The market for collaborative robots is forecast to show strong growth over the coming years, with rising sales in industrial and non-industrial sectors and new application scenarios being developed. According to Interact Analysis’ newly published ‘Global Collaborative Robot Market–2023’ report, market revenue grew by 17.2% to US$954m in 2022, with shipments increasing by 21.9% to 37,780 units. Following a rapid rebound in 2021 in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the growth rate of the collaborative robot (cobot) market dropped to around 20%. Can collaborative robots return to the previous high-speed growth rate of over 30% within the next 5 years? Where does the growth point for a second surge in shipments come from? We will analyze the potential for rapid growth in the collaborative robot market from five perspectives: market, product, industry, application and customer. Market: Outlook still optimistic in the medium to long term, with price declines slowing The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of global collaborative robot market shipments is anticipated to be 27% over the next five years, with China recording a market CAGR of about 30%, and the South America and Southeast Asia regions both exceeding 30% growth annually. As shown in the graph below, the growth rate forecast for the next few years is higher compared with 2022 predictions (gray dashed line). Unlike the price rebound of traditional industrial robots in 2022, the price of collaborative robots is still declining, but the magnitude of decline is slowing down. The main reasons behind this are: 1.In the Chinese market, which accounts for more than half of all shipments, the price decline trend is still significant. Even though most leading component manufacturers have increased their prices more than once, cobot vendors can still control cost within a reasonable range by using local component brands. 2.Market competition is becoming increasingly fierce and so it is unsurprising that many leading cobot manufacturers are employing low pricing strategies to drive growth, particularly as they approach a critical juncture for financing or potential listing. 3.There have been over a hundred large orders placed in the automotive and non-industrial sectors, driving down average prices. According to our predictions, the trend of price declines for collaborative robots will be relatively shallow in the next 5 years. The increase in the proportion of >10kg models combining with the added value of in-machine vision with AI solutions have offset a significant decline in average market prices. As a result, we predict annual price declines will remain at 3-5%. Product: Greater intelligence, greater payload, and greater openness Technologies and solutions related to greater intelligence–including artificial intelligence and machine vision–are increasingly being promoted by collaborative robot manufacturers and are gradually beginning to influence customers’ purchasing decisions. Collaborative r...

ABB announced it has signed an agreement to divest its UK technical engineering consultancy business, a technical engineering consultancy part of its Energy Industries division, to TÜV Rheinland. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2023. The financial terms of the transaction will not be disclosed. ABB’s UK technical engineering consultancy including a network of subcontractors and associates has around 160 people operating from two main sites in the northeast and the northwest of England. A specialist team of technical experts helps global energy customers improve process safety, equipment and asset integrity as well as technical design for new and existing industrial plants. “Our technical engineering consultancy business is highly recognized for the value it brings to customers, and has significant opportunity for growth, enabled by strong industry tailwinds as we navigate the energy transition,” said Troy Stewart, Head of ABB Energy Industries UK. “This divestment follows a two-year strategic review of our portfolio and aims to accelerate the continued growth of the business. TÜV Rheinland is an excellent new home for the technical engineering consultancy business, where it can realize its exciting growth opportunity and create customer value.” “We look forward to creating growth, stability and opportunity at a time where we are seeing increased demand for sustainability, decarbonization and business continuity,” said Gareth Book, Managing Director TÜV Rheinland UK. “ABB’s UK technical engineering consultancy will complement the existing risk, safety and integrity management services provided by TÜV Rheinland. Our aim is to build upon the long-standing customer relationships and trust that ABB and TÜV Rheinland have established in the UK over the last two decades.” ABB’s technical engineering consultancy will be integrated into the Industrial Services and Cybersecurity business of TÜV Rheinland in the UK. The combined business will create a scalable, broad-based technical engineering provider delivering a full-service offer to the high hazard industries, supporting customers in the energy transition and energy security.

ABB to Expand Robotics Factory in US ABB strengthened its commitment to one of its largest customer markets—the US—with construction starting on the expansion of its existing North American robotics headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The project is expected to be completed in November 2023 and represents an investment of $20 million. The expansion will create 72 highly skilled new jobs in the area and is supported by a $450,000 Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant. Adding to the $14 billion ABB has already invested in the US since 2010, the latest investment in its Robotics headquarters and factory will benefit customers in the Americas, particularly those in growth sectors including electric vehicles, healthcare, packaging and logistics. With the expansion set to significantly increase the factory’s production capacity, it responds to the increased demand for automation from 70 percent of US businesses looking to bring production closer to home, as revealed by ABB Robotics’ survey of 1,610 executives in the US and Europe in June 2022. ABB Robotics moved into the 538,000 square foot building in 1993 and opened the manufacturing plant in 2015, becoming the first global industrial robotics company to fully commit to a North American robotics production footprint.  The expansion and increased use of automation in the factory will create new jobs, supporting the ABB Robotics Packaging & Logistics Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and the Robotics Lifesciences and Healthcare Hub located at the Texas Medical Center in Houston Texas.  ABB already has a workforce of approximately 350 employees at Auburn Hills. ABB’s footprint in the US is more than 20,000 employees, over more than 40 sites nationally. This investment will see the latest digital and automation technologies implemented to manufacture next generation robots in the US, for the Americas, streamlining the delivery process and reducing lead times. Close to 90 percent of robots delivered to customers in the US, Canada, Mexico and South America will soon be made in Auburn Hills. The plant will utilize flexible, modular production cells that are digitally connected and networked, and served by intelligent autonomous mobile robots. AI-powered robotic systems will take on tasks such as screw driving, assembling and material handling, relieving people from these tasks and enabling more rewarding work.

Super large capacity has become a major competitive advantage of HDD disks, and several major hard disk manufacturers are also chasing each other on this point. If you want to increase the capacity of a mechanical hard drive from the internal structure of a traditional hard drive, you need to start from two aspects. The first is to increase the capacity of a single disc, and the second is to increase the number of discs. Look, in order to increase the capacity of a single disc, it is necessary to optimize the arrangement of the magnetic media on the disc. In the CMR (traditional magnetic recording) technology, the PMR (perpendicular recording) technology is the most widely used and mature one. kind. The advantage of PMR is that the magnetic media can be evenly arranged on the disk, and the reading and writing are very accurate. The disadvantage is that when the disk area remains the same, the capacity of a single disk is limited, and there is not much room for improvement. Toshiba released a 1TB 2.5-inch single-platter hard drive (MQ04ABF100) with a thickness of only 7mm. Perhaps there have been similar products before, which did not attract much attention, but it is worth noting that this is the first to use Showa Denko The ninth generation of vertical storage technology. In the HDD field, Japanese electronics companies have played a very important role in the supply of spare parts. In addition to supplying TDK for magnetic heads and disks, Showa Denko is also a very important HDD component manufacturer, and this technology can increase the capacity of 3.5-inch hard disk disks. Increase to 1.5 ~ 1.8TB, as an old friend and long-term partner of Dongyi, it is natural to get the first month. On the other hand, Toshiba’s GMA technology has also been updated to the second generation. Wu Boshen, senior manager of the storage product market at Toshiba Electronics (China) Co., Ltd., introduced that Messenger has added a micro-movement based on the previous magnetic head, which can control the movement of the magnetic head more precisely. position to ensure the stability of reading and writing. At the same time, with the maturity of technologies such as ammonia filling and Toshiba laser welding, the new king of the capacity arena, Toshiba's 14TB ammonia hard drive, finally made its debut in Beijing. In terms of specifications, MGO7ACA14TE has a capacity of 14TB, 9 disks and 18 heads filled with ammonia, and a single disk is about 1.56TB; MGO7ACA12TE has a capacity of 12TB, 8 disks and 16 heads filled with ammonia, and a single disk is 1.5TB. Both rotate at 7200RPM and are equipped with 256MB cache. They use SATA 6Gbps interface. In terms of performance, the read and write speed of 14TB is 260MB/S, the read and write speed of 12TB is 250MB/S, and the MTBF is 2.5 million hours. The energy consumption of the time state is 7.6WV and 4.6WV respectively. Wu Boshen said that the main reason is cost considerations. Compared with air hard disks, the cost per GB o...

The 2022 World IC Conference sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the People's Government of Anhui Province will be held in Hefei, Anhui Province from November 16th to 18th. According to reports, the 2022 World IC Conference is held to further strengthen the global IC industry chain supply chain exchange and cooperation, display the latest technological achievements of the IC industry, drive the IC industry cluster in Anhui Province and Hefei City, promote the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and enhance the innovation ability and global influence of China's IC industry. The theme of this conference is "Win-Win Cooperation", which mainly includes an opening ceremony, four summit forums and 10 thematic forums. At the same time, a variety of activities will be held, including the 20th China International Semiconductor Expo (ICChina2022), the Chip Testing and Design Application Skills Competition, the 1+X Professional Skills Level Certificate (Advanced) teacher training of the Ministry of Education, the seminar on advanced packaging and testing technology (experts entering the enterprise), the roadshow of "China Core" automobile chip, the board of integrated circuit industry-education development alliance, and many other bilateral exchanges, project roadshows, capital docking, etc. According to the organizer, this conference is the first international conference hosted by the Ministry and province in the field of integrated circuits. 2022 World IC Congress is hosted by Hefei Municipal People's Government, Anhui Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, China Semiconductor Industry Association and China Institute of Electronic and Information Industry Development. The conference will publish a series of reports such as Hefei Initiative of 2022 World IC Conference, China IC Industry Talent Development Report (2020-2021 edition) and a series of selection results such as the 15th China Semiconductor Innovative Products and Technologies, and the 20th China International Semiconductor Expo will be held at the same time.

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