With the rise of labor costs, China's demographic dividend is gradually disappearing, and the "machine replacement" of manufacturing industry is gradually becoming the mainstream. China will form a huge industrial robot market. In the face of this big blue ocean in China, the four giant robots in the world - KUKA, fanako, Yaskawa and ABB have launched actions one after another to speed up the in-depth layout in the Chinese market.

With the gradual disappearance of demographic dividend, China has become a larger industrial robot market in the world. According to the Ministry of industry and information technology, by 2020, China will form a relatively complete industrial robot industry system, with a high-end market share of more than 45%. At present, the use of industrial robots in China is mainly concentrated in the automotive industry and electronic and electrical industry, arc welding robots, spot welding robots, handling robots, etc., which are widely used in production.

Since 2016, machine replacement has become an urgent demand for enterprise development. In addition, as the price of industrial robots continues to decrease, the effect of machine replacement is very obvious. The huge potential of China's industrial robot market has attracted the attention of KUKA, fanako, Yaskawa and abb, the "four big families" of robots in the world. Several companies have accelerated the layout of the market in China.

On April 24, Yaskawa motor and Changying precision officially signed a contract in Songshan Lake, Dongguan to establish a joint venture, Guangdong Tianji robot Co., Ltd. As one of the world's four recognized robot enterprises, Yaskawa electric and Changying precision will make full use of their advantages in technology, market and other fields to develop a new generation of small six axis industrial robots and improve the quality and core technology of China's local robot products.

After the establishment of the joint venture, Tianji robot plans to produce 500 small six axis robots in 2017, 2000 in 2018 and 10000 in 2021.

As one of the four largest robot brand enterprises in the world, Yaskawa has mastered the core technology of robot such as servo motor and motion control system, and its pedigree is very pure. The cost performance of Yaskawa robot has always been in the leading position in the world. From the perspective of Yaskawa, choosing Changying precision as the research and development partner of small six axis robot, we pay more attention to the accumulation of Changying precision in 3C industry and the huge market it can open.

After the establishment of the joint venture company, Tianji robot plans to produce 500 small six axis robots in 2017, 2000 in 2018 and 10000 in 2021.

Abb, one of the top four industrial robots in the world, will open a large-scale sales and service base called "Application Center" in Chongqing, inland China, in 2017, according to Japanese media reports. In China's inland areas, investment opportunities to promote economic development are increasing, and ABB hopes to seize the demand for automation.

At present, abb is promoting the preparatory work of opening application center. It is estimated that the area of the center will reach thousands of square meters, and the amount of investment has not been announced. Industrial robots, sales personnel and technical support engineers will be actually set up in the center.

ABB has the same base in Qingdao and Zhuhai on the coast of China. Zhuhai's application center plans to relocate and expand in 2017. Li Gang, head of ABB's China robotics business, said that in China, three bases are not enough. In the future, it is necessary to set up centers in the north and other areas.

And the same thing about Chongqing is fanako, one of the "four families". It is understood that fanako started to build a technology center in Chongqing as early as 2016. Tanaka Inaba, chief executive of fanako, said at that time that fanako was hoping to train robot engineers or system engineers and make contributions to the development of Chongqing with the help of Chongqing Technology Center.

"We are ready to cooperate with the automobile factories in Chongqing to promote intelligent application and bring cutting-edge robot technology to Chongqing." Daoye is good at governance. In recent years, progress has been made in capital investment in inland areas where economic development is lagging behind coastal areas. Fanako is also discussing setting up a technology center as a sales and service base in Chongqing in 2018.

KUKA, one of the "four big families", is of Chinese origin. This year, KUKA was officially acquired by Midea Group, becoming an important part of Midea's industrial ecology. In view of Midea Group's huge market base, perfect sales channels and good consumer viscosity in China, KUKA is expected to become one of the "four families" that has made outstanding achievements in the robot market in China.

The global robot "four families" pay close attention to the Chinese market, which proves that the peak of Chinese robot market development is far from coming, and the market potential is still huge. While strengthening cooperation with the "four families", domestic robot enterprises should also be based on the future and build their own core competitiveness from the perspective of quality, so as to promote the sustainable development of enterprises, drive the intelligent transformation of the industry and realize the creation of China.