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"Industrial Eye" machine vision of the future market to promote the three main reasons for survival

2017-01-23 17:01:34

Artificial intelligence has changed all aspects of life in the past 60 years, in which the depth of learning algorithm can be described as great, known as the "industrial eye" of machine vision also benefited from the improvement of the algorithm, and as artificial A branch of rapid development of intelligence, is expected to become the next technology a new outlet.

Look at the international market, the layout of the enterprise there is no lack of Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon and other giants, which Apple since the end of last year, have acquired the Perceptio, Turi and Tuplejump, activities are frequent.

After the era of economic crisis darling

Review of China's machine vision development process can be divided into three stages: the first is the 20th century, early 90s to 2006, the budding period, some engineers from the research firm set up a visual company, began to do some basic image processing and analysis Owned enterprises, as well as a large number of export-processing orders of the shape part of the domestic manufacturing enterprises; followed by the 2006-2009 start-up period, the depth of learning algorithm to promote, making the image recognition accuracy To 90% +, customer base expanded to OEM equipment manufacturers and a number of quality inspection, monitoring and related needs of large food and beverage companies; in the economic crisis, domestic OEM equipment manufacturers, SI, parts business opportunities come, performance increased significantly. Therefore, since 2009, all belong to the rapid growth of machine vision.

Exhibit 1: Machine vision industry development stage

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From the market size, due to China's machine vision industry started late in 2009, the overall market before the small base in 2009 after entering the rapid development period, benefiting from electronics manufacturing, municipal transportation, automotive, food and packaging machinery and many other industries Demand growth and the post-crisis era of endogenous growth brought about by the industry in 2010 to achieve a rapid growth of 48%. By 2015, China's machine vision market has reached 2.2 billion yuan, accounting for 8.3% of the global share, of which semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industry accounted for half of the industry (46.4%). During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, driven by China's manufacturing 2025 policy, China's machine vision market growth is expected to remain at around 20%.

Exhibit 2: Market size of China's machine vision industry in 2013-2020 (Unit: RMB million)

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Source: Shuiqing Muhua Research Center

The future market to promote the three main reasons

Analysts believe that the advent of the era of smart manufacturing industry is facing the greatest development opportunities, and the future development of the industry there are still downstream demand is broad, cost savings and technological progress of the three major driving factors.

Application of a wide range of needs

In the manufacturing and other fields continue to expand the application of the machine vision to bring the needs of the upgrade. Extensive applications also determine the machine vision will be collected from the past, analysis, transfer data, judgments action, and gradually moving in the direction of openness, this trend also indicates that machine vision will be further integration with automation. Although the manufacturing industry is vulnerable to the deterioration of the economic environment, but the machine vision in other areas such as transportation, security and other applications more widely.

Cost savings to promote

Manpower costs, machine vision applications can effectively reduce costs. With modern industrial automation technology maturing, more and more manufacturing enterprises to consider how to use machine vision to help the production line to achieve inspection, measurement and automatic identification functions to improve efficiency and reduce costs, in order to achieve maximum production efficiency.

Technology-driven

Machine vision systems are made up of a variety of technologies, and thus require expertise in many areas. Visual system development needs to focus on hardware, software and their cross-border integration, to provide end users with cost-effective, reliable solution. In the past few years, imaging systems, lighting systems, processors and other areas of continuous progress, their cost is declining, while the size is becoming smaller and smaller. Thanks to innovations in the field of machine vision and the integration of advanced image processing algorithms, the world system is being applied in more areas of industrial automation.