Nowadays, with the rapid development of the new energy industry, in the face of the advent of the TWh era, power battery companies have to cope with the demand of higher quality, larger scale and more scenarios of new energy market, which brings many challenges to the quality and safety, cost reduction and efficiency increase, and capacity delivery of power battery manufacturing links. The unanimous consensus of the industry is that the power battery in the TWh era should move towards the limit of manufacturing, which includes the limit of efficiency, the limit of quality, and the limit of cost, and in order to truly achieve the limit goal, the entire industry needs to introduce new ideas and new roles to truly promote the implementation of intelligent manufacturing of power batteries.
Dr. Octopus Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SVOLT Energy Technology Co., Ltd., is committed to providing landable overall solutions for the core components of intelligent manufacturing and the smart energy industry based on the analysis and verification of core capabilities of automotive-grade functional safety products and the mature implementation experience of intelligent manufacturing.
With the mission of building an octopus-shaped industrial operating system and making machines more intelligent, the company is deeply engaged in the two major business segments of energy management and intelligent manufacturing, and mainly builds four product lines of vehicle + energy storage + industrial control AI hardware + industrial software system.
Dr. Octopus's team has been researching intelligent manufacturing for many years, and has rich on-site work experience in the informatization planning, deep integration consulting, IT project implementation, digital/intelligent manufacturing standardization system and its key technology research, and the overall design and construction of digital workshop/smart factory.
Recently, Zhu Weihui, director of the industrial control product department of the Doctor Octopus Research Institute, and Dr. Fu Bo of Octopus said in an interview with Veken.com that in order to achieve the ultimate efficiency of the production of power batteries, it is necessary to greatly improve the production cycle on the existing basis, which is the motion control of servo drives and servo motors The performance of equipment puts forward high requirements, while traditional equipment still has performance bottlenecks in terms of speed and efficiency, and there is limited room for improving production efficiency, which is a pain point faced by the entire industry. It is worth noting that at present, the new energy industry has relatively high requirements for precision and speed, and almost all of them use foreign motion control brands, and there are few pure domestic brands. Dr. Fu Bo said that as a localized brand, Dr. Octopus does not want to only provide traditional standardized server products for the industry, but also hopes to achieve localized substitution from the high-end field, and gradually surpass foreign advanced products in terms of performance.
At the 23rd China International Industry Fair, Dr. Octopus aimed at the pain points of the new energy AI intelligent manufacturing industry, and officially launched a localized, high-efficiency, easy-to-debug, and space-saving blockbuster new product at the exhibition site on September 21 through online and offline joint live broadcast: integrated servo motor.
Dr. Fu Bo said that compared with the traditional servo motor, the integrated servo motor has the following characteristics: the new product is a product that uses the driver of the third-generation semiconductor GaN (gallium nitride) device built into the servo motor, which realizes the combination of the control and drive part of the traditional servo with the motor, and can be directly installed on the equipment without installing the servo driver into the control cabinet, without using a large number of wiring harnesses to connect, providing a flexible solution for the realization of compact and efficient equipment. Due to the use of GaN chips and supporting driver technology, low power loss can be achieved under high-frequency drive, and input and output efficiency can be improved. In addition, the product also uses high-speed Industrial Ethernet technology, which is plug-and-play and easy to operate. It is worth mentioning that the rated power range of this product is 200W-1500W, with IP65 protection level, stable and reliable, and is widely used in the field of industrial automation.
The advantages of this product are also reflected in the data performance of related performance: the speed loop bandwidth of the product can reach 4.5kHz, and the upper limit of the bandwidth is increased by more than 30%; Using gallium nitride chips, the power consumption of the inverter circuit is reduced by 35%; With the EtherCAT bus solution, EOE function and FOE function, all commissioning and firmware upgrade work can be completed with the bus, which can save half the installation time and make the project deployment efficient and fast.
In the new energy industry, some key production lines and stations have high requirements for equipment reliability. Zhu Weihui, director of the industrial control product department of the Octopus Doctor Research Institute, said that in the actual application of the product, predictive maintenance technology will also be used to find and solve possible problems of the equipment in a timely manner, improve the reliability of product operation, reduce the probability of failure, and greatly reduce the shutdown waiting time of the production line of new energy enterprises.
At present, Dr. Octopus is the first to recommend an integrated servo motor product with a power of 750W, which has been applied to the pre-research project of Honeycomb Energy's new energy intelligent production line, and its good performance is bound to form a strong demonstration effect in the industry. At the same time, in terms of product promotion, Dr. Octopus also actively cooperates with traditional servo companies and shares channels for promotion.
Looking forward to the future, Fu Bo said that the process in the field of industrial automation is very different, and it is difficult to cover various application scenarios with only one product, and Dr. Octopus plans to launch more types of integrated servo motors to form a complete product series to meet the requirements of different process sections for products. In addition to 750W, Dr. Octopus will also launch 200W, 400W, and high-power 1kw and 1.5kw products in the future to improve the production line efficiency of manufacturing enterprises and accelerate the empowerment of China's intelligent manufacturing.