Mobile robots, opening up a new blue ocean of smart manufacturing

The "OFweek 2024 (13th) China Robotics Industry Conference" hosted by OFweek, a Chinese high-tech portal, and organized by OFweek Robotics was successfully held in Shenzhen from April 18 to 19. At the "Mobile Robot (AGV/AMR) Industry Innovation and Development Forum" held on April 19, Liu Changlun, CEO of Zhejiang Xinyihua Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "AI+AMR+Empowering Manufacturing".

Liu Changlun, CEO of Zhejiang Xinyihua Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

Manufacturing is the lifeblood of the national economy. As an important driving force for a new round of scientific and technological revolution, AI’s deep integration with emerging technologies such as robots has given rise to the new concept of “intelligent manufacturing”.

Traditional production and transportation methods are not only inefficient and costly, but more importantly, they are unable to meet the urgent needs of modern manufacturing for precise handling and flexible response. Therefore, high-precision, high-performance, and multi-functional mobile composite robots have become a key link in the manufacturing industry's digital transformation.

At this time, Zhejiang Xinyihua, a company focusing on mobile handling and automatic loading and unloading, relying on its profound foundation in robot equipment research and development and business practice, has taken over cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to create a full-scenario, integrated solution covering the semiconductor, 3C, panel and other industries, and sounded the "charge" to help the manufacturing industry transform and upgrade!

Embracing AI, AMR helps the manufacturing industry transform and upgrade

Compared with traditional industrial robots , mobile robots are undoubtedly a more advanced form of digital and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry. With the "mobile" feature, AMR (autonomous mobile robot) is not restricted by fixed paths and can be flexibly dispatched and operated in factory workshops, giving full play to its advantages of high efficiency and flexibility.

The composite mobile robot integrates functional modules such as a mobile chassis and a robot arm. Through modular design, different models can be assembled flexibly. It not only has the flexibility of a mobile robot, but also can support actions such as handling, loading and unloading. It is an "all-round" player.

As a leader in the field of mobile handling and automatic loading and unloading, Xinyihua adheres to the concept of "sincere service and pursuit of excellence" and provides customers with safe, reliable, efficient and stable automated production and logistics services by integrating cutting-edge technologies such as visual recognition, visual obstacle avoidance, natural navigation, and multi -sensor fusion.

Through years of practice, Zhejiang Xinyihua has gradually broken through the core pain points of high-end manufacturing in the semiconductor industry, formed its own technological barriers, and won high recognition from leading domestic and foreign companies.

At the single-machine product level, through continuous innovation, we achieve stable performance with high cleanliness, high shock absorption, high precision and high safety, and solve customers' urgent needs for stable, reliable and consistent equipment; at the large-scale operation level, with AMR as the core, we provide overall solutions to achieve optimized design of routes, logic, and number of clusters to meet end-to-end automated transportation; at the digital empowerment level, we deeply analyze the customer's production line links, optimize the production rhythm, improve product yield, and achieve high adaptability through long-term running-in.

Thanks to its outstanding performance in the pan-semiconductor field, Xinyihua has helped many leading semiconductor companies achieve intelligent upgrades and established many benchmark cases in the industry. Among them, the case of a leading domestic silicon wafer factory is particularly eye-catching, with more than 30 robots running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and robots can automatically load and unload high-precision silicon wafers, replacing traditional manual labor.

Such hardcore performance is inseparable from Zhejiang Xinyihua's strong software and hardware capabilities.

According to reports, as of 2023, Zhejiang Xinyihua has 134 invention patents and 282 patent applications. More than 65% of the software and hardware algorithm teams have master's degrees or above, forming a number of core technologies such as machine vision , dynamic recognition, and deep learning. Strong talent and technology reserves are the fundamental guarantee for the excellent performance of its products, and are also the basis for it to enter the supply chain system of leading companies in the semiconductor and 3C fields at home and abroad.

In terms of production tests, the monthly basic production capacity reaches 200 units, and the maximum monthly flexible production capacity can reach 800 units. It only takes 1-3 months from order signing to assembly. What's more efficient is that with modular design and minimalist assembly process, workers only need 2 days of training to complete the installation independently.

What is even more commendable is that Zhejiang Xinyihua has also set a new industry benchmark in terms of product quality control. The company has established a complete component-level and whole-machine-level testing system, covering multiple aspects such as sweep frequency vibration, mechanical shock, electrostatic discharge, radio frequency electromagnetic, high and low temperature aging, insulation withstand voltage, dynamic and static loads, etc., to ensure product reliability and consistency.

It can be said that whether in product development, production and manufacturing, or talent reserve, Zhejiang Xinyihua is ready to move towards large-scale application and is moving towards becoming a leader in intelligent manufacturing with firm steps!

In the face of the blue ocean, Zhejiang Xinyihua is running at an "accelerated" pace in the industry

Due to the complex nature of automated operations in the semiconductor industry, downstream customers have more stringent requirements for mobile robots, posing greater challenges to robot manufacturers' technological breakthroughs and innovative solutions.

Looking at the current situation, the global market demand for semiconductors is continuing to rise. In order to maximize the utilization rate of production equipment, major manufacturing companies have stepped up their expansion, and the demand for digital and intelligent logistics systems is becoming increasingly urgent.

According to data, the scale of my country's mobile robot market will be approximately 9.7 billion yuan in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 24.0%. The scale of the mobile robot market is expected to reach 19 billion yuan in 2024.

With the support of the national policy of building a strong manufacturing country, the evolution of traditional manufacturing to "intelligent manufacturing" has created a vast blue ocean, and the urgent demand for mobile robot technology in high-end manufacturing such as semiconductors will also give birth to new trends in industrial development.

As a leader in mobile robots, Zhejiang Xinyihua has always kept a close eye on this market opportunity. With continued increased R&D investment, a complete product matrix, and an increasingly mature industrial ecosystem, they are accelerating the breakthrough of numerous technical barriers and striding towards the ideal stage of large-scale implementation of mobile robots in the manufacturing field.

In the current wave of intelligent manufacturing, Zhejiang Xinyihua is expected to become a backbone force in leading the way. Let us look forward to its growth and take-off together!