March 10, 2015 at 11:48How are robotic vacuum cleaners manufactured at the Yujin Robot factory in Korea?
Robotic vacuum cleaners are becoming more popular every day. Many potential consumers still have an opinion that this is just a toy. Often this is due either to a lack of understanding of the principle of the gadget, or to reviews of friends who once bought a Chinese analogue at a low price and were disappointed in both the quality of the cleaning and the reliability of the device. I will not convince you within the framework of this article that a robot vacuum cleaner is a necessary thing in everyday life. In our store, there were many reviews from customers who did not imagine how they generally lived without an automatic cleaner. But what I would like to dwell on in more detail is the production process of the most popular at the moment (according to Yandex.Market) iClebo robots of the Korean company Yujin Robot. I personally managed to visit the Yujin Robot production line and the head office in Seoul, I am enclosing a small report.
Unlike most other manufacturers of robot vacuum cleaner manufacturers, Yujin Robot did not transfer its production to China, but located near the head office in Seoul. Seoul is a metropolis and the main business center of South Korea. All streets are full of bright advertisements of famous Korean brands in numerous skyscrapers: Samsung (perhaps the number one brand in Korea), LG, Hyundai and others. The population density per unit area is quite high, even late in the evening it doesn’t get crowded on the main streets (for example, on the streets of Gangnam District, about which there iseveryone’s favorite song Gangnam Style).
Generally speaking, there are still a lot of fans of the Psy singer and, at the slightest opportunity, they all rush to the dance to the fiery rhythm of the song.
The head office of the company is located in the Gimcheongu district of the city in the Namseong Plaza BC on the 6th and 12th floor. On the ground floor there is a team of developers and technical specialists, a testing department, test sites and automated systems for conducting tests, as well as a museum of past and current developments. By the way, Yujin Robot does not pay for the rental of these floors, because in Korea it is customary not only to rent offices, but to buy out space forever, like we have apartments. Yujin bought two floors of the business center.
On the top floor - sales, programmers, marketers, management.
Today, the company puts its main efforts into the development and production of iClebo robotic vacuum cleaners, as the most popular and promising area (although Yujin also produces various types of production lines and manipulators on order). The current models of robot vacuum cleaners from Yujin Robot at the time of writing: iClebo Arte (a robot with a room mapping system) and iClebo Pop (younger brother without a camera, odometer, gyroscope, and cleaning timer).
The factory and warehouse itself are located in the suburb of Seoul - Bucheon, in the technopark zone, where various technology companies of South Korea are concentrated (something similar to our Skolkovo). In one of the buildings of the industrial park is the production line and warehouse Yujin Robot. To the left of the main entrance, there is a shipping area where you can fit a truck and load pallets with robots. Yujin occupies several floors of the technology park.
Before entering the industrial park:
Several Korean companies are represented in the industrial park, all of which are engaged in the production of robots (both domestic and industrial). Below is a museum that displays robots of Robopark companies.
Next to the humanoid
golf robots,
there’s a Hyunday booth with industrial robots,
as well as a robot for children's education iRobiQ from the company Yujin Robot (quite popular in Korea, but not sold in Russia).
Korean children are sometimes so incomprehensible:
And Asian manufacturers also like to try something like this, for example, stick a pearl pattern on the robot's lid (pattern material - sea shells):
We go further, directly to the factory. Outsiders (such as myself) should definitely change into rubber slippers. For regular employees, the rules hang on the wall. Women, for example, should not wear long hair, so if you are a lover of long hair, then this work is not for you.
All employees are grounded and wear gloves.
We enter the room, before us is the production line.
At each stage, a factory employee does only his job, for example, an employee (most of the production line employees are women) gets a robot at this stage of assembly:
Its task is to fasten the motherboard. The task of the next employee is to connect all the wires to the connectors on the motherboard. All assembly steps are divided into very small steps. This approach allows you to increase the accuracy and quality of the assembly.
After the assembly process, robots enter the test site.
They are checked twice before packing in a box. Every robot is checked without fail (which many other manufacturers do not, especially in China). The percentage of marriage from the factory tends to zero.
First, the operation of all sensors is checked through the service menu of the robot vacuum cleaner, after which iClebo is driven to various kinds of landfills in order to additionally check the build quality and operability of the device.
After careful inspection and packaging, the robots are transferred to a warehouse where they undergo yet another quality control. From each batch of 50 iClebo, 10 vacuums are randomly selected and are fully tested again. If marriage is not found, robots are sent to dealers; if marriage is detected, the entire batch goes for additional testing.
And here are our robots, which will go to Moscow in a few hours. Perhaps we should write something pleasant on our boxes.
If you have additional questions, I will be glad to answer them. All the best!
Unlike most other manufacturers of robot vacuum cleaner manufacturers, Yujin Robot did not transfer its production to China, but located near the head office in Seoul. Seoul is a metropolis and the main business center of South Korea. All streets are full of bright advertisements of famous Korean brands in numerous skyscrapers: Samsung (perhaps the number one brand in Korea), LG, Hyundai and others. The population density per unit area is quite high, even late in the evening it doesn’t get crowded on the main streets (for example, on the streets of Gangnam District, about which there is
Generally speaking, there are still a lot of fans of the Psy singer and, at the slightest opportunity, they all rush to the dance to the fiery rhythm of the song.
The head office of the company is located in the Gimcheongu district of the city in the Namseong Plaza BC on the 6th and 12th floor. On the ground floor there is a team of developers and technical specialists, a testing department, test sites and automated systems for conducting tests, as well as a museum of past and current developments. By the way, Yujin Robot does not pay for the rental of these floors, because in Korea it is customary not only to rent offices, but to buy out space forever, like we have apartments. Yujin bought two floors of the business center.
On the top floor - sales, programmers, marketers, management.
Today, the company puts its main efforts into the development and production of iClebo robotic vacuum cleaners, as the most popular and promising area (although Yujin also produces various types of production lines and manipulators on order). The current models of robot vacuum cleaners from Yujin Robot at the time of writing: iClebo Arte (a robot with a room mapping system) and iClebo Pop (younger brother without a camera, odometer, gyroscope, and cleaning timer).
The factory and warehouse itself are located in the suburb of Seoul - Bucheon, in the technopark zone, where various technology companies of South Korea are concentrated (something similar to our Skolkovo). In one of the buildings of the industrial park is the production line and warehouse Yujin Robot. To the left of the main entrance, there is a shipping area where you can fit a truck and load pallets with robots. Yujin occupies several floors of the technology park.
Before entering the industrial park:
Several Korean companies are represented in the industrial park, all of which are engaged in the production of robots (both domestic and industrial). Below is a museum that displays robots of Robopark companies.
Next to the humanoid
golf robots,
there’s a Hyunday booth with industrial robots,
as well as a robot for children's education iRobiQ from the company Yujin Robot (quite popular in Korea, but not sold in Russia).
Korean children are sometimes so incomprehensible:
And Asian manufacturers also like to try something like this, for example, stick a pearl pattern on the robot's lid (pattern material - sea shells):
We go further, directly to the factory. Outsiders (such as myself) should definitely change into rubber slippers. For regular employees, the rules hang on the wall. Women, for example, should not wear long hair, so if you are a lover of long hair, then this work is not for you.
All employees are grounded and wear gloves.
We enter the room, before us is the production line.
At each stage, a factory employee does only his job, for example, an employee (most of the production line employees are women) gets a robot at this stage of assembly:
Its task is to fasten the motherboard. The task of the next employee is to connect all the wires to the connectors on the motherboard. All assembly steps are divided into very small steps. This approach allows you to increase the accuracy and quality of the assembly.
After the assembly process, robots enter the test site.
They are checked twice before packing in a box. Every robot is checked without fail (which many other manufacturers do not, especially in China). The percentage of marriage from the factory tends to zero.
First, the operation of all sensors is checked through the service menu of the robot vacuum cleaner, after which iClebo is driven to various kinds of landfills in order to additionally check the build quality and operability of the device.
After careful inspection and packaging, the robots are transferred to a warehouse where they undergo yet another quality control. From each batch of 50 iClebo, 10 vacuums are randomly selected and are fully tested again. If marriage is not found, robots are sent to dealers; if marriage is detected, the entire batch goes for additional testing.
And here are our robots, which will go to Moscow in a few hours. Perhaps we should write something pleasant on our boxes.
If you have additional questions, I will be glad to answer them. All the best!