The first robot application Joint Laboratory in Western China was set up by Changhong and ABB   

In August 16th, Changhong and Sichuan ABB Swiss Corporation signed a strategic cooperation agreement, announced in Chengdu to set up China's first robot joint lab, the two sides will expand the depth of cooperation in the application of industrial robot development, production, system integration and so on, with the development of China market. This means that the Sichuan Changhong, which seeks the transformation of intelligent manufacturing, has formally entered the industrial robot field.

At present, the rapid development of new technologies, such as the Internet of things and artificial intelligence, poses a full challenge to the traditional manufacturing enterprises, and the demand for robots in our country is being blowout. As a leading industrial robot supplier, ABB has already installed more than 300 thousand units in the world, and China has become one of its largest markets.

Sichuan Changhong, as the representative of China's manufacturing industry, is exploring the road of intelligent transformation of traditional household electrical appliances enterprises and among the first batch of national intelligent manufacturing experiments. But the eyes of Sichuan Changhong are not limited to the home appliance industry. "It is necessary to promote the transformation and upgrading of Changhong itself, but also to promote the mature technological achievements and experience." Pan Xiaoyong, general manager of Changhong's smart manufacturing company, said.

According to the understanding, in the laboratory frame, the two sides will integrate their technology, talent, platform, marketing and other aspects of resources, development to include home appliances, a number of specific industry application scenarios robot integrated system, which mainly provides the source ABB technology, Changhong optimization aspects mainly include adaptive system.