On the eve of demand, manufacturers compete for the blue ocean

With the popularization of robots and the continuous shortage of professional labor, the market acceptance of integrated robot control has accelerated significantly, starting with the European and American markets. Market participants of different identities have entered this blue ocean to discover the benefits that this technology can bring.

Automation manufacturers benefit from the most direct, not only can share the cake of the robot controller, but also through supporting robots, for its servo drive and even motor business;

PXIE-8821 Equipment Oems also actively adopt integrated robot control, mainly focusing on the corresponding equipment performance improvement, and can save costs through self-built robot ontology, supply chain control, to provide users with more complete maintenance services;

For robot manufacturers, access integration solutions need open control systems, but this can reduce the user threshold and increase their brand competitiveness;

For end users, the integrated robot control system is more convenient to operate and has performance advantages in multi-robot scenarios, so they are also happy to choose integrated solutions.

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Therefore, since ABB and B&R launched integrated robot control, not only a number of frontline automation brands to promote integrated controllers, robot brands are also actively involved in cooperation, but also the emergence of specialized robot ontology manufacturers, popular in the European and American markets. Among equipment manufacturers, OEM companies represented by packaging machines and non-standard automation companies continue to introduce models with integrated robot control, and even standardize the configuration of homemade robots to become an optional fixed model.

PXIE-8821 As for the two integration methods (retain or eliminate the special controller for the robot), they are suitable for different markets, and each has its own advantages. For example, the SRCI mode can better control complex robot configurations, such as six-axis robots, by retaining the robot controller. Although the current market only Siemens PLC support SRCI, but in fact this function is developed and maintained by Profinet an open standard, the future of other manufacturers may also move in this direction, especially in the field of general purpose PLC products have advantages of automation manufacturers. On the contrary, the cancellation of the integrated method of the robot controller is more suitable for simple and repeated robot actions, such as the pick and place operation of parallel robots, because it relies on the operation and control performance of the universal controller.