1, automobile manufacturing
In China, 50% of industrial robots are used in automobile manufacturing, and more than 50% of them are welding robots. In developed countries, robots in the automobile industry account for more than 53% of the total number of robots. According to statistics, the world's major automobile manufacturers have more than 10 robots per 10,000 vehicles every year. With the continuous development and improvement of robot technology, industrial robots will certainly play a great role in promoting the development of automobile manufacturing. China is striding forward from a big manufacturing country to a strong manufacturing country, so it needs to upgrade its processing methods, improve product quality and increase the competitiveness of enterprises. All these indicate that the development prospect of robots is huge. [5]
Case: China Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd. before the introduction of robots. A worker can only look after two machine tools. After the introduction of industrial robots, one robot can automatically control 5- 10 machining centers. ? From 2005 to 20 1 1 year, the annual output of China National Heavy Duty Truck increased from more than 40,000 vehicles to15,000 vehicles, while the regular employees only increased by about 10%, and the growth rate of contracted dispatchers was limited. The increase in output is mainly attributed to the introduction of robots.
In addition, in 2008, China Heavy Duty Truck introduced industrial robots to build a new workshop and built a fully automatic punching machine. The steel plate is sent to the punching machine by the mechanical arm, which not only stabilizes the product quality, but also replaces labor and avoids the occurrence of industrial accidents.
2. Electronic and electrical industry
Electronic ic, SMD components and industrial robots are widely used in these fields. At present, the most installed industrial robot in the world is the SCARA four-axis robot. The second place is the serial joint vertical 6-axis robot. Bright Lo pointed out that these two kinds of industrial robots account for more than half of the installed industrial robots in the world and are the focus of our attention.
In the field of mobile phone production, vision robots such as sorting and packaging, film tearing system, laser plastic welding and high-speed four-axis palletizing robot are suitable for a series of automation systems such as touch screen detection, scrubbing and film pasting.
The machines in the special zone are specially made by domestic manufacturers according to the needs of the electronic production industry. Miniaturization and simplification realize the high-precision and efficient production of electronic assembly, meet the demand of increasingly refined electronic assembly processing equipment, and automatic processing greatly improves production efficiency. According to relevant data, the finished product rate can be increased from 87% to 93% through robot polishing, so whether the "mechanical arm" or a higher-end robot is put into use, the production efficiency will be greatly improved.
3. Rubber and plastics industry
The plastics industry has close cooperation and a high degree of specialization: the production, processing and machinery manufacturing of plastics are closely related. Even in the future, this industry will be an important economic sector and ensure many employment opportunities. Because plastics are almost everywhere: from automobile and electronics industries to consumer goods and food industries. ? As a technology connecting production and processing, mechanical manufacturing plays a vital role here. Raw materials are processed into innovative, fine and durable finished products or semi-finished products by injection molding machines and tools for finishing-the production process is more efficient, economical and reliable by adopting automatic solutions.
To enter the plastic industry, you need to meet extremely strict standards. This is of course no problem for robots. It is not only most suitable for producing tools under the standard of clean room environment, but also can complete high-intensity operation next to injection molding machine. Even in a high-standard production environment, the economic benefits of each process will be reliably improved. Because the robot has mastered a series of operations, picking, placing and sorting operations.
With its versatility, the robot can work quickly, efficiently and flexibly. It is durable and can bear the heaviest load. Therefore, it can best meet the requirements of improving quality and production efficiency and ensure that enterprises have a decisive competitive advantage in the future market competition.
4. Foundry industry
Multi-shift operation in extreme working environment-operation in foundry field has brought heavy burden to workers and machines. Another reason for manufacturing a powerful KUKA casting robot especially suitable for extremely heavy loads: high pollution, high temperature or harsh external environment. ? Simple control system and special software package make the application of robot very flexible-whether it is directly used in injection molding machine, or used to connect two processes, or used to transport extremely heavy workpieces. Because it has the best positioning performance and high bearing capacity, it can carry out high-intensity operations safely and reliably.
With its modular structural design, flexible control system and special application software, the robot can meet the highest requirements of the whole automation application field in foundry industry. It is not only waterproof, but also resistant to dirt and heat.
It can even be used to directly take out the workpieces beside, inside and above the injection molding machine. In addition, it can reliably connect the process unit and the production unit. In addition, the robot performs well in finishing operations such as deburring, grinding or drilling, and quality inspection.
5. Food industry
Robots are used more and more widely. Even in many traditional industrial fields, people are trying to make robots replace human work, and so is the food industry. At present, people have developed robots for food industry, such as canning robots, automatic lunch robots and beef cutting robots.
From the perspective of an imaginary robot, cutting the first half of a cow is not a simple problem, and the details to be considered are particularly complicated, because from the perspective of the body structure of a cow, although the limbs of each cow are roughly the same, there are still many differences. The robot system must choose the best cutting method for each cow to minimize the waste of beef. In fact, in order for the robot system to skillfully simulate the movements of skilled butchers, the ultimate solution will be to integrate sensor technology, artificial intelligence and robot manufacturing, so that the robot system can automatically adapt to various changes in product processing.
The robot for cutting beef compares the limb of the cow to be processed with the cutting information of the last limb of the cow stored in the database, and processes each cow, so that the starting point and the ending point of the knife can be determined along the initial route direction set by each knife cutting, and then the robot drives the knife to cut into the cow. The sensor system monitors the cutting force, determines whether the tool is cutting the bone, and feeds back the information to the robot control system, so as to control the blade to move only along the bone contour to avoid damaging the blade.
6. Chemical industry
Chemical industry is one of the main application fields of industrial robots. At present, the main cleaning robots and their automation equipment used in the chemical industry include atmospheric manipulator, vacuum manipulator, cleaning coating manipulator, cleaning AGV, RGV and cleaning logistics automatic transmission system. The production of many modern industrial products requires precision, miniaturization, high purity, high quality and high reliability, and a clean environment is required in the production of products. Cleanliness directly affects the qualified rate of products. Clean technology is constantly developing according to the increasingly strict control requirements, control methods and control facilities for pollutants in clean production environment. Therefore, in the field of chemical industry, with the increasing demand for environmental cleanliness in more chemical production occasions in the future, the cleaning robot will be further utilized, so it has a broad market space.
Synthetic rubber automatic palletizing and boxing robot was put into use in Qilu Petrochemical Rubber Factory. For a long time, manual palletizing has been used in factories, which not only consumes a lot of manpower, but also has a high labor intensity. This robot packaging equipment can complete the packaging task of 600 pieces of synthetic rubber per hour, and the highest record is to fill a box in 3 minutes. ? It can complete the operation of all kinds of international standard containers, save 480,000 yuan in labor cost every year, realize the reuse of container systems, and reduce the cost of public works construction and plastic degradation of packaging bags.
7. Glass industry
Whether it is insulating glass, flat glass, tubular glass or glass fiber-modern high-tech materials containing minerals, they are very important components in electronics and communications, chemistry, medicine, cosmetics and other industries. Now it is indispensable for the construction industry and other industrial sectors. Especially for glass with very high cleanliness requirements, industrial robots are the best choice.
Clean the glass processing system. Clean the handling manipulator with both hands, and the cleanliness of the working environment is 10000. The manipulator includes five degrees of freedom: X 1, X2, Z 1, Z2 and R. It is driven by a servo motor and has the characteristics of high speed, quick response and high precision of repeated positioning.
In the X direction, the X 1 axis and the X2 axis * * * use a pair of guide rails to make alternate coordinated movements, in which the end of the Z 1 axis has a rotating shaft R. The end of the manipulator is provided with an end pick-up device for taking and placing workpieces. RB35J can be used in glass manufacturing, flat panel display (FPD) and other industries that need two manipulators to carry and palletize alternately.
8. Household appliances industry
The demand for economy and productivity in the field of large-scale equipment of white goods is getting higher and higher. It is most important to reduce the process cost and improve the production efficiency. Automation solutions can optimize the production of household appliances. Whether it is mass production of washing machine drum or glazing bathtub, using robots can complete production, processing, handling, measurement and inspection more economically and effectively. It can complete the production task continuously and reliably without frequently transferring heavy parts. This can ensure the smooth flow of materials in the production line and always maintain stable high quality.
There are many reasons: because of its highest productivity, high repeatability, high reliability and optical and tactile characteristics, robots can be applied to almost all aspects of the production process of household appliances.
9. Metallurgical industry
Whether it is light metal, nonferrous metal, precious metal, special metal or steel and metal industry, it is inseparable from casting and steel/metal processing. Moreover, without automation and multi-shift operation, it is impossible to ensure the economic benefits and competitiveness of production and reduce the heavy labor of employees.
The main work scope of industrial robots in metallurgical industry includes drilling, milling or cutting, bending and stamping. In addition, it can shorten the working cycle of welding, installation and loading and unloading, and improve productivity.
Even in the field of casting, KUKA robot equipped with special casting equipment has shown its extraordinary strength, with the advantages of long service life, high temperature resistance, waterproof and dustproof. In addition, KUKA robot can independently complete surface inspection and other inspections, thus making an important contribution to efficient quality management.
10, tobacco industry
The application of industrial robots in China tobacco industry appeared in the mid-1990s. Yuxi Cigarette Factory uses industrial robots to palletize finished cigarettes and AGV (self-propelled trolley) to carry finished pallets, which saves a lot of manpower, reduces the damage of cigarette boxes and improves the automation level.
The application of industrial robots in tobacco industry China tobacco industry has continuously strengthened technological transformation and promoted technological progress for many years, and the production equipment of key cigarette enterprises has reached the international level in the early 1990s.
However, advanced production equipment must be equipped with corresponding management methods and logistics support systems, in order to truly play the high efficiency of equipment. For example, the distribution of cigarette raw materials and accessories requires an advanced automated logistics system. Traditional manual management and manual handling are prone to errors and unpunctuality, which can no longer meet the needs of production development. Precision industrial robots are used in this field.