Gu High-tech has a very high reputation in the field of robotics and motion control, because it is one of the few companies that have adhered to the core technology research and development of motion control and intelligent manufacturing for more than 20 years. Gu High-tech was founded in 1999 by Li Zexiang, Gao Bingqiang and Wu Hong, three internationally renowned scholars and experts in the field of robotics, microelectronics and motion control from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The company’s business scope includes the production and operation of motion controllers, electronic processing equipment, computer software and automation technology development, etc. It is the first high-tech enterprise in the Asia-Pacific region with independent intellectual property rights, specializing in the research and development of motion control and intelligent manufacturing core technology, and is also one of the integrated solution providers of fully connected intelligent manufacturing at home and abroad.

He Zhiqiang, senior vice president of Lenovo Group and president of Lenovo Group, said that Gu Gao ushered in the IPO and deserved the name. In China, a manufacturing country, intelligent manufacturing leads industrial upgrading is only a matter of time, but there are many difficulties in the subdivision field that need to be overcome, and motion control is one of them. Many scenes of industrial production rely on motion control related technologies to achieve the quality and efficiency of complex

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processes. In the context of intelligent manufacturing, it is also necessary to take into account the collaboration with robots, machine vision and other related technologies in order to achieve productivity upgrading. Gu high-tech has grasped the motion control as the core of industrial manufacturing, and can introduce solutions in line with multiple track users according to the specific pain points of control technology industrialization, greatly shortening the path of industrial upgrading. Lenovo Venture Capital continues to pay attention to the field of intelligent manufacturing, and the spirit of insisting on hard science and technology and adhering to industrialization is exactly what is needed for intelligent manufacturing this “competition road”.

Over the past 20 years, Gugao Technology has combined industry needs, extracted common difficulties in the industry, deeply developed technology and product research and development, fully integrated research and development advantages and global university resources, and provided the market with a series of open, reconfigurable, fully interconnected high-end equipment control and development platforms, helping system integrators and equipment manufacturers to help customers reduce the threshold of technology research and development. To achieve the goal of shortening the incubation cycle of products and realizing the industrialization of high-end equipment.

From the perspective of product and technical system, Gugao mainly takes high-performance network motion controller and servo driver as the core products, and develops China’s self-controllable multi-master-slave, peer-to-peer ring network, high-real-time industrial field network communication protocol around the products, and solves the “jam” problem of motion control technology from the underlying technology. It is regarded as a few high-end equipment manufacturing enterprises in China that master the key links of equipment manufacturing in the five directions of “perception, control, decision-making, execution and industrial interconnection”.

To date, we have deployed more than 600,000 sets of motion control systems for nearly 60 industries, more than 2,000 customers and more than 200 system integrators. The domestic marketing service network has spread to Beijing, Shanghai, Xi ‘an, Wuhan, Shenzhen and other major cities, the overseas market has extended to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe and the United States about 30 countries and regions, become one of the high speed and high precision motion controller suppliers in the Chinese market.

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Inheriting the “one-yuan culture”

Direct to the industry landing

As a leading domestic technology supplier of motion control products, Gu High-tech carries the halo of national high-tech enterprises, Guangdong Province’s industry-university-research demonstration base, “Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation Circle” equipment manufacturing core technology platform, and Shenzhen’s only motion control technology engineering center to undertake enterprises, and continues to lead the motion control technology and industrial landing.

Gugao fully controls the pulse of the industry, creating a rich product matrix: with motion control technology as the core, the formation of motion control core components, systems, and machine products system, covering high-performance motion controllers, servo drivers, drive control integrated machines, industrial automation components, industrial software, vertical industry special control systems, special equipment and other equipment manufacturing core links. The company’s technology, products and system solutions are widely used in semiconductor equipment, industrial robots, CNC machine tools, 3C automation and testing equipment, printing and packaging equipment, textile equipment and many other high-end equipment manufacturing fields.

“Intellectual transformation” is a word that frequently appears in the field of manufacturing in the past two years. According to the division of digital transformation by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China has passed the stage of informatization and business digitalization, and entered the stage of digital transformation, and the upgrading of industrial processes has become the key point of manufacturing enterprises, and “machine replacement” and “flexible production” are the key to reducing cost and increasing efficiency for production. Specific production line deployment, incoming material processing, product assembly and other specific scenes are always in dynamic, which means high requirements for motion control. Gu high-tech is aimed at the key link of motion control, to help customer enterprises take a key step in the generation of machines.

In 1999, a Hong Kong company with a factory in Guangdong bought a steel processing line from Japan for more than $3 million. Unexpectedly, the production line technology is not mature, neither speed nor accuracy can be guaranteed. Huge equipment procurement costs coupled with the accumulation of raw materials, temporarily let the enterprise hovering on the brink of bankruptcy. In order to save themselves, the business owner ran around and finally found the Goodhigh team, which solved the problem in only one month. At this time, Gugao is still young, but it shows that it is different from the academic experience, and fully combines the technical reserves with the industrialization path, which is what Gugao has always insisted on.

In the “Science and Technology industry” activity of Lenovo Venture Capital, Gu Gao shared the idea that he has always upheld – to do a good job of “one dollar culture”, to focus on the field of motion control, and to build a good basic platform. Among them, the controller should achieve four integrated integration, that is, the four aspects of perception, planning decision, digital twin and knowledge graph should be integrated in a controller to achieve it. At the same time, Gugao also focuses on flexibility, China’s manufacturing industry is highly discrete, if it is not flexible, labor costs are too high, it is difficult to achieve the best production results.

What is “one dollar culture”? “If the motion controller of Gu Gao only earns one yuan, the downstream equipment integrator can earn 20-50 yuan, and then the next link, the equipment manufacturer can earn 200-1000 yuan…” This is the “one yuan money culture” that Gugao people admire. Googol’s vision is like industrial control software, staring at the whole chain, not limited to the local.