1、 Wireless communication.
In industrial communication, industrial communication has replaced the traditional field bus technology. This change has brought a huge subversive demand for wireless interconnection systems.
When the operating environment is too long, it cannot be connected to the robot, but can only send signal instructions to the robot through wireless connection. Compared with the traditional wiring method, the development of industrial robots will bring great changes to the wiring field, and this new development will also have a negative effect on other fields of wiring, and bring revolutionary development prospects for the entire wiring equipment. The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has particularly promoted the widespread demand for networked sensor equipment, which requires communication in wireless mesh networks to monitor multiple factors in production environments such as temperature, humidity, lighting, asset tracking and asset management. Obviously, the improvement of the industry's requirements for wireless interconnection technology has brought new opportunities to wireless interconnection manufacturers. TE, MOLEX and other manufacturers have also begun to expand their product design direction from "wired" to "wireless" in recent years.
2、 Custom.
In addition to the expansion of the demand for "wireless" technology, the "customization" of products is particularly important in the industrial field. As friends in the industry know, most traditional cables and cables are passive products, and manufacturers provide standardized products to customers. However, with the increasing demand for diversification and intelligence of electronic products, manufacturers need more "customized" products to meet customers' needs, especially in the industrial field, manufacturers need to develop new products with customers to meet customers' unique appearance and function requirements.
The optical cable enterprises cannot be satisfied with the direct sales of optical cables in one package, but should extend to the optical cable service industry chain. According to the requirements of the optical cable users, the optical cable problems should be solved in the use of robots, while increasing the profit space and competitiveness of the optical cable enterprises. In recent years, the demand for "customization" of industrial products has become increasingly obvious. Compared with "standardization" products, "customization" products require enterprises to have a stronger design and development team and a wider range of products, so that they can quickly assemble a complete solution to meet market demand.
The user's demand for "customization" still exists for a period of time, especially in the current new application fields such as automotive electronics, the Internet of Things, smart home, etc., which need new solutions. It is the supplier's responsibility to work closely with partners to maintain high product quality while meeting the "unique" needs of customers. Unlike the standardization of semiconductor wafers, the demand for semiconductor wafers is diverse. The internal wire and external coating may be different, and the demand for "customization" is also increasing.
3、 Flexibility.
Industrial automation also requires flexibility.
With the development of intellectualization and digitalization, the innovation demand of industrial connection is also growing. For example, in realizing system flexibility, a large number of cable and interface modes need to be changed into non-contact flexible mode. The cable not only has the characteristics of heat resistance and flame resistance, but also has excellent bending resistance and soft resistance, meeting the requirements of the mobile part of the industrial robot for resistance to repeated bending and twisting. In the industrial field, our products need to meet the customer's demand for durable and highly flexible cables, and withstand the repeated bending and continuous motion environment common in factory automation and robot applications.
However, the gap between the robot connector and the cable industry at home and abroad is first reflected in the raw materials, because they require higher flexibility, which largely depends on the application of raw material development. At present, domestic raw material research and development has been in a weak position.
Under the background that the industrial automation represented by Industry 4.0 will become a new generation of industrial revolution, China will become the largest producer and consumer of industrial robots. The "local advantages" of domestic cables and connectors are more obvious. The situation of temporary backwardness requires enterprises to specialize in research and development.