Ningbo Daily (Reporter Luo Jiamin, Correspondent Chen Wenbo) Ningbo Economic and Technological Development Zone DZICS Electronics Co., Ltd. is one of China's largest automotive instrument R&D enterprises. Its latest patented invention, the feeding robot arm, was installed last month on CNC machine tools produced by China Haishun. "This is a solid step we've taken into the industrial control field while maintaining our leading position in automotive instrument R&D projects," said Dai Xiang, General Manager and Chief Architect of DZICS Electronics, confidently.
According to Dai Xiang, DZICS Electronics is an R&D enterprise integrating embedded software, PC software, network, circuit design, and industrial motion control technologies, with 12 years of experience in embedded software development. "Simply put, embedded software technology involves programming chips to perform independent functions. It's actually ubiquitous - civilian products like air conditioners, water heaters, and televisions all rely on it, while industrial applications involve controllers and CNC equipment." DZICS Electronics' flagship project, the automotive digital instrument control system, uses embedded software technology and relies on the company's complete R&D platform to achieve standardized production conditions. With advantages of low cost and high reliability, it has cumulatively sold 4 million software units, accounting for over 40% of the domestic automotive instrument software market.
"Now, the newly developed feeding robot arm represents an expansion of this software technology into the industrial control field." Dai Xiang demonstrated the robot arm's operation process to the reporter using 3D animation. Visually, the robot arm consists of a motor part and an arm part - the motor acts like a human body, controlling the arm's up-and-down movements. The front end of the arm has a pair of mechanical grippers that move parts as the arm moves up and down. While it may appear similar to ordinary machine tool devices, this newly developed feeding robot arm has a "unique secret" - DIY (Do It Yourself). Dai Xiang explained that DIY is an advantage of embedded software technology: "Currently, there are mainly two types of feeding robot arms on the market - high-end models and specialized models. They're either too expensive with low adoption rates, or can only be customized according to part shapes, making them single-purpose machines that are difficult to industrialize. The DZICS feeding robot arm can be standardized and mass-produced."
The secret lies in embedded software technology, which provides customers with a reprogrammable solution. Customers can independently modify parameters such as the robot arm's movement speed, rotation angle, feeding timing, and control methods according to their needs. To ensure the robot arm's safety, technicians have also implemented a fault self-diagnosis system in the software control system to identify and resolve issues that may occur during operation, enabling it to reach target positions quickly, smoothly, and accurately.
Dai Xiang stated that DZICS Electronics will leverage its advantages in embedded software technology to make greater impacts in advanced industrial control projects. "Currently, we're developing a 3D vision CNC controller that can clearly and vividly display actual conditions during industrial processing through 3D animation. Its market prospects will be very broad."
