Wisdom is endless, Lenovo joins hands with Fanuc to open a new era of industrial robots!

If the key to the realization of the industrial Internet lies in the manufacturing industry, then the robot, known as the "pearl at the top of the manufacturing crown", is the core, the most complex and the most extensive core equipment to support the development of intelligent manufacturing.

This year, robots have been written into the "14th Five-Year Plan": in-depth implementation of intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing projects, the development of new service-oriented manufacturing models, the promotion of high-end, intelligent and green manufacturing, and the promotion of robotics and other industries innovation and development. Once again, it is clear that robots, as the "propeller" of intelligent manufacturing, green manufacturing and high-end manufacturing, are given high hopes to promote the deep integration of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing, and become an important foothold to promote the digital, networked and intelligent development of the manufacturing industry.

On the one hand, it is the product of IT/OT, AI, 5G, and industrial software and hardware integration, empowering and empowering factory production; On the other hand, as a precision equipment that integrates the wisdom of all people, it also needs to evolve itself to meet the rapidly changing market demand and challenges in the transformation of the manufacturing industry at a time when new technologies are changing with each passing day. Based on the insight and judgment of this trend, Fanuc Robot, the leader of the global industrial robot industry, has made a long-term strategy at the peak and began to form an alliance with Lenovo edge intelligence.

Wisdom is endless, Lenovo joins hands with Fanuc to open a new era of industrial robots!

From automation to intelligence, industrial robots have entered a new era

Shanghai Fanuc Robot Co., Ltd. is a localized enterprise jointly invested by Fanuc Group and Shanghai Electric Group (hereinafter referred to as Fanuc), which provides industrial users with high-reliability robots, robot automation engineering, various precision equipment, and supporting industrial software, control systems and vision systems with strong engineering integration and technical service capabilities.

In the past two years, Fanuc robots have accounted for 15% of the market share in China, and the global installed capacity of robots has reached 780,000 units. If the rapid growth of scale is like a gushing volcano, then the long-term factors of the upgrading of the manufacturing industry in the Chinese market and the impulsive stimulation of the epidemic may be the shallow "molten" magma of the earth's crust, and it is worth investigating the violent hedging that occurs inside the mantle: can the robots born in the era of automation still be able to withstand the wave of the industrial revolution in the AIoT era?

In China, nearly 400,000 small and medium-sized manufacturing industries have joined the mighty tide of transformation, can robots meet the diverse new scenarios? Consumption upgrading has forced the manufacturing industry to upgrade to high-end, flexible, green and lean, and the performance of robots (including stability, compatibility, safety, intelligence and a series of indicators) can be improved simultaneously? Undoubtedly, the new digital market driven by intelligent manufacturing, high-end manufacturing, lean manufacturing, green manufacturing, flexible customization and new business models will create a new era of industrial robots.

This is not a "preview of the next episode", but a "synopsis".

Among Fanuc's high-end customers, precision manufacturing customers such as consumer electronics and automobile manufacturing have put forward new needs. As smart devices and Internet of Things technology are more widely used in production, the on-site perception dimension is richer, and the volume and refinement of industrial big data are improving. These needs and pain points are "moderately advanced", which is a good time for Fanuc Robot to start self-evolution, meet a new era, and open a new chapter.

Keep improving, the evolution of robot intelligence begins at the "edge"

Industrial manufacturing is a field of "site is king", industrial data is generated in the field, transmitted in the field, processed in the field, and applied in the field, and the real-time, accuracy, completeness, and safety of the data directly affect the key indicators such as production line efficiency, delivery progress, and production safety. Therefore, the whole process of data must be refined, only fast and not broken. From this point of view, the key to winning smart manufacturing is at the edge. The growth of robots to increase intelligence and expand knowledge should also start from the edge.

Take one of Fanuc's customer A in the field of 3C manufacturing as an example. The manufacturing of precision instruments is inseparable from the deployment of a large number of intelligent vision, and these image data provide an important basis for accurate position approval and subsequent defect detection when the robot is working, and the acquisition and transmission of these image data is the first step of precision manufacturing. In this scenario, Lenovo fully considered the comprehensive requirements of the on-site needs to integrate the data acquisition equipment into the field and operate it uninterruptedly, and finally translated it into a customized product - a fanless small box chassis to provide agile, reliable, and continuous data acquisition and transmission services.

The explosion of data also brings computing challenges. When all kinds of "data floods" pour in, how to be compatible with different data formats, analyze them in a unified manner, and analyze and process them safely and agilely? This requires strong computing power support and corresponding algorithm matching. In this kind of scenario, the high-performance GPU graphics card of Lenovo's 4U chassis provides optimal computing power support for large-scale machine vision scenarios and copes with data floods.

Rock-solid, robots must have both "smart minds" and "strong physiques"

The harsh environment of industrial sites (high temperature, high adaptability, high cold, high electromagnetism, etc.) is an ever-present challenge for industrial equipment manufacturers and service providers. Extremely poor working conditions and low operating fault tolerance mean extremely high challenges in terms of stability and reliability for robots and core components.

Take one of Fanuc's customers in the field of automobile manufacturing, T, as an example. In a welding process, the robotic arm needs to collect and analyze the welding traces. In order to minimize the risk of downtime caused by Mars sputtering, it is necessary to reduce the external interface of the data acquisition equipment embedded in the robot again and again, even if it is a personalized and small-batch customization function, the site also needs to respond quickly and deliver effectively. Based on its strong supply chain capabilities and Xiaokuailing's customized delivery capabilities, Lenovo provides customers with an extremely simple data acquisition equipment interface solution, which is a small measure that helps to resist external physical risks and build a "strong body" for robots.

Wisdom is endless, Lenovo accompanies Fanuc to lead the new era of robots

In the more than two years of cooperation, Lenovo has always injected highlights into Fanuc's products and solutions with hard-core technical support, customized product advantages and capillary-level service network throughout the country, and cultivated the advantages of ascending dimension. At the same time, to serve the Chinese industrial market, it is also necessary to pay attention to the long-term requirements of building a safe and stable industrial chain and supply chain and enhancing the localization of substitution.

For Fanuc, rebuilding intelligent genes on the basis of the automation capabilities of industrial robots is a step of self-breakthrough and forward-looking decision-making, and it is a difficult but correct thing. For Lenovo, accompanying Fanuc to embrace the new era of robot intelligence is the only way to jointly explore the direction of the value of edge intelligence and promote edge intelligence to market verification. With moderately advanced research and judgment and the courage to open up, the two sides will depict a predictable new era for the industrial robot industry and write a new chapter that can be referenced.

Wisdom is endless, Lenovo joins hands with Fanuc to open a new era of industrial robots!

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