In the long term, large-scale industrial robots to replace the traditional production of cheap labor is represent the general trend of rising labor costs is not only, cause the disappearance of the demographic dividend, is the inherent requirement of high precision intelligent manufacturing methods, but also with human liberation from the heavy, dangerous, repetitive work in the historical mission.

The world today is undergoing profound changes after the financial crisis and the adjustment phase, mobile Internet, networking, big data and other new generation technology exchanges and collisions have become increasingly frequent, the major industrial countries to look back to the manufacturing industry, the development of intelligent manufacturing Chinese choose this emerging industry in the face of many domestic and international pressure, is to complete the industry the development of transformation and upgrading, one of the most rational development path with boosting industrialization and informatization of higher level depth.

In the long term, large-scale industrial robots to replace the traditional production of cheap labor is represent the general trend of rising labor costs is not only, cause the disappearance of the demographic dividend, is the inherent requirement of high precision intelligent manufacturing methods, but also with human liberation from the heavy, dangerous, repetitive work in the historical mission.

Now the question is whether we have been in the market base, management philosophy, business model, social structure and other aspects of the preparation to meet the era of industrial robots? When does the tide of machine substitution start and end? How will it affect the economy, society and life style of our country and even the whole world?

First, from a global perspective, in recent years the world's industrial robots installed capacity of rapid growth, its reason is mainly draw lessons from the developed countries the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis triggered by the global financial crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, the implementation of re industrialization strategy, ensure the manufacturing industry; the other is the rapid growth thanks to the market demand Chinese industrial robot.

At present, countries around the world have shown strong interest in intelligent manufacturing, a variety of policy measures have been introduced. The main reason is that in the past three years, the global manufacturing sector continues to decline, the market, employment and other factors imposed on the economic pressure on the country gradually increased. Europe and the United States, Japan and other developed countries are expected to make use of intelligent manufacturing to cope with the weak domestic economic situation, strengthen the economic base, and against the trend of manufacturing to emerging market countries shift. Developing countries and regions want to make use of intelligent manufacturing to adjust the industrial structure, improve the comprehensive competitiveness. Germany put forward a symbol of industrial 4 is the long-term goal of the development of intelligent manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial robots as a symbol.

2014 global installed capacity of industrial robots hit a new high, reaching 205 thousand units, an increase of 15.2%, compared with the growth of installed capacity in 2012 increased by 46 thousand units, the main driving force for growth in the automotive industry increased steadily. In the global robotics industry maintained a good growth momentum at the same time, with the continuous growth of electronic products and new industry needs, and the need for automated production and application of industrial robot in the downstream industry is mainly concentrated in the automotive, electronic and electrical, rubber plastic, metal and mechanical fields. The most widely used in the automotive field, accounting for 39% of the total number of industrial robot applications; followed by the field of electronic and electrical, accounting for more than 20.3%; food and beverage and pharmaceutical cosmetics field is relatively small, accounting for the proportion of 3.5% and 1.1%.

Back home, the past two years as the country's strategic emerging industries, the steady progress of the integration of the two, China's intelligent manufacturing equipment has been widespread concern in the field of the whole society. With the increasing demand for product performance and rising labor prices in China, the pressure of industrial restructuring and upgrading. As the representative of the field of intelligent manufacturing, industrial robots are playing an increasingly important role in the process of industrial transformation and upgrading.

At present, China's industrial robot industry has strong policy advantages, due to the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing sector, the government has continued to increase the intensity of support. Changes in the domestic and international economic environment forced industry transformation and upgrading, manufacturing is the only way to high-end development. In order to better adapt to the development of market economy, it is necessary to improve the level of our country's industrial development by using robot technology, and to complete the transformation from manufacturing power to manufacturing power.

In the industrial policy incentives and market demand driven, in recent years Chinese industrial robot industry to achieve rapid growth, and constantly improve the industry leader in industrial capacity, at the same time the new enterprise is more and more active in the robot industry. 2014 China industrial robot production 12050 units, an increase of 26.2%, while the compound growth rate of between 2012 and 2014 was as high as 44.6%.

The rapid development of China's industrial robot industry is the continuous improvement of the industrial environment. In January 2014, the Ministry issued a "guidance" on promoting the development of the industrial robot industry, clearly put forward the development goal of Chinese industrial robot, which is developed to meet the needs of users of industrial robot system integration technology, computer design technology and key parts manufacturing technology, a number of breakthroughs in core technologies and key components, enhance the reliability and stability of quantity index a wide range of mainstream products, to promote the application of large-scale demonstration of industrial robots in the important industrial manufacturing. In addition to the country's overall guidance for the industrial robot industry, the industrial robot industry around the development of relevant policies to support and encourage.

Similar to the industrial development, China's industrial robot market is also facing the problem of uneven regional distribution. Manufacturing and the development of better areas is the main battlefield of the application of industrial robots in China, but also the driving force for the development of industrial robots, China's industrial robot market is mainly distributed in East China and Southern China region. The use of industrial robots in China is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Beijing and other places, the number of industrial robots accounted for more than half of the country. The Pearl River Delta region and the Yangtze River Delta region are the two most developed regions in china. Enterprise funds and technical strength, product quality and labor productivity requirements, which prompted enterprises to use more and more demand for industrial robots.

From the point of view of industrial robot production and research and development, China's industrial robot industry is mainly in the northeast, Yangtze River Delta and Beijing Tianjin Hebei region. Is the northeast old industrial base, is the earliest engaged in the production of industrial robots in the area, the main enterprises including Shenyang SIASUN robotic company, Harbin Bo automation equipment, Haier hagongda robot technology ltd.. The Yangtze River Delta region is China automobile manufacturing, electronics manufacturing enterprises, is also an important robot automation company cluster, the main enterprises of Shanghai Fu'an factory automation, Shanghai Mechatronics Engineering Center, Shanghai grandar robotics, Anhui Jianghuai automation equipment company. The Beijing Tianjin Hebei region because of its technical advantages, the robot industry also developed, on behalf of enterprises including Beijing violet, AI Jiemo, Yuandachaoren, extension of Bor, covering areas including industrial robots and automation production line, industrial robots, integrated application of industrial robot technology consulting products and services.

According to the statistical data of application industry, automobile and electronic industry are the main application fields of industrial robots in china. The automobile industry is the largest application of the industrial robot industry, accounting for 38%, with the corresponding proportion of similar international; and the proportion of the electronics industry accounted for up to 18.1%. Other applications include rubber, plastic, military, aerospace, food, pharmaceutical, metal products and other fields.

Affected by the national macro-control policies and improve the level of consumption, China's auto industry has entered a period of rapid growth, the industry production capacity expansion has increased the demand for industrial robots, the development of the automobile industry is one of the main driving force in recent years China's industrial robot growth. On the other hand, some emerging in the low-end market is also expanding rapidly, such as the field of mechanical engineering, and even some traditional labor-intensive enterprises such as petrochemical, food, building materials, chemical fertilizer, feed and other areas of the market demand is also developing rapidly.

In recent years, through the development of downstream application services, open up new markets to accept the traditional mode of production, home appliances, rail transportation, shipbuilding and other areas of the robot is the main battlefield for future applications. In the new field of general industrial applications, such as photovoltaic industry, power battery manufacturing industry, including wine, beverage, dairy, sugar, food industry, chemical fiber, glass fiber, and tile manufacturing, metal polishing, metallurgical casting, pharmaceutical and other industries, have industrial robots to replace the manual link and space.

China also shows some characteristics in the application of industrial robot type. The use of industrial robots more enterprises, the general requirements of higher quality products, enterprises in the market has a higher influence. The degree of automation of wholly foreign owned or joint venture is relatively high, which also leads to a large demand for industrial robots. As in recent years, with the rapid development of the domestic consumer electronics industry, a large number of Japan, Taiwan, Hongkong enterprises to enter the mainland to establish processing factory, engaged in related with IT, electrical appliances, personal digital products and parts production, driven by the rapid growth of the mainland market for industrial robots.

It is expected that at least 10 to 20 years in the future, the market potential of industrial robots and industrial scale will continue to grow. There are many favorable factors to promote the development of China's industrial structure, the first step is to accelerate the pace of industrial upgrading, and focus on national policy support. The Ministry of science and technology from the industrial robot has high additional key components are deployed on economic industrial robots complete product industrialization of the layout, the ministry key support of intelligent manufacturing industrial robot as the representative of the other; two is the quality of the production batch of products is stable, the production efficiency improved significantly, and the future application of the enterprise the production line put forward more flexibility and agility, and large-scale application of industrial robots can meet the requirements; three is the study of China's industrial robot theory deep accumulation, equipment production scale, in the country after more than and 20 years of efforts, has formed some competitive research institutions and enterprises of industrial robots, has mastered the basic design robot manufacturing technology, hardware and software of control system design, kinematics and trajectory planning. Operation, developed a series of products and components of high technology; four is gradually expanding the scope of application, at present has been covered by the engineering machinery, rail transportation, electric power, low-voltage electrical appliances, IC equipment, military, financial, tobacco, pharmaceutical, metallurgy and other printing and publishing industry, the development of unlimited potential.