Attack the "Little Giant" | Visual Bits: Give the production line a pair of "smart eyes" and install a "smart brain"

Editor's note:There is a group of enterprises, small in size, but ambitious, possessing unique skills, and wandering the world alone, known as the "little giants". In Changsha, the "little giants" are like stars and moons, deeply cultivating their respective fields and running dark horses in the industry, becoming a dazzling light in the high-quality development of the city's industrial economy

Editor's note:There is a group of enterprises, small in size, but ambitious, possessing unique skills, and wandering the world alone, known as the "little giants". In Changsha, the "little giants" are like stars and moons, deeply cultivating their respective fields and running dark horses in the industry, becoming a dazzling light in the high-quality development of the city's industrial economy. Red Net Changsha Station launched a series of reports - "The Little Giant Striving", visiting multiple provincial and municipal "Little Giant" enterprises to explore their strength and potential.

The intelligent cutting and sorting production line developed by Shibit is applied in the No. 18 factory building of Sany Group.

Reported by Peng Chao, a news reporter from Red Net Moments in Changsha

On the production line, it is not easy to cut a steel plate weighing dozens of tons into a large number of components of different specifications, and then accurately sort and stack them together. The Shibit Robot (abbreviated as "Shibit"), headquartered in Changsha, has solved this problem by relying on its independently developed intelligent cutting and sorting production line.

The "2023 China's Top 100 Quasi Unicorn Enterprises" list released in June of this year ranked Shibit at the top. The industry cannot help but question: What are the capabilities of this enterprise?

At the No. 18 factory building of Sany Group in Changsha Economic Development Zone, the intelligent cutting and sorting production line independently developed by SIBIT is operating in an orderly manner. It is reported that this is the first intelligent cutting and sorting production line in China based on "AI+3D vision". It was developed in 2019 and put into use in 2020. The steel plate is very thick and heavy, which was previously manually handled, making it very difficult and posing certain safety risks. After cutting a steel plate into parts of different sizes ranging from 0.4m to 10m, our 3D vision technology is used for intelligent identification and sorting, greatly reducing the labor intensity of workers, saving labor costs, and effectively improving production capacity and efficiency. "Ji Chunkun, the technical director of Shibit, introduced.

The SIBIT intelligent cutting and sorting production line adopts independently developed AI+3D visual advanced technology and multi robot intelligent collaborative control software, providing the production line with "smart eyes" and "smart brains", achieving fully automatic and flexible sorting of tens of thousands of steel plate parts. The sorting robot equipped with high-precision 3D cameras can adapt to different lighting conditions to accurately identify, locate, grab, and stack massive parts. The optimized grabbing and stacking algorithms for specific scenarios can provide precise obstacle avoidance during the grabbing process, completing efficient collaborative operations among multiple robots.

At present, the intelligent cutting and sorting production line has been widely implemented and applied in the domestic heavy industry, helping heavy industry enterprises such as Sany Group, Zoomlion Heavy Industry, Xingbang Heavy Industry, and Tiejian Heavy Industry to increase their sorting capacity several times.

The MVM large-scale and high-precision online measurement specialized machine independently developed by Shibit.

In the field of automotive measurement, the MVM large-scale high-precision online measurement machine independently developed by Shibit has broken the long-term monopoly of foreign countries and achieved ultra-high precision online full inspection of large-sized workpieces, increasing the measurement beat to about 1 minute, and achieving a measurement accuracy (three coordinate correlation) of 0.15mm, surpassing international top products in multiple performance indicators. At present, the special aircraft has been successfully delivered to multiple automotive OEMs and leading component companies worldwide.

In addition, for scenarios such as fully automatic loading, unloading, and assembly of components in the industrial field, the visual bit loading, unloading, and assembly workstation relies on self-developed 3D vision high-precision positioning algorithms and 3D vision high-precision correction algorithms to achieve flexible loading, unloading, and high-precision assembly for scenarios such as multiple categories and disordered incoming materials. This workstation has been implemented in batches by multiple leading enterprises in the automotive parts, engineering machinery, wind power and other industries.

Founded in August 2018, ShibitRobot is a cutting-edge enterprise specializing in AI+3D vision, industrial intelligence software, and smart factory solutions. Its startup team members come from universities such as Princeton and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, with years of accumulated research in fields such as computer vision, robotics, computer systems, and cloud computing big data. At present, there are over 300 members of the ShibitRobotics team, with R&D personnel accounting for up to 60%, which means that on average, 3 out of every 5 people are R&D personnel.

As a national level "little giant" enterprise, Shibit's growth potential and innovation ability have also been recognized by investors. Over the past 5 years, ShibitRobotics has completed multiple rounds of financing, with a total financing of 500 million yuan.

Our order for this year is expected to be 300 million yuan. In the future, the company will continue to increase investment in research and innovation, expand the application scenarios of intelligent technology in new energy, environmental protection and other industries. Liu Tingting, Deputy General Manager of Shibit, said that the Shibit headquarters building located in Xiangjiang New Area, Hunan will be put into use in 2025, integrating technology research and development, debugging, and can accommodate thousands of research and development personnel.

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