In biology, almost all visionary creatures have two eyes for observing things, while machine vision uses machines to replace human eyes for measurement and judgment. Machine vision system refers to the conversion of the photographed target into image signals through machine vision products (industrial cameras, industrial lenses, etc.), which are transmitted to a dedicated image processing system, and then converted into digital signals; the image processing system performs various operations on these signals To extract the characteristics of the target, and then control the action of the equipment on the spot according to the result of the discrimination.
In the modern automated production process, people use machine vision systems widely for assembly positioning, product quality inspection, product identification, product size measurement, etc., to achieve accuracy, reliability, automation and high efficiency that cannot be achieved by manual operation . Machine vision applications include semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries, automobiles, printing and packaging, tobacco, agriculture, medicine, and transportation. Machine vision is a technological innovation, relying on the ever-expanding industry demand, it has become a rising industry. In the past few years, Chinese electronics manufacturers and foundries have been purchasing a large number of automation equipment to replace labor in order to cope with China’s growing shortage of labor and to improve work efficiency and output.
In our country, although machine vision started relatively late, the concentration of the industry is not very high. At the beginning, some agents mainly acted for some foreign brands. Now, with the development of my country’s machine vision industry, many distributors have begun to launch products of their own brands. However, there are obvious differences with foreign countries in terms of industry distribution, channel distribution, and mature automation products. The domestic machine vision market is far from saturated and is still developing.
Now, the domestic machine vision market has three main categories, one is foreign old brands; the second is state-owned enterprises; and the third is emerging independent research and development private enterprises. Although from a technical perspective, it will take some time for my country’s self-developed machine vision products to catch up with foreign countries, but they have also accumulated price advantages in actual applications.
Experts predict that with the shift of global manufacturing centers like China, the Chinese market has gradually become the focus of attention of international manufacturers. China’s machine vision market has a lot of room for future development. With the “Made in China 2025” (Chinese manufacturing industry will be achieved through hard work in the next 10 years) The three major transformations of “Made in China” to “Created in China”, “China’s speed to Chinese quality”, and “Chinese products to Chinese brands” will promote China to basically achieve industrialization by 2025 and enter the ranks of manufacturing powers.) The strategic goal will become the machine vision industry in recent years. In the year of the outbreak, the market scale of my country’s machine vision industry will maintain a steady and rapid growth.
