This year's Tencent Industrial Technology Conference, manufacturing innovation has become a hot topic. China is the world's largest industrial country, with 39 industrial categories, 191 industrial categories, 525 sub-categories. In the same category of industrial manufacturing, there are different application links such as loading and unloading, welding, palletizing, spraying, polishing, etc., which constitute thousands of application scenarios. There is a need for intelligent production in every manufacturing link. This is the situation you Bo saw at the beginning of the business, and it is also the driving force for his business.
History has repeatedly shown that great companies can be formed in industries that produce tools that increase the productivity of all mankind.
In Youbo's view, the nature of industrial robots is a near-universal production tool that can improve the production efficiency of all aspects of manufacturing. "History has repeatedly shown that great companies can be formed in industries where the tools of production can improve the productivity of all mankind," he said.
We can see: internal combustion engines, electric power equipment, computers, communications and network equipment, etc., none is not ten trillion market, none is not creating one great company after another, none is changing the history of mankind, the first three and the ongoing fourth industrial revolution is not with the change of production tools. The fourth industrial revolution that we are familiar with, that is, industry 4.0, emphasizes intelligent manufacturing, intelligence, digitalization and automation three keywords, there is a progressive and logical relationship between these three words, the basis of intelligence is digital, because now artificial intelligence technology is based on data-driven, if there is no massive data it is difficult to do intelligent learning and intelligent decision-making. The foundation of digitalization is automation, because you can imagine that if we produce a lot of tools or manual operations in the manufacturing process, it is difficult to get granular enough and reliable enough data, so it is difficult to support digitalization and finally intelligence. How to increase the ratio of automation to digitalization? It is to replace key processes with equipment with digital interfaces such as industrial robots and CNC machine tools. A large number of manufacturing enterprises in China are replacing people by robots to complete the make-up link before moving to intelligence. Therefore, industrial robots are the grips and carriers of artificial intelligence technology in the manufacturing industry.
Close to the market, play engineer dividends.
In the face of the development gap at home and abroad, EfTE through independent research and development, coupled with the study and integration of foreign technologies, to achieve the ability to complement, and then fully tap the characteristics of the Chinese market, close to the advantages of the market, to find a more focused breakthrough.
In 2017, Eft began to enter the photovoltaic industry, when the company's robot did not conquer the chip process. The so-called insert is to insert dozens of extremely thin silicon wafers into the graphite boat slot, which requires the robot to be "accurate and stable". The gap between the silicon wafer and the card slot in the graphite boat is as thin as hair, and a slight deviation will produce a scratch on the surface of the silicon wafer and affect the yield. For a long time, foreign robots have been used in this process. In response to this scenario, Eft's directional attack. They and foreign brand manufacturers stationed in photovoltaic enterprises, each at the same time to optimize the robot. In the past three months, both sides have reached their limits in terms of alternating lifting speed and yield indicators. When the indicators are consistent, Eft shows more advantages in other dimensions and finally wins. Youbo concluded that Efte R & D team is in the country to receive, analyze and begin to realize customer needs in real time; While competitors are abroad, many of the work that needs to optimize the underlying software has to be sent abroad to complete. "We respond faster than our competitors, and that's the advantage of being close to the market."
Focusing is another effective strategy against powerful foreign competitors.
Put the time back to 2013, the ceramic sanitary ware industry is a traditional manufacturing industry with high energy consumption and high pollution, many operations including spraying, repair, high die-casting slurry are toxic and harmful, and even anti-human work, in urgent need of machine replacement. Due to the lack of understanding of the industry, foreign robot companies use universal robots to deal with it, resulting in functional mismatch and waste, and finally customer evaluation is expensive and difficult to use. After in-depth understanding of customer needs, we found that: first, this industry is a typical multi-variety and small-batch industry, requiring robots to have fast teaching programming; Second, high temperature and high humidity put forward very high requirements for the protection level of the robot. We focus on resources to solve these two pain points and success, and finally even if we can not surpass foreign competitors in those ceramic bathroom customers will not use the function, but Efte's robots really solve two key pain points for customers, and the price is affordable, customer evaluation of the robot is easy to use and durable, so quickly occupied the market.
The development of independent brand robot industry is a difficult but correct road.
The so-called difficult because industrial robots are a collection of multidisciplinary intelligent systems, the early need for a large amount of investment, and in the input process will inevitably face the price of imported brands, so that the input output will appear stage imbalance; The so-called correct because industrial robots are an important part of the country's development of advanced manufacturing. Because of our existence, we have broken the high price barrier of robots more than a decade ago, which is a pressure for us, but it is empowering and boosting the transformation and upgrading of the entire manufacturing industry. This makes many small and medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford robots can afford robots, and with the improvement of intelligence level and rich applications, enterprises that will not use robots will now use robots, thereby reducing the cost of use and investment. We believe that because of our existence, China's manufacturing factories will have robots, everyone will use robots, and China's manufacturing industry will realize robot freedom.
