In the manufacturing industry of China, industrial robot application development speed has ranked first
in the world, in 2010, China’s manufacturing industry industrial robot density of only 15 units per 10,000 people, ten years later it reached 246 units, turned over a whole 16.4 times.
In 2022, the industrial robots sold in China’s market was more than 300,000 units, accounting more than
50% of global sales.
So what kind of industrial robots do manufacturing companies need most? Looking from the production line, we know that for the application of industrial robots, high reliability (low failure rate, long life, etc.) is the top concern, high performance (high efficiency, high working frequency, high precision, etc.)
is the second focus. Besides these two major aspects, the robots with flexibility have a greater advantage.
In view of these priorities in the actual production application, AUCTECH Robotics combined with a large number of case studies, the reliability and performance of the product to carry out a full range ofiterative optimization, the development of a new industrial robot products – AN12 and AN25 series of industrial robots. The two series of products have already came into production, and have been widely praised by customers.
At the beginning of this year, AUCTECH Robotics broke through the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) certification of 80,000 hours, and became the first domestic brand manufacturer to pass the MTBF evaluation by China Software Evaluation Center, a national authoritative evaluation organization, and achieve this high level of reliability.
The 80,000 hours of MTBF certification reflects the excellent performance of AUCTECH robot products in high reliability, for the end-user manufacturing plants, automated production line equipment interlocked, a device failure may lead to the entire line shutdown, resulting in huge losses, so the stability and reliability of the robot has always been the highest priority of manufacturing enterprises, and this is exactly where the strengths of the AUCTECH robot lies.
The characteristics of high reliability are especially reflected in the two series of industrial robots,AN12 and AN25. For example, they are designed with newly upgraded dynamic and static seals, with high protection level of IP65 or above (the whole machine of AN12 series can be up to IP67),which can still ensure stable performance under the harsh environment of humidity and even spraying; the parts and the whole robot have gone through stringent quality inspection and passed a variety of international authoritative certificates, including CE, CR, KCS, EAC and so on.
AN12 and AN25 are also uniquely optimized for practical application scenarios. For example,AN12 series is known as “fast all-around”, which is the masterpiece of AUCTECH Robotics, the body adopts all-cast aluminum components, which reduces the weight of products of the same level by 30% ; the motors and cables are built-in, which makes the structure more compact, and reduces the size of products of the same level by 47% ; the installation methods of front-loading, side-loading, and inverted mounting are freely selectable, so that it can be flexibly deployed in the narrow space; at the same time, the range of single-axis rotation is larger, and the blind spot is smaller, so that it completely covers the mainstream scenarios of the applicationof small-loaded robots.
AN25 series is more inclined to meet the diversified application requirements of different scenarios, for this reason, the load capacity of AN25 series robots has been increased by 25% on average compared with the previous generation; through the optimization of trajectory planning algorithms,higher working frequency are achieved and the motion characteristics of high inertia loads are supported, which is more suitable for large inertia and large size loads as well as high working frequencyoperation scenarios; at the same time, AN25 series has a longer arm span in the same class, covering 1617mm-2110mm, which can easily cope with a wider range of operational requirements.
From being the first to pass the evaluation of China Software Evaluation Center and obtaining the first “Industrial Robot Product Reliability Test Certificate” to realizing the MTBF fault-free operation time of 80,000 hours, relying on the strong technological innovation ability, product development system and quality management system, the “high reliability” and “high performance” of AUCTECH Robotics products have become the industry benchmark, and the business has spread to more than a hundred regions such as Europe, the Americas, East Asia, Southeast Asia and so on.
To evaluate the performance of an industrial robot, it mainly depends on its acceleration and deceleration, maximum speed, repeat positioning accuracy, motion planning and trajectory optimization ability,etc. AUCTECH’s industrial robots, AN12 and AN25, have reached the world’s leading level of the “first tier” in terms of performance parameters, which is not inferior to the high-end foreign products.
With the unique iBot control platform developed by AUCTECH, it greatly improves the robot’s speed while maintaining high accuracy, with the repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.03mm, and the working speed is increased by 20%, which can satisfy the needs of fast and high-precision production, and greatly increase the production capacity.