There is a great demand for welding robots in China market. Since 2009, the welding robot has been the largest selling robot in China, and the sales volume in China in 2065,438+02 was 65,438+00,882. Up to 20 14, among the industrial robots in China 100, there are more than 50,000 welding robots, accounting for 50%, which is the most widely used robot type. Among them, there are more than 30,000 arc welding robots and more than 20,000 spot welding robots, which have excellent applications in the automobile industry. In 20 12, the automobile output of China was15.5 million, and that of Germany was 5.4 million, but the number of spot welding robots it owned was 24,500. This also shows that the spot welding robot has great growth potential in China if the automation degree of German industry is taken as a reference. The huge market growth space and the current market share of less than 5% have created good conditions for the import substitution of domestic welding robots. As long as domestic companies can narrow the technical gap with foreign companies and meet the basic requirements of the application industry, the number of imported substitutes will definitely increase greatly.
Electronics, food and low-end manufacturing have great potential.
For domestic robot enterprises, it is also important to choose the development direction. Although domestic robot technology has been making rapid progress, it will not happen overnight to reach the top level. In addition to strengthening independent innovation research and development and cooperating with top foreign manufacturers, domestic robot enterprises should also pay attention to industries with low requirements for robot technology and realize import substitution from the bottom up. Looking back on the development history of foreign robot enterprises, we can find that the foreign robot industry is closely related to the automobile industry, and the development of the automobile industry directly drives the development of the robot industry. Most foreign robot companies design and manufacture robots according to the characteristics of automobile manufacturing industry. China, as the largest manufacturing country in the world, has many manufacturing industries with large capacity besides automobile manufacturing, and robots can replace people. Such as electronics, food, chemical industry, glass and other traditional industries. In these industries, robots often only need to complete simple repetitive work such as assembly and handling, and there is no very high requirement for the accuracy and consistency of robots. Although these relatively low-end robots can't compete with high-end intelligent robots in function, low-end robots in some industries can also do simple jobs. Technically, low-end robots are also easier to be mastered by domestic manufacturers. For domestic manufacturers, it is also a good development path to open the market from the relatively low-end robot market and gradually penetrate into the high-end market.
Low-end robots have a huge market in China. As the largest manufacturing country, only China has more than130,000 employees in electronic component manufacturing, food manufacturing, rubber and plastics, chemical industry and other industries. Based on the robot density of 654.38+000 per 10,000 people, the demand for robots in these industries alone can reach 6.5438+03 million. In addition to these industries, low-end industries such as hardware and building materials and bathroom production also have a large market scale. As can be seen from the above situation, some domestic robot enterprises with relatively backward technical level can choose to "avoid the edge of foreign countries" in order to find a breakthrough in the robot industry, and start from slightly low-end robots. There are many labor-intensive manufacturing enterprises in China. On the one hand, these enterprises urgently need automation equipment to solve the problems of labor shortage and high labor cost. On the other hand, they are also very concerned about the return period of investment and hope to spend as little money and time as possible to recover the cost. For these enterprises, they only need to buy robots that can replace manual labor at a small cost, and they can make some compromises on quality indicators such as fineness and control ability. This market segment has a low entry threshold and a large market, and there is no competition from foreign robot giants.