Market analysis: the lithium battery industry with industrial robots

In 2016, according to relevant data show that domestic industrial robot sales record again, to 87000, and by the end of 2017, China's output of industrial robot 131000 units (sets), up 51% year on year, is expected to sustainable sales growth this year. Compound annual growth rate of 22% over the next three years. Can say, "machine substitution" wave is sweeping the whole manufacturing!

For the lithium electricity industry growing in recent years, "machine substitution" seems to be more urgent.

The outbreak of the new energy vehicles driving the development of the new lithium electricity industry, The lithium battery Demand is rising, but the current lithium electric equipment industry boom, there is also facing low efficiency, poor stability and high degree of automation is not "pain points". And this kind of contradiction, is a robot application critical point.

By moving the robot technology and lithium The battery Production technology, can greatly improve the degree of automation and intelligent lithium battery production line, improve production efficiency and product quality, drive the lithium battery production enterprise technical upgrade and reform. At the same time, and the technology of artificial intelligence, automation, intelligent manufacturing technology such as information fusion, not only is the premise to realize no one chemical plant, is the domestic lithium battery, etc. The future development trend of discrete manufacturing line.

Then, the robot which link can play a role in lithium electricity automation?

Lithium battery process including coating, slitting, baking, winding, assembling, welding, injection liquid, into, capacity, PACK assembly, etc., lithium electricity production each link can actually use robots, including cohesion between single working procedure and process. But now in the assembly, welding, into the four Pack assembly line, packaging link robot use morer, and the application of other link has yet to be mining ascension. Therefore, the present some related businesses are doing automation and digitization of comprehensive upgrade of production line. Let the robot to infiltrate process each link of lithium-ion batteries.

Last year, in Jiangxi province first high capacity Lithium ion power battery Fully automated production line in xinyu overall Ganfeng Lithium Co., ltd. formally put into production. Which all automatic production line with independent intellectual property rights, with a total investment of about 600 million Yuan, after the can form when the annual output of 600 million mw high capacity lithium ion Power battery The scale of production, annual output value of about 1.5 billion Yuan.

This production line application of industrial robots and machine hand close to 200, the industrial equipment integration and data visualization analysis of 4.0 concepts as the core, with the help of the Internet of things technology means such as data acquisition, data analysis, do concentration analysis and optimization of batch product traceability, equipment operation monitoring and so on, implements the whole intelligent operations.

The formation of an automatic line industry needs a variety of different types of robots to cooperate with each other, that in the process of production, assumes the role of what kind of robot and the different?

At present, lithium electricity industry most used linear module robot and the robot is SCARA robot, mainly in the production line for handling and HuanXing work. Among them, the SCARA robot on realize the rapid transformation of the product and replace linear slide platform has the advantage, in the process of digital battery production, because the product variety, need frequent HuanXing, four axis robot more usage.

And power battery products more one fold, but in the back end of production line moving and packing can be used above six axis robot; On the part of the equipment before and after the end, can be equipped with six axis or four axis robot work product loading, load is larger.

In PACK module assembly line, the heavy load of six axis robots in production line module assembly work, arm length require longer; And there are some equipment in the enterprise, also have use the AGV robot handling work.

The lithium battery industry with the industrial robot market demand analysis

Lithium-ion batteries are now to the security and standardization direction development, equipment of high precision, high efficiency, standardization, and high automation production line will be the direction of industry development; At the same time, reduce labor cost, it is necessary to improve equipment automation and unmanned premise, digital intelligent also is the enterprise will reduce security risk and loss to the lowest core competitiveness.

In 2017, according to relevant data show that the lithium electricity demand of industry robot more than 4500 units, and new energy vehicles in the next few years will continue to maintain rapid growth, lithium electricity demand remains robust, expect the future robot application in lithium battery production line will be further expanded.

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