Who Are The First To Enter The 480 Billion Lithium Battery Industry Carnival?

In recent years, new energy vehicles have continued to grow. Affected by this, the market demand for lithium batteries has boomed. Power battery manufacturers have announced plans to expand production in order to cope with the increasing market demand.

As an important part of improving battery performance and improving the operating efficiency of battery plants, lithium battery equipment has been included in the development plan of power battery manufacturers. According to the rough calculation of the Gaogong robot, if the investment of power battery single GWh equipment is about 240 million yuan, it is estimated that the market demand for new increased lithium battery equipment will exceed 480 billion yuan in 2021-2025.

However, under the strong order demand, the manufacturers with large-scale supply capacity are limited, and equipment manufacturers are urgently needed to improve the production efficiency and stability of lithium batteries. Under the great opportunity, equipment manufacturers mainly engaged in industrial robots, mobile robots, and machine vision have also ushered in new development opportunities.

According to the data of the Robot Industry Research Institute of high technology (GGII), in the lithium battery industry, the sales volume of industrial robots and mobile robots in 2021 will be 19,700pcs and 6,839pcs respectively, with a year-on-year growth rate of 98.18% and 83.84% respectively. It is expected that the demand in 2025 will exceed 67,000 and 25,000 respectively. In 2021, the machine vision market scale of the lithium battery industry will be RMB1.139 billion, with a year-on-year increase of 60.8%. It is expected that the potential order demand in 2025 will exceed RMB10 billion.

In the process of the evolution of the lithium battery industry pattern, how do equipment manufacturers grasp the lithium battery industry tuyere?

Multiway Robotics

Multiway Robotics is an on-site intelligent logistics solution provider. Multiway Robotics takes unmanned forklifts, AMR, and unmanned tractors as hardware carriers, and provides customers with complete intelligent manufacturing and intelligent storage solutions through machine vision and a complete upper layer system. The hardware products include various types of unmanned forklifts and AMR. The software system includes WMS, WCS, a field management system, and various visual solutions.

In the lithium battery industry, the WMS warehouse management system of Multiway Robotics can realize warehouse in and warehouse out management and product management, and realize the data, information, and visualization of factory management. The RCS intelligent dispatching system can support hundreds of different vehicles to coordinate operations at the same site and automatically plan the optimal path. Through system support, a highly flexible production line with no physical separation, and dynamic adjustments are formed between the robot equipment.

Shanghai Junyi Industrial Automation Co., Ltd.

Shanghai Junyi has been deeply engaged in the field of new energy battery manufacturing for nearly 10 years and has a deep understanding of the module/pack production process of new energy batteries. The founding members of the company are from internationally renowned robot enterprises, with many years of rich experience in the field of robot automation applications, and are familiar with the production concepts of intelligent and unmanned.

In the process of lithium battery production, Shanghai Junyi created a factory intelligent platform. Through the establishment of an intelligent manufacturing system platform, the transparent production management of the whole process of lithium battery is realized; Positive tracing can quickly track the flow direction of products, timely find and discharge abnormal products, and realize "zero defect" outflow in the production process; Reverse tracing can quickly locate the abnormality of raw materials, equipment, and personnel.

At the nodes of product process movement, raw material binding, and assembly relationship, equipment processing execution, production process inspection execution, and quality exception audit, the lithium battery production line built by Shanghai Junyi can record all key production and process data in real-time and automatically. Through the implementation of edge computing, it can realize millisecond responses to equipment requests and support the fast-paced production of power batteries.

JZJ Robot

JZJ robot has two production bases in Wuxi, Jiangsu and Ma'anshan, Anhui, and Shanghai R & D center. The company's independent knowledge brand robot product series include: four-axis robot series; Six-axis robot series; Robot related workstation; All kinds of automatic production lines for stamping, welding, spraying, handling, loading, and unloading, and polishing robots are widely used in intelligent manufacturing applications and have served over a thousand enterprises.

Among them, the four-axis robot of JZJ Robot, also known as palletizing robot, is composed of a servo motor, RV Reducer, and motion control system. It can not only operate at high speed and high accuracy but also operate with high efficiency, stability, wear resistance, and long life. It can realize plane motion of complex trajectories such as fixed points, straight lines, arcs, and curves. The six-axis robot is composed of servo motor, RV Reducer, harmonic reducer, and motion control system. It is more precise and efficient, very flexible and diversified, and can realize the 3D operation of objects. For different industries, the built-in process of the system is simple and modular, which greatly reduces the teaching and use time and improves work efficiency.

YIFI Laser

YIFI Laser is a national high-tech enterprise and a national small giant enterprise specializing in the R & D, production and sales of precision laser welding and intelligent equipment. Its main business is the R & D, design, production, and sales of precision laser processing intelligent equipment. Its main products include lithium battery cell automatic assembly line, module/PACK automatic assembly line and other automatic production lines, and various precision laser processing intelligent special machines, It is used in the industries of lithium battery, household appliances, kitchen and bathroom, and prefabricated buildings.

In the field of lithium battery manufacturing, YIFI Laser has developed a series of cylindrical all pole lug cell assembly equipment through the self-developed non-destructive forming technology of all pole lug current collector, laser welding technology of current collector, and automatic assembly technology of shell cover. At present, YIFI Laser has obtained nearly 200pcs patents in the field of cylindrical full-polar ear battery equipment.

INS

INS is a technology company focusing on 3D machine vision algorithms, software, and system development. INS's core business consists of three parts, namely, a 3D machine vision system, a high-precision VGR vision guidance system of various architectures, and lithium battery detection equipment.

INS's full process lithium battery detection system can carry out AI detection on the front section of the cell, the rear section of the cell, the module section, and the PACK section. The full range of 2D, 2.5D and 3D visual guidance systems can serve a variety of scenarios, such as grasping & placement, alignment & fitting, alignment & assembly, laser & laser welding, gluing & glue head calibration.

Jodell Robotics

Jodell Robotics is a one-stop "electric servo" actuator component manufacturer, mainly providing one-stop standardized electric servo actuator products for industrial automation integrators and equipment manufacturers. It has hundreds of customers in life science, 3C, lithium battery, and other industries, and serves more than 40 listed companies.

The HEPG series heavy-duty modular electric gripper developed by Jodell Robotics can be applied to the lithium battery PACK assembly line with AGV. HEPG series heavy-duty modular electric gripper has the adjustable and controllable force and position, with super large stroke, and has the functions of power off self-locking, drop detection, and grasping feedback.

Ant Factory

Ant Factory has been deeply engaged in the field of industrial parts and components since its establishment in 2017. It is a platform for industrial parts and components. It is committed to opening up the digital closed loop of the design layer, selection layer, procurement layer, and supply layer for manufacturing enterprises, and integrating a large number of SKUs, eradicating the common problems of redundant and inefficient design, selection, and procurement links through innovative means, reducing the internal processes of end users, and helping the manufacturing industry speed up its digital development.

At present, the Ant Factory has supplied nearly 100 categories and more than 1500 series of products, including linear motion, rotary transmission, fastening and positioning, connection and installation, pneumatic drive, industrial frame, door parts, electrical and electronic, non-standard machining and other industrial automation parts. It has served more than 20,000 enterprise customers in the aerospace, military industry, mobile phone, new energy, robot, automobile, semiconductor, medical and other industries.