From November 5th to 10th, 2020, the 3rd China International Import Expo was held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center in Shanghai. As a world-renowned production company, Epson made its debut at the CIIE with new products and solutions in the fields of inkjet, vision, robotics and other advantageous fields. With the theme of "Drawing China Wisely, Moving the Future Greenly", it focuses on green innovation and sustainable development.
In recent years, with the rapid development of China's production automation, intelligent production, which deeply integrates informatization and industrialization, has accelerated the digital transformation and promotion of the traditional production industry, and continues to push to a higher quality development stage. It has become a major trend in the development of the manufacturing industry to promote the transformation and optimization of industrial skills with intelligent production as the main direction, and to promote the transformation of the industrial form and enterprise shape of the manufacturing industry. At this CIIE, the Epson Intelligent Factory exhibition area brought intelligent management and production plans such as Epson robot intelligent management system, long-distance monitoring, and 3C electronic production production line to Chinese users, helping to speed up industrial automation and digital promotion of enterprise intelligent production.
"Technology + localization" helps local users connect with factories and connect with the world
For a long time, Epson has always taken the strategy of "technology + localization" as the foundation of development, bringing products and solutions that are more suitable for the needs of Chinese users. Under the great demand of the Internet of Things in international smart factories, Epson has created a variety of green and environmentally friendly integrated intelligent production solutions for users to help Chinese users connect with factories and connect with the world.
In order to further meet the needs of users for digital transformation and promotion, and improve the competitiveness of the center, Epson has launched the Smart Factory Skills Training Program. After the cost-effective LS6 robot, collaborative industrial vision sensors and supporting fixtures, the modular one-stop education and training of the manipulator was completed. It can also be combined with a variety of processes to improve the operation and debugging functions of fundamental skills to meet the needs of multi-level personalized education. This modular and simple design concept, which also ensures a convenient and safe educational process, has been loved by FunaAir Technology Co., Ltd. On November 6, Epson and Funa El held a strategic cooperation conference at the CIIE. Funa El has always been trained in skills and modular education to deliver talents in the field of intelligent production to enterprises. This time, Funael and Epson have established a strategic collaboration partnership on the cultivation and output of industrial robot skilled talents, contributing to the vigorous development of the field of intelligent manufacturing.
In order to improve the operation and maintenance power of intelligent factories, Epson has launched an AGV production line inspection solution plan, which effectively reduces the inspection cost and labor intensity, and improves the inspection power and quality together. The plan uses the six-axis robot VT6L-DC, which is powered by DC and has a built-in controller, to deploy the mainstream AGV mobile car in the shopping mall, and complete the production line inspection in the smart factory instead of manual work. Together, it is also suitable for large-area multi-station loading and unloading, combined with the intelligent scheduling system, it can effectively replace labor and complete high-power transportation. In addition, the collaboration with Epson robot management system RMS can further solve the user's operation and maintenance needs and challenges. It makes information processing more efficient, and more flexible and fast to use.
In factories, production lines and other environments, if there is a problem with the equipment, it is often necessary to wait for the maintenance personnel to come and clean it, which will reduce the output power of the production line. Epson's long-distance counseling program can be used through Epson's AR smart glasses and long-distance counseling software to instantly transmit on-site pictures to experts in other places, complete two-way real-time interaction, and let experts clean up problems for long distances in the first time to ensure production power. Together, we can reduce the environmental impact of business trips.
Tianjin Epson Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tianjin Epson Factory) is not only an important production base of Seiko Group, but also a representative of the use of smart factory solutions. Since 2017, the plant has been automated, and now the entire production line has been automated, which not only provides the factory with higher production quality assurance, but also effectively reduces production labor costs, and the overall production power has improved by 37%. Not only that, Tianjin Epson factory can be connected to Japan through the Internet of Things, and all parties can provide long-distance guidance and judgment, which is useful to ensure the operation status and quality of all equipment, improve the operation power, and make the smart factory more "intelligent". This also provides a blueprint and new ideas for the digital transformation of China's traditional manufacturing industry.
Automate the production plan and empower the production industry to upgrade intelligently
As a big manufacturing country, China has a huge industry, a large number of labor, many repetitive operations, and high precision requirements. With the increase of labor costs and the progress of customers' demand for quality and quantity, high-efficiency production and high-quality production have become the development direction of production enterprises. Epson continues to introduce compact, energy-saving, high-precision robot products for the profession, as well as high-yield, high-ease of use solutions, which are useful for enterprises to reduce operating costs and improve product quality.
With the increasing requirements of the manufacturing industry for green environmental protection and improving the working environment of workers, the position of automatic dispensing skills in the profession is becoming more and more important. Epson's fine assembly and dispensing solutions have been widely used in 3C electronic manufacturing. Epson's folding arm six-axis robot N2, with the cooperation of pressure sensors, is equipped with Epson's vision system, which can complete the fine assembly of 3C electronic products such as mobile phones and tablets. Through the collaborative use of robots, analog/O-cards and distance sensors, it can complete uniform dispensing of the curved surface of 3C products, and complete efficient and delicate installation in a limited space. The snap-on inclined in-fit and high-precision gluing process provide customers with one-stop services for robots, vision sensors, and pressure sensors.
In the face of more and more production needs of small batches and various types, the iteration speed of products is accelerating, so the production line needs to be more flexible. Epson's flexible feeding solution plan has the flexibility to respond to this trend with ease. Epson six-axis robot C4-A601S+LS3+ fifth axis unit, equipped with Epson vision system and Anyfeeder intelligent feeding system (third-party feeding system), iterating the traditional feeding form. The standardized protection of the operation station is becoming more and more convenient, and the yield rate is improving rapidly. The integrated five-axis unit solves the problem of workpiece posture flipping from a single source, making the flexible feed more high-quality and high-power.
Labelling is an indispensable part of modern packaging and is in high demand. Traditional manual labeling is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also faces problems such as low power, skewed adhement, and wrinkles, and cannot satisfy the increasingly automated high-speed production line. Therefore, the automatic labeling plan with high power, low cost and high stability has become an urgent need for manufacturers. Epson's colorful label printing and active lamination use solution plan completes the one-stop solution of label printing, label peeling, and active labeling, improves the customer's operation process, improves the production power, greatly improves the operation power, and reduces the labor intensity.
In order to deal with the problem of low teaching power and low accuracy of traditional robots, Epson's new human-computer interactive pattern production solution plan uses robots combined with pressure sensors to strengthen human-computer interaction, complete the friendly and fast teaching process, and improve the teaching power of robots. Together, fast and precise force control can also effectively protect the product.
Label management plan to help enterprises handle intelligently
In addition to the production process, Epson has also launched excellent solutions in the management of fixed property and warehousing of enterprises.
With the development of 5G and the Internet of Things, RFID skills will be applied in a variety of commercial and industrial scenarios. In terms of inventory management, Epson's RFID tag intelligent warehousing solution plan can replace the traditional time-consuming and labor-intensive manual 1-to-1 scanning inventory, quickly locate products through RFID smart tags, and complete batch inventory at one time, helping users optimize the digital handling of enterprise warehousing and logistics. Together, colorful RFID tags give products exclusive identity information, which will bring leapfrog development opportunities for the supply chain and inventory management, traceability, and anti-counterfeiting management of retail, unmanned stores, catering central kitchens, jewelry, tobacco and alcohol.
Epson wide large roll label printer LW-Z5000WC supports the printing of labels with a maximum width of 50mm, as well as a large roll of original ribbon with a maximum of 45m, which has the advantages of waterproof and sun protection, strong adhesion, high and low temperature resistance, etc., which can fully meet the needs of enterprises' property management, logo management and daily labeling. It can also be easily handled with wiring and warning slogans for electric power, telecommunications and other enterprises.
Epson has always focused on "saving, small and refined skills", constantly developing and innovating, bringing excellent products and solutions to users, helping users reduce personnel costs, improve production power and quality, and meet the needs of production line optimization and changeover. In the future, Epson will continue to adhere to the strategic layout of "technology + localization + environment", continue to explore the needs of users in China, help users complete quality and energy efficiency progress, and provide useful guarantees for easy automation. We will truly be an indispensable companion to our customers.
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