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Chapter 150: The Predicament of Domestic Industrial Robots (Subscription Requested)

Chen Jue's words stimulated the vice presidents and workshop directors of Qingshan Holding.

Because the advancement of a production line represents the technological face of a manufacturing enterprise.

Moreover, Qingshan Holding's workshop production lines are improved based on their self-developed special stainless steel production technology, making them the most advanced in the world among stainless steel enterprises.

Not to mention domestically, even looking at old developed countries in Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea, you won't find a second stainless steel enterprise whose workshop can compete with Qingshan Holding.

You, a small startup company boss, a small enterprise without any technical reputation outside Wenzhou, actually dare to lecture in front of a behemoth like Qingshan Holding with such an old-fashioned air.

Isn't this like showing off one's axe before Lu Ban (the master carpenter)?

Of course, these people's doubts are not without reason.

Industrial robots, that is, the common six-axis industrial robotic arms, are known as the pearls at the top of the crown of the new era's manufacturing industry.

Don't look at its simple structure, just like a child's Transformers toy, in fact, the technical content inside is very high.

Using lines from the movie 'Kung Fu' to describe it, it's at least three or four stories high!

With the upgrading and iteration of domestic manufacturing, the development and popularization of industrial robots are very fast, and all large manufacturing enterprises with any reputation are investing in large-scale use.

Because industrial robots can realize unmanned mass production. Utilizing the convenience and tireless characteristics of robots, combined with intelligent AI technology, it replaces the most error-prone and uncertain manual labor on the production line, thereby improving the yield rate and production efficiency of the enterprise's production process.

You need to know that the mainstream commercial industrial robots on the market generally have a lifting load capacity in the range of 10kg to 1000kg, and the maximum is only about 1 ton.

Six-axis robotic arms that can be measured in 'tons' of lifting capacity, and have been maturely commercialized and put into the market, are currently only made by Fanuc and Kawasaki of Japan, and Kuka of Germany, and ABB of Switzerland, which have almost formed a monopoly.

Although domestic robot brand manufacturers such as Siasun, Estun, SIASUN Robot, Triowin, EFORT, and STEP have begun to slowly exert their strength in recent years.

However, the starting time of domestic industrial robots is too late, the self-research ability is poor, and even the core technology and parts such as reducers, servo motors, and control systems are restricted by Yaskawa, ABB and other foreign brands.

They are doing the business of OEM foundries, eating the lowest-end scraps of cake in the market.

Take Estun, the most cutting-edge domestic robot manufacturer, as an example. It has only just launched an 'ER300 large-load robot' to the market in July this year, and its maximum lifting and handling record has only barely reached 300Kg.

As for what you occasionally see in the news, such as 'mobile heavy-duty AGV robots that break through 100+ tons of load capacity and break foreign technology monopolies', just take a look at the UC headline party.

This type of AGV handling robot, which looks very much like an enlarged version of a sweeping robot, has no major market prospects at all, and is not the same thing as the mainstream six-axis robotic arm.

There are also those who take a different approach, bypassing technology monopolies, and specializing in welding robots, which have a slightly lower technical content, and specializing in small alleys that foreign brands don't like to drill into.

In a word, the industrial robot industry track, like the joint venture car companies that used to enter the country with high prices and ultra-low configurations to harvest Chinese people, is the world of foreign brands.

Even the investors behind many domestic robot brands are foreign companies from Europe, America, and Japan. You can imagine how deep the water is inside.

Even Xiang Qingshan, the knowledgeable chairman of Qingshan Holding Group, was slightly stimulated by Chen Jue's comments and showed a puzzled expression.

However, looking at Chen Jue's calm and composed appearance, Xiang Qingshan couldn't help but lean to the ear of a young female secretary with facial features somewhat similar to him and asked: "Qingqing, robots that can lift several tons? Is there such technology on the market?"

The young female secretary named Qingqing nodded, revealing a thoughtful look: "What President Chen said should be a large heavy-duty handling robot! Like Fanuc's M-2000 iA / 2300 series, Kawasaki Heavy Industries' MG15HL model, and Kuka's Titan series, the highest parameters announced by these companies can lift up to 2 to 3 tons."

"But these are all foreign companies. The cutting-edge robots that are explicitly prohibited from being sold to our domestic companies are strategic equipment that cannot be bought with money, just like ASML's EUV lithography machine."

Chen Jue saw that this beautiful female secretary seemed to know a lot about industrial robots, and was also a little surprised on his face: "I didn't expect you to be quite knowledgeable! But girl, I have to correct you. Six-axis robotic arms that can lift several tons are not only made by these foreign brands, but our Fangkuai Technology also has this technical reserve, and has even been put into actual use."

As soon as these words came out, those vice presidents and workshop directors who understood technology were slightly stunned.

"President Chen, are you serious? Fangkuai Technology can also make this kind of large-tonnage six-axis robotic arm?" Xiang Qingshan's eyes lit up.

Although this chairman of his has not been to the front line of the production workshop for a long time, and usually deals with the operation of the global futures market of nickel ore and stainless steel.

However, Xiang Qingshan is very interested in the application of cutting-edge industrial technology.

Because as the world's largest supplier of stainless steel raw materials, Xiang Qingshan knows that advanced technology can promote and improve the product power of enterprises.

Take the stainless steel and nickel alloy smelting technology mastered by their family as an example.

If it wasn't for Xiang Qingshan's opposition to all opinions in the board of directors and the first introduction of internationally advanced RKEF technology from abroad in 2008 to produce nickel alloys, and continued investment in research and development and improvement, creating a unique domestic stainless steel smelting technology standard, and promoting Qingshan Holding to stand out from many stainless steel enterprises.

Otherwise, it is not certain whether the throne of the so-called world's number one nickel king would be his turn to sit on!

"Has President Xiang forgotten the anti-typhoon engineering ship that our Fangkuai Technology newly built? More than a dozen of these large-tonnage robotic arms are used on it!" Chen Jue nodded and asked Tie Laoliu, who was following him, to take out a PAD.

He showed the working conditions of those large-tonnage robotic arms and the design parameters marked with an upper limit of 10 tons.

In the PAD, those industrial robots that were tens of meters long, like the arms of gods, grabbed more than several tons of cement blocks at a time, and the shocking impact of scooping up various kinds of mud, sand, and debris from the seabed directly made the eyes of these vice presidents and workshop directors at the scene widen.

This Nima is a robotic arm?

Are you sure it's not Cthulhu's big tentacles extending from the bottom of the sea?

Even the knowledgeable young secretary murmured with glowing eyes after seeing this unfamiliar marine robotic arm: "What a powerful robotic arm! Wenzhou also has industrial robots developed like this?"

Because in her eyes, as long as the water jet and hydraulic shovel bucket matched with this marine robotic arm in the picture are changed to the plate claws matched in the workshop, the production and processing efficiency of downstream bar and wire plates can definitely be improved several times!

This is an irresistible technological temptation for any manufacturing enterprise!

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