Industry 4.0 is inseparable from intelligent manufacturing, and intelligent manufacturing is inseparable from machine vision

The manufacturing industry is the main body of the national economy, and it is the foundation of the country, a tool for rejuvenating the country, and a foundation for strengthening the country. Since the beginning of industrial civilization in the middle of the eighteenth century, the history of the rise and decline of world powers and the history of the struggle of the Chinese nation have repeatedly proven that without a strong manufacturing industry, there would be no country or nation's prosperity. To create a manufacturing industry with international competitiveness is the only way for China to enhance its overall national strength, ensure national security, and build a world power.

"Made in China 2025" is a major strategic deployment of the Chinese government to comprehensively improve the quality and level of China's manufacturing industry in the new international and domestic environment. Its fundamental goal is to change the "big but not strong" situation of China's manufacturing industry. Through 10 years of efforts, China has entered the ranks of manufacturing power and laid a solid foundation for China to become a manufacturing power with global leadership and influence by 2045. .

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To achieve "Made in China 2025" and complete the transformation from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power, intelligent manufacturing is the main offensive direction. In the intelligent manufacturing process, machine vision mainly uses computers to simulate human visual functions, that is, to extract, process and understand the image information of objective things, and finally to use it for actual detection, measurement and control. With the development of intelligence, the market demand for machine vision will gradually increase.

Machine vision can be said to be the soul window of industrial automation systems. From object / bar code identification, product inspection, measurement of external dimensions, and positioning of robot arms / transmission equipment, all are the stages that machine vision technology can play. In order to meet the demands of new applications emerging, the design of industrial cameras has also developed a new direction.

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Machine vision has a wide range of applications in life. It plays an important role in the fields of transportation, hydrological observation, and early warning identification of geological disasters. From a macro perspective, the fast-growing segment industries are face recognition and image recognition. These two branch industries are more concentrated in the fields of finance, security and transportation. Most of the investors in these segments have their own technical advantages and will provide application solutions for various scenarios to make a profit.

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Industry 4.0 is inseparable from intelligent manufacturing, and intelligent manufacturing is inseparable from machine vision. Machine vision is a necessary means to realize industrial automation and intelligence, which is equivalent to the extension of human vision on machines. Machine vision has the advantages of high automation, high efficiency, high precision, and adaptability to poor environments. It will play an important role in the realization of China's industrial automation.

Visual image technology needs to focus on four major capabilities:

First, intelligent identification. Massive information converges quickly, and key features are found from a large amount of information. Accuracy and reliability are key.

Second, smart measurement. Measurement is the foundation of industry and requires precision.

Third, intelligent detection. Based on the measurement, comprehensive analysis and judgment of multiple information and multiple indicators, the key point is intelligent judgment based on complex logic.

Fourth, smart interconnection. The massive data of images are collected and interconnected at multiple nodes, and at the same time, the data of personnel, equipment, production materials, environment, technology, etc. are interconnected, and derived innovative capabilities such as deep learning, intelligent optimization, and intelligent prediction, which truly show the power of Industry 4.0.

Machine vision companies can be broadly divided into low-level development vendors, secondary development vendors, and product agents. Domestic machine vision companies are mainly foreign machine vision product agents and system secondary development manufacturers. At present, there are more than 100 foreign brands entering the machine vision market in China, more than 200 companies in China are responsible for sales agents, and more than 50 professional system integrators. China's real bottom-level manufacturers of professional machine vision are rare, and local machine vision system manufacturers and machine vision system component manufacturers are lacking. Of course, there are also many national brands that have worked hard for many years and have achieved good results, and Veishi image is a typical representative of them. Wei Shi products cover a series of products including image acquisition hardware (industrial cameras, industrial lenses, telecentric lenses, visual light sources, etc.), image processing software, automated integrated systems, etc., which can bring you complete solutions related to vision.