Domestic companies still rely heavily on imported key components of robots

Intelligent manufacturing is the core and main direction of China-made 2025. Industrial robots are an important foundation for intelligent manufacturing to take off. The concept of "smart manufacturing" has been raised for so long, but the controversy has continued. As far as the status quo of the global smart manufacturing development is concerned, the intellectual innovation upgrade still stays at the initial stage of “machine substitution”. Looking back, after a short period of three or five years of explosive development, domestic robot companies with "certain influence" have reached 700 to 800, and a large number of robotic industrial parks have also emerged. In the fiercely competitive domestic robotics industry, many companies hope to rapidly develop with the help of the “smart manufacturing” market. However, the reality is that domestic companies still rely heavily on imports for key components of robots. So, what are the current opportunities for smart manufacturing? What bottlenecks need to be broken? The new round of industrial revolution calls for the development of robots. How can the transformation and upgrading of robotics companies continue? During the National Day, foreign media Digi Times reported that the general manager of the Foxconn Automation Technology Development Committee Dai Jiapeng revealed to the CNA News Agency that more than 40,000 robots have fully participated in the company's production process. Subsequently, there were four rumours that Foxconn will lay off 60,000 people. But is this really the case? In response, the reporter spent the last two weeks conducting field investigations on the Foxconn Kunshan factory and some robot industry parks and found that the layoffs of tens of thousands of people are not true, but that the use of intelligent robots in the manufacturing industry is more widely used. Reversal of the trend. In fact, with the continuous rise in the cost of labor, many areas have not only failed to lay off their employees but have seen labor shortages. Under this background, "machine substitution" may be a major trend. At the same time, the "manufacturing" industry is also moving toward the "smart" industry. Regardless of whether we want it or not, this process is quietly evolving.