Xu Yihua first revealed the truth: No Chinese industrial robot is profitable

At this Home Friendship Conference, Xu Yihua, Chairman of Suzhou Tianzhu Group, gave a keynote speech on the topic of “Industrial Robot Industry Briefing”, briefly describing the current status of industrial robots and the possibility of future development. The following is an extract compilation of Xu Yihua's speech.

Xu Yihua

Generalized industrial robot field

Xu Yihua said that in the past two years, industrial robots suddenly fired up, and there are two independent and irrelevant reasons:

One is that the increase in labor costs, the impact of the population (the number of people with only sons leading to a decrease in the number of people, and the increase in the quality of the population, which leads to a reduction in the willingness to engage in pure physical labor) has led to a large number of industrial robots being used. The other is that the study of deep learning (deeplearning) has become more mature and has promoted the overall development of service robots.

Xu Yihua said that China is a big manufacturing country and he has found some interesting issues in China's manufacturing industry.

I ran over 200 manufacturing factories and found that the manufacturing industry is really not complicated and it is a repetitive job. Therefore, the essence of the production process is to use materials as the core and repeat the storage, movement, processing, assembly, testing, etc. around the materials. Do the work. China's huge manufacturing industry is simply speaking, it does so few things.

These few things seem simple, but the breakdown is very complicated.

For example, materials, such as metals, plastics, glass, ceramics, etc., can be further subdivided in these things. For example, there are many kinds of metals and many kinds of plastics. The form of the material is also different, solids, fluids, and so on. All these things can be infinitely complicated. Combining these things together is a very complicated matter. Microsoft Asia Research Association | Xu Yihua first reveals the truth: No Chinese industrial robot is profitable

For example, the processing technology, vehicle processing, car, milling, planing, cutting, grinding, etc., deeper, such as forging stamping and other common processes and surface treatment, heat treatment and other special processes, these processes The combination is also quite complicated.

The storage, movement, processing, assembly, and inspection of these materials are all required to be completed by equipment. Therefore, a huge industrial chain for equipment manufacturing is formed.