Taking advantage of the Advance Intelligence (AI), the multinational tech giants are now taking preparation to introduce robotic services for remote and difficult coal mining activities and power grid controlling in order to get more productivity and profit.
Some of the tech giants disclosed the information at a three-day conferance on Huawei Advance Intelligence (AI) at Shanghai in China.
“We have already started experimental mine exploration at Ireland mountain that will help digital mine of future safe, producing and efficient mining in coming days,” said Switzerland-based company ABB Chief Technical Officer (CTO) B Rizwan Hussain on Wednesday and talked about the plan at the 2nd day Huawei international conference in Shanghai.
He said the robotic services of ABB get world-wide support. We hope the services will get in new height after introduction of Advance Intelligence, he said.
He said Switzerland-based ABB already announced that it has already started construction of its new robotics manufacturing and research facility in China, the world’s largest robotics market. The facility is expected to open during 2021 and represents a total investment of US$150 million.
The new 67,000 m2 factory in Kangqiao, near Shanghai, will deploy the latest manufacturing processes, including machine learning, digital and collaborative solutions. It will be the most advanced, automated and flexible factory in the robotics industry worldwide – a center where robots make robots. The new factory will also host an onsite research and development center, which will help accelerate innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The center will serve as an open innovation hub where ABB closely collaborates with its customers to co-develop automation solutions that are tailored to their individual needs.
ABB’s robotics solutions serve a diverse customer base in Asia, supporting automotive manufacturers, particularly in e-mobility, as well as manufacturers in the electronics, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, logistics automation and general industries, among many others. ABB predicts that global robot sales will grow from $80bn nowadays to $130bn in 2025. China is the world’s largest robotics market; one of three robots sold globally in 2017 went to China.
Production in the highly automated factory will be based on cells of automation rather than on a fixed assembly line, which will allow robots to move from station to station for greater customization and more flexibility than in traditional, linear production systems. Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) will deliver parts to the production robots just in time, while the latest collaborative technologies will ensure that humans and robots can work safely side by side, bringing greater flexibility and agility to production processes and combining the advantages of robots with the unique capabilities of people.
The factory will be a complete digital manufacturing ecosystem, employing a ‘digital twin’ that will give everyone from managers and engineers to operators and maintenance teams data insights and machine learning capabilities to improve performance and maximize productivity. ABB will use a machine learning-based system to inspect robots as they are being assembled, to ensure the highest quality standards.
ABB Robotics has three factories worldwide: the new factory in Shanghai, which will replace the existing one there, will support customers in Asia. The factory in Västerås, Sweden, supplies customers in Europe and the Auburn Hills factory in Michigan supports the Americas.
ABB has a full range of business activities in China – its second largest market – including R&D, manufacturing, sales and services. It has approximately 20,000 employees located in 131 cities and at 44 local companies. In China, the company’s robotics business employs more than 2,000 engineers, technology experts and operational leaders in 20 locations across the country. ABB has invested more than US$2.4 billion in China since 1992.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a technology leader that is driving the digital transformation of industries with a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years.
ABB Robotics is a pioneer in industrial and collaborative robots and advanced digital services. As one of the world’s leading robotics suppliers, we are active in 53 countries and over 100 locations and have shipped over 400,000 robot solutions for a diverse range of industries and applications.
At the first day of the conference, the Chinese tech giant said they will concentrate more on oil and gas exploration data interpretation and evaluation activities using the Advance Intelligence.
The move will help to reduce exploration cost as the Chinese government has spent around 70 percent of the energy consumption cost due to repay the cost petroleum fuels, Huawei official said at the conference.
[source: Daily Sun]
