As an important processing equipment in modern industry, welding equipment is widely used in military industry, aerospace, Marine vessels, pressure vessels, pipeline engineering, petrochemical engineering, engineering machinery, electric power engineering, construction, steel structure, automobile manufacturing, rail transit, light industry and civil industry and other industries.
Advanced Engineering Robot Industry Research Institute (GGII) data shows that in the first half of 2023, the sales volume of arc welding robots in China was 14,500 units, down 5.84% year on year, and the annual sales volume is expected to be 31,500 units, up 2.27% year on year; But overall, our country welding products are still concentrated in the middle and low-end welding equipment, with automatic welding, intelligent welding, ultra-low splash welding, servo welding high-end welding equipment demand further, and weld tracking, information sensing, offline programming, intelligent control, artificial intelligence, simulation technology, welding technology breakthrough, the future automatic welding equipment application field and application scenarios will be more widely, industrial welding robot will become the inevitable trend of the future industry development.
In this context, on October 12, the 2023 (second) Welding Robot Technology and Application Summit with the theme of “welder’s journey” was held in Shanghai Sofitel Hotel.
More than 300 industrial chain professionals gathered together on the site to shock “welding” the future.
As the summit partner of this conference, Lin Qingsen, general manager of Megmeet Welding Technology, delivered a speech.
Lin Qingsen said the market was not as expected this year, but demand for Marine engineering and steel structures remained strong, while overseas demand for intelligent robots was rising.
Specifically, overseas demand presents three characteristics: 1, Europe and the United States and other developed countries show the characteristics of small batch industrial production, high requirements for safety and flexibility, so the demand for collaborative intelligent welding robot is far greater than industrial welding robot; 2, the total price of a set of collaborative welding robot and the annual income of local welders, namely 60,000-70,000 euros, cooperative welding robot cost advantage is significant; 3, overseas enterprises for laser welding demand soared, customers pay more attention to the standard and safety related certification.
In the special session of [new product: shock “welding”], Duan Junchang, director of marketing planning of Megmeet welding technology, delivered a speech on “application research of robot arc welding power supply”.
Duan Junchang said that since officially entering the welding field in 2011, Megmeet has been focusing on the digital industrial intelligent welding machine.
At present, Megmeet has 30 + subsidiaries, 11 R & D centers and 8 production bases around the world.
In 2022, Megmeet’s revenue was 5.48 billion yuan, up 31.8% year on year.
In the face of the Internet, Internet of things, big data era, traditional welding production equipment, personnel, technology, quality, cost, management, Megmeet launched intelligent welding connected SMARC II, has the advantage of highly friendly, open inclusive, can network different brands of welding machine and related equipment, help customers solve the traditional welding problem.
Dr. Yang Tao, co-founder of Zhixiang Optoelectronics, delivered a keynote speech on “The Application, Challenges and Opportunities of 3D Vision in the field of robot welding”.
Dr. Yang Tao said that the existing challenges of 3D vision + robot application have technical aspects, such as material adaptability, with high requirements for imaging hardware and algorithm; scene diversity has high requirements for 3 D recognition algorithm; and robot security has higher requirements for path planning and simulation algorithm.
Only solid technological innovation can truly break the game.
Other challenges include business model, price volume, economic slowdown, etc. The way to break the game lies in open cooperation, respect for business laws, and international layout.
The future application potential is huge, 3D vision + robot application has passed the brewing period, towards the rapid growth period, robot change welder is the ultimate goal.
Post time: Oct-18-2023