Leading the development of robots in Dongguan to promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry

In May 2010, the Guangdong Provincial Sports Control and Advanced Equipment Manufacturing International Team (hereinafter referred to as the “Management Innovation Team”) settled in the Manufacturing Engineering Research Institute of Dongguan Huazhong University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as “Dongguan Industrial Research Institute”) in Songshan Lake. The authoritative professors in Hong Kong and the elites of the industrial robot industry in the Mainland have formed a core team of 8 people. The industrial robot industrialization technology and precision machine tool technology research and development as the team research direction, and in-depth development of motion control technology, Dongguan has also opened up the development of industrial robots. prelude.
Since the establishment of the operation and control innovation team, it has undertaken the research tasks of the “863 Program”, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and other national, provincial and ministerial-level projects and local horizontal projects in the development of the established projects. The research and development and industrialization of technologies and products such as machines and industrial robots have achieved remarkable results in the industry. Next, the team will continue to provide core technical support and professional talent training for the upgrading and technological transformation of the manufacturing industry in the Pearl River Delta region, and promote the research results and industrialization. Our reporter Sun Weifeng/wen team has strong research and development strength. The operation and control innovation team is one of the first international cooperation innovation teams in Guangdong Province. There are 8 core members. The team leader Li Zexiang has been engaged in industrial robot research for more than 30 years. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. Master of Mathematics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is the Director of the Automation Technology Center of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the founder of China's first and most active sports control company in China. Authoritative expert.
Among them, the core members have Ph.D. degrees from world-renowned universities such as the University of California at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, the California Institute of Technology, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. They have more than 10 years of research and industry experience in motion control and advanced manufacturing. The research results are at the international advanced level, leading the research and industrial development of motion control technology in China and the world.
After several years of talent introduction and training, the innovation team has more than 60 members, and its main body is a doctor with a doctoral degree and a master's degree. It has initially formed a profound theoretical foundation and rich experience in engineering practice. A research and development team with a reasonable age structure.
It is understood that the innovation team also established the Institute of Motion Control and Advanced Equipment Technology, and set up the Transportation Control Technology Promotion Research Center, the Industrial Robot Industrialization Research Center and the Advanced Equipment Technology Research Center. The R&D office area is over 500 square meters. And established a LED equipment laboratory, five-axis CNC machine tool laboratory, industrial robot laboratory for research and development work, with a total area of ​​more than 540 square meters. In order to facilitate the rapid establishment of the prototype, the team purchased the CNC machine tool, built a prototype workshop of more than 200 square meters, and established the prototype workshop to improve the research and development efficiency and reduce costs.
Under the impetus of Dongguan Institute of Industrial Technology and the innovation team, in April this year, the highest specification of domestic industrial robot technology was held in Songhu Huake Industrial Incubation Park, which attracted more than 50 related projects from Beijing and other places. Enterprises participated in the gathering of 863 robot theme expert group leader Wang Yaonan and other top academicians, professors and industry elites.
Li Zexiang said that the team chose to settle in Dongguan at that time. It also took a fancy to the government's determination and support for the development of industrial robots. It took a fancy to the demand for intelligentization of Dongguan's industrial transformation and upgrading, and also took a fancy to the superior environment of Songshan Lake. At the same time, Dongguan has a huge market capacity and demand for industrial robots, and also has great potential for its scientific and technological research and development.
Shi Jinbo, an important member of the 3C field robots' research and development key management innovation team, said that the logistics innovation team found in the continuous exploration process that manufacturers of electronic products are more eager to use industrial robots to complete inspection, assembly and request loading and unloading. The huge market demand and the demand of the local industry in Dongguan led the team to transform the research and development direction into the 3C industry, namely Computer, Communication and Consumer.
It is understood that the positioning of the industrial robot development when the sports control innovation team was established is the application of welding technology in industrial machinery. However, the Li Zexiang team soon found that the development of industrial welding robots for large machinery is not suitable for the local industrial development needs of Dongguan, and for the sheet metal and metal processing factories with large local demand, their product change rate is fast, product profit It is also relatively thin, and the cost of retrofitting with robots is very high, and the risk is also great. Therefore, this development orientation is not practical for Dongguan.
At the end of 2011, it was a huge change for the Li Zexiang team. The change came from a project that they received a well-known mobile phone brand in the United States. The outbreak of the brand's smart phones drove a wave of automation in China, because many companies in Dongguan, including Dongguan, Providing complementary products, and their products have very high requirements for automation. At that time, the team realized that smartphones, tablets and related peripherals would face spurt growth, and the market demand was huge.
Dongguan Huabei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., located in Songshan Lake Industrial North Road, is a high-tech enterprise engaged in the manufacture of mobile phone motherboards and complete machines. It has developed very fast in recent years. Earlier, the company expressed its demand for automatic packaging of mobile phones with industrial robots to the international team of motion control. At present, the customized robots are already being debugged, and the demand for robots in the 3C field is significantly enhanced by Dongguan enterprises.
The automation requirements of the 3C industry are mainly in the processing of components, such as the manufacture of functional components such as glass panels and PCBs, assembly and inspection, component labeling, and machine labeling. However, the current status quo is that the parts are processed "automatically processed, manually loaded and unloaded", while the latter two are "small parts of automation, mostly full manual." Based on this situation, Shi Jinbo said that with the development of miniaturization of electronic products, customers have higher and higher requirements for product quality consistency and standardization, coupled with the vagaries of the market, which requires managers to have to the production line. The production capacity has more precise control, no doubt the automation of the production line, the introduction of industrial robots has become the best choice.
Therefore, for many small and medium-sized electronic product manufacturers in Dongguan, enterprise managers must make long-term planning when planning products. Considering the needs of production automation, these require professional people to help companies plan. As a research and development side of industrial robots, it is necessary to provide the most cost-effective solution for such enterprises. This is not only to say that the cost is the lowest, but more importantly, it must be flexible and scalable in line with the long-term development needs of the enterprise.
The prospect of robot industrialization is huge. The logistics control innovation team has several R&D projects. The team of industrial robot engineering products and automated production line projects combines the open drive control integrated industrial robot controller project (863 project) to study the mechanical robot body design. Theories and methods, the development of industrial robot control and drive hardware and software systems, and the development of related industrial robot products, the establishment of automated production line applications in the welding, handling and packaging industries.
It is reported that the team has developed a 6-axis joint type industrial robot and a DELTA parallel robot. The 6-axis robot has been used to establish a robot welding application platform to study robot welding process and weld seam tracking. At the same time, the team also built a PCB handling demonstration production line using DELTA industrial robots.
In the industrialization of industrial robots, the team has established several automated production lines in Dongguan, Shenzhen, Huizhou, Changsha and other places, and is negotiating a number of production line transformation projects. At the same time of technology research and development, Li Zexiang team also established Liqun Automation Company in 2011. The Sports Control International team is responsible for technology research and development, while the company is responsible for industrialization and marketing. The company's official operation time is not long, and this year's sales are conservatively estimated to exceed 10 million yuan, and is currently cooperating with some large enterprises.
At the same time, Li Zexiang team also introduced Dongguan Gugao Automation Technology Co., Ltd., which is a leading domestic technology supplier of automatic control products. It relies on the strong technical strength of Gutech (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. The comprehensive performance of motion controller and embedded motion controller has reached the international first-class level. The products are widely used in industrial control fields such as electronic processing, testing equipment and production automation.
Li Zexiang told reporters that in the next ten years, the number of industrial robots operating in China will reach 1.7 million units, and then hundreds of thousands of units will be added each year. The domestic market demand is rigid and sustainable, but such huge demand cannot It has always relied on imports and requires domestic research and development of independent technologies.

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