From April 13 to 14, 2023, 2023 High-tech Lithium Intelligent Manufacturing Summit and Western Robot Conference was held in Chengdu Longemont Hotel. The theme of this summit is "Limit efficiency, limit quality, limit Cost", which brings together more than 700 leaders of upstream and downstream enterprises in the lithium industry chain. STEP as a partner to attend the conference and show the lithium industry robot products.
At the TOP50 award ceremony held at the same time of the summit, STEP was awarded the "2023 Excellent Enterprise of New Energy Intelligent Manufacturing", which fully affirmed STEP's contribution to the field of lithium battery intelligent manufacturing and its product innovation and brand recognition.
STEP robot can be called "king of popularity"
YR series YR101030 SCARA robot displayed this time, professionally customized for the lithium industry, attracted waves of audience to watch and interact, and became the "popularity king" of the whole conference.
The product has carried out special research and development of pre-stacked module section process for the coil double-station gluing machine and small surface gluing process. By adding two guide rod accessories in the body, the rigidity of the robot is improved. Compared with the traditional robot, the maximum inertia is increased by 120% (2.0kg·㎡), and the rigidity of the screw rod is increased by 300%. Suppression function, reduce jitter, while ensuring stability without deceleration.
Ingenuity research, to create a full scene of lithium battery solutions
In recent years, new energy vehicles have driven the demand growth of lithium batteries. STEP combines robot technology with lithium battery production technology to form a series of solutions that serve the whole scene, which can greatly improve the production efficiency and product quality of lithium battery pole wafer production, cell synthesis, chemical component capacity, module &PACK line process.
As the core of the solution, STEP robot is highly close to lithium application scenarios, constantly shaping product power, to achieve installed capacity increase.
In the multi-joint robot product line, STEP lives up to its promise, Large load SR70/2180, SR175/2700, SR175/3200, SR220/2700, SR270/2650 and other robots can meet the needs of heavy load handling in large packaging feeding, cell unloading, cell pre-stacking/small unit grouping, side seam welding, module into the box and other process sections. Upgraded models will follow in 2023.
In SCARA robot products, STEP is mainly based on Zhongwei Xing sub-brand. The arm length of the whole series of products covers 300mm-1200mm, and the load range is 1-50kg, which can meet the production requirements of various processes in the lithium battery industry.
AR/GR/FR/YR series SCARA robots are widely used in the coiling, assembly, liquid injection, nail insertion and removal, X-Ray/OCV detection and other processes in the production section of battery cells. Power battery laminating station, the requirements for production efficiency continue to improve, GR high-speed series SCARA can significantly improve the production efficiency of laminating station, the fastest cycle time can reach 0.35S; In the module &PACK line process, according to the special research and development of the pre-stacked module section process, the customized YR series 20KG load robot for the lithium industry is launched, which supports three installation modes of formal installation, hoisting and side installation. The arm span is 600mm-1200mm, which can meet the requirements of the process on the rigidity, beat, stability and accuracy of the robot.
Similarly, YR122040 heavy-load 50KG robot meets the working requirements of large weight, fast beat and high assembly accuracy of lithium battery modules in the lithium battery industry. It is extremely cost-effective and has been widely and stably applied in the module assembly production line of head lithium battery enterprises.
In the future, STEP robots will continue to improve the overall solution capabilities for the lithium industry, empower partners, create low-carbon, high-speed, efficient, cost-effective solutions for customers, and constantly broaden the limits of industrial automation.