In recent years, with the rapid development of China’s manufacturing industry, “machine substitutes” have begun to reshape industrial automation. In industrial visits, we found that whether it is in the welding workshop of the car, or in the production of common gloves, robots are involved in an important division of labor.

In the production line, the industrial robot, that is, the robot arm, can do accurate grasp and other operations through rapid steering and deceleration, want to complete this series of operations, it needs the reducer, servo system, controller three core parts to support, the three together determine the accuracy of the robot, stability, load capacity and other important performance indicators.

The so-called servo motor mainly refers to the motor that accurately controls the operation of the mechanical components in the servo system to achieve the precise control of the speed and position of the mechanical components. According to OFweek data, servo motors account for about 20% of the total cost of industrial robots.

Kiyochon Electric’s product line

Wuhu Qingchuan Electric Co., LTD. (referred to as “Qingchuan Electric”), founded in 2020, mainly provides the core components of electronic control system for industrial robot enterprises, including servo motor, integrated mechanism, servo drive, drive control and other products, and serves customers including Qianjiang Robot, Ascleclecard, Acme Jia and other enterprises.

Servo motor is a combination of hardware and software system engineering, compared with the Japanese, German large and complete product lines, Chinese enterprises want to achieve breakthrough, need to understand and solve the pain and difficulties of customers.

Qingchuan Electric general manager Xu Xiwen told 36 KR Anhui, industrial robots want to achieve high precision and high speed, to achieve fast, accurate, stable, the need for servo motor to achieve high speed, high torque output capacity, low torque pulsation and very small mechanical beat at the same time with a large moment of inertia, the current market products generally can not meet these requirements.

In order to solve the above market pain points, the 40/60/80 motor developed by Qingchuan Electric can achieve a maximum speed of 8000 RPM, and the 130/180 motor can achieve a maximum speed of 5000 RPM or more, and the motor has a large moment of inertia, which has achieved a high precision and high-speed performance upgrade for a number of domestic industrial robot enterprises.

In addition, according to the needs of industry customers, the company launched a combined multi-axis servo drive product in 2023, which combines the operation habits of traditional servo drives and the characteristics of robot drives requiring multi-axis common bus, using a higher hardware platform and the latest technology of servo drives.

The domestic servo motor market is not large, only about 18 billion yuan in 2021, but in this narrow market, foreign capital, state-owned and private enterprises are fighting fiercely. In visiting industrial robot ontology manufacturing enterprises, 36 KR Anhui learned that because it is necessary to supply manufacturing enterprises, product stability and reliability is one of the key considerations of ontology manufacturing enterprises.

“The founding team of Qingchuan Electric comes from Tsinghua University and has been engaged in the development of hardware and software products such as motors, power electronics, and embedded systems for a long time. The good maturity of the team provides a good guarantee for the maturity of the company’s products, and the company has established a strict and standardized quality management system to ensure the maturity and consistency of the company’s products.” Xu Xiwen told 36 Krypton Anhui.

In terms of research and development, Qingchuan Electric has invested nearly 10 million in the development of robot special servo motors, integrated mechanisms, combined multi-axis servo drivers, and integrated drive and control products in the past three years, and the R&D personnel account for more than 20% of the total number of the company.

Talking about why he settled in Wuhu Jiujiang District, Xu Xiwen told 36KR Anhui that Wuhu Jiujiang District has the advantages of domestic first-class industrial robot industry chain, gathered many industrial robot ontology, parts, application integrators and other enterprises, and there are many customers in the park, which has good industrial synergies. At the same time, the government also provides nanny services for enterprises in terms of transition workshops and talent services, which is very suitable for robot-related enterprises to start businesses.

According to the data, as of April this year, the Wuhu robot industry base located in Jiujiang District has gathered about 220 upstream and downstream enterprises, including 72 enterprises on the storage plan, establishing a complete industrial ecology. In 2022, the base will achieve an output value of 25.39 billion yuan. In the first half of 2023, the output value was 14.3 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 23.28%.