On July 28, at the opening ceremony of 2021 (the Fourth session) High-tech Robot Integrator Conference with the theme of "New Inflection Point · New Business Form" in Shenzhen, Wu Yuhui, director and general manager of STEP, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Digital Twinning Driven Robot System Integration". On digital twinning, he expressed that STEP would continue to adopt an open and cooperative attitude. Work closely with excellent system integrators to help the intelligent manufacturing projects to be effectively implemented.
The general manager of Wuyu Club introduced the latest developments of STEP. At present, STEP's business revolves around intelligent manufacturing and robotics. STEP welding robots, palletizing robots and SCARA are already on par with international brands. Thanks to a burst of demand and its own technological advances, STEP's robotics business saw significant growth in the first half of this year. These achievements are closely related to STEP's technical background in the past 26 years. It is closely related to STEP's long-term and large-scale R&D investment since it joined the robot industry in 2010. Moreover, it is inseparable from STEP's focused strategy. He proposed that domestic robot enterprises focus on market segments and concentrate technical strength to achieve technology and market leadership in market segments. After a long period of accumulation, the overall rise of China's robot industry is finally realized.
General Manager Wu Yuhui pointed out that the core elements of the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry are composed of three major factors: excellent manufacturing system, all-scene customer value, innovative business model, and two basic points: digital ability and organizational ability. Manufacturing excellence systems include refined management and decision-making, dynamic demand and supply planning management, flexible production, and traceability across the value chain. Scene customer value is mainly from the perspective of customers, through personalized user experience, digital product traceability and new sales channels to create new value; Innovative business models refer to upstream and downstream collaboration, service-oriented manufacturing, C2B, industrial chain platform, etc. Digital capabilities include unified data governance system, multi-level collaborative industrial Internet architecture, cloud-based service system platform and intelligent manufacturing technology platform. Organizational capabilities include professional digital project implementation team, leadership and agile organization, digital talent training plan, etc.
In the product display area of the conference, STEP did a SCARA application demonstration
General Manager Wu Yuhui elaborated the implementation path of STEP digital strategy: Develop industrial simulation software, establish STEP robot, controller, servo and other product model libraries, through efficient product design, supply chain collaboration, virtual assembly and debugging, equipment health management, digital process manufacturing platform, factory lifecycle technical support and other means, use MES to open up various systems, build the company's digital ecosystem. To realize the digital docking with customer systems and deepen the application of digital twin technology in manufacturing factories.
STEP is committed to actively using digital twin technology to promote the implementation of intelligent manufacturing. Through the application of 3D laser scanning, the establishment of CAVE laboratory, the use of digital cloud platform and other advanced technologies, STEP from virtual assembly to verify the manufacturability of products, improve the pass rate of first assembly, save research and development time, to production plan optimization, promote lean production, achieve factory capacity improvement and alleviate logistics congestion. From offline programming and virtual debugging, robot equipment coordination can be realized, greatly shortening production line debugging cycle and reducing downtime, to virtual and real linkage of on-site equipment. With digital twin technology, through the simulation of the digital world, problems in physical space can be solved, efficiency can be improved and resource consumption reduced.
General manager of Wuyu Association attended the round table dialogue session
The general manager of Wuyu Association also attended the roundtable dialogue organized by Dr. Zhang Xiaofei, chairman of Gaogong Robot, and exchanged views with the participants on the topic of "The crisis and opportunity of intelligent manufacturing in China under the Great Changes". It is agreed that, under the influence of macro environment such as accelerated industrial upgrading and rapid development of emerging industries, the robot industry will enter a "golden development period" in 2021, and system integrators will also become the direct beneficiaries of downstream demand release. In the future, with the support of capital, talent, technology and other factors, the robot industry integration speed is expected to accelerate; System integrators will also go through the process from fission to remodeling, during which domestic substitution will be the main theme.