The number of people in the production process is getting smaller and smaller, and China has been the world’s largest industrial robot consumer for seven years in a row, so will industrial robots completely replace human labor in today’s and future production work?
Personally, I think in the short and medium term, most of the production enterprises will not, but a small number of enterprises such as car enterprises, 3C, digital enterprises, and logistics enterprises should soon face the situation of basic work types, gradually replaced by robots for several specific reasons.
First of all, the popularity of industrial robots in developed countries, for example, in the automotive industry, which has the widest range of applications, Japan, Italy, and France have more than 1,000 industrial robots per 10,000 production workers, thanks to their early start. Due to the late start in China, the number is still very small, less than 100 units.
Thus, it can be inferred that the space and time needed for the development of industrial robots is huge worldwide. For example, Foxconn, the world’s largest OEM factory, proposed a million machine replacement plan in 2011 and has only achieved 5% so far, with only about 50,000 industrial robots placed in the entire product line. Domestic industrial robots still have a long way to go, such as the robot’s work fineness, service life, quality control, etc., which are all a matter of time.
As the application of robots becomes more and more extensive and the scenarios become wider and wider, the excellent Chinese enterprises supporting industrial robots will always support the process of complete localization of the integrated application of robots in China. And as a company specializing in the development and production of electro-permanent magnet technology, HVR MAG provides electro-permanent magnetic grippers for industrial robots arm and also undertakes the basic responsibility of a company by continuously innovating and developing to improve fine production. No matter if industrial robots will replace human work or not, it is a trend in science and technology development. Let’s face it and embrace it.
References:
“The impact of industrial robots on labor supply and demand in China’s manufacturing industry” Wang ah-ting, Li Guang-pei
“Industry 4.0 opens the era of industrial robots” Zhu Jikai
“The Chinese Breakthrough of an Industrial Robot Company” Yang Yi
