How can the development of machine vision in China achieve upstream turning?

China's machine vision industry started late, but the growth rate is rapid, technology concentration and upgrading faster. At present, the important task of the development of machine vision in China is to cultivate the main markets in the field of electronics and semiconductors, and on this basis, to continuously develop more intelligent and digital market segments.

The development of global machine vision has lasted for more than 30 years. Since the development of machine vision in China in the late 1990s, it has also had more than ten years of development experience. In this process, the rapid rise of image processing, optical imaging, sensors, processors and other technologies has led to the vigorous development of machine vision. The emergence of new concepts and theories has also made machine vision technology keep pace with the times.

With the gradual shift of production from labor-intensive to technology-intensive, China's demand for machine vision technology that can increase efficiency and reduce costs has become more and more vigorous. Under the joint action of international advanced machine vision enterprises and domestic enterprises, China has now become the main distribution center of machine vision technology. At the same time, the domestic market has also become the development of the global machine vision industry. One of the major markets.

Current Situation of Machine Vision Development in China

All along, the global machine vision market has maintained a steady development trend. From 2015 to 2017, the global machine vision market has expanded from more than 4 billion US dollars to more than 7 billion US dollars. The annual average growth rate has remained in the double digits. Relevant agencies predict that the global market will break through the 10 billion mark by 2020 and reach 20 billion US dollars by 2025.

At present, the United States and Japan account for more than half of the global machine vision market, while China has a large gap because of its late start. In 2015, China's machine vision market was $350 million, accounting for only about 8% of the global market share.

However, with the 13th Five-Year Plan's emphasis on technological innovation in manufacturing industry and the continuous promotion of China's manufacturing 2025 strategy, China's machine vision ushered in an explosive growth. Since the industrial 4.0 era, the domestic machine vision market has been developing rapidly at a rate of more than 20% all the year round, and will continue to catch up with the leading countries in the world.

With the rapid growth and continuous expansion of the market, advanced technology of machine vision is gathering in the domestic market. On the one hand, foreign enterprises bring advanced systems and technologies, on the other hand, they mainly benefit from the self-development of domestic technology. It is understood that since 2016, domestic machine vision technology related patent applications have been maintained at more than 1,000 for two consecutive years, the largest since 2010. This achievement is also remarkable relative to the number of global machine vision patents.

Unfortunately, although there are many patent applications and rapid technological development, the degree of commercialization is far from enough. Because of so many patents, most of them are applied by universities or research institutes, and the patents of enterprises are relatively few, which means that most of the domestic machine vision technology is still in the research and experimental stage, and there is still a certain distance from the real commercial application.

Electronic and Semiconductor Areas are the Main Forces for the Growth of Machine Vision in China

From the perspective of the evolution of global applications, machine vision was initially widely used in the field of electronics and semiconductors. Many experts believe that the rise of international machine vision to a certain extent benefits from the development of electronic and semiconductor industries.

Machine vision has powerful functions in measurement, detection, recognition and positioning, and plays an indispensable role in the field of electronics and semiconductor. On the one hand, in the industrial chain of semiconductor large scale integrated circuits, from upstream processing and cutting to end printing and patching, all need to rely on high-precision machine vision components for guidance and positioning; on the other hand, in the field of electronic manufacturing, from small components to large hardware devices, there is also a strong demand for machine vision systems.

Nowadays, the development of electronics and semiconductors has attracted more and more attention of the state and industry at the time node of the national core-missing event. The 13th Five-Year Development Plan of China's Semiconductor Industry provides policy support for vigorous development of integrated circuit industry. It is planned that the market scale will reach 900 billion by 2020. Driven by such a market demand of 100 billion, it is preliminarily estimated that it will bring about 3 billion scale growth for machine vision.

At present, in the international market, the electronic and semiconductor fields have become the main force of machine vision growth, accounting for 40-50% of the market demand of the whole industry. However, China started late, and the development stage of machine vision has not been in line with the international pace. Therefore, from the perspective of the role of international market as a model, improving the penetration of machine vision in the field of electronics and semiconductors and firmly grasping the gold digging industry will become one of the important tasks of the development of machine vision in China.

Intelligent city and unmanned mode will be the driving point of future growth

While grasping the main areas of development, the development of machine vision in China still needs to keep pace with the trend of the times, because the new development trend is also constantly multiplying and new technologies and standards are constantly innovating. Nowadays, in the trend of intellectualization, the emergence of intelligent city and no-man mode is expected to become a new growth point of machine vision development.

Machine vision technology is the prerequisite for the development of these new concepts, whether it is intelligent traffic management, automatic driving, intelligent security, or unmanned stores and logistics under unmanned mode. It is expected that in the next 3-5 years, many enterprises and government agencies will actively embrace machine vision technology.

Of course, the increase of market and demand also put forward higher technical requirements for machine vision itself. Digitalization, intellectualization and real-time are gradually becoming the future development direction of enterprises. The integration and cross-domain cooperation with other technologies have become a necessary step for machine vision. Only by doing these well, can we exploit more growth under the condition of cultivating the main market. Long point.