Original title: Foxconn joined hands with 14 intelligent manufacturing enterprises to discuss the way to intelligent transformation source: Dongfang net

July 29th, 2021 (4th session) High Engineering RobotAt the same time, the "Foxconn Intelligent Manufacturing docking Salon" jointly organized by Gao Gong Robot and Foxconn was successfully held.

At the exchange meeting, Song Zhongtang, Foxconn Industrial Internet Office, expounded the purpose and direction of the establishment of Foxconn Intelligent Manufacturing acceleration Camp. The intelligent manufacturing acceleration camp is targeted at middle and high-end customers, which is divided into connectivity, production lines, factories, multi-plant areas, groups and other levels, led by the overall plan formulated by Foxconn, and manufacturers provide corresponding automatic robot technical support. enable the intelligent operation of manufacturing enterprises to transform.

In recent years, Foxconn has been steadily promoting the realization of production automation, through the self-research of robots, the construction of unmanned automated production lines, the construction of lighthouse factories, etc., with rich application scenarios in the field of 3C intelligent manufacturing and lighthouse factory construction and tutoring experience, as well as the advantages of an automation team with the ability to develop automation, digital and intelligent production lines.

On April 23 this year, the first Foxconn Intelligent Manufacturing acceleration Camp was officially launched. Foxconn aims to build a cooperation platform with outstanding enterprises in the field of intelligent manufacturing based on the resource advantages of their respective platforms, jointly build an ecological cooperation system, and provide customers with automated, digital and intelligent services. to integrate innovation models and complete end-to-end solutions to provide the best path for the intelligent transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.

The salon attracted 14 enterprises in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, such as end-effectors, machine vision, industrial / collaborative robots, mobile robots, industrial system integration and so on.

Visual science popularization

View popular science robot as Wanxun automatic controlThe core technology of the holding subsidiary is to identify and randomly grab the parts scattered in the material basket, which can provide intelligent classification scheme and trajectory planning calculation scheme. At present, SCAPE has accumulated dozens of successful application cases in Germany, Italy, Denmark and other European and American countries for many years, and its partners are distributed in more than 50 countries and regions all over the world.

Around the industrial scene, Visual Science Popularization has launched a set of standardized industrial solutions, which mainly includes four parts: identification, sports strength planning, grasping and placement. Take the front feeding workstation of Volkswagen at the welding station in Bavaria as an example. By using a set of SCAPE Sliding Scanner with two bin-picking robots and adding two additional turnstiles to grab parts from the SCAPE transfer station and put them into the fixture, it is finally realized that a part of 0.08-0.290 kg is sent to the fixed device of the turntable every 3.5 seconds. In addition, auto giants such as BMW, Audi, Volvo and Ford have also adopted systems developed by Visual Science Popularization.

Star ape Zhe

With cutting-edge 3D vision, robot motion planning and fixture design technologies, Xing Weizhe provides logistics and manufacturing industries with a full range of product solutions, such as disordered sorting, unpacking, loading and unloading of deep frames, and assembly. at present, it has been widely used in industry, logistics, e-commerce, auto parts, daily chemical, medicine, consumer goods and other industries.

Xing Weizhe launched three industrial cameras, XYZ-SP-L, XYZ-GX-M and XYZ-GX-L, which have excellent performance in resolution, accuracy and protection grade; they can recognize the position and attitude of objects of various materials, colors and shapes, and adapt to the complex and changeable working environment.

Taking a logistics automatic baler supply station in Xingao Zhe as an example, the industrial robot robotic arm supply station uses 3D vision system supplemented by motion planning algorithm to grab the whole basket of mobile phone boxes of different sizes and colors selected by hand, and deliver them to the back-end baler in a fixed posture (large face up, commodity code is not down). The manual intervention rate is less than 0.1% to realize staff reduction and packaging automation. It effectively improves the accuracy and stability of the operation. It is reported that the project completed delivery within two weeks, successfully withstood the test of 618, and achieved 7 × 24 hours error-free operation.

Cross-border science and technology

Yuejiang Science and Technology pointed out that at present, one of the difficulties facing the intelligent transformation of the traditional manufacturing industry is the differentiated demand based on the scene. 87.92% of the small and medium-sized enterprises that participate in the national intelligent manufacturing capability maturity self-diagnosis focus on the transformation of manufacturing mode and equipment automation transformation, and there is an urgent need to build a "flexible production line." What Yuejiang Science and Technology is doing is to build a flexible production line to improve the efficiency of enterprise transformation.

Up to now, Yuejiang Science and Technology has a full product matrix of 0.5-16kg load lightweight cooperation, and has seven core technologies, such as integrated drive and control, haptic control, high-end motion control, multiple security control, self-reconfiguration, machine vision, AI control, etc., with product applications covering industry, education, medical care, new retail and other fields. In a 3C head enterprise contract factory, the functions of loading and unloading, automatic flipping and production capacity statistics are realized through CR5 robot and end sucker, which helps customers to complete equipment erection and commissioning within 1 hour, the whole equipment occupies one station, and the efficiency is improved by more than 40% compared with the same period last year.

Walking robot

The robot has more than 20 years' experience in the research and development of automatic welding and cutting equipment, focusing on the automatic welding and cutting technology and equipment of three-dimensional workpieces, especially the intelligent welding and cutting equipment with visual tracking function and measurement and monitoring function. At present, the health robot has launched general-purpose products suitable for many industries, such as parts groove cutting robot, assembly welding robot and so on. it is suitable for mining, construction machinery, marine engineering, shipbuilding, construction steel structure, chemical pressure vessels, food and pharmaceutical equipment and other fields.

Dr. Wang Zongyi, chairman of Xingjian Robot, pointed out that unlike automobile manufacturing, the manufacturing process of heavy and large equipment has the characteristics of "less batch, more batches and poor product consistency". The fixed processing of fixtures of traditional industrial robots and the working methods of teaching and reproduction are not applicable in this industry, so it puts forward higher requirements for the intelligence of industrial robots. Intelligent industrial robot needs to have the technical basis of intelligent perception decision-making (visual perception + model data drive) + manipulator motion operation.

Taking the tube / tubesheet visual positioning automatic welding robot developed by Xingjian as an example, the equipment is specially designed for tube / tubesheet welding and adopts advanced visual positioning, laser visual tracking and intelligent control technology. realize the real automatic tubesheet welding without manual operation. The laser vision system is used to automatically extract the three-dimensional information of the welding position, which solves the problems encountered in the actual production, such as the non-standard shape and wall thickness of the pipe, and the positioning error between the welding torch and the workpiece affecting the accuracy of the welding position.

Hanchuan intelligence

Since its establishment, Hanchuan Intelligent has been focused on the field of intelligent manufacturing of precision small products, providing customers with flexible and efficient intelligent manufacturing solutions in automotive electronics, health care, new energy, industrial interconnection and other fields.

In the field of new energy, Hanchuan Intelligent has built a power square aluminum shell automatic assembly line according to the customized design concept, which can be applied to the fully automatic assembly of square shell core assembly section, including hot pressing, X-Ray, pre-welding pairing, ultrasonic final welding, joint sheet welding, cladding, top cover welding, pre-helium inspection and so on. The equipment of the production line operates automatically, the MES data is collected automatically, and the logistics between each single machine is completed by the logistics line to realize intelligent, flexible and information production.

In addition, in the field of industrial interconnection, Hanchuan Intelligent Industrial Interconnection BU has launched a series of software products and solutions around workshop application scenarios, from equipment networking, data acquisition and edge computing, equipment operation and maintenance, production planning and scheduling, job execution, quality control and traceability to complete manufacturing operation MOM to create intelligent solutions. In Tyco's intelligent digital workshop solution, Suzhou TE has successfully implemented Waterdrop Inc. Smart MOS platform on 100 + lines in Cable, ABS, Sensor, Relay, Housing and other workshops in 4 factories since 2016, solving customer complaints and difficulties in locking defective batches caused by defective products, product overcodes, packaging quantity and other factors, serious station jumping phenomenon and customer pain points such as data collection and traceability in product processing.

Ruisong Technology

As a system solution provider of robot and intelligent manufacturing, its core technology products include robot, high-end welding, software, vision, digital technology, laser and so on. Among them, the vision technology of Ruisong Technology meets the needs of customers and provides customers with the overall solution of intelligent vision system, from visual evaluation, system development and delivery to the turnkey project of a complete set of intelligent vision system for acceptance production. it is widely used in automobile welding, 3C automation, elevators and special equipment fields. Through the intelligent vision system, the machine type and derivative inspection, glue quality automatic detection, automatic grasping of random incoming workpieces, car body quality inspection and so on can be carried out to realize intelligent and flexible production.

Taking the project of 3D positioning and grasping of the front floor of a customer's car as an example, if the workpiece of the front floor of the car is placed on the pallet and fed through an inclined chute, there will be error and tilt in the pallet, so it is necessary to use binocular vision technology to locate the workpiece with 6 degrees of freedom. guide the robot to grab. In this regard, Ruisong Technology fixed the binocular camera on the bracket, and after the workpiece was in place, the binocular vision system photographed and guided the robot to accurately grab the parts, and the system ran stably, with an accuracy of more than 99.7%.

Corey technology

Corey Technology is deeply engaged in the field of automation equipment, with independent core technologies such as vibration suppression, AOI testing, tension control, automatic calibration, etc. The products mainly include automatic testing equipment and automatic assembly equipment, automatic equipment accessories, precision parts and fixtures, mainly used in mobile terminals, new energy, automotive, hard disk, medical and food, logistics and other industries.

In the field of mobile terminals, Corey technology provides all kinds of cameras, infrared security, motor vibration, light sensors and other detection equipment for the leading brands of mobile terminals, which are applied to the whole machine detection of mobile terminals. to provide the most complete mobile terminal detection scheme for the industry.

In the field of precision machining, Corey Technology has nearly 400 precision machining equipment and high-precision machining capabilities in the whole process of turning, milling, grinding, boring, CNC, EDM, WEDM, mold and fixture assembly, among which the machining accuracy of on-line cutting, EDM, boring and surface grinding can reach less than ±3 μ m, supporting the processing of tungsten steel, high-speed steel, stainless steel, aluminum alloy, engineering plastics, carbon steel and other raw materials.

Starpike

Starpike is a professional provider of integrated solutions for automated packaging machinery, logistics conveying machinery and fully automatic packaging lines, general industrial applications and factory automation. Its main products include unpacking machine, packing machine, steady removing machine, sealing machine, packing machine, palletizer, winding machine, bagging machine, carton wrapping machine, robot palletizer, sealing and shrinking machine, robot automation application system, logistics transportation system, production management MES system, etc., which are exported to more than 30 countries and regions, such as the United States, Germany, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and so on.

Taking "intelligence, flexibility and information trinity" as the group strategy, Starpike includes the application examples of series robot, parallel robot, horizontal multi-joint robot and AGV trolley handling robot.

On the mixed automatic packaging production line of bottled and boxed products, Starpike adopts equipment such as Cartoning machine, side push carton wrapping machine and robotic palletizer to be designed to meet the demand of automatic production of mixed line packaging of bottled and boxed products. Its production capacity is 8-15 cartons / min. In automatic logistics handling, Starpike previously launched a refreshing "intelligent quadrangle warehouse", which covers a small area and is flexible to use, which can be called temporary storage and production line side warehouse. It is a part of logistics warehousing. Because it covers an area of only 33 square meters, as long as the floor height is more than three meters, it can be placed in a place with a floor height of more than three meters. It provides intelligent warehousing solutions for enterprises through the integration of AGV, intelligent warehousing, etc., which is very suitable for small and micro enterprises.

New time

As a technology-driven enterprise for 26 years, Xinshida has formed full-matrix intelligent manufacturing solutions from general automation products such as servo controller, PLC, flexible platform, to robot key components such as control system, to robot ontology such as SCARA, six-axis robot and AGV, to full-matrix intelligent manufacturing solutions such as robot workstation, production line and MES for each market segment.

At present, Xinshida is committed to actively using digital twin technology to promote the implementation of intelligent manufacturing. Xinshida introduced the first CAVE laboratory in China, which is based on immersive virtual reality display system. Through this system platform, rapid evaluation of virtual prototype design, ergonomic analysis, virtual interactive debugging of production line, virtual maintenance and maintenance evaluation analysis and interactive product display under virtual digitization can be realized.

In addition, in the specific project, taking the intelligent production line of Haier Qingdao Jiaozhou Factory, which was put into production in Davos in 2020, Xinshida uses 30 six-axis robots and 2 SCARA to build the stamping welding production line of the outer floor of the air conditioner, which helps customers reduce the amount of work by 60%, greatly improve the flexibility of the production line, and achieve cost reduction and efficiency.

Matching robot

At present, the matching robot has realized the complete process from zero research and development to commercial forwarding in many key scenes, such as industrial robot, servo system, numerical control system, vision system and so on. Its products mainly include industrial robots, intelligent components, automatic production lines and intelligent robots, with applications covering 3C, home appliances, automobiles and spare parts, glass building materials, medical food; the process covers handling, polishing, welding, assembly, spraying and other fields. In the past three years, the shipments of robot products have increased by 136%, and have been identified and supported by more than 300 customers and more than 200 integrators.

Specifically, take the electric assembly line created by the robot as an example, the automatic production line of the robot realizes the automatic welding, labeling, dispensing, assembly, geometric position detection, conduction detection, negative pressure dust removal, matching detection and other processes of the RF cavity filter, and the production beat is 90s/pcs, so that the number of people on the whole line is reduced from more than 17 to no more than 7. On the other hand, the second-generation Denso automation line has been designed and upgraded on the basis of the first-generation Denso line, which optimizes the structure of the production line, reduces the occupied area, and improves the tempo at the same time. The efficiency of the same product in the second-generation Denso line has been increased by 20%. The number of people on the whole line has dropped from 7 on the first-generation line to 5.

Hairou innovation

Hairou Innovation is committed to providing efficient, intelligent, flexible and customized warehousing automation solutions through robotics and artificial intelligence algorithms to create value for every factory and logistics warehouse. Its Kubao system has landed nearly 200 projects at home and abroad, widely used in shoes and clothing, 3PL, e-commerce, power, 3C manufacturing, medicine, retail and other industries.

In Xinning LogisticsIn the SMT electronic supply warehouse project, Hairou Innovation customized 3.2m Kubo robot HAIPICK for customers, using 3.1m shelves to manage small materials, resulting in a 1.6-fold increase in storage density. At the same time, accurate material information management, support picking error correction processing, solve the problem of manual picking time-consuming and low efficiency, improve the manual efficiency of 4 times, can efficiently complete the 24-hour order task within 3 hours to meet the SMT supply demand. In addition, the scheme also simplifies the IQC process, makes the anti-static facilities in line with the use specifications, and ensures the safety of the warehouse.

Increase intelligence

Zengguang Intelligence, as a high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent modules, independently develops and produces a variety of products, such as electric claw, servo push rod, servo slide platform, servo rotary table and integrated drive and control servo cylinder controller. It is reported that the augmented intelligent electric claw can not only stably output a small force of 0.2N, hold fragile parts such as chips, but also be competent for grabbing heavy 10kg workpieces, truly realizing "multi-use of one claw", which can not only enhance work flexibility, but also save customers a lot of costs at the same time.

The coil clamping positioning process is involved in the production process of an international famous watch. Because the coil wire diameter is only 0.8mm, it requires fast and stable support, and the coil can not be deformed. In the past, it is generally operated by trained skilled workers, but the result is not only inefficient, but also high defect rate. In order to solve the pain point of customers, an electric claw with force control accuracy up to 0.01N is developed, and the output constant force is 0.3N, and the precision coil can be clamped flexibly without clamping deformation.

Tu Yang Technology

Tuyang Technology focuses on providing cost-effective 3D industrial cameras and supporting software solutions for industrial and industrial applications. At present, based on the core methodology patent of binocular static structured light technology, Tuyang Technology has formed three product lines of FM, FM-IX and PM to meet the needs of industrial automation, industrial measurement, logistics technology, commercial applications and many other scenarios. At present, Tuyang Technology has provided products and services to more than 500 customers.

Specifically, the FM850 series is a general precision, large field of view, high-speed 3D industrial camera, which can meet the needs of industrial sorting, grasping and commercial application of large-size objects, adapts to bad working conditions, and has a very high performance-to-price ratio; the FM810 series is a medium-precision, large field of view 3D industrial camera, which can meet the general requirements of industrial sorting and grasping, industrial measurement and commercial applications, and adapt to bad working conditions and high performance-to-price ratio. The PM801 series are high-precision, large-field-of-view 3D industrial cameras that can meet the needs of demanding industrial sorting, grabbing and industrial measurement.

ATI

ATI Industrial Automation focuses on the design and development of robot end execution tools, including robot tool quick changers, multi-axis force / torque sensors, material removal tools, robot collision sensors, compliant media connectors and remote center compliant devices.

Up to now, ATI has become a partner with robot companies such as FANUC, KUKA, ABB, Yaskawa, and has become a global supplier of tool changers for NAVECO, Great Wall, Changan, Geely, GM, Ford, Daimler, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Renault and other automobile factories.

ATI pointed out that with the aging of the population, there will be a huge market gap in the field of material removal, which requires mature workers to operate, which is an important direction for the future development of robot tools. The use of robots for material removal is beneficial to improve production efficiency, ensure the safety of operators and make the product quality more stable.

At the end of the salon meeting, Foxconn unit heads and 14 robot and intelligent manufacturing enterprises conducted in-depth discussions on technical issues such as automatic workshop transformation, AGV/AMR production line handling, industrial robot programming and path planning.

In response to the salon, Foxconn received good feedback, believing that this form of docking is very effective, and that it will continue to carry out such docking activities with high-tech robots in the future.