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In recent years, with the gradual disappearance of demographic dividend and the continuous upgrading of artificial intelligence and other related technologies, industrial robots have become the core equipment to realize automatic production and play an extremely important role in the global manufacturing industry.
Accounted for 70% of the Chinese market, blocked the development of manufacturing industry, domestic accelerated replacement, production capacity increased by 64%
However, in this important industry, due to the late start and weak foundation, China has become highly dependent on imported industrial robots.
70% of the Chinese market
Looking at the global robot market, four overseas giants, fanuc and Yaskawa Electric of Japan, ABB of Switzerland and Kuka of Germany, have been monopolized for a long time.
Data show that the four giants above account for more than 70 percent of China's industrial robot market and more than 90 percent of the high-end industrial robot market.
Two Japanese companies, in particular, are undisputed world leaders, with Fanuc becoming the world's largest robot manufacturer in 2008.
The reason why Japanese companies can monopolize for a long time is mainly because these giants control the core components upstream of the industrial robot industry chain.Such as precision reducer, servo motor, controller and so on, these equipment is closely related to the performance of industrial robots.
Accounted for 70% of the Chinese market, blocked the development of manufacturing industry, domestic accelerated replacement, production capacity increased by 64%
China's industrial robot industry, which is under a chokehold, will have to rely on imports for a long time.Although there are not too many import restrictions in this respect, there is no doubt that it will have a certain negative impact on the development of China's manufacturing industry.
After all, industrial robots are related to the industrial revolution 4.0. In the case of machine replacing man as a general trend, China must grasp the core technology in this field as soon as possible to better promote the upgrade of China's intelligent manufacturing.
It is gratifying that, under the strong support of the state and the friendly environment with frequent favorable policies, the replacement of imported equipment by domestic industrial robots begins to enter the fast lane.
Indigenous substitution acceleration
According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the output of industrial robots in China grew 63.9 percent from January to August this year compared with the same period in 2020.
At the same time, the use density of domestic industrial robots has also achieved a high growth.In 2016, the usage density was only 75 units per 10,000 people, but in 2019, it reached 113 units per 10,000 people.
In addition, the domestic automation production line application of domestic independent research and development of technology is also more and more.Recently, according to media reports, a body-in-white welding production line owned by GAC Toyota is about to be completed. This line is highly automated and intelligent, using a number of innovative technologies such as the domestically developed NC flexible positioning system.
Accounted for 70% of the Chinese market, blocked the development of manufacturing industry, domestic accelerated replacement, production capacity increased by 64%
And the reason why domestic substitution enters the fast lane, the author thinks mainly benefits from three reasons:
On the one hand, it should be the strong support for industrial robot industry mentioned by the author in the previous article.On the other hand, the downstream manufacturing boom in recent years.
For example, the explosion of the new energy vehicle market has led to the rapid growth of photovoltaic cells, lithium ion batteries and industrial robots.
As for the third aspect, it lies in the acceleration of digital and intelligent transformation of China's manufacturing industry.At the same time, the industrial Internet has also been rapidly constructed by major enterprises to achieve the complete intelligence of the production line, with the industrial Internet platform to complete all the connections.
Accounted for 70% of the Chinese market, blocked the development of manufacturing industry, domestic accelerated replacement, production capacity increased by 64%
It is worth noting that while domestic industrial robots accelerate the realization of import substitution, Chinese industry leaders including Siasong and Eston have also realized the localization of harmonic reducer, controller, intelligent control and application system.The repair and strengthening of local supply chains has brought vitality to China's industrial robot industry.
According to public data, the industrial robot industry is showing signs of recovery despite the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.
It is expected that the annual average growth rate of global industrial robot sales will reach 11.97% from 2020 to 2022, and the global industrial robot sales are expected to exceed 590,000 units in 2022.
In such a broad market space, domestic industrial robots will have a great success.