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On Monday morning, the 3,000-unit collaborative robot industrialization base project of Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing officially broke ground in the Research and Innovation Park of the new district.
On the first day of September, the new district ran forward with such a solid move. It is reported that the total investment of this project is 130 million yuan. A 20,000-square-meter high-standard factory building will be constructed, and automated production lines and inspection lines will be introduced. In the future, at least 3,000 collaborative robots and nearly 10,000 intelligent robots will be mass-produced and rolled off the production line here every year, entering various industries.
3,000 units and nearly 10,000 units – these figures are truly inspiring. But its significance goes far beyond this output. From a deeper perspective, this is a vivid story about “transformation” and “integration”.
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The story of transformation begins with Luo Minzhou, the chairman of Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing.
Before founding Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing, he had been working at the Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machinery, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and had undertaken many national projects and research topics. It was not until he was 43 that he suddenly made a choice that surprised everyone around him – giving up his “iron rice bowl”, leaving the laboratory and becoming an entrepreneur.
“I have been dealing with robot technology for the first half of my life. In the second half, I will turn these technologies into products and put them into practical application.” ” This was Luo Minzhou’s original intention for founding the enterprise. In his view, technology should not be locked in a safe but rather addressed to address the real pain points of industries.
So, after nine years of entrepreneurship, Luo Minzhou led his team to forge ahead and developed several collaborative robots and indoor unmanned vehicles. These robots can make coffee, understand welding and do picking. They can be quickly put to work in both industrial workshops and consumer scenarios.
As one technology after another turns into a product, he also starts to ponder new questions: How can these products go further and achieve the leap from “technological leadership” to “industrial leadership”?
The industrialization base that has started construction this time is the answer given by Luo Minzhou.
He expressed his feelings, saying that in recent years, the enterprise’s development has been on the right track, and orders have been receiving more and more. On this basis, building a new base is first and foremost an urgent need to increase production capacity. Similarly, this is also a crucial step from “research to production” – only by resonating with the market can technological advantages be truly transformed into industrial development advantages.
For instance, this brand-new factory building will adopt a “dual-path” design on the automated production line, reducing the delivery cycle to 30 days. And an AI scheduling system was introduced to increase production capacity by 300%, truly achieving “efficient mass production”.
Here, not only can 3,000 collaborative robots be produced annually, that is, mechanical arms used for simple functions such as picking and welding; In the future, within three years, we will strive to produce nearly ten thousand intelligent robots with smart “brains” that can operate independently and sell them globally…
From a start-up company to an industrialization base, Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing has entered a new stage of development, and Luo Minzhou’s initial vision for starting a business is gradually being realized. This scientist who once devoted himself to the laboratory is now transforming into an entrepreneur after years of industrial breakthroughs. With yearning and expectations, this story of “transformation” is still far from over.
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Luo Minzhou’s transformation is a microcosm of the enterprise’s growth. The start of the project reflects the profound accumulation of Jiangbei New Area in the integration of research and production, and is a vivid interpretation of the new area’s promotion of the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
In the development process of an enterprise, industrialization is the core leap to cross the last hurdle from “sample” to “product”, and it is also the fundamental support for the high-quality development of the regional economy.
As the guests at the groundbreaking ceremony said, after the completion of the Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing Industrialization Base project, it will become an important force in the domestic collaborative robot field, significantly enhancing the level and competitiveness of the new district and even Jiangsu in the high-end equipment manufacturing field.
At present, Nanjing is making every effort to develop the robot industry. The 3,000-unit “collaborative robot” production base of Jicui Intelligent Manufacturing is truly contributing to industrial upgrading and regional development.
From a single project to a cluster, from a single scientific and technological achievement to an industrial highland, the new district is exploring more possibilities of an innovative ecosystem with the answer sheet of “integration of research and production”.
