In line with global data, China's sales of robots in the field of 3C in 2014 increased substantially by 150% to 16,726 units, accounting for 29% of total sales.
While the share has declined in the last two years, it still remains above 20%, making it the second largest application area for industrial robots other than automotive.
3C industry industrial robot potential space is huge
3C field of robot demand is mainly reflected in two aspects.
The first is due to the 3C market volume has expanded dramatically to bring the total demand; the second is due to the 3C product refinement, thin and light trend of the process equipment requirements are getting higher and higher.
China's consumer electronics market size from 2007 to 2017 (in billions of yuan)
China concentrates 70% of the world's production capacity of 3C products, and the degree of automation in this field is still relatively low.
Mainly due to the many varieties of 3C products cut size is small, its assembly needs to use a lot of non-standard equipment, the assembly of the cumbersome steps, the update cycle is fast, a special equipment may be used only a few months can not be applied to the new product, the automation of the assembly of the difficulty of the high degree is also very high.
However, as the demand for refined, thin and light products increases, so does the need for workmanship, meaning that the demand for processing equipment, i.e. robots, is also increasing.
China's 3C electronics manufacturing industry is in dire need of a complete revolution -- automation upgrades, lowering per capita costs, and improving productivity are the only way forward.
Which, the machine to replace manual labor is an inevitable trend. With the 3C electronics manufacturing industry on the rapid rise in demand for robots, high-end CNC, so that the market demand for motion control products is also a corresponding increase.
Aiming at the specific application of 3C electronic manufacturing industry, the current demand for motion control products and systems for manufacturing links include: 3C electronic products; metal processing (such as engraving and milling, polishing); glass grinding, polishing; non-standard equipment (i.e., in order to achieve a certain function of the special development of electronic equipment); production and assembly line (to complete the assembly of the product); handling, loading and unloading equipment (such as robotic hand) and so on.
These are the most common types of equipment in the world.