The machine vision market continues to maintain steady growth

As the global manufacturing center shifts to China, the Chinese machine vision market is becoming an important target market for international machine vision manufacturers, following North America, Europe and Japan. In China, the application of machine vision originated from the introduction of technology in the 1980s. The semiconductor and electronics industry is one of the earliest industries where machine vision was applied, most of which are concentrated in PCB printed circuit assembly, component manufacturing, semiconductor and integrated circuit equipment. etc., the application and promotion of machine vision in this industry has played a decisive role in improving the quality and production efficiency of electronic products.

At present, China is becoming one of the areas with active development of machine vision in the world, and its application scope covers almost all industries of the national economy, including: industry, agriculture, medicine, military, aerospace, meteorology, astronomy, public security, transportation, safety, scientific research, etc. field. The industrial field is the field with the largest proportion of machine vision applications. The important reason is that China has become the processing center of the global manufacturing industry. High-demand parts processing and its corresponding advanced production lines have made many machine vision systems with internationally advanced levels and application experience have also entered China.

At present, in our country, with the improvement of supporting infrastructure and the accumulation of technology and funds, various industries have begun to have widespread demand for industrial automation and intelligence using image and machine vision technology. In the past two years, relevant domestic colleges, universities, research institutes and enterprises Active thinking and bold attempts were made in the field of image and machine vision technology, and industrial field applications were gradually started. It is mainly used in pharmaceutical, printing, mineral water bottle cap detection and other fields. Most of these applications are concentrated in pharmaceutical testing and packaging, printing color detection, etc. There are still very few truly high-end applications, so the application space in the above related industries is still relatively large. Of course, other fields such as fingerprint detection also have good room for development.

China's electronics manufacturing and contract manufacturers have been purchasing a large amount of automated equipment to replace labor in the past few years to cope with China's growing labor shortage, which will reach its climax in the next few years. Taiwan-funded factories have chosen to increase the degree of automation, and the climax of automated replacement will come in the next 2-3 years, which will definitely bring new growth points to the application of machine vision products in the industry. The market size of my country's machine vision industry will continue to grow steadily in the next few years, and is expected to reach 3.8 billion yuan in 2016.