Artificial Intelligence Research | Taiho Optoelectronics: Extend the color sorter industry chain and develop industrial robots
Release Date：2017-10-11 Source： Number of views：341
Driverless forklifts shuttle back and forth in the narrow space, delivering goods; palletizing robots next to the rolling assembly line, non-stop rectification, gripping, yardage of goods, stacking trucks in the high-level three-dimensional shelves non-stop shuttle picking up and placing goods ......
This is the scene seen by the reporter in Taiho photoelectric production logistics and warehousing logistics showroom. Industrial robotics and automation complete sets of equipment is another key direction for the company's future development.
At present, Taiho Optoelectronics, which sits firmly in the second chair of the domestic color sorter industry, not only continues to expand in the field of color sorting and sorting, but also further applies more than a decade of experience accumulated in the field of vision systems and artificial intelligence to the field of industrial robots, palletizing robots, stamping robots, AGV, intelligent three-dimensional warehousing systems, six-axis robots and vision inspection and positioning systems. ...... The development and launch of one new artificial intelligence product after another has brought the company closer and closer to being a mainstream supplier of industrial robots in China.
Those who get talent prosper.
Taiho Optoelectronics, founded in 2004, can go all the way to today and become a "dark horse" in the color sorter industry, Mr. Xu Dahong, the chairman of the board of directors, feels the most deeply is the power of talent.
Taiho Optoelectronics has more than 800 employees, of which, nearly 200 are R&D personnel, accounting for nearly one-fourth of all employees. The company's core technical personnel are all shareholders of the company, and the company's executive team has 3 PhDs, all graduated from University of Science and Technology of China.
What's more, "the core technicians are willing to grow with the enterprise and do their best for the company's rapid development and rapid growth." Xu Dahong said with relief.
It is because of the talent, the company pioneered the advanced CCD/COMS digital image sensing technology into the color sorter, which greatly improved the resolution of the color sorter, making the identification more accurate; at the same time let the digital image processing algorithms have a greater use, so that the previous can only rely on the color discrimination of the color sorter, can identify the shape of the material and the texture, expanding the scope of its application. The company's move narrowed the gap with the world's top level, and quickly overtook all the way to become the second in the domestic color sorter industry.
"CCD/COMS intelligent sorting, not only filled the domestic technology gaps, but also brought the enterprise high compound growth for many years." Xu Dahong said, "Every 10 CCD color sorter sold in the global market, the domestic production of color sorters accounted for about 3."
Data show that Taiho photoelectric 2016 operating income of 370 million yuan, of which 146 million yuan of overseas sales revenue, accounting for nearly 40%, the gross profit margin of overseas markets exceeded 60%. Xu Dahong told reporters that the company's products are currently exported to more than 50 countries, mainly concentrated in the "Belt and Road", along with the promotion of the national "Belt and Road" construction, the company's overseas business will continue to expand.
At the same time, Taiho photoelectric accelerate the technology and product innovation, the more advanced infrared, X-ray detection technology on the application of color sorter, color sorter applications from rice, wheat, corn, tea and other agricultural products in the field of food safety to plastics, quartz sand, ores and other industrial products such as waste material recycling and mineral grading and classification of the field to expand.
In the display workshop, the reporter saw various models of color sorters that can screen traditional Chinese medicine, ores, plastics, non-ferrous metals and so on. "These machines can distinguish the materials that customers need to sort, and do 24-hour uninterrupted operation." Workshop technicians introduced to the reporter.
Relying on the technical excellence and craftsmanship innovation, Taiho Optoelectronics was honored to appear in the CCTV large-scale documentary "Artisan Spirit" on August 31 this year, and became the first industrial enterprise in Anhui Province to be selected for "Artisan Spirit".
Superior technology and first-class brand, so that the company's color sorter has become the market meat and potatoes. "Capacity utilization rate of more than 150%, still can not meet market demand." Xu Dahong said, well in the fund-raising project "with an annual output of 2,300 units of intelligent testing and sorting equipment expansion project" is on schedule, next year, is expected to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand in the market after the completion of production.
Whoever gets the technology gets the world.
Taiho photoelectric hard power in the peer in a strong, CCD color sorter invention patents are in Taiho photoelectric, at the same time undertook a number of national science and technology innovation fund projects, the national torch plan industrialization projects, Anhui Province technology transfer program and other projects.
In the eyes of Xu Dahong, the company began to enter the field of industrial robotics in 2014 is not a transformation, "should be to follow the trend. In fact, the color sorter can also be attributed to the category of robotics, because the color sorter is also like a robot with the function of perception, decision-making and execution, functionally speaking more like a robot than an industrial robot."
Xu Dahong believes that Taiho photoelectric do industrial robots have a unique advantage, industrial robots and intelligent detection and sorting equipment has the same basic technology, both in the common technology research and development, the organization of R & D team, sharing of R & D results have a high synergistic effect.
After the research and development, Taiho Optoelectronics has made great breakthroughs in common technology fields such as perception technology, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, control and execution technology, human-machine interaction, machine vision, etc., and has accumulated rich experience in information processing and embedded system development. At present, it has developed a number of products such as palletizing robots, stamping robots, six-axis robots, AGVs and intelligent three-dimensional storage systems.
"The three-dimensional warehouse (intelligent three-dimensional warehousing system) is our development of a product that is quite popular in the market, which integrates the use of several robots." Xu Dahong introduced, the main body of the warehouse consists of high shelves, stacker cranes, in and out of the warehouse workbench and automatic conveyor system and control system. The stacker cranes travel through the aisles between the shelves to complete the work of storage and retrieval of goods, and the inbound and outbound storage utilizes a variety of conveyors or AGVRGV and other automated running trolleys to dock the stacker cranes, realizing the fully automated operation of the entire warehousing logistics.
In the system demonstration workshop, the technicians demonstrated the whole process for the reporter, a pile of square-shaped goods from grabbing, into the warehouse to storage, take out, out of the warehouse, palletizing, about two or three minutes to complete, than the artificial storage efficiency has improved significantly. According to reports, this intelligent production logistics line can also be applied to chemical, food, aviation and other enterprises in the field of production logistics.
According to the company's planning, industrial robotics direction of the main production-oriented enterprises in the production logistics + warehousing logistics system, through the handling robots, AGV and intelligent three-dimensional warehousing system to create a production-oriented enterprises in the factory overall logistics system, the later can be extended to the factory logistics system out of the inbound and outbound flow of goods, to create a more complete factory internal logistics system. At present, the company has done a sample demonstration project in the field of auto parts and chemical industry, and is expected to play a demonstration effect in the future, bringing more orders.
Xu Dahong said that the market space of intelligent three-dimensional storage system is very large, only in China in 2016 there is a market of more than 10 billion yuan. At present, the largest global market share is a German company, the future of the three-dimensional storage market should have Taiho photoelectric a place.
(Source: Shanghai Securities News WeChat)
Driverless forklifts shuttle back and forth in the narrow space, delivering goods; palletizing robots next to the rolling assembly line, non-stop rectification, gripping, yardage of goods, stacking trucks in the high-level three-dimensional shelves non-stop shuttle picking up and placing goods ......
This is the scene seen by the reporter in Taiho photoelectric production logistics and warehousing logistics showroom. Industrial robotics and automation complete sets of equipment is another key direction for the company's future development.
At present, Taiho Optoelectronics, which sits firmly in the second chair of the domestic color sorter industry, not only continues to expand in the field of color sorting and sorting, but also further applies more than a decade of experience accumulated in the field of vision systems and artificial intelligence to the field of industrial robots, palletizing robots, stamping robots, AGV, intelligent three-dimensional warehousing systems, six-axis robots and vision inspection and positioning systems. ...... The development and launch of one new artificial intelligence product after another has brought the company closer and closer to being a mainstream supplier of industrial robots in China.
Those who get talent prosper.
Taiho Optoelectronics, founded in 2004, can go all the way to today and become a "dark horse" in the color sorter industry, Mr. Xu Dahong, the chairman of the board of directors, feels the most deeply is the power of talent.
Taiho Optoelectronics has more than 800 employees, of which, nearly 200 are R&D personnel, accounting for nearly one-fourth of all employees. The company's core technical personnel are all shareholders of the company, and the company's executive team has 3 PhDs, all graduated from University of Science and Technology of China.
What's more, "the core technicians are willing to grow with the enterprise and do their best for the company's rapid development and rapid growth." Xu Dahong said with relief.
It is because of the talent, the company pioneered the advanced CCD/COMS digital image sensing technology into the color sorter, which greatly improved the resolution of the color sorter, making the identification more accurate; at the same time let the digital image processing algorithms have a greater use, so that the previous can only rely on the color discrimination of the color sorter, can identify the shape of the material and the texture, expanding the scope of its application. The company's move narrowed the gap with the world's top level, and quickly overtook all the way to become the second in the domestic color sorter industry.
"CCD/COMS intelligent sorting, not only filled the domestic technology gaps, but also brought the enterprise high compound growth for many years." Xu Dahong said, "Every 10 CCD color sorter sold in the global market, the domestic production of color sorters accounted for about 3."
Data show that Taiho photoelectric 2016 operating income of 370 million yuan, of which 146 million yuan of overseas sales revenue, accounting for nearly 40%, the gross profit margin of overseas markets exceeded 60%. Xu Dahong told reporters that the company's products are currently exported to more than 50 countries, mainly concentrated in the "Belt and Road", along with the promotion of the national "Belt and Road" construction, the company's overseas business will continue to expand.
At the same time, Taiho photoelectric accelerate the technology and product innovation, the more advanced infrared, X-ray detection technology on the application of color sorter, color sorter applications from rice, wheat, corn, tea and other agricultural products in the field of food safety to plastics, quartz sand, ores and other industrial products such as waste material recycling and mineral grading and classification of the field to expand.
In the display workshop, the reporter saw various models of color sorters that can screen traditional Chinese medicine, ores, plastics, non-ferrous metals and so on. "These machines can distinguish the materials that customers need to sort, and do 24-hour uninterrupted operation." Workshop technicians introduced to the reporter.
Relying on the technical excellence and craftsmanship innovation, Taiho Optoelectronics was honored to appear in the CCTV large-scale documentary "Artisan Spirit" on August 31 this year, and became the first industrial enterprise in Anhui Province to be selected for "Artisan Spirit".
Superior technology and first-class brand, so that the company's color sorter has become the market meat and potatoes. "Capacity utilization rate of more than 150%, still can not meet market demand." Xu Dahong said, well in the fund-raising project "with an annual output of 2,300 units of intelligent testing and sorting equipment expansion project" is on schedule, next year, is expected to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand in the market after the completion of production.
Whoever gets the technology gets the world.
Taiho photoelectric hard power in the peer in a strong, CCD color sorter invention patents are in Taiho photoelectric, at the same time undertook a number of national science and technology innovation fund projects, the national torch plan industrialization projects, Anhui Province technology transfer program and other projects.
In the eyes of Xu Dahong, the company began to enter the field of industrial robotics in 2014 is not a transformation, "should be to follow the trend. In fact, the color sorter can also be attributed to the category of robotics, because the color sorter is also like a robot with the function of perception, decision-making and execution, functionally speaking more like a robot than an industrial robot."
Xu Dahong believes that Taiho photoelectric do industrial robots have a unique advantage, industrial robots and intelligent detection and sorting equipment has the same basic technology, both in the common technology research and development, the organization of R & D team, sharing of R & D results have a high synergistic effect.
After the research and development, Taiho Optoelectronics has made great breakthroughs in common technology fields such as perception technology, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, control and execution technology, human-machine interaction, machine vision, etc., and has accumulated rich experience in information processing and embedded system development. At present, it has developed a number of products such as palletizing robots, stamping robots, six-axis robots, AGVs and intelligent three-dimensional storage systems.
"The three-dimensional warehouse (intelligent three-dimensional warehousing system) is our development of a product that is quite popular in the market, which integrates the use of several robots." Xu Dahong introduced, the main body of the warehouse consists of high shelves, stacker cranes, in and out of the warehouse workbench and automatic conveyor system and control system. The stacker cranes travel through the aisles between the shelves to complete the work of storage and retrieval of goods, and the inbound and outbound storage utilizes a variety of conveyors or AGVRGV and other automated running trolleys to dock the stacker cranes, realizing the fully automated operation of the entire warehousing logistics.
In the system demonstration workshop, the technicians demonstrated the whole process for the reporter, a pile of square-shaped goods from grabbing, into the warehouse to storage, take out, out of the warehouse, palletizing, about two or three minutes to complete, than the artificial storage efficiency has improved significantly. According to reports, this intelligent production logistics line can also be applied to chemical, food, aviation and other enterprises in the field of production logistics.
According to the company's planning, industrial robotics direction of the main production-oriented enterprises in the production logistics + warehousing logistics system, through the handling robots, AGV and intelligent three-dimensional warehousing system to create a production-oriented enterprises in the factory overall logistics system, the later can be extended to the factory logistics system out of the inbound and outbound flow of goods, to create a more complete factory internal logistics system. At present, the company has done a sample demonstration project in the field of auto parts and chemical industry, and is expected to play a demonstration effect in the future, bringing more orders.
Xu Dahong said that the market space of intelligent three-dimensional storage system is very large, only in China in 2016 there is a market of more than 10 billion yuan. At present, the largest global market share is a German company, the future of the three-dimensional storage market should have Taiho photoelectric a place.
(Source: Shanghai Securities News WeChat)
