Hand in hand Yasukawa Electric United States formally entered the robot industry2016-11-09
On the afternoon of August 4, Midea Group Co., Ltd. and Yasukawa Electric (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Midea" & Yasukawa), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric Co., Ltd. of Japan, announced in Shunde, Foshan that the two companies jointly set up two robot joint ventures , Will play a bigger advantage both sides of the robot industry. The two joint ventures are Guangdong Yasukawa Service Robot Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Yasukawa Midea Industrial Robot Co., Ltd. Service Robotics is controlled by Midea 60.1% and Industrial Robotics is 51% owned by Yaskawa. To attend the ceremony site of the United States, chairman of the Group, President Fang Hongbo to the 21st Century Business Herald reporter said that the robot strategy is the US "double wisdom" strategy (intelligent home + intelligent manufacturing) extension and expansion of the future of the United States will also strive from the traditional home appliances Enterprises, to have the Internet thinking of intelligent hardware company transformation. Why is the robot industry? Intelligent combination of single product + service robot will spawn the wisdom of the new home blue ocean areas, customized demand for customized + intelligent manufacturing based on industrial robots will spawn a new round of rapid growth in demand. According to the International Robot Association IFR data show that sales of service robots in the world is expected to reach 18.9 billion yuan in 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 37%. According to estimates, the future of China's total demand for industrial robots will reach 126-339 million units, the market capacity of hundreds of billions of dollars in size. The robot industry can be said to stand on the outlet of the future industry. US Robot Group, general manager of the industry, said Zhen Shaoqiang, home service robots will be the same as the future popularity of home appliances, industrial robots and broad prospects. In addition, the service robot can drive sensors, artificial intelligence, intelligent home business expansion; industrial robots can drive the servo motor, reducer, system integration business development. Predictable is that the United States Group "Shuangzhi" strategy ahead of service robotics, industrial robots on the layout, the United States will build a new industrial advantages, will also help meet the 90,00 and the aging population after the consumer demand. Powerful combination how to play? Yasukawa Electric (China) Robot Division Minister Nishikawa Qing Wu said: Yaskawa robot for the industry one of the four, leading technology products, the world's first sales of more than 300,000 units. Yasukawa service robot technology research and development for more than 10 years, the product line is rich, rehabilitation robot LR2 has passed the domestic CFDA certification. Industry chain, Yaskawa in the industry's most complete, there are servo motors, drive control systems and other products. Midea familiar with the user habits and spending habits, with a strong line of online resources and intelligent home technology research and development experience, which will help the United States into the field of service robots. In addition, the US demand for industrial robots increased year by year, has just become. Zhen Shaoqiang said, the United States to enter the field of industrial service robots and robots have a good foundation in the field: the leading technology and the United States through the 3C technology, operational capacity integration, making Chinese enterprises easy to use 3C robots to promote industrial robots become domestic robots Of the leading enterprises. At the same time, the use of the Internet and the United States to build the mechanism of advantage, research and development to promote human assistance to help the disabled, rehabilitation machine care, become one of the leading domestic service robot. According to the plan, the service robot joint venture company will be rehabilitation robots, assisting the elderly disabled disabled class robot, shopping guide robot research and development, manufacturing, sales oriented. The industrial robot joint venture company will focus on robot system integration, research and development, manufacturing, sales for the general industry (home appliance industry as the starting point) based robot products, a year production of a six-axis robot products, Robots produce a new product. No longer focus on home appliance industry? The United States as a 48-year focus on white goods home appliance giant, this sounded the horn to enter the robot industry, Fang Hongbo said the future does not rule out more new industries, reflecting the "only change is the" spirit of the United States. Fang Hongbo to the 21st Century Business Herald reporter that the United States to seek new growth, the establishment of innovative platform system, the establishment of special innovation fund, the establishment of incubator operation mechanism to encourage full innovation. There is also an important point, the United States to the future, and actively create a "second runway", open up new growth space for enterprises. The home appliance business is still the core and the most fundamental business of Midea Group. Robot strategy is the extension and expansion of the "double wisdom" strategy of the United States. It is an important measure for Midea to actively open up the second runway. In short, the beauty of the border will become increasingly blurred, the future will also be the United States from the traditional household electrical appliance enterprises, to have the Internet thinking of intelligent hardware company transformation.
