As the population dividend inflection fade, "machine substitutions," not only became the PRD solve recruitment difficulties "new normal", but also means that a promising new industry is gradually on the rise.

Production line, several workers doing the final packaging, they packaged goods, firmly grab one of about 3 meters from the machine arm and tidily. The shop channel, laden with goods placed music AGV car (automated guided vehicles) on moving forward in an orderly manner, if someone blocked the road, the car will automatically stop and alarm.
This is the "First Financial Daily" reporters in Foshan Shunde Midea factory to see the picture. Man and machine perform their duties, and the scene ordered harmony. This scene, in recent years, increasingly common in the Pearl River Delta factories, the working efficiency of a robot is often several times the workers.
As the population dividend inflection fade, "machine substitutions," not only became the PRD solve recruitment difficulties "new normal", but also means that a promising new industry is gradually on the rise.
Real money to support the "machine Substitution"
"A few years ago, the factory in Guangdong mention 'machine Substitution' is sure to be driven out, now, any one topic on the robot will attract a lot of enterprises to participate in the development of the robotics industry ushered in unprecedented opportunities." This is Dongguan Songshanhu robot industry base of sponsors, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 李泽湘 exact words.
Think globally, with digital, networked, intelligent manufacturing as a symbol of a new round of technological revolution and the industrial revolution is giving birth to the rise of the United States, Germany and other industrial powers have proposed "re-industrialization", "Industry 4.0" and other strategies, the core is to intelligent manufacturing as the leading manufacturing and production of new models.
In May this year, the industry awaited the "Made in China 2025" plan officially released, this programmatic document actively adapt to the development trend of the manufacturing sector, promote manufacturing power shift to manufacturing power, its core is the "Chi-made."
Guangdong Province recently issued the "Guangdong Province Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan (2015 - 2025)" (the "Plan") proposed to enhance the intelligent manufacturing innovation capacity, promote the upgrading of the manufacturing process intelligence. "Plan" clearly will vigorously develop the robotics industry, and the implementation of "robot applications" program.
As a typical Chinese manufacturing city of Dongguan, the annual municipal One file is always highly anticipated, and "robot" has been for two consecutive years in a prominent location of the file, which is obviously the release of some important signals.
Apart oriented policies, as well as real money support. 2013 onwards, Dongguan city government decided to come up with 200 million yuan annually to encourage enterprise "machine substitutions."
Lize Xiang initiated Songshan Lake robot industry base officially inaugurated last November, with a total investment of about 2.7 billion yuan, has been the introduction and cultivation of more than 50 robots enterprises, the initial formation of a robot system integrators, core parts business and intelligence equipment enterprise-based robotics industry cluster.
Dongguan municipal government official website of the information, to attract talent, the base year will go to Switzerland, the United States, Canada and other countries speaking tour Recommend universities to encourage and attract overseas talents to Songshanhu innovation and entrepreneurship.
As another big manufacturing city PRD, Foshan appliances, ceramics, metal, molds, and other industries are made in China occupies an important component in. "Production and application of robots is significant in terms of Foshan." Late last month, the "Guangdong hit Guangdong, the new" Guangdong large network of innovation-driven development theme collection activity by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department, the Science and Technology Department and Network Information Office co-sponsored site Mayor of Foshan City, Lu Yi said, Foshan probably need twenty thousand pieces (sets) robot, currently only 3,000 units, which means that there is a great market space.
Traditional industries to demand more and more intelligent. As of 2014, one of the leading home appliance industry, headquartered in Shunde, Foshan Midea Group had a total investment of 2 billion yuan in automation, and in the future will continue to increase investment.
Shunde District Mayor 黄喜忠 said that in Shunde, not only large companies invest in intelligent manufacturing, many SMEs also purchased cheaper robots for production.
To support the promotion and application of local industrial robots, industrial robots either for business, or for the procurement of industrial robots using local traditional manufacturing industries, Foshan have given real money rewards. For example, in Foshan locally registered companies meet the requirements of the robot, will receive 500 million one-time award; Foshan local traditional manufacturing enterprises who purchase products using local industrial robots, will also receive 10,000 yuan each, the highest total not more than 200,000 yuan reward.
60 machines did 650 people live hand
After the Spring Festival, Lu Yi has been dedicated to the Foshan Municipal Bureau of Human Resources survey rework, rework rate of only 87% let him feel the turning point of the coming demographic dividend.
"Over the years more and more difficult job." Midea Group, a conditioned production workshop director told reporters, in order to attract workers, the United States in the workshop is equipped with WiFi, each dormitory are fitted with air conditioning, also set up a gym, but still very difficult to recruit people.
"In this case, the application of robots to put a more important agenda." Lu Yi said.
"Machine Substitution" is not only recruitment difficulties "medicine", but also to solve the productivity problem.
"First Financial Daily" reporter recently saw this scene: When "master" workers to operate again, "apprentice" rocker-type robot remember the whole operation process, no less begin to imitate "master" of the action, to the front toilet spray enamel.
This has a memory capacity of spray enamel robot by the robot Foshan Xinpeng Technology Co. Currently, Wrigley bathroom, bathroom Dongpeng, the new Pearl baths and other sanitary enterprises have introduced this robot.
According to the relevant person in charge Xinpeng robot to the reporter, a spray enamel robot workload worth eight workers, and the amount of waste glaze and the probability of the emergence of waste are far below the artificial spray enamel.
US group to provide information to the reporter, as of now, the US group has accumulated 800 robots, efficiency more than 15%. The United States also plans by the end of 2017, the new robot 1700, post annual growth of around 30% of the investment in robots.
According to their plan, this next year the US group will achieve two to three automatic production lines, 2017, the initial realization of "no factories."
Long surplus Precision Technology Co., Ltd., Dongguan opened the first "unmanned factory", polishing workshop, 60 machines being hand polished round one night the phone box structure. They are divided into 10 production lines, each line only three workers responsible for watching lines and inspection. Just a few months ago, the completion of these processes also require 650 workers.
Assistant General Manager of the company 罗卫强 said EPI precision, a robot can replace 6-8 workers, now there are 60 workers polishing workshop, will be reduced to 20 in the future.
Robots are also used in a large number of difficult conditions in a production environment. Foshan has a large number of welding robots, in addition to be able to solve more conventional welding spatter, smoke, environmental problem of poor efficiency of this single robot artificial three times, the quality of a passing rate also increased from 80% to 99.8%.
The use of robots for enterprise cost savings. Nanhai District of Foshan Innovation Institute large CNC equipment cooperative extension work (referred to as "the extension work big Institute") is on the automation of welding processes benefit effect a factory made a detailed analysis. If the production of purely human way, 10 workers of labor costs, training costs, plus waste materials and scrap costs and other expenses, costs about 9.55 million yuan a year.
If the two robots to automate production equipment, the annual cost of about 1.724 million yuan, 7.8 million yuan in annual cost savings. In addition, two sets of equipment can be easily accomplished with an annual output of 300,000 welding tasks, therefore recoverable cost equipment investment in 1 to 2 years.
Compared to Switzerland ABB, KUKA robots and other internationally renowned enterprises, domestic robots have a clear price advantage.
Taige Wei Robot Technology Co., Ltd. official told this reporter, an accessory welding robot on the price of imported products 6,000 yuan, while the company's production of the same product is only 300 yuan. The company's products are mainly used in welding, beautiful kitchen, Zhongshan Vantage are all the company's customers.
Price advantage of domestic robots to help expand the market. Above beauty shop automatically with the AGV car, both from Foshan local enterprises.
Although cheap, buy some of the more complex robots, companies or carefully selected imports. Workshop director said the United States revealed that a simple robot they will buy made in China, but more complex robot (five-and six-axis robots) market, basically monopolized by international brands.
In the above-mentioned workshop in the United States carry a six-axis robot products, for example, through the import of goods made in China were compared and found that there is a gap between the United States and in the stability and accuracy. Thus, although the price of this domestic robot robot several million cheaper than imports, they still chose to import goods.
"Of course, as made in China quality continues to improve, we will be very happy to try homemade robot." The workshop director told reporters.
Guang Yang Haidong Industry University Institute president also told reporters that the domestic robot production techniques actually have no problem, "the product can work it out, that is, the stability and accuracy of a gap."
Force still lack core technology industrialization
"It is estimated the next two years is the peak of robotic applications." Yang Haidong such a prediction. Pearl River Delta cities, whether government officials or capital, have been keenly eyeing this new industry.
Dongguan City Mayor Yuan Baocheng in "Yue Yue create new" large-scale network collection activity indicated above, in addition to "machine Substitution" to solve the structural problems of lack of work and labor costs currently facing Dongguan, Dongguan also hope to breed a robotics industry.
Currently engaged in the production of the robot has more than 200 enterprises in Dongguan, once the industry to grow up, not only can supply Dongguan factory, but also to achieve the output of robot products.
Foshan robot has been out of the country. Wide work great Institute member companies last year and two Japanese companies signed two large orders, and will continue with KUKA, ABB robots and other famous international enterprises to cooperate. Supply and demand platform to build a robot, extension work big Institute also held a number of industrial robots innovation matchmaking. It is said that the robot will do college, train personnel in this area.
August 4, the US announced a partnership with Japan's Yaskawa Electric robot set up two joint ventures to produce service robots and industrial robots.
Currently in the whole territory of PRD robotics industry, industrial robots is the absolute protagonist.
According to the Shenzhen Robot Association, Shenzhen enterprises accounted for the bulk of industrial robots, with more than 190, the output value is higher; service robots only 45. Dongguan, Foshan and two is also the case. First, because this case of industrial robots in a manufacturing-based Pearl River Delta has a large market, and second, because service robots, such as for medical rehabilitation, needed Robots consumer services and education and other more complex.
According to "First Financial Daily" reporters to incomplete statistics, the PRD only robots and related industries enterprises in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan three places, nearly 500, a total value of nearly billion.
Although the look of the robotics industry has prospered, but in reality there are many problems, the most essential is the robot lack of core technology.
Currently, the Swiss ABB, Japan's Fanuc, Japan's Yaskawa Electric, Germany KUKA robots and robotic field called "Legend." Chinese Robot Industry Association data show that these giant robot industry in China occupy over 70% market share, almost a monopoly of robotics, welding and other high-end area.
Domestic robots enterprises owned core technology is not much, most parts again after the introduction of foreign advanced system integration. For example, the robot system Foshan Lee Schindler company official revealed that the company's core product Sancheng expenses spent on imported power arm.
Many industry experts believe that, gradually cultivate core technology is the rise of the domestic robot industry to go through. Vice president of Dongguan Robotics Association Luo Baihui that China's industrial robot industry abroad than three decades later, to go beyond even completely replace the foreign brand product advantages is unlikely in a short time. Therefore, including Dongguan, the Pearl River Delta to improve the robot, including the upstream and downstream industry chain, we also need to come up with more patience.
"So far, China's core technology all of the robot in a foreign country. Well, now you can start to buy Dongguan foreign robot began to imitate manufacturing, absorption and innovation. TV, refrigerator are gone through such a road." Said Yuan Baocheng ʱ??