Leading the collaborative robot race, FANUC empowers industrial intelligence scenarios

Against the backdrop of industrial upgrading and rising labor costs, enterprises' demand for intelligent production continues to rise. As a key tool for intelligent manufacturing, collaborative robots have gradually become an indispensable role in enterprise production. Faced with more stringent industrial application environments and high-quality standards, how to further improve the product performance, quality and safety of collaborative robots has become the primary goal of industrial robot companies.

With its profound technical accumulation in the industrial robot industry, FANUC has continuously developed and manufactured exemplary products that lead innovation, and applied innovative technologies in the field of industrial robots to many industries. Recently, Shanghai FANUC grandly launched the CRX "Industrial" collaborative robot, once again leading the new development trend of robot and intelligent manufacturing industry applications, and contributing a powerful tool to accelerate industrial transformation, improve quality and increase efficiency.

Mr. Qian Hui, General Manager of Shanghai FANUC Robotics Co., Ltd., said: "The CRX series of 'industrial' collaborative robots can improve the quality of collaborative robots in the industrial industry. Relying on FANUC Robotics' many years of technology and experience, it will promote the progress of the entire collaborative robot industry. While providing users with safe, easy-to-use and reliable human-machine collaboration solutions, it will help companies stay one step ahead in the ever-changing market and fierce industry competition."

The following is the interview transcript with Mr. Qian Hui, General Manager of Shanghai FANUC Robotics Co., Ltd .:

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Qian Hui: Human-machine collaboration is the future development trend of the robotics industry. After fully studying the current status of the global collaborative robot market, FANUC found that there are many customer needs that are not being met, especially in terms of reliability and ease of use in industrial environments, which still have many pain points.

In order to help users solve the problems of production efficiency and production flexibility, improve the reliability of robots, and provide the industry with highly reliable, highly applicable, and highly technological robots, FANUC has launched a new CRX full range of collaborative robots with load capacities ranging from 5KG to 25KG and arm spans ranging from 994mm to 1889mm. It has three major characteristics: high safety, high reliability, and easy use. It will help FANUC expand its market in high-growth areas such as automobiles and auto parts, 3C electronics, logistics, and food and beverages, and meet the growing automation needs of different industries. It can be said that CRX can help users achieve broader human-machine collaboration in various application fields.

Qian Hui: There should be three aspects in the future research and development of collaborative robots.

The first aspect is to improve the quality of collaborative robots themselves. The quality of collaborative robots currently on the market, especially those used in industrial scenarios, needs to be further improved, and FANUC Group is also willing to make our contribution to improving the quality of the entire collaborative robot industry.

The second aspect is that with the expansion of application scenarios, collaborative robots, as a general-purpose robot, need to cover more application scenarios. Therefore, the development of process technology for more application scenarios and the combination of robots and process technology will be a very important direction for the future research and development of collaborative robots.

The third point is the intelligent development of digitalization and informatization, which will enable future collaborative robots to be more integrated with perception technology, making collaborative robots more intelligent.

Qian Hui: The collaborative robot industry is very hot right now, and many companies have entered the field. This is a very good thing, but it will also bring about some mixed problems.

Industrial collaboration should still focus on the real needs of customers. Customers really need products that can bring them profits and enhance their competitiveness. This requires our products, especially in industrial scenarios, to have extremely high reliability, no downtime, and no many failures. At the same time, in terms of intelligence, technology, etc., we can better meet customer needs and solve their pain points.

As a world-leading industrial robot company, what we always pursue is to meet customer needs, solve customer pain points, create value for customers, bring competitive barriers to customers, and bring benefits to customers.

Qian Hui: Since entering the Chinese market in 1997, FANUC Group has always been customer-centric, committed to introducing the world's best products and technologies to the Chinese market and creating value for Chinese customers.

At the same time, FANUC also regards the construction of a technical center in China as a very important task. We hope to combine the world's best technology with China's local wisdom to produce more products that meet the needs of the local Chinese market.

We have also promoted the construction of the Phase III factory in Shanghai. The construction of the Phase III factory will enable us to better meet local needs and further make our smart manufacturing have Chinese characteristics and bear the Chinese imprint.

While using global wisdom to serve China, we are also constantly increasing the exploration and stimulation of Chinese wisdom. In the future, we will let Chinese wisdom serve the Chinese and even global markets.