From time to time, we will hear the four words "transmission components" in the industry reports. Most of them refer to the story that Taiwan precision component manufacturers have successfully entered the global automation manufacturing plant through "linear slide", or that Taiwan machine manufacturers have successfully entered the aerospace or automobile manufacturing industry through the integration with high-precision performance "ball screw" products. But in fact, the "transmission element" here refers to not only the "ball screw" or the "linear slide", but also the real "transmission element", because it is not only related to manufacturing, but also appears all the time in life.
A complete "linear transmission element" manufacturer must supply four necessary transmission elements at the same time, namely linear slide rail, ball screw, ball spline and single axis robot. The main function of the slide is to move the objects that need to be moved, lock the objects on the slide seat. The slide seat is the carriage of the train, and the slide rail is the rail laid on the ground. The workpiece can run freely on the slide rail through the slide seat, that is, the concept of carriage walking on the rail. But the sliding seat is only a carriage and cannot move by itself, so a servo motor is needed to combine a ball screw, which is converted into a linear action through the circle, dragging the slider to do a linear displacement, and the combination of servo motor and ball screw is regarded as a power locomotive. The example just mentioned refers to the track laid on the ground. But if today's train wants to move in the mid air, like the concept of elevated train, it must change the linear slide rail into the ball spline, because the ball spline is cylindrical, as long as the front and back support can make the car body and the outer cylinder of the ball spline make a linear displacement in the mid air, and this displacement is not only limited to transportation Sometimes, the workpiece to be processed can also be combined with the movement of small-scale processing equipment to process other workpieces. Similar to the concept that when our printer prints, the nozzle head on it can also run linearly quickly. The last one is the single axis robot, which is a concept of the combination of linear slide rail and ball screw. That is to say, the combination of locomotive, carriage and rail makes the installation and use of customers more convenient in a modular way. The application of single axis robot is very common in semiconductor related manufacturing.
Key role of Taiwan's transmission components in the world supply chain
In the past, most of the linear drive components were dominated by Japanese manufacturers. In the past, because the local manufacturing industry in Japan had a very strong demand for the slide rails, the products were often in short supply, let alone the idea of export development.
In the past, due to the increasing trend of international automation demand, Japanese manufacturers were unable to supply enough products, and gradually showed their heads. Through the great improvement of stability, precision and durability in recent years, the three major manufacturers have not only provided products of almost the same level as Japanese manufacturers, but also provided higher price advantages, helping manufacturers interested in introducing automation equipment to improve their competitiveness High quality and economical choice.
In recent years, due to the rising demand for automation in mainland China, many manufacturers in mainland China have entered the market of linear transmission components. However, due to the gap between the technical capacity of the land factory and that of Taiwan and Japan, and the projects that the land factory focuses on are often price rather than quality improvement, although the land factory actively competes for the market, the affected suppliers are only those in Taiwan who do not have high-level technical capacity Due to the strong technical ability, relatively competitive price and high integration ability, the three major factories are the best choice for the manufacturers interested in introducing automation in mainland China, and their development strength is amazing.
Special ability of TBI global transmission in linear transmission components
TBI global transmission is the leading manufacturer of linear transmission components in the world. In addition to a large proportion of R & D investment, due to the close cooperation with Sinosteel, the highest grade steel is used for manufacturing regardless of cost. Therefore, both in raw materials and technology, TBI global transmission reaches the highest level in the industry, and benefits the back-end automation equipment to improve the stability and performance quality of the whole machine.
In addition, TBI global transmission is more active in the field of intelligent manufacturing. For example, in the past, the rigidity of components could not be monitored or predicted, and users could not evaluate the wear of transmission components at all. However, by introducing the preload sensor into the transmission component mechanism, users can know the steel degradation caused by wear at any time, and also in advance Parts can be replaced before damage. In addition, if you import temperature sensor, you can know whether the quantity of component lubricating oil is enough, and change the concept of "adding is good" in the past; if you import vibration sensor, you can know the condition of component tightness, and avoid the occurrence of catastrophic solid obstacles and other intelligent settings.
In addition to the R & D adjustment of TBI global drive mechanism due to different sensor settings, it will also carry out customized integration work for the integration with other machines or the updated system.
TBI global drive's vision for future linear drive components
In fact, linear transmission components are not only used in automatic manufacturing, but also can be seen in drawer rails of our daily office furniture, photocopies and scanning equipment, medical beds, etc.
TBI global drive expects that in the future, in addition to continuing to explore the automation market, it will also move towards the direction of refinement, miniaturization and homelization. Through the vigorous development of digital equipment, the introduction of medical automation and the refinement of household products, TBI global drive will have the following extended development in the future:
1. Medical industry: in the past, slide rail products were mainly used in medical equipment, such as screw used in sickbeds, scanning instruments, vision testing instruments, etc., but in the future, automatic scanning equipment, rapid medical testing equipment, blood screening equipment are all oriented to higher precision and automation, so the market of high-precision and miniaturized transmission components will have more and wide demand.
2. Entertainment industry: with the rapid development of VR, AR, and Mr technologies, the demand for somatosensory devices has greatly increased. No matter the small wearable devices of large-scale somatosensory devices (such as interactive seats, flight simulators, etc.), they all have different demand for linear transmission components, which is also the focus of future development.
3. Refined home and smart home industry: in the past, OA products often used low-level slide drawer due to cost considerations. However, with consumers paying more attention to the requirements of drawer durability, load-bearing, pull and close feeling, high-level slide elements are gradually introduced into such products.
In addition, smart home products are expected to have more and more functions of item introduction automation, which is also expected to synchronously drive the demand of linear transmission components.
In addition to the continuous innovation in the research and development of linear drive industry, TBI global drive is also very welcome to provide the latest industrial demand for a deeper and wider range of products. If you want to know more about the latest information of TBI global drive in the development of linear drive components, you can go to TBI global drive during the International Automation Industry Exhibition in Taipei from September 6 to September 9, 2017 Mobile booth (booth: m1120 is here for guidance.