Regardless of Industry 4.0, or "Made in China 2025", it shows that the time is the pursuit of automatic control. The global industrial control technology is developing at a rapid rate, and the industrial control industry chain will also have a spurt development. More funds will flow to this industry in the future. So, how big is the automation market? Analyze this puzzle for you through the top ten data.

Explain the top ten data of industrial automation market

1, 200 billion industrial robots

Since the beginning of this year, the overall domestic macro economy has been relatively sluggish, and the robotics industry has maintained a relatively high degree of prosperity. This can be reflected in many aspects. Taking the China International Robot Exhibition as an example, the lineup of exhibiting companies has expanded significantly, and the models of domestic machines have become more abundant, and their performance and quality have improved. According to grassroots surveys, foreign robot companies such as ABB, Kuka, Yaskawa, and Fanuc, due to strong demand from the automotive industry, achieved sales growth of more than 20% in the first half of the year, basically maintaining last year's growth rate; while domestic robotics companies, etette, wide In the first half of the year, sales increased by more than 100% year-on-year.

The demand for general manufacturing has accelerated, and the space for service robots is huge. In recent years, domestic robot companies have focused on the development of general robotics applications in the manufacturing industry, including the loading and unloading of machine tools (including press forming, etc.), polishing, painting, welding, and casting. The mature robot overall application plan lays a solid foundation for the large-scale application of robots other than automobiles. According to the estimation that the domestic industrial robot market is expected to reach a scale of 200 billion in the next five years, there will be a billion-dollar industrial robot company. Compared with the existing scale, the incremental space is huge. However, future service robots will have a greater market capacity, providing a huge valuation space for robots listed companies.

2. Converter 120 billion to 180 billion yuan

Inverter is the application of frequency conversion technology and microelectronics technology, by changing the frequency of motor power supply to control the AC motor power control equipment. The inverter is mainly composed of rectification (AC to DC), filtering, inverter (DC to AC), brake unit, drive unit, and detection unit micro-processing unit. The inverter adjusts the voltage and frequency of the output power supply by breaking the internal IGBT, and provides the required power supply voltage according to the actual needs of the motor, thereby achieving the purpose of energy saving and speed control. In addition, the inverter has many protection functions. , such as over-current, over-voltage, overload protection and so on. With the continuous improvement of industrial automation, inverters have also been widely used.

China's inverter market has maintained a growth rate of 12% to 15% in recent years. Industry insiders expect that the growth rate of the installed capacity (power) of the upconverter in the Chinese market is actually around 20%, and the potential market space is about 120 billion to 180 billion yuan. Last year was a crucial year for the Twelfth Five-Year Development Plan. The government work report placed high demands on energy saving and emission reduction in industry and the public sector. At the same time, the inverter industry has also ushered in an opportunity for development. In fact, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China’s environmental protection investment will reach 3.1 trillion yuan, and the total output value of energy-saving and environmental protection industries will reach 5.3 trillion yuan. High-voltage inverters, as the main force and vanguard of energy-saving emission reduction, will have a huge future. Market demand. At present, the concept of China's energy-saving society is being actively promoted, and the national government has accelerated the introduction of industrial policies to indicate the direction of energy-saving development.

3, sensor 120 billion

At present, smart sensors, as the most influential and development high-tech in the 21st century, are attracting great attention from the electronic information industry at home and abroad. The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) predicts that the international market for smart sensors will grow at a high rate of 20% per year, and smart sensors will play a more important role in the era of industrial automation. In 2015, the sensor market will reach 120 billion, which is widely used in various countries in the world. In the future, sensors will have great potential in industrial production.

According to statistics of WeChat public number industrial intelligence, by 2015, the overall market size of China's Internet of Things will reach 750 billion yuan, and the sensor industry will directly benefit from it. In 2010, China's sensor manufacturing industry above designated size (with an annual sales income of over 5 million yuan) achieved sales revenue of 44.027 billion yuan. According to industry experts, China's sensor market will develop steadily and rapidly thereafter. Under the momentum of the substantial growth of the Internet of Things market, the size of China's sensor market in 2015 is expected to reach more than 120 billion yuan.

4, industrial software 1037.446 billion

Industrial software refers to software applied in the industrial field, including systems, applications, middleware, embedded, and so on. Industrial software is generally divided into programming languages, system software, application software, and middleware between the two. The system software provides the most basic functions for computer use, but it does not target a specific application area. The opposite is true for application software, where different applications provide different functions depending on the user and the domain they serve.

China's industrial software market has grown rapidly. In 2011, the market scale has reached 61.634 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.9%. It is expected that the market size in 2015 will reach 103.746 billion yuan. In the future, as China strengthens industrial transformation and upgrading during the 12th Five-Year Plan period and vigorously develops the high-end and intelligent equipment industry, the industrial software market will further increase, and it will also play a very stimulating role in the development of local industries.

5, industrial computer 20 billion

At present, the supply channels of IPCs in China are mainly from manufacturers in Taiwan and the Mainland of China. Foreign products (such as RADISYS, ROCKWELL, INTEL, etc.) have been scrapped in the market for several years. Due to high costs, high prices, and difficult services, they are now Completely withdraw from the domestic market. At present, domestic IT industry R&D and processing technology are continuously improving; all types of chips and various types of devices and production equipment can be basically purchased in the international market; the portability of software resources can save a lot of manpower and material resources. Under these favorable conditions, some domestic manufacturers have seized the opportunity to rise rapidly and gradually use domestic competitive advantages to squeeze out foreign brands out of the domestic industrial control market. Some enterprises have exceeded their annual growth rate of assets by 100%, and have established themselves in the domestic industrial control market. They have also successfully entered the international industrial control market.

The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special. They belong to intermediate products and provide reliable, embedded, and intelligent industrial computers for other industries. With the continuous deepening of social information, the key tasks of key industries will increasingly rely on IPCs, and IPC-based low-cost industrial control automation is becoming the mainstream, and local IPC vendors are receiving more attention. Higher and higher. With the rapid development of electric power, metallurgy, petrochemical, environmental protection, transportation, construction and other industries, from digital home set-top boxes, digital TV, to bank teller machines, highway toll systems, gas station management, manufacturing production line control, finance, government Demand for informatization in industries such as defense and defense continues to increase, and the demand for IPCs is very large. The IPC market has a promising future. At present, the market size of industrial control machines in our country is about 20 billion yuan.

6, machine vision 20 billion

The emergence of machine vision systems comes from the replacement of cumbersome labor requirements. Machine vision automation equipment can tirelessly perform repetitive tasks, and machine vision can replace artificial vision in situations where hazardous work environments that are not suitable for manual work or artificial vision are difficult to meet. Machine vision was first used in industrial manufacturing. Through the automatic recognition function of machine vision, many highly repeatable inspections on the assembly line can be completed by machine vision system equipment, which greatly improves the detection efficiency and accuracy.

With the development of industrial automation, the improvement of our country's supporting infrastructure, and the accumulation of technology and capital, the demand for industrial automation and intelligence using images and machine vision technologies has begun to appear widely in all walks of life. Domestic related universities, research institutes, and In recent years, the company has also made active attempts and bold attempts in the field of image and machine vision technology, and has gradually begun its application in the industrial field. With the technological innovation and the demand of the industry, machine vision has become a rising industry. With the shift of global manufacturing centers to China, the Chinese machine vision market has become the focus of international manufacturers. It is predicted that the market size of China's machine vision will reach 20 billion yuan by 2015.

7, 10 billion servo system

The generation of AC servo systems has undergone a transition from analog to digital. Digital control loops have become ubiquitous. Combined with changes in market demand, some new trends are worth our attention. Digital servo brings users a good experience with its advantages of high efficiency, direct drive, generalization, intelligence, networking and modularization. Integrating fieldbus and industrial Ethernet technology or even wireless network technology into servo drives has become a common practice among European and American manufacturers. Domestic companies are also following up on the pace of development and introducing some foreign leading technologies into the country. Innovative R&D based on corporate characteristics.

Many domestic manufacturers with far-sighted knowledge are intensifying R&D efforts to improve the performance of their products, thereby expanding the appeal of their brands, and domestic servo manufacturers will soon be able to change the pattern of import monopoly. It is predicted that in the next five years, China's servo system industry will benefit from the impact of industrial upgrading and will still maintain a growth rate of more than 20%. By 2015, China's servo system industry market is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan, including domestically produced servo products. The market share will reach about 40%.

8, 3D printing 10 billion yuan

The reporter recently learned from relevant persons from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that at present, the “National Additive Manufacturing Development Promotion Plan (2014-2020)” (Draft for Soliciting Opinions) has been initially formulated and will be introduced within the year. The country's development goals for 3D printing include: Initially establishing a technology innovation system for additive manufacturing (commonly known as “3D printing”) by 2017, cultivating 5 to 10 additional products with an annual production value exceeding RMB 500 million and having strong R&D and application capabilities. Manufacturing enterprises; and forming a number of demonstration and industrialization demonstration bases throughout the country. In terms of policies and measures, the state will strengthen organizational leadership, strengthen financial support, and support 3D printing companies' domestic and foreign listings and the issuance of nonfinancial corporate bonds and other financing instruments.

It is understood that the huge market prospect of 3D printing has also attracted many companies. At present, only in the domestic capital market, the number of listed companies involved in 3D printing is as many as two or thirty. According to data from the China 3D Printing Technology Industry Alliance, the global 3D printing market in 2013 was about US$4 billion, and the Chinese market was about 2 billion RMB. There are also institutional optimism that in the next few years, the Chinese mainland's 3D printing market will grow at a rate of at least 1 times per year, and the scale may reach 10 billion yuan.

9, 4 billion motion controller

In recent years, the rapid development of China's machine tools, textiles, printing, packaging, and electronics has driven the demand for motion controllers. From 2006 to 2012, the demand for motion controllers in China increased steadily from 256,600 units in 2006 to 754,500 units in 2012. In 2013, the demand for China's motion controller market remained relatively stable, with a growth rate of approximately 19% and a demand of approximately 900,000 units.

According to different platforms, the universal motion controller can be divided into three categories: PLC controller, embedded controller and PC-Based control card. In 2013, China's PLC controller market share reached 55.68%, followed by embedded controllers. In the coming years, the growth in the demand for motion controllers will continue to be concentrated in the machine tools, printing, packaging, and electronics industries, while the demand for motion controllers in tobacco machinery, medical equipment and other industries will also grow steadily. It is expected that the motion control will be controlled by 2016 in China. The demand for the device will be close to 1.9 million units, and the general motion controller market is expected to reach about 4 billion yuan.

10, electromagnetic valve 1.28 billion

Power Tools Rubber Metal Shock Absorbers Diesel Generators IGBT DR Equipment Microporous Aerator Connectors Terminal Blocks Bearing Holders Small Wind Power Water Supply Equipment Aeration Equipment Water Purification Equipment Solenoid Valves As one of the actuators of the fluid control automation system, due to its low cost Simple, fast, easy to install, easy to maintain, has become the preferred product for fluid control automation. In the 50s and 80s of the 20th century, it had been relying on imports. Until the 1990s, domestic electromagnetic valves took up a certain market share.

The strong demand for the solenoid valve product market has benefited from these aspects. The sustained and steady development of the state-owned economy and the gradual expansion of investment in fixed assets, especially for the start-up of projects such as West-to-East Gas Transmission, West-to-East Electricity Transmission, and South-to-North Water Transfer Project for a few centuries, require a large number of valve products; Faced with the advent of the era of industrialization, the use of large valve manufacturers in the petrochemical industry, the power sector, the metallurgy sector, the chemical industry, and the urban construction will increase the demand for solenoid valve products. In the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the total number of valves required for large and medium-sized coal-fired power plant start-up projects during the “11th Five-Year Plan” period is: Total valve demand is 153,000 tons, annual average demand is 30,600 tons; total valve demand is 3.96 billion yuan, annual average Demand is 792 million yuan. According to the average annual growth rate of 20%, the total demand for valves during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period is 265,600 tons, the average annual demand is 53,200 tons, the total valve demand is 6.64 billion yuan, and the average annual demand is 13.28. 100 million yuan.