Demand-oriented: Provide customers with whole line solutions
At the beginning, Irobot not only gradually emerged in the automation production line of pots and pans, but also ventured into various fields such as tobacco, footwear, printing, and hardware automation.
But just like the two sides of a coin, rapid expansion without good internal skills can also disperse the effective resources of the enterprise.
In 2014, Irobot decided to focus on the automatic production line of pots and pans, proposing the slogan "IROBOT, MAKE WORLDWIDE POT", aiming to become a market-demand driven enterprise, using its exclusive technology to meet the different needs of customers.
In the field of cookware, there is an industry term "N+1", which meaning even through intelligent transformation, it is still necessary to set up "N+1" workstations. In order to reduce manpower, Irobot has innovatively designed two arms in the R&D of transfer workpiece robots. This action make the robot using its left and right arms like humans, which can quickly retrieve and place parts through lifting and rotating methods, highly saving manpower in additional "+1" workstation. Not only that, this machine can achieve about 25 to 30 pieces to be picked up and placed in one minute, and its speed and stability are second to none in the industry.
Nowadays, according to the needs of different customers, the automatic production line for varies pots & pans supplied by Irobot, can be adjusted easily and accurately
For example, IKEA requires a small footprint, and the machines needs to be placed "back to back", but Supor requires a L-shaped layout to reserve enough space near by to install other machines.
“We are the whole line solution designer & maker for all links. Our products will be implemented through different designs in response to customer requirements in terms of site, process, category, production capacity, environmental protection, energy management, and other aspects.” said Nongbaile,the chairman of Irobot.
In other words, irobot relies on intelligent production and gradually transforms the non-standard automation in the past to the current standard automation.
The "Standard Solution Database" independently established by Irobot also provides more targeted system solutions for more cookware manufacturing enterprises, effectively promoting the intelligence and automation of the entire industry.
Digital empowerment: rapidly improving production efficiency and product quality
In order to find standardized measurement methods from non-standard operations, since 2017, Irobot began to promote digital transformation vigorously,and built Industrial Internet platforms, digital workshop and intelligent factory.
Taking the intelligent machining sharing platform as an example, this platform subverts the traditional technique and operation processes, highly improving production efficiency and product quality.
By setting up electronic displays and data collectors on each traditional machining device, enterprises can clearly collect data such as start time, end time, work hours, energy consumption, and OEE(overall equipment effectiveness).
Through this platform, employees rely on process standardization to "grab orders" in real time like app uber drivers, with clear data on how many orders are completed and quality status every day. This can effectively enhance employees' enthusiasm and greatly improve product yield.
Not only in the production workshop, Cloud Data has also opened up a new development space for enterprises.
Nowadays, through cloud platforms, Irobot can track and manage the entire production process by digitizing the entire business flow from contracts to warehousing orders.
With the use of this system, Irobot has doubled the monthly average production of the machining workshop while reducing the number of people by half.
Nowadays, Irobot is entering a fast lane of development. With rapid growth in orders in recent years, Irobot has set up five 4S service centers in China, improving the pre-sales and after-sales services comprehensively. In order to ensure the strength of independent R&D, the technical engineers in the enterprise take over 60% of the total employees.
Relying on digital empowerment, Irobot also successfully developed intelligent storage system, Including ROS (Robot Operating System), WMS (Warehouse Management System) & WCS (Warehouse Control System), to help traditional cookware enterprises redefine the production costs and efficiency.
“From subtraction to multiplication, we are based on an automatic production line for pots and pans, providing whole line service to customers. Starting from customers' needs, we seek new development opportunities and open up broader market space, "said Nong Baile.
Post time : 2023-04-13