I. definition of soldering robot
Solder robot, also known as automatic solder machine, is used in solder welding station, different from wave soldering, reflow welding and other through the furnace welding, mainly used to replace the simple and repeatable manual welding equipment. At present, the market is mainly gantry frame manipulator type, the vertical multi-joint manipulator movement type can be seen in foreign countries.
 
Ii. History of soldering robot
Soldering robot originated in Japan, and was first used in electroacoustic and automotive electronics products after entering China. 2008 key electronic manipulator brand solder robot interview, the formation of domestic solder robot and several Japanese brand solder robot coexist market situation.
 
Soldering robot and selective wave soldering
In order to replace the manual welding station, the optional automatic equipment on the market at present includes selective wave soldering and soldering robot. Selective wave soldering is a special type of wave soldering, which mainly aims at through hole components and selectively sets welding points to meet production requirements. The characteristics of selective wave soldering determine that the precision required by its equipment is very high, so only a few truly stable and available products on the market are available for selection, and the price is expensive.
The soldering robot works in the opposite way to selective wave soldering. For the through-hole plug-in product, after the product is fixed with clamps, the pin is up and welded from the top.
 
Four, solder robot operation brief introduction
Solder robot is a standard machine, after years of development, has been shaped into a four-axis manipulator, equipped with automatic solder system, through the teaching box programming control configuration.
Solder robot can only complete automatic solder action, need manual operation of the machine, equipped with jig, through the preparation of program parameters in advance, manually place the product to the jig, and place the jig to the machine fixed, and then start the machine, solder robot in accordance with the set procedures to operate, complete the welding work. Then manually remove the welded products, reposition the installed unwelded products, and then start the machine for welding. And so on. So strictly speaking, soldering ROBOT is a semi-automatic device, which is still far from ROBOT.
 
Five, solder robot market status
Solder robot, as the name suggests, is a solder welding equipment, so in addition to the movement of the manipulator function, it is mainly to complete the solder operation. So the core of the solder robot is the welding system. Solder system is mainly composed of automatic tin feeding mechanism and temperature control, heating body, soldering tip. At present, the domestic market manipulator brand soldering robot has been successfully applied in automotive electronics, digital, electronic, electro-acoustic, LCD, circuit board and other production industries, and has broken through the wire industry USB automatic welding scheme.
Due to the continuous rise in personnel wages in recent years, manufacturers have stepped up the pace of choosing automation equipment, and more manufacturers have felt unprecedented pressure. One side is the rapid rise in costs, and the other side is the intensification of peer competition.
Manufacturing companies have been squeezed at both ends of the market, and the big economy in 2013 has made that even more difficult. To seek a breakthrough, it is necessary to change, open up new market applications, the development of automatic soldering machine is undoubtedly the most directly related to the soldering tip industry.  
According to statistics, foxconn international employees were 108,000 in 2008 and reached a peak of 118,000 in 2009. After two years, the reduction rate gradually increased, with a reduction of about 14,000 in 2011 and 28,900 in 2012, a decrease of 29.2%. This is in line with foxconn in early 2012, terry gou in jincheng technology industrial park of foxconn confirmed that foxconn has launched the "three years to build a million robots" program. This also provides an opportunity for our soldering tip manufacturing industry, that is, the use of automatic soldering machine, automatic soldering robot, and the consumable materials, such as automatic soldering machine soldering tip, will show a rapid growth trend.
How to meet a jedi? To survive and grow in adversity is what every enterprise seeks. Obviously, in labor-intensive manufacturing industry, labor cost is the most immediately available. Replacing manual labor with machine is the development direction that manufacturing industry should focus on in the future.
The main advantages of automatic soldering machine are as follows:
1. Stabilize and improve welding quality to ensure its uniformity;    
2. Improve labor productivity and continuously produce 24 hours a day;    
3. Improve the working conditions of workers and work in hazardous environments;    
4. Reduce the requirements on workers' operation technology;    
5. Shorten the preparation period of product model change and reduce the corresponding equipment investment;    
6. Realize welding automation of small batch products;    
7. Able to complete welding operations that are difficult for workers;