First of all, it is very important to affirm the training equipment, which is the infrastructure in teaching and must be paid attention to. After all, industrial robot training is a technical training, and the important thing is practical operation. Only when you are proficient in operation can you go to the enterprise to do things. In addition, there are several types of training equipment. One is the school desktop training equipment, which uses miniature or small robot bodies, such as the most common ABB IRB 120 and IRB 1200. After all, it is for teaching, and the bigger the body, the greater the operational risk. At present, 90% of these two kinds of robots are used in vocational colleges and training institutions, which are rare in enterprises. Because the application scope of ontology is small, there are few uses. For example, these two kinds of ontology can only be used for simple handling of very lightweight products, but not for welding, polishing, grinding, spraying and palletizing at all, or for handling products exceeding 1 kg; The other is the real application equipment of the enterprise. This equipment is called robot workstation, because only the robot itself can't be used for production and work, and it must be matched with related peripheral equipment. For example, if it is to be used for welding, it must be equipped with welding machine, positioning table, tooling table, fixture, material table, physical object and so on. Only when it is completely assembled can you really apply welding, otherwise you just practice a welding trajectory, which is actually no different from driving, stopping there and practicing indoors. Therefore, it would be great if all training institutions were equipped with enterprise-level real robot workstations, such as welding workstations, handling workstations, polishing workstations and spraying workstations. However, not every mechanism can be fully equipped. Only three types are most commonly used, namely, welding, handling and grinding. Welding is also divided into gas shielded welding, argon arc welding and laser welding. Different welding methods are suitable for different products and process requirements.
Secondly, it is very important to talk about the teaching content. Many people may say, I want to be a robot project engineer, I want to be a robot application engineer, I want to be a robot system integration engineer, and so on. I'm here to tell you that none of these jobs can be cultivated, but they can be done by accumulating at least five years' experience in robot-related jobs, so we should not be too ambitious about the teaching content. Don't be unrealistic. Learning robots should start from the basics step by step, and don't stare at the highest position from the beginning. Those positions are not accessible to you now. You should keep an eye on the positions that you have just left, such as robot technical support personnel, robot debugging engineers, robot electrical designers, robot mechanical controllers, robot technical after-sales personnel, robot sales personnel and so on. These posts are just grass-roots posts that have just entered the industry. No matter how hard you work, you can't go beyond these positions and directly apply for project engineers, application engineers and integration engineers. Therefore, if these positions are the beginning of employment, you must first locate which position you want to engage in before training. These positions are not good or bad, only the division of labor is different. Just like the organizational structure of an enterprise, there are personnel posts, financial posts, sales posts, technical posts and market posts. These positions are the same. Every post is very important and indispensable. Almost every post is a level, which can be upgraded in the past, but the specific division of labor is different in the whole robot project. For example, first, there must be sales staff to connect with customers and obtain the demand of robot integration projects. Then the mechanical designer designs the whole robot workstation model with CAD, SOLIDWORK and other drawing software for the customer's project products. After the customer's confirmation and cooperation, the assembly engineer purchases and assembles the raw materials of the whole workstation according to the designed drawings, and then only assembles the external structural equipment. All internal circuits must be designed and connected by electrical design engineers using PLC knowledge. At this time, the whole robot workstation can really move and run. Then, according to the customer's product requirements, the debugging engineer uses the customer's product blank for product production debugging and process debugging. This link takes the longest time, because it affects whether the product can really meet the final requirements of customers. It needs thousands of debugging by debugging engineers. If you can't meet the customer's product process requirements, it is impossible for the customer to buy your integrated equipment, because then the customer might as well use the original manual production method. How many such workstations will customers buy after successful debugging? Each subsequent workstation can only be delivered after successful debugging by a debugging engineer, so the position of debugging engineer is currently the most in robot application positions, accounting for at least one third. When customers buy workstations and want to use them in product production, some people may think that they will be produced by pressing a switch. In fact, this is the ultimate goal of unmanned production lines and industrial 4.0 manufacturing in the future, but it is not true now. At present, these robot workstations still need some people to cooperate with the production. These people are the technical operation support personnel of robots, who assist the robot workstations in loading, unloading and production, and usually only start and maintain them simply. Normal robot operation is just an entry level, and it can be done in a week at most. This kind of operation is a debugging worker and operator in the factory, so don't think that you will learn it well as long as you learn robot operation. The most difficult and essential thing for robots is the programming process. Programming processes suitable for practical applications, such as welding, polishing, painting and palletizing of robots, are all written by robot engineers and then input. But how to really debug robots to meet the requirements of products requires constant accumulation of debugging experience, so you should learn robots well. Let's see if it has a debugging technology course that matches the workstation in this respect. Does the course really have a lot of practice time? Are there any products and consumables for practice? Otherwise, you are just practicing a track, or you haven't really learned important skills.
Finally, of course, it is the problem of teaching staff, which is also more important. Imagine if the teacher has no practical experience in the application of robot projects, what's the use of talking? It is better to teach yourself at home, why come all the way to study? Everyone should be careful when choosing. According to reports, some teachers in some institutions are part-time, some stay in school as teachers just after studying, and some are invited to be teachers after working outside for one year. How to treat the application experience of these teachers in robot projects? I am still a teacher from school to school. Robot technology is easy to get started, but difficult to improve. Therefore, teachers must have many years of project application experience, in order to have their own craft experience and accumulated experience, in order to share with everyone. If the other party only introduces what kind of graduate students, doctors and so on, but does not explain what kind of projects to introduce, then be cautious. Although graduate students and doctors have to do project research, they have not really entered the enterprise and have no experience in industrial robot projects for several years. Their project research is more academic research, and relatively speaking, social practice is still insufficient. And what is the ultimate goal of training? Is to go to work in the company to get paid. Therefore, in terms of teachers, lecturers who have experience in integrator projects are the most experienced, and they are people who have really done projects and have been exposed to the most basic work needs and technologies.