In the 2nd International Robotics and Intelligent Equipment Industry Conference and Exhibition which just ended, Greatoo, a representative intelligent manufacturing enterprise and the vice-chairman of International Robotics and Intelligent Industries Alliance, and over 100 top robots enterprises from all over the world participated in the conference, showing all kinds of new intelligent equipment and solutions, which greatly attracted audience.

Li Yi, a member of member of the national committee of CPPCC, deputy director of the economic committee of CPPCC, the original minister of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the director of China Federation of Industrial Economics, accompanied by Wu Chaozhong, the chairman of the board, visited Greatoo’s exhibition stand and thought highly of Greatoo’s persistence in innovation-drive development and achievements in intelligent manufacturing.

It’s known that in recent years, Greatoo has strengthened the integration of informatization and automatic technology in order to take the lead in domestic and foreign industries. The company introduced the technology of industry 4.0 from advanced countries likeGermanyto promote the company to go ahead in the transformation and upgrading of industries. With advanced equipment, high-end talents and technology, the company further promotes scientific innovation and the integration of informatization and industrialization to fasten its pace of intelligent manufacturing and take the lead of the trend of intelligent manufacturing.

Using Robots to take the place of manpower enjoys bright market prospect. In recent years, Greatoo persists in strengthening itself by science and technology. Greatoo continues to increase the investment in scientific researches and develop intelligent manufacturing industries, successfully inventing a series of heavy and light 6-degree industrial robots. It’s known that Greatoo’s robots feature five functions including perceiving, analyzing, deducing, making decisions and controlling. The technical advantages ensure products’ high flexibility, high stability, high consistency, high reliability and high security. The company’s products are very popular in domestic and foreign countries.

Key hints

Not long ago,  the company was chosen as one of the hundred innovation model enterprises integrating Internet and industrialization by Ministry of Industry and Information. Since this year, the company has received many national and provincial special subsidies about intelligent manufacturing. The company’s intelligent equipment, with features of high flexibility, high stability, high consistency, high reliability and high security, can not only take the place of manpower but also can have cooperation and discussion with human beings, which enjoys a wide market. Dr. Bernhard Thies,the vice-chairman of International Robotics and Intelligent Equipment Industry Alliance who paid special attention to Greatoo, visited Greatoo’s exhibition again. He praised that Greatoo made rapid progress in technology when he saw the company’s many new technologies and apps. He thought highly of Greatoo’s rapid progress.

According to the achievements Greatoo made in many international exhibitions, robots industry  has become the company’s fourth main industry besides for the industries of  tire molds and high precision hydraulic curing press.

Be the first to finish the layout of industries and take the lead in the world

Located  Jiedong Economic Development Experimental Area, Greatoo is a national model enterprises of technological innovation, a national new high-tech enterprise, a innovative enterprise ofGuangdong, a model enterprise of intelligent manufacturing ofGuangdong, with high-end research institutes such as national enterprises technology centers,  academician workstations, post-doctor workstations and engineering centers.

Since the company’s establishment, Greatoo has always persisted in the invention and production of radial tire molds. Motivated by the acceleration of the transformation and upgrading of national industries, in 2009, Greatoo started to develop industrial robots, unite control system, RV reducers, flexible production line and the dispatching system of intelligent workshops from the research of automatic manipulator.

In 2013, Greatoo increased the investment to 100 million yuan in the projects like the industrialization of industrial robots and the complete set of equipment of intelligent automatic production line and set up the business division of robots.

As the vice-chairman of International Robotics and Intelligent Industries Alliance, Greatoo has powerful strength in doing researches. Now, the company has invented a series of light-weight and heavy-weight industrial robots weighting20kg,50kg,100kg,200kg,300kgand500kg.  Greatoo’s robots feature five functions including perceiving, analyzing, deducing, making decisions and controlling to ensure products’ high flexibility, high stability, high consistency, high reliability and high security.Greatoo’s research team has make great breakthroughs in RV reducers, the core components of robots, and broke the back of limiting the development of domestic manufacturing industries. The company produces  RV reducers with features of precision, stability, high efficiency, low noise and long service life, which broke the monopoly of foreign technology.

Wu Hao, the secretary of the board, introduced that the company’s RV reducers won the “Golden Ball Award for Parts of Domestic Robots” in 2014. The “unit control system of robotic manufacturing”, which is invented by the company and Guangdong University of Technology, won the national copyright certificate and has proprietary intellectual property right. This control system can realize flexible, automatic and intelligent manufacturing.

In fact, Greatoo has already formed the embryonic framework of robot industry for tire automation industries, with the focus on the research of the core components of robots. However, Greatoo never stops its intelligent manufacturing.

On August 2015, Greatoo further promoted its development of robots. At the beginning of August, Greatoo increased the investment to 195 million yuan in Greatoo (Guangzhou) Intelligent Technology Research Institute Co.,Ltd (short for “Greatoo (Guangzhou)Research Institute ). On 20 August, Greatoo signed the license agreement with Israel Servotronix Automation Solutions Ltd and was authorized to use softMC source code technology of the control system of industrial robots in the development of the core components of robots.

Increase investment to establish think tank

In accordance with the idea of “self-improvement and being the strongest”, Greatoo always persists in strengthening the company by science and technology and continues to increase the investment in scientific research, creating the technical innovation system which regards enterprises as the main body, market as orientation and benefits as the main trail and combines production, studies and research. The company has established “Chemical Material and Technology Academician Workstation”, “Mold Polishing Technology Center” with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Mold Digitization and Engineering Industry-university-research Cooperation Base” and “Postgraduate of Mechanical Engineering Innovation Cultivation Base” with Guangdong University of Technology, “Guangdong Tire Mold Engineering Technology Research Center” which has been regarded as the “State and Local Cooperation Engineering Research Center”, “Postdoctoral Research Workstation” after the authorization of State Personnel Board, “National Key Enterprise Technology Center” after the authorization of 5 ministries and commissions like National Development and Reform Commission and “Guangdong Intelligent Equipment Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory” where the company carry out the research and technical application of intelligent manufacturing.

With strong research ability and high-end technical advantages, Greatoo has carried out the “National 863 Plan”, national key “Torch Plan”projects and national construction project of innovative ability. Recently, the company has successfully won 21 patents for utility models and 6 patents for invention as well as certificates for software copyright. Up to now, Greatoo hs 45 patents and over a hundred of nonpatented technology including 9 patents for invention, 36 patents for utility models, 43 new technologies, 25 new products, 46 new crafts and dozens of patents the company is applying for. Besides, Greatoo’s 16 projects have passed the technical appraisal by provincial experts and has been evaluated as projects with leading level inChinaand advanced level in the world, 8 of them filling the domestic technology blank. Many of the company’s projects have been listed in the national “Torch Plan”, national-level key technology innovation projects, national-level “double-high, one-excellent” key technology transformation project, and many products have been listed in “national-level key new products plan”.

Not long ago, the company was chosen as one of the hundred innovation model enterprises integrating Internet and industrialization by Ministry of Industry and Information and its project, “Collaboration Platform for the Intelligent Manufacturing of Customized Equipment”, was regarded as “integrated innovation supporting all-service and complete flow internet transformation”.　　

Face the international market and cooperate with strong enterprises

Besides for strengthening the company’s researching ability, Greatoo also adopts the development strategy of “Going Out). Through the acquisition of manufacturers at international advanced level in machinery and automation areal, the company has introduced advanced technology and products inChinaand developed national technology and products.

In recent years, the company has made rapid progress in expanding its overseas business. The company has set up a wholly owned subsidiary in Chennai of India to take up Indian emerging market; through the acquisition of American Northeastern Mold Company, the company focuses on providing service for customers inNorth America; the acquisition of German OPS shows the company’s strategic layout of European market. Greatoo has gradually built up a management system combining designing, manufacturing, selling and service to establish an international brand and move forward to the international operation.

In 2013, Greatoo set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, German ODG Precision Machinery Co.,Ltd. ODG introduced a technical team with over 20 years’ experiences in doing researches in intelligent and automatic products. The products feature high precision, high stability and long service life, which can take the place of labor in particular procedures and realize continuous operation lasting 24 hours.

Greatoo said that under the background of the national strategy of developing “Internet +” and big data service substantial economy, Greatoo will cooperate with the subordinated unit of Chinese Academy of Sciences to establish “Golaxy Big Data Co.,Ltd”. With the platform of Golaxy, the company and Chinse Academy of Sciences can complement each other’s advantages. The company coordinates CAS’s “Take Action First” plan to target at some crucial and strategic areas. Occupy the commanding height of international technology, strengthen the crucial technology researches related to the country’s strategic benefits, making the plan for big data, intelligent manufacturing industries, mobile internet and cloud computing in order to become an effective pusher of the development strategy of “Internet +” and “Take Action First” Plan.

Use Robots to take the place of manpower and provide service for the market

Greatoo shows active response to the strategy of “Made in China2025”.Guangdong3-year Plan (2015-2017) of the transformation and upgrading of industries. Based on the technical cutting-edge of industry 4.0 and bearing the manufacturing of the complete set of large and efficient intelligent equipment in mind, the company tries to make breakthroughs in the core common application technology, strengthen the supply ability of core technology, increase the class of products and motivate traditional manufacturing industries to use robots to take the place of manpower.

Insiders expressed that using Robots to take the place of manpower enjoys bright market prospect under the background of the transformation and upgrading of industries ofGuangdong. Greatoo’s intelligent equipment features five functions including perceiving, analyzing, deducing, making decisions and controlling. The technical advantages ensure products’ high flexibility, high stability, high consistency, high reliability and high security. Greatoo’s robots can not only take the place of human beings but also can have cooperation and discussions with human beings, which enjoy a large application prospect.

Greatoo’s intelligent manufacturing is highly recognized by other industries. The company has already produced the first automatic and intelligent production line of tire manufacturing in China Hangzhou Zongce Group,China’s biggest tire manufacturer, and many automatic production line of auto parts for Minth Group, the second largest parts manufacturer in the world.

Greatoo also applies “intelligent manufacturing” in intelligent logistics, which covers intelligent technology in the supply chain management from batching feeding, processing, examining, storing and sending goods. Recently, the company invented an intelligent stereoscopic warehouse with 576 goods sections for a company in Shenzhen. The warehouse only needs 1 operator for the storing of goods. The warehouse has the characteristics like high utility rate of space, high access speed and high precision. In proper design and with access automation, it’s easy to operate this warehouse, which can reduce the labor for warehouse management, increase work efficiency and largely improve the enterprise’ logistics management level.

Put people first

Though Greatoo enjoys great advantages in technology, capital, equipment and market, Chairman Wu Chaozhong said that it’s the union and efforts of the staff that realize the leap-forward development of the company which has developed into a leading enterprise from a small factory in a county. So the company puts great emphasis to talents, showing respects to talents and giving special treatment to talents.

Wu thought that the will of workers is the company’s cohesion, corporate culture and competitiveness. “After dozens of years’ development, Greatoo has developed into a leading enterprise, but the company is not tempted by its reputation. The company still persists in its management idea of “managing the will of the staff”.

The board thought that a successful enterprise commits itself to increasing the happiness index of employees besides for high salary. Therefore, the company has built up its corporate culture by improving material culture, behavior culture, system culture and spiritual culture. The company provides workers the platform to improve their education background and professional skills and increases their titles by the projects of “High-level Blue Collar” and “Make Workers Knowledgeable”; the company sets up charity fund to help those in distress. It’s by the efforts of taking care of workers and increasing workers’ happiness index that Greatoo has gradually formed a learning and vigorous corporate culture and cultivates excellent technology and management talents.

Greatoo applies the same management idea in dealing with customers. Wu thought that the current market is the market of buyers. Because the board always considers the need of customers in the operation of the company, so the company has been listed in the global purchasing and supplying line of tire giants in the world. The company spares no efforts to produce more dedicate and advanced products for customers; the company keeps improving the informatization management of the company, producing  excellent products in a more standard and reasonable procedure and attracting more customers by improving after-sales service. In this way, the company is distinguished in the fierce market competition.