Turning, stretching, waving arms... Walking into the manufacturing and delivery center of Evertech Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd. in Jiujiang District, Wuhu, Anhui Province, what catches the eye is a batch of industrial robots undergoing final testing before being put on duty. On a production line next to it, handling, matching, and assembling are carried out with the tacit cooperation of workers, and an average of one robot is taken offline from here every hour. China is the world's largest producer of robots, with industrial robot production increasing by 35.6% year-on-year in the first half of this year. We need to complete a production task of around 2000 units per month now. ”According to Zhang Fei, the head of production management at Evertech, "Five years ago, the company's annual sales were only this much." "Last year, the sales of robots were 16000 units. In the first half of this year, sales reached around 10000 units, and it is expected to exceed 20000 units for the whole year. ”Introduction by Shang Xuran, Product Director of Efte Arc Welding. How to achieve a high growth rate of over 25% this year even though sales have tripled in 4 years? Previously, our products were sold more to photovoltaic companies. In recent years, according to market demand, we have also developed and produced robot products suitable for manufacturing automobiles, home appliances, and other industries. ”In the view of Zhang Wei, Vice General Manager of Evertech, the policy of exchanging old for new consumer goods has led to a significant increase in sales of new energy vehicles, electronic products, home appliances, and other products, promoting related enterprises to expand production scale and improve production efficiency, bringing new development opportunities to Evertech. At the same time, the country continues to promote the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry, and downstream enterprises have a strong demand for industrial robots, giving the company a larger market. Tang Liansheng, the head of the equipment department at Qianchao Intelligent Manufacturing (Wuhu) Co., Ltd., has a deep understanding of this. Qian Chao Intelligent Manufacturing mainly produces automotive constant speed drive shaft components. In the workshop, the handling robots shuttle between the production line and the material warehouse, executing the handling tasks in an orderly manner. Among these 63 handling robots, 58 are produced in Efte, "Tang Liansheng said. The company had previously purchased imported handling robots at a high price, and in order to seek alternatives, they went to Efte, 16 kilometers away, and bought a domestically produced robot for comparison. The test results show that the stability and reliability of domestic robots are not inferior to imported ones, but their prices are more than 40% cheaper. The two companies are also close, and any problems can be resolved quickly. ”Tang Liansheng said that when building a new workshop, Qian Chao Zhizao decisively purchased a batch of robots from Efte. "Now, not only our Wuhu factory, but also the group's factories in other cities are using domestic industrial robots." "Improving product performance and achieving domestic substitution cannot be achieved without the joint efforts of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. ”Introduction by Zhang Lin, Product Director of Efte Platform. The joint design of robots with gear wheel transmission structure was once a major technical bottleneck for the production of high-performance industrial robots in China. Efte collaborated with an upstream key component company to develop and solve this problem in 14 months. Nowadays, robots using this technology have been widely deployed in the production lines of domestic new energy vehicle companies such as BYD and Sailis. Last year, China's industrial robot export market share jumped to the second place in the world. In the first half of this year, exports increased by 61.5%, including the absorption and transformation of Efte and its outward development. On the production line in the workshop, 6 spraying robots are paired with 2 door opening robots to simulate spraying on the inside and outside of the vehicle. This is the car painting testing and verification line we built last year. ”Zhang Wei introduced, 'We have acquired CMA Robotics, an Italian company with over 30 years of research and development history in spray painting robots, and completed the technology digestion in just over two years.'. These spraying robots are developed based on this foundation. ”This robot is not only widely used in industries such as rail transit, passenger cars, and automotive parts in China, but also has gone abroad and is favored by foreign companies such as Italian car companies Maserati and Alfa Romeo. In June alone, we delivered over 100 spray painting robots to our customers. ”Zhang Wei said that a robot super factory with an annual production capacity of up to 100000 units, located 30 kilometers away, is being intensively constructed. The new factory will explore the mode of intelligent robot assembly robots, gradually making "robot making robots" a reality. (New Society)