On December 2nd, ABB Robot Super Factory held a commissioning ceremony. Dai Liu, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Commission of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress and President of Shanghai Robot Industry Association, Tang Wenkan, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Zhu Xi, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, Ma Yinghui, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal Government, Sacha Bachmann, General Consul of Switzerland in Shanghai, and Liang Rui, President of ABB Robotics China, attended the on-site ceremony. Sami Atiya, President of Robotics and Discrete Automation Division of ABB Group, and Marc Segura, President of ABB Robotics delivered online video speeches.
Mr. Tang pointed out in his speech that ABB is the world's leading integrator of robotics and intelligent manufacturing systems, and has been deeply integrated into the development of intelligent manufacturing industry in Shanghai for years. In the next stage, first of all, we should drive the digital transformation of the industry with the empowerment of smart factories, implement the pilot action plan of smart factories, and promote the application and popularization of industrial robots. Second, leading enterprises should lead to build a new highland of robotics industry, develop intelligent terminal industrial clusters represented by robotics, and gather a number of upstream and downstream enterprises in the intelligent robotics industry chain. And third, it is necessary to optimize and improve the industrial development ecosystem through integration and intercommunication, and further optimize the government services. We welcome ABB to introduce more business segments in Shanghai to achieve diversified integration and win-win cooperation.
ABB is one of the four leaders of international industrial robotics, and its market share ranks among the top in the world for years. ABB Robot (Shanghai) Super Factory is located at Kangqiao Town, Pudong New Area, with a total investment of US$150 million and an area of 67,000 square meters. As ABB's largest robotics R&D and manufacturing base in the world, the new factory will integrate digital technologies such as digital twinning and artificial intelligence with advanced manufacturing technologies to build the most advanced and flexible intelligent factory in the robotics industry and inject new momentum into the development of intelligent manufacturing industry in Shanghai.
