professional robot exhibition, and won the favour of the manufacturers.

By China machinery industry federation, the Shanghai east bo exhibition co., LTD held the 2012 China (Shanghai) international robot exhibition and Chinese robot industry promotion meeting on July 3 ~ 6, held in Shanghai new international expo center. Registration of the enterprise is very active, shenyang siasun exhibition area of 180 square meters; Guangzhou CNC exhibition area of 218 square meters, 14 kinds of products. Fanuc exhibition area of 108 square meters, there are 8 robot, respectively, such as welding, handling, deburring, detection technology used in automobiles, electronics, metal processing and other industries. Library card exhibition covers an area of 60 square meters, the exhibition KUKA library card KMC motion control system and nc system. The CNC. Nachi nachi exhibition area of 120 square meters, including visual sensing robots, palletizing robot and robot, and other products.

Toshiba will have 5 robot exhibition, the exhibition area of 54 square meters. Zhi-wei hu also specially said that a product is at the end of last year has just developed, this is the first time in China. This product is specially developed for the Chinese market, price is nearly half lower than Toshiba's other robots. At present, the product sells well in Japan. He said, adding that Toshiba is mainly applied to the electronic industries such as miniaturization product, handling, assembly, and fanuc, ABB, there are differences between the library card products.

"Only need to pay for two years, you can gain a 24 hours continuous working efficient robot." Guangzhou CNC equipment co., LTD., chairman of He Minjia this sentence, represented his positioning of industrial robots.

Ten yuan a robot, in the past ten years for Chinese customers, really expensive. In 2001, guangzhou industrial robot electricity a spending alone up to nearly 800 yuan, 20% higher than the local migrant workers. But with the emergence of the "lewis turning point", labor costs rose sharply. In 2001 constant prices, migrant workers monthly wages in 2010 reached 1383 yuan, more than doubled in ten years ago. In contrast, the prices of industrial robots rise but not fall. Now the price of the mechanical arm is half of the 20 years ago. So officials predicted that in a few years as long as the equipment and auxiliary equipment prices continue to reduce, workers wage growth trend has not changed, the region using robots for production automation must be unable to avoid.

Whether it's domestic or imported, when China's industrial robot has reached 40000 units, the development of the industrial robot has become a hard truth. And manufacturers group, also become a new force to be reckoned with.