With the rapid development of China's manufacturing industry, China's local enterprises have gradually sprung up, and a number of powerful machine vision R & D and production enterprises have emerged. At the same time, the application scope of machine vision has gradually expanded, and industrial robots have become a hot spot for further development of the industry.
In the industrial 4.0 era, factory automation equipment can only deal with accurate positions, unlike manual processing of simple deviations. Machine vision can shorten this gap. According to public information, the total market volume of China's machine vision reached 3.8 billion yuan in 2016, with a compound growth rate of 26.6% in the past five years.
Throughout the development process of China's industry, China's machine vision related industries started relatively late and were initially used in the electronics and semiconductor industries. There is also a saying that "the rise of foreign machine vision is largely due to the development of its semiconductor industry". This is because high-performance machine vision components must be used in devices such as solder paste printers, mounters, and AOI detection in the semiconductor industry.
However, with the vigorous promotion of social modernization, the machine vision industry has also passed the initial period of development in the Chinese market. With the rise of labor cost in China and the arrival of the inflection point of demographic dividend, the demand for cost reduction and efficiency increase and the transformation of manufacturing industry will certainly promote the domestic machine vision to enter the fast channel.
Not only international well-known brands are doing business in China, but also Chinese local enterprises are gradually emerging, and a number of powerful machine vision R & D and production enterprises have emerged. In addition, the application scope of machine vision has gradually expanded from the initial electronic manufacturing and semiconductor manufacturing enterprises to packaging, automobile, transportation, printing and other industries.
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According to the data of the machine vision industry development prospect and investment analysis report released by the forward looking Industry Research Institute, in 2015, the machine vision market reached US $350million, accounting for 8.3% of the world, with a growth rate of 22.2%, ranking first in the world. China has become the third largest machine vision market in the world after the United States and Japan. From 2016 to 2020, the growth rate of China's machine vision market is expected to remain above 20%, reaching a market space of US $1 billion.
Machine vision is the most widely used in industrial robots. In recent years, the rapid development of robots, especially industrial robots, has led to a substantial increase in the market demand for machine vision. At the press conference of the world robotics conference in May 2016, maoweiming, Vice Minister of the Ministry of information technology and industry, disclosed that the Department would take intelligent manufacturing as the key work in the future, formulate the "13th five year plan" for China's industrial robot industry, and strive for more policies to support the R & D, production and promotion of key robot components.
Especially under the background of the current intelligent manufacturing industry 4.0 era with high-end equipment manufacturing as the core, with the deepening of the made in China 2025 strategy, the industrial intelligent robot industry market shows an explosive growth momentum, and the machine vision, which plays the role of "golden eye" of industrial robots, plays an indispensable role.
For the robot, machine vision endows it with a precise computing system and processing system to simulate the way of biological vision imaging and information processing, making the manipulator more humanoid and flexible operation and execution. At the same time, it identifies, compares and processes the scene, generates execution instructions, and then completes the action at one go.
It can be seen that, as one of the important parts of robots, especially intelligent visual robots, machine vision is of decisive significance to improve the flexibility and operability of robots. It can be predicted that with the in-depth integration of machine vision and robot, visual robot will occupy an important position in the field of intelligent equipment in the next decade.
2017-08-10
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