This time, Shen Huan found Ivan, mainly to let her match up and see which companies in Europe had the best way to buy the key equipment of the pulsating production line, because this time it was necessary to not only consider the price, but also take into account the performance and quality.
The biggest advantage of the pulsating type is that there is a special person in charge of special affairs, and equipped with automated equipment, and the flexibility is very high, if there is any change in the process, as long as the personnel are trained, the automation equipment in a few places can be replaced, and there is no need to adjust the entire production line.
Therefore, the automation equipment of the pulsating production line is very important.
In the pulsating production line automation equipment, there are many key technologies, which can only be mastered by Europe and the industrially developed countries such as the foot basin, and it is impossible for the country and the foot basin to export these technologies and products to China, so it can only focus on European countries.
The automation equipment of the pulsating production line includes key technologies such as numerical control positioning technology, automatic docking technology for large parts and digital measurement technology.
When Ivan heard the news of the approval of the pulsating production line automation equipment procurement project from Shen Huan, she was also pleasantly surprised, she stood up excitedly and said: "Great, I feel so happy to be able to participate in this project!"
” Shen Huan said with a smile: "Of course, this is a revolution in the field of shipbuilding industry, if it succeeds, we will all go down in the history of the shipbuilding industry!"
So this first step is very critical, after all, our pulsating production line with an experimental nature is prepared for small ships such as Type 022 missile boats, so the automation equipment to be used is of a special nature, and we must let the equipment supplier provide automation equipment products according to our requirements, and at the same time, we can't let the other party know what we are used for. ” Ivan nodded and said, "Yes, we must keep it a secret, otherwise others will follow suit."
Or it is highly likely that you will be stuck by those countries. ” Shen Huan asked with a smile: "Ivan, which country in Europe do you think has a higher level of automation equipment technology and a more reasonable price?"
” In fact, in the field of industrial automation equipment, especially industrial robots, Shen Huan also knows which of the world's top ten brands, almost half of which are in the foot basin country, and the other few are in Europe, such as the Kuka company in Germany, the abb company of Ruidian, the Swiss company Spitau, and the Comau company of Yidali, each of which is a leader in the field of industrial automation equipment.
Ivan thought for a while and said: "To say that the top automation technology I think is still the country, the craftsman spirit of the people is famous, they have also made remarkable achievements in the field of industrial automation, such as KUKA company, its automation equipment is widely used in automobiles, metallurgy and other industries, its users include General Motors, BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz these world-famous car manufacturers, as well as world-famous aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing, Siemens, electrical product manufacturers, are using KUKA industrial robots, The most versatile applications for the company's products include welding, packaging, machining, and many other types of automated operations. ” Shen Huan nodded and said, "Go on!"
” Ivan continued: "There is also the ABB company of Ruidian, this company was originally two companies with a history of more than 100 years, established in 1988 by merger, this company developed the world's first fully electronically controlled industrial robot in the seventies, and the industrial robots it produced are widely used in welding, assembly, sealing and gluing, packaging, spraying, cutting and other fields.
And I know that ABB entered China a few years ago.
In the shipbuilding industry, you can also see ABB's automation equipment, so I think we can have an initial contact with their Chinese company first to see how it goes!
” Shen Huan nodded and said: "Indeed, our Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Group also has a cooperative relationship with ABB, which can be considered."
What else?
” Ivan smiled: "There is also a Stäubli company of Ruishi, the scale of this company is not so large, but the multi-axis robot it developed, the special robot is still relatively famous, but I think it may be applied to our pulsating production line, this company's research and development capabilities may be slightly insufficient!"
” Shen Huan nodded and said, "Well, the application field of this company's industrial robots is indeed not suitable for us, you go on!"
” Ivan continued: "There is another company that is Comau.
It was also in the seventies that Comau developed the first industrial robot, the latest generation of Comau industrial robots with automated applications of spot welding, arc welding, handling, automatic docking, casting, gluing assembly and cutting.
I think this company is also worth considering. ” Shen Huan stood up and paced with his hands in his hands and said: "Well, our pulsating production line should adopt flexible support technology, so we should use the hull locator to position the left and right sides of the ship, replace the current traditional shipbuilding jacks, and realize the accurate positioning support of the ship."
Therefore, just the locator is very demanding.
It is mainly necessary to realize the three-dimensional movement of the telescopic column, and at the same time to adopt a closed grating ruler, and to adopt full closed-loop control in each direction to realize three-dimensional linkage control and improve the control accuracy of the system.
Such flexible support technology has changed the original traditional shipbuilding method and realized the automatic support of the ship, so the industrial automation equipment we customized has this requirement, in addition to the control accuracy, in terms of support weight, it may greatly exceed the support weight of industrial robots in the world.
Time is also relatively tight, the design progress of the 022 missile boat is very fast, so we must hurry up to build our pulsating production line, so the supply period for these industrial automation equipment is also relatively tight, at the latest can not exceed half a year, we must purchase the equipment back at the beginning of next year, and debug it after installation. ” Ivan nodded and said: "Yes, our missile boat, just the weight of the hull will reach dozens of tons, and the current industrial robot products of these manufacturers, the maximum support weight is only a few tons, this is indeed a problem."
There is also automatic docking, the accuracy requirements are also very high, our process integration management system, through the laser measurement system and control system, drive the three-coordinate CNC positioner, to achieve the attitude adjustment and docking of each segment, on this point, the requirements for automation equipment are also very high, I don't know if these manufacturers can meet our requirements. ” Shen Huan thought for a while and said, "Okay, then let's do this, you first find a way to contact the people of ABB to see how they react, and then we will make a decision!"
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