1、 Market Prospect of Machine Vision
Machine vision and artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing are considered to be the four pillars on which intelligent manufacturing relies. With the development of the manufacturing industry towards a higher level of unmanned and intelligent, machine vision, which acts as the eye of the machine, is playing an increasingly important role. Especially in recent years, with the vigorous development and implementation of intelligent manufacturing in China, the transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry has further promoted the widespread application of machine vision technology. The Chinese machine vision market has shown a strong growth trend.
According to data from China Industry Information Network, from 2011 to 2018, the market size of China’s machine vision industry increased from 1.08 billion yuan to 10.4 billion yuan, with a compound annual growth rate of about 33%. According to data from the China Machine Vision Industry Alliance (CMVU), the market size of China’s machine vision will reach 14.42 billion yuan in 2020, and it is expected to reach 29.6 billion yuan by 2023.
The market demand, artificial intelligence technology, and the development of imaging technology itself driven by the development trend of China’s manufacturing industry have jointly promoted the rapid development of China’s machine vision market. Its application scenarios have covered many industries such as electronic information, semiconductor, automobile, new energy, medicine, food, textiles, packaging, logistics, and so on. Its huge market size and prospects are also attracting more enterprises’ interest and participation, so that communication companies such as Huawei and large internet companies such as Alibaba are entering this market.
2、 Development Status and Advantages of CHIOPT in Machine Vision Industry
CHIOPT, as an enterprise that has chosen machine vision as a segmented field from the beginning, has had a first-mover advantage in technology, talent, and brand sedimentation after more than a decade of development. In addition, the company has focused on R&D, design, production, and sales of high-end optical lenses, especially industrial lenses, in machine vision for more than a decade. It has cultivated entrepreneurs with strategic development vision and a group of R&D technical talents with excellent technological innovation capabilities. The Chiopt” brand has gradually been accepted by the market and customers, and have gained a foothold in the Chinese optical industry and machine vision field.
At present, domestic leading enterprises in the field of machine vision, such as Haikang, Huarui (Dahua), Lingyun, Daheng, Meide, Dushen, Pioneer, and Ningde Times, have business relations with our company. Foreign well-known optical enterprises, such as Lycra, Cognex, Keinz, Omron, and Samsung, have also established cooperative relationships with our company. With regard to the needs of the machine vision market and the development trend of the industry, the company has the opportunity to obtain more cutting-edge information, capture development opportunities, and guide the direction of the company’s R&D and innovation.
3、 Analysis of Market Share of CHIOPT Industrial Lens
Currently, there is no international or domestic association or institution with very accurate statistics and analysis on the production and sales data of industrial lenses. In China, almost all optical enterprises of a certain scale have joined the China Machine Vision Industry Alliance (CMVU), and the information released by the alliance about the machine vision industry can relatively comprehensively and truly reflect the development of the domestic machine vision industry.
As an optical component, the main role of an industrial lens in a machine vision system is to focus the image of the target object on the photosensitive device of an image sensor (industrial camera). The industrial lens, coupled with the body, receives light input through the lens, sensitizes it, and finally produces images that we can see. The lens+body structure constitutes a camera, so the customers of industrial lenses are concentrated in industrial camera manufacturers. The sales volume of industrial camera manufacturers can be traced upstream, which can roughly reflect the sales volume of industrial lenses.
In China, industrial camera manufacturers mainly include Haikang, Huarui (Dahua), Daheng, Meide, Dushen, and Ningde Times, which account for about 80% of the Chinese industrial camera market. According to the information released by the China Machine Vision Industry Alliance (CMVU) and internal information exchange within the industry, from 2020 to 2022, China’s domestic industrial cameras mainly included small area array industrial cameras and linear scanning industrial cameras. The sales volume of large area array industrial cameras was very small, with a total annual sales volume of less than 10000 units, which can be basically ignored. From 2020 to 2022, the total sales volume of small area array industrial cameras and linear scanning industrial cameras was about 4.1 million units, of which Haikang sold about 1.7 million units, accounting for the first place in sales volume.
Generally, one industrial camera can carry one industrial lens, while 4.1 million industrial cameras require 4.1 million industrial lenses. According to the market sales statistics of CHIOPT (Guangzhou+Hunan), the sales volume of CHIOPT industrial lenses from 2020 to 2022 was 950000 units, accounting for approximately 23% of the total market share of domestic industrial lenses in the past three years. In Hunan Province, there is only one industrial lens manufacturer that has formed large-scale production. In the same industry, Daisy Optoelectronics mainly relies on lenses, and the lens industry is still in its infancy, with very few sales.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Hunan CHIOPT is an OEM manufacturer of Omron industrial cameras in Japan. The industrial lenses used in Omron industrial cameras are also produced by CHIOPT itself, and the number of industrial lenses used in this part is not included in the sales volume of industrial lenses mentioned above.
4、 Exploration of the Future Development Direction of Industrial Lens
With the transformation of China’s industrial market towards more high-end automation and intelligence, there has been a further improvement in product quality and the demand for machine replacement. Due to the shortcomings of traditional 2D vision such as being unable to obtain depth information of objects and being susceptible to ambient light interference, the deployment of 3D vision in the industrial field has emerged as the times require.
3D vision is a relatively new branch of imaging technology, with the exception of a few companies, many companies have not been involved in this field for a long time. However, the development of the 3D vision market has been exceptionally rapid in recent years. Looking at the number of newly emerging 3D vision companies in the market in recent years, as well as the “special preference” of the capital market with a keen sense of smell for 3D vision companies (even in the turbulent and uncertain environment of 2022, nearly 50 financing events still occurred in the 3D vision field), it can be perceived that the popularity of the 3D vision market can be called “a unique one”.
With the heat, there is naturally fierce market competition. In the vast fertile land of application in China, both foreign veterans and local upstarts are competing on the stage of 3D vision. This is also a good opportunity for local manufacturers to emerge.
The application of 3D vision in the industrial field can be mainly divided into two categories: recognition and guidance. Recognition applications mainly make corresponding judgments through image acquisition and point cloud processing, such as detection of defects and appearance, and measurement of parameters such as size, volume, and shape; Guided applications are suitable path planning through image acquisition and point cloud processing, such as robot grabbing applications such as bin sorting, unstacking, assembly, loading and unloading, and guiding robotic manipulators to perform process execution applications such as gluing and welding.
Over all, 3D vision is a relatively high-tech field. Currently, the main 3D imaging technologies on the market include laser line contour scanning, binocular stereo vision, time of flight (ToF), structured light imaging, and 3D light field imaging. Each technology has its own strengths, and companies are also deeply engaged in the technology field they focus on.
The application of CHIOPT in the field of 3D vision is mainly focused on recognition. The company has made breakthroughs in technical directions such as laser line contour scanning, structured light imaging, and 3D optical field imaging, making the product specifications of long path industrial lenses more comprehensive, enabling it to support more downstream manufacturers and seek more partners in the field of machine vision. In the future,CHIOPT will continue to deeply explore the field of machine vision, keeping up with the pace of the times. In addition to making industrial lenses more precise, clearer, and professional, it is also necessary to work downstream to create private brand industrial cameras or detection equipment.
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