Robotics and intelligent production in Chinese shipbuilding

摘要

Jiangnan Shipbuilding's first robot intelligent production line's lifting lug workstation officially began its operations on 1 July, marking a breakthrough in intelligent manufacturing for the company, which is a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). A lifting lug is a type of stress-bearing component installed on the ship section or block by welding, or other reliable connection methods, which is used for jack-up, lifting, shifting, turning over and carrying of ship sections and blocks. In June 2019, Jiangnan Shipbuilding established a lugging workstation research and development project team. After investigating, analysing, demonstrating and testing through trial and error, as well as overcoming problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and other difficulties, a year later the project is finally completed and operating as planned.