Good News | STEP Robotics Selected as an Outstanding Case for Enhancing Manufacturing Reliability in 2022 by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
2023-01-03
On December 12, 2022, the results of the “2022 Selection of Outstanding Cases for Enhancing Manufacturing Reliability,” organized by the Fifth Research Institute of Electronics jointly with local authorities and relevant industry associations under the commission of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, were announced. The “National Solution for Enhancing the Reliability of Fully Domestic Industrial Robots,” submitted by Shanghai New Motion Robot Co., Ltd., has been successfully selected as the sole outstanding case related to robot bodies.
The national selection of outstanding cases for enhancing manufacturing reliability focuses primarily on key core products in priority industries such as machinery, electronics, and automotive. It solicits a batch of excellent projects centered around solutions in reliability engineering technology, reliability management, and quality and reliability tools. The goal is to elevate the reliability level of manufactured products nationwide, thereby supporting improvements in product quality and helping enterprises enhance their efficiency and competitiveness.
As an innovation-driven enterprise, STEP has long been deeply engaged in the industrial robotics sector. By rigorously implementing a strategy of "benchmarking against and surpassing imported products," the company has achieved robot product performance that rivals that of world-class international brands. At the same time, STEP places great emphasis on reliability design and testing technologies for industrial robots, striving to establish a systematic framework for allocating reliability targets—from the complete machine down to each core component—and mastering forward-looking design methodologies tailored to diverse application scenarios.
This time, building on the accelerating trend of domestic production in the robotics industry and drawing on its existing experience, STEP has proposed a comprehensive solution for enhancing the reliability of domestically produced robots from several key dimensions: structure, hardware, software, testing, and quality assurance. The implementation of this project will help improve and boost the reliability of domestically produced industrial robots—particularly in terms of core components and overall machine reliability—addressing issues such as reliance on imported mid-to-high-end components, low quality and reliability of domestically produced robots, and a low rate of substitution for domestically produced chips. By achieving full domestic production of mid-to-high-end core components, the project will enhance the overall reliability of domestically produced robots and significantly increase the mean time between failures (MTBF) of industrial robots.
This project also holds great potential for industry-wide promotion. In particular, if core components can be replaced with domestically produced upstream parts, it will not only address supply-chain security concerns but also significantly reduce the application costs of industrial robots, shorten lead times, further accelerate the adoption of industrial robots, and enhance the level of intelligent manufacturing.
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