Some thoughts about non-standard automation equipment

Recently, I saw some articles about robots on the Internet. It seems that both at home and abroad are particularly optimistic about China's robot shopping mall in the next few years, which I have always agreed with. But it is not so much optimistic about China's robot shopping mall in the future, as optimistic about China's active shopping mall. Think about the main stream of human future, it must be information and "interconnection", no doubt, the Internet to our future spread the general direction, how to go information manufacturing? In my opinion, the first is initiative. When manufacturing is gradually actively informationized, it is also the real change of the so-called Internet from the "transmission value" of products to the "invention value". At that time, human beings can be truly civilized and change from low-end workers to intelligent people. Dongguan non-standard automation

However, when it comes to initiative, many "experts" talk about robots, and robots have become the representative products of initiative because of its advantages: First, mass production of sophisticated products. From non-standard to standard, the robot to today's sophisticated situation, non-standard standardization is a permanent trend, non-standard standardization after the real output of products, products can be widely accepted by the society. Because its performance is stable and easy to implement imitation, production is no longer complex, the development cycle is short. Robots are such sophisticated products. It is based on such conditions, so that it has the advantages of high precision and stability.

Second, small space. The broad concept of six-axis robots shows that robots occupy a small butt in a large area to do transfer, assembly and other active operations. Because of this, all kinds of robots in China in the past two years are everywhere. The number and manufacturers of robots exhibited in the Shenzhen Active Chemical Exhibition in 2014 and 2013 can be compared to show how many robot companies were born in this year. But the domestic robot now more stay in the stage of plagiarism, and do not sweep up many of the robot technology companies cheat national subsidies, in the opposite sex, accuracy and security, such as the convenience of ABB, FANUC and other well-known brands are far apart, some robots can only be considered mass production of the transfer organization, so it is.

First, robots are not all of the initiative, especially in China's initiative in recent years, many of the replacement of repetitive labor even if using robots, they only use the feature of short development cycle, but the high cost is the bottleneck in the implementation of the initiative;

Second, the concept of robots I personally think needs to be corrected. In the world, we don't talk about the concept of intelligent and thinking robots. What I mean by a robot is a normalized, multi-degree-of-freedom organization with a sophisticated self-control system that can complete a simple task in an active category. What is shallow device? For example, active operation is nothing more than moving the material around, and then the end of processing, installation, testing, etc., all the active there is no material transfer, transfer? It seems to be both, right? So if there's an organization that can take this kind of work and develop it well it can be used in most of the active categories and sell it as a product, I think it can be considered a robot. If pure transfer robot, I think that some of the CAM group is used to complete the whole transfer action plan seen in the shopping mall if developed into standard equipment, it is also a good robot. Its advantage lies in its low cost and high speed. I think it has great potential market in recent years.

Third, as a sophisticated equipment, the robot is now used for active material transfer, transfer, processing (such as welding), detection (with detection equipment movement, in fact, is still the carrier). Seems to be not in the use of material sorting, a small part of the material sorting can be completed by CCD, but the speed is not fast, strict requirements for material. As we all know, material sorting can be active key point is also difficult. Many initiative can't complete may not be able to appear on all trapped on material sorting, active material sorting equipment is also a strange, not a specification, vibration plate, cartridge, materials plate, coil, etc., according to the different material requirements of the development of the whole column sorting equipment, long development cycle, poor reliability, vibration plate did for so many years, there is still a often card materials such as faults, There are very few materials that can be sorted well. So I think, material sorting equipment is active future demand points to conquer the direction, who led the piece, who went to the front end of the initiative, take the material tray feeding organization, I have seen no less than dozens of versions, not sophisticated, not standard, not economic, owe good. If it can be standardized and parts can be replaced with different scales, I think it will become a new robot. Different from the transfer robot mentioned above, this kind of sorting robot serves the transfer robot. Can say: sorting robot + transfer robot + peripheral fixture = active system. A more daring step, if someone can research like SMT, through CCD and high-speed transfer organization to complete all shapes of material "all-purpose sorting machine" (theoretically feasible), it is a super robot, the active category is invincible.

Fourth, the individual thinks, the future of mankind will certainly cross the geography, the Internet is the trend that the whole human society develops, the production work certain demand cooperation net "cloud planning" completes the informationization production and reflects for the offline active production, the development demand of our country huge informationization active production system "network"! And the non standard initiative is also just suitable for the network, there are many reasons: first, the non standard development is dangerous, developers and customers who do not want to bear the risk, the teasing thing often happens, the network of third-party channels will be very good to deal with this problem, is conducive to the development of skills and non standard development; Second, non-standard initiative category of all kinds of planning strange, through the Internet can complete information sharing, better and faster search for sophisticated processing solutions, and "cloud planning" also provides outstanding brainstorming environment for the development of non-standard planning, non-standard initiative development can not be good channel; Third, all kinds of non-standard planning after network information, it is easier to quickly complete standardization, and then make non-standard to standardized product change cycle is shortened, quickly constitute the industry sophisticated practice, and then the birth of many new so-called "products". Based on the above, I think the development of a similar alibaba but different from Alibaba's non-standard active planning B2B channel is very promising.