Fan Cheng Foxconn releases new AGV products. Where is the robot road of the OEM giant going?
Published on:2020-07-17
Foxconn is famous for its apple foundry and is also one of the world-famous foundry giants. In recent years, Foxconn has also been committed to the layout of the robot industry and has always adhered to the concept of "machine replacement". Gou has said that it is expected to deploy 1 million robots in Foxconn factories in 2014, so as to realize a highly automated "unmanned factory". We havent analyzed the reason why we havent clicked the "black light" in the famous article
But obviously, Foxconn did not give up! On July 14, Foxconns sharp released a new type of unmanned carrier vehicle (AGV), "type LC". It is reported that this is a new AGV product that can handle products and goods in logistics warehouses, factories and other places. It will be sold publicly on July 20.
Sharp pointed out that this product uses the attached special software "easy course editor", which can simply set the mobile route of "type LC" through the attached tablet device. The maximum walking speed of "type LC" is 60m / min, which can carry out forward, rotation and other actions.
In addition, sharp will also greatly reduce the price of importing AGV system. According to Nikkei news, generally speaking, the investment amount of importing AGV system is afraid to reach tens of millions of yen, while sharp lowered the price of "type LC" to 1940000 yen. It is expected to reduce the import threshold in this way and attract more enterprises to use it.
Since sharp was acquired by Foxconn, it has released a number of AGV products, thanks to Foxconns concept of "machine replacement".
Starting point - robot dream
Foxconns AGV road also starts from the concept of "machine replacement". Hon Hai Group has always regarded the robot field as the focus of development. In 2007, Hon Hai group began to plan to replace human work with robots, so it established a robot subsidiary. In 2019, Gou Taiming, the former chairman of Hon Hai group, put forward at the shareholders meeting of Hon Hai Group in 2019, "our company plans to remove these workers within five years. Our goal is to take 80% off. If we cant do it in five years, we will do it in 10 years, because technology is already here."
Foxconn has been moving towards this concept since its development. In 2011, Foxconn announced the "million robots" plan; In 2016, Foxconn completed the production line of "lightless factory"; In 2018, Hon Hai group, together with its major subordinate enterprises, had a total of more than 80000 robots, more than 170000 mold processing equipment, more than 1600 SMT production lines and more than 5000 testing equipment.
At present, Foxconn produces at least 10000 robots every year. These robots have successfully replaced manpower and reduced costs. Taking Kunshan as an example, Foxconn laid off more than 60000 workers and replaced them with robots, greatly improving work efficiency.
Midpoint - AGV application
Foxconn has been steadily promoting the realization of production automation, and AGV unmanned carrier, as the key equipment to realize the automation of logistics handling, has been gradually applied in Foxconns internal factories in recent years.
In SMT and other workshops, Foxconn is realizing the automatic distribution of electronic materials in the warehouse through AGV handling truck. Previously, Foxconns internal AGV application focused on finding cooperation with relevant manufacturers. As the worlds largest manufacturer of 3C products, Foxconn has more than 30 science and technology industrial parks in mainland China. Because of the wide range of applications, Foxconn also has a large number of AGV suppliers. In the selection of suppliers, in addition to safety and stability, based on the characteristics of 3C manufacturing industry, the flexibility of robots has become the focus of 3C manufacturing industry, and Foxconn is no exception.
Foxconn has an extremely rich production line. As for the mobile phone, in addition to the well-known Apple mobile phone, it also produces mobile phones of domestic well-known brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi and oppo. Therefore, the production line is changed very frequently, even once a month to reassemble. This kind of flexible production requires the traditional manufacturing industry to change the workflow more flexibly and quickly, deploy and operate with low cost, efficient and reliable operation and so on.
Therefore, the ability of large OEM enterprises in 3C industry such as Foxconn to adapt to this flexible demand has been placed in a more important position in the selection of AGV manufacturers. At present, Foxconns AGV suppliers in cooperation include jizhijia, Yifeng robot, Jiazhi technology, stande and other enterprises committed to the flexible technology route.
Next stop - layout AMR
With the increasing number of internal applications and on the basis of rich experience and deep technology in the field of industrial robots, Foxconn also began to layout the production and R & D of mobile robots. At present, the naming, registration and capital verification of the joint venture between Hon Hai and Linghua are expected to be completed in late July. Linghua disclosed that the cooperation with Hon Hai will lock in AMR. Linghua believes that the most important application in the future 5g private network is AMR.
The cooperation between Hon Hai and Linghua is a powerful alliance! In recent years, Linghua technology has successfully integrated artificial intelligence (AI) technology and improved the robot controller of precision control, perception, real-time communication and vision. Linghua has opened the self-developed controller platform, and thus re established a new intelligent manufacturing standard to build ros2 into a common platform for mobile robots.
Linghua has also set up an ambitious plan to successfully develop at least 200 innovative products of intelligent robots in 2025 and establish Taiwans global leadership in the field of intelligent robots.
Hon Hai, not to mention, it has rich experience and profound technical heritage in the field of industrial robots.
Hon Hai and Linghua hope to make use of the standard real-time data transmission architecture (DDS) adopted by the international robot open source architecture ros2. The new company will combine Hon Hais advanced robot electromechanical integration experience and Linghuas software technology advantages to optimize the integration of software and hardware and strengthen the real-time decision-making required by autonomous robots in group interaction, including accurate action and dynamic management, To achieve smooth network communication between autonomous robots without delay, so as to expand the application value of autonomous robot clusters in different fields.
From application to self research, it can be seen that Foxconn pays more and more attention to the application of mobile robots, also confirmed its strong will of "robot replacement".
But obviously, Foxconn did not give up! On July 14, Foxconns sharp released a new type of unmanned carrier vehicle (AGV), "type LC". It is reported that this is a new AGV product that can handle products and goods in logistics warehouses, factories and other places. It will be sold publicly on July 20.
Sharp pointed out that this product uses the attached special software "easy course editor", which can simply set the mobile route of "type LC" through the attached tablet device. The maximum walking speed of "type LC" is 60m / min, which can carry out forward, rotation and other actions.
In addition, sharp will also greatly reduce the price of importing AGV system. According to Nikkei news, generally speaking, the investment amount of importing AGV system is afraid to reach tens of millions of yen, while sharp lowered the price of "type LC" to 1940000 yen. It is expected to reduce the import threshold in this way and attract more enterprises to use it.
Since sharp was acquired by Foxconn, it has released a number of AGV products, thanks to Foxconns concept of "machine replacement".
Starting point - robot dream
Foxconns AGV road also starts from the concept of "machine replacement". Hon Hai Group has always regarded the robot field as the focus of development. In 2007, Hon Hai group began to plan to replace human work with robots, so it established a robot subsidiary. In 2019, Gou Taiming, the former chairman of Hon Hai group, put forward at the shareholders meeting of Hon Hai Group in 2019, "our company plans to remove these workers within five years. Our goal is to take 80% off. If we cant do it in five years, we will do it in 10 years, because technology is already here."
Foxconn has been moving towards this concept since its development. In 2011, Foxconn announced the "million robots" plan; In 2016, Foxconn completed the production line of "lightless factory"; In 2018, Hon Hai group, together with its major subordinate enterprises, had a total of more than 80000 robots, more than 170000 mold processing equipment, more than 1600 SMT production lines and more than 5000 testing equipment.
At present, Foxconn produces at least 10000 robots every year. These robots have successfully replaced manpower and reduced costs. Taking Kunshan as an example, Foxconn laid off more than 60000 workers and replaced them with robots, greatly improving work efficiency.
Midpoint - AGV application
Foxconn has been steadily promoting the realization of production automation, and AGV unmanned carrier, as the key equipment to realize the automation of logistics handling, has been gradually applied in Foxconns internal factories in recent years.
In SMT and other workshops, Foxconn is realizing the automatic distribution of electronic materials in the warehouse through AGV handling truck. Previously, Foxconns internal AGV application focused on finding cooperation with relevant manufacturers. As the worlds largest manufacturer of 3C products, Foxconn has more than 30 science and technology industrial parks in mainland China. Because of the wide range of applications, Foxconn also has a large number of AGV suppliers. In the selection of suppliers, in addition to safety and stability, based on the characteristics of 3C manufacturing industry, the flexibility of robots has become the focus of 3C manufacturing industry, and Foxconn is no exception.
Foxconn has an extremely rich production line. As for the mobile phone, in addition to the well-known Apple mobile phone, it also produces mobile phones of domestic well-known brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi and oppo. Therefore, the production line is changed very frequently, even once a month to reassemble. This kind of flexible production requires the traditional manufacturing industry to change the workflow more flexibly and quickly, deploy and operate with low cost, efficient and reliable operation and so on.
Therefore, the ability of large OEM enterprises in 3C industry such as Foxconn to adapt to this flexible demand has been placed in a more important position in the selection of AGV manufacturers. At present, Foxconns AGV suppliers in cooperation include jizhijia, Yifeng robot, Jiazhi technology, stande and other enterprises committed to the flexible technology route.
Next stop - layout AMR
With the increasing number of internal applications and on the basis of rich experience and deep technology in the field of industrial robots, Foxconn also began to layout the production and R & D of mobile robots. At present, the naming, registration and capital verification of the joint venture between Hon Hai and Linghua are expected to be completed in late July. Linghua disclosed that the cooperation with Hon Hai will lock in AMR. Linghua believes that the most important application in the future 5g private network is AMR.
The cooperation between Hon Hai and Linghua is a powerful alliance! In recent years, Linghua technology has successfully integrated artificial intelligence (AI) technology and improved the robot controller of precision control, perception, real-time communication and vision. Linghua has opened the self-developed controller platform, and thus re established a new intelligent manufacturing standard to build ros2 into a common platform for mobile robots.
Linghua has also set up an ambitious plan to successfully develop at least 200 innovative products of intelligent robots in 2025 and establish Taiwans global leadership in the field of intelligent robots.
Hon Hai, not to mention, it has rich experience and profound technical heritage in the field of industrial robots.
Hon Hai and Linghua hope to make use of the standard real-time data transmission architecture (DDS) adopted by the international robot open source architecture ros2. The new company will combine Hon Hais advanced robot electromechanical integration experience and Linghuas software technology advantages to optimize the integration of software and hardware and strengthen the real-time decision-making required by autonomous robots in group interaction, including accurate action and dynamic management, To achieve smooth network communication between autonomous robots without delay, so as to expand the application value of autonomous robot clusters in different fields.
From application to self research, it can be seen that Foxconn pays more and more attention to the application of mobile robots, also confirmed its strong will of "robot replacement".
