On September 26, STEP, a domestic brand of high-quality industrial robots and a leading enterprise in intelligent manufacturing, and Castrol, a century-old international brand of lubricating oil with pioneering and innovative spirit, officially reached a strategic partnership.
Mr. Chen Huifeng, Vice PRESIDENT of STEP, and Mr. Zhang Zhiqiang, President of Castrol China, signed the strategic cooperation agreement on behalf of both sides at Park Hyatt Shanghai. "Digital", intelligent upgrade, cost reduction and efficiency increase are the core of this strategic cooperation. The two parties hope to truly help the intelligent transformation of Chinese industry by using their own advantages and resources, and jointly realize the goal of industrial digitalization.
As a matter of fact, the two companies have worked together to explore the resumption of the industry after the epidemic, and Castrol has also visited the STEP smart factory. Through continuous exchanges and in-depth understanding, both sides have reached a highly consistent development direction, and expressed the vision of carrying out all-round strategic cooperation in the intelligent transformation of the robot industry and lubricating oil field to achieve long-term win-win and common prosperity.
Pooling potential and wisdom for joint development
In the post-epidemic era, China's manufacturing industry, which is gradually coming out of the haze, needs to develop digital transformation to rapidly promote the process of intellectualization of China's manufacturing industry. The reconstruction of the whole manufacturing industry is not easy. STEP has a deep insight into the industry trend and demand, sees the opportunity to go up with the wind, and relies on its own technical advantages and industry experience to actively cooperate closely with all parties in the industry chain to gather momentum and win.
As a national innovative and high-tech enterprise, STEP has always paid attention to independent research and development. It has a complete product line of motion control, electrical control, robotics and other technologies, and has accumulated profound technology in the field of motion control. It has been providing intelligent solutions for the public service industry. Castrol provides a variety of advanced lubricant solutions to effectively cope with the lubrication problems in the production process, and has become a widely recognized lubricant solution partner in the industry.
Mr. Kim Sin-hae, President of STEP
Speaking about the strong alliance between Castrol and STEP, Mr. Jin Xinhai, president of STEP, said: "In the future, STEP and Castrol will share the resources of the whole industry chain, and carry out in-depth and extensive cooperation in product technology research and development and testing. The two sides will make full use of their respective resources and advantages in scientific research and other aspects, enhance the joint research, development and application of intelligent products and the joint development of advanced manufacturing projects through technical exchanges, joint development, technical services and other forms."
Mr. Zhang Zhiqiang, President of Castrol China
Mr. Zhang Zhiqiang, Castrol's Global Vice President and President of China, said, "The growth and application scope of robots in China is also developing rapidly. This is the first time that Castrol has reached a strategic cooperation with STEP, the giant robot company in China, which is a milestone for Castrol's deployment and planning in the domestic robot industry. We not only provide high-quality robot lubricants, but also use Castrol's advantage resources in robot applications such as well-known car companies, new electric vehicles and other end customers to explore new business with STEP, jointly promote the high-quality development of both sides in the field of comprehensive services, and contribute to China Smart Manufacturing."
Cost reduction and efficiency increase to achieve a win-win situation
Through this important cooperation, STEP takes the project as the carrier and builds an intelligent manufacturing system through batch application of industrial robots to achieve the purpose of improving product quality and reducing production and manufacturing costs. Efficient intelligent automation cannot be separated from excellent lubricating oil solutions and technical support. For many years, Castrol has been deeply engaged in industrial lubrication technology research, including advanced robot lubrication solutions specially developed for industrial robots.
Castrol's Optigear ALR X1, a new generation of special lubricant for industrial robots, will be used for STEP industrial robots. The excellent test performance of Castrol products on a variety of reducers will assist STEP industrial robots to help end customers upgrade their industries. ALRx1 lubricating oil products are on the market as a robot using traditional Japanese grease products, will provide more excellent for robot reducer lubrication protection, its superior liquidity not only can prolong the service life of the robot, at the time of after-sales maintenance will also has a great convenience, to provide customers with more convenient maintenance process.
In addition, STEP has been deeply engaged in 3C, lithium electricity, photovoltaic, construction machinery, metal processing and other fields, and is constantly consolidating and expanding the leading position of elevator control system and driving the elevator aftermarket, which is highly consistent with Castrol's long-standing business focus. Through strategic cooperation, it is easier for both sides to expand the vast market. At the same time, the STEP will be for nearly 30 years in car design and manufacturing and integration of the white body experience, together with the castrol continent new energy car this potential market, hopes to play to their respective professional in the field of industry and resource advantage, to promote the development of new energy industry, is advantageous to the company to perfect the industrial layout, improve the company's core competitiveness and profitability, In line with the company's upstream and downstream integration strategy.
The signing of this strategic cooperation agreement is at a critical moment for the intelligent transformation of the whole industry, which is in line with the future development direction of the two brands, and is also a critical moment for the intelligent transformation of the whole industry. Driven by R&D and innovation, seize the opportunity of breakthrough, transform the digital intelligent future, create a win-win situation for both companies, and finally realize the strategic goal of "science and technology power".