The mismatch between supply and demand for global industrial robots has been acute

Source：Updated：2017-05-04 08:06:26

Because domestic labor shortages and rising labor and so on, Chinese companies are "critical" buy industrial robot, by this, global industrial robot demand is increasing. But at the same time, the shortage of supply and demand in the high end of the robot has become a major problem for the manufacturing industry. 
 
 
 
The mismatch between supply and demand for global industrial robots has been acute 
 
With the development of the industrial robot and the future of the industry, the contradiction between supply and demand imbalance in the field is becoming more and more prominent. On the one hand, a robot manufacturers, system integrators and processing manufacturing industry are thirsty, on the other hand is a talent shortage, difficult to meet the demand of enterprise of choose and employ persons. 
 
The ministry of industry and information technology shows that zhejiang is the first to push forward the machine replacement, with the plan to implement 5, 000 machine replacement projects each year for more than 4 years since 2013, and the investment of RMB 500 billion will be realized. Ling yun, deputy director of the zhejiang provincial trust, said the project had reduced the number of ordinary workers by nearly two million by 2015. Anhui is pushing ahead with the "machine replacement" of hundreds of thousands of works. Guangdong, shandong and other places are in themselves have the comparative advantage industries vigorously promote "machine substitution", has quite a few artificial position is replaced by robots Labour. 
 
Investigate its reason, mainly is a relatively recent years domestic explosive development of robot industry, universities, vocational schools and other institutions for training curriculum is still lagging behind, although some robot manufacturers to provide relevant training, has a specific brand of insufficient efforts in promoting and supporting facilities and training network co., LTD., is difficult to achieve teaching process in the system, can not be with students across the country needs to fit well, lead to many aspiring in robot industry is studied. 
 
"The best 'snatching' window is about 10 years away." On April 24, by the federation of industry and commerce, wuhan optical valley in wuhan city chamber of commerce and other agencies, jointly organized the "new city wealth opportunity sharing BBS" scene, the state information center, chief economist at Mr Fan pointed out that urbanization in China is entering the "second half", have the ability to grab people and can get the people of the city, is the future. 
 
The biggest engine driving demand growth is China. Fanuc, a Japanese maker of automation equipment and robotics, has announced it will invest about 63 billion yen in a new industrial robot factory in the city of ibaraki prefecture. The new plant, which will begin production in August 2018, plans to produce 2, 000 robots a month to meet China's growing demand for industrial robots. 
 
Most robots are still living in the "cage", the reason is that they have the potential to harm to humans, but in the future, robots will work together with the human, is applied to certain services, such as fruit picking, distribution of drugs in the fields or help to take care of the patients in hospital. 
 
After the new factory is put into operation, the total monthly output of the fanuc will increase to about 1.5 times, to 9, 000. The new plant will increase capacity while focusing on demand, eventually increasing to 4, 000 units, and the entire production capacity of the company will increase to 11,000. "More demand is expected than ever before," said the President and chief executive, Mr. Rice, who decided to build a new plant. 
 
Wang guiqiang, a researcher at the shandong provincial research and equipment industry, believes that the rise of artificial intelligence may cause some low-skilled workers to lose their jobs. But some experts believe that robots will create more high-end jobs. This may include: industrial data scientists, coordinator, industrial engineers, artificial expert, supply chain coordination position, system design, information technology, 3 d cad, field service engineers, sales and service personnel requirements. Remarkably, these new jobs are highly specialized. 
 
For the moment, most industrial robots work in structured environments, with poor online sensing capabilities. The service robot can only do some simple tasks at the moment. In the case of special robots, you need to do certain things manually. So while robots may have an impact on human jobs, there is no need to be overly nervous. 
 
Competition has intensified in small and medium-sized enterprises that had not previously introduced robots. Li gang, head of China robotics at abb, the Swiss automation giant, said that if it did not improve productivity, it would not survive. In addition, in China to make a line using the robot domestic parts processing enterprises, also said "labor are increasing, but the robot can just buy a decade". China is expected to maintain strong demand.