Business model of industrial automation
Industrial automation can be simply divided into four categories based on business models: product oriented, comprehensive solution oriented, customized machine oriented, and distribution/system integration oriented. Among these four types, we are optimistic about two types of enterprises. Product oriented enterprises can form economies of scale; Integrated solution enterprises have comprehensive brand competitiveness and low customer maintenance costs. Currently, most domestic enterprises are in two types: customized aircraft and distribution/system integration models. Some advantageous enterprises are gradually transforming from specialized aircraft solutions to integrated solutions
Industrial automation is an interdisciplinary industry with a wide coverage, including sensing components, detection sensors, transmitters, various measuring equipment, actuators, automatic adjustment and control units, control systems for large, medium and small devices, comprehensive optimization scheduling and coordination systems, and enterprise comprehensive management information systems. Its application areas also include robots, motion control, CNC machine tools, process control, etc. in the manufacturing industry
Large scale application of industrial robots accelerates industry production automation
Industrial robots are an absolutely important component of current automated production, and their large-scale production applications play a significant role in accelerating the realization of industrial automation
At present, industrial robots are directly similar to human producers in automated production lines, with the advantages of fast and stable production. The application of industrial robots in most large-scale production will be the overall trend of future development. The market growth of industrial robots is very rapid. Currently, the price of industrial robots remains high, with domestic products costing as much as 600000 yuan per set. Even if domestic products are cheap, they still need 160000 yuan. Although the high price makes it difficult for most small and medium-sized enterprises to make large-scale purchases, it cannot stop the enthusiasm for automation. The demand for industrial robots in China will continue to grow rapidly
Robot technology is a forward-looking and strategic high-tech field. From the products launched by the world's robots in recent years, industrial robot technology is developing towards intelligence, modularity, and systematization. More importantly, with the expansion of industrial robots into deeper and wider areas and the improvement of robot intelligence level, the application scope of robots is still expanding. As the main representative of digital and intelligent technology, robots will become an important indicator to measure a country's industrial automation level
The Internet of Things technology has brought significant changes to industrial automation
At present, industrial production is indeed shifting towards automation on a large scale, but with the continuous commercialization of IoT and cloud platform applications, the development of automation in the industrial field is trending towards a higher level of upgrading, namely intelligent production
Experts say that the technological trends in industrial automation include decentralized architecture, miniaturized design with integrated functions, real-time synchronized connectivity, precise control of multi axis operation, improved functional safety, and elastic platform support for special applications
Higher degree of functional integration can make design simpler, reduce costs, and help reduce product size, making it the trend of industrial control equipment. In this situation, discrete system design no longer meets the requirements, and high integration SoCs, ASICs, and even FPGASoCs that combine flexibility and integration can demonstrate design advantages
