In China, machine vision applications originated with the technology introduction in the 1980s. China machine vision started late in China and has been widely used in the industrial field for less than a decade, far behind the development speed and scale of China's industrial automation market.

 In 2010, after 4-5 years of gestation and accumulation, the economic growth picked up and the industry achieved a rapid growth of 48%. In 2010, the main reasons for the rapid growth of machine vision market are as follows: the demand for automation products including machine vision increased due to the large increase in the demand of many industries such as electronic manufacturing, municipal transportation, automobile, food and packaging machinery; The growth from policy factors and endogenous recovery is evident in municipal transportation, automotive and electronics manufacturing.



From the perspective of industrial application, the electronic manufacturing industry is still the main factor driving the rapid growth of demand. In 2010, the market size of machine vision products and electronics manufacturing industry was 370 million RMB, with a growth rate of 60.9% and a market share of 43.6%. The automotive and municipal transportation markets grew by 66.7% and 63.2%. Electronics, car manufacturing and municipal transport account for more than two-thirds of the machine vision market.



In 2011, China's machine vision market began to be launched and the industry entered a period of rapid development. According to the "machine vision industry development prospect and investment forecast analysis report" released by qianzhan industry research institute, the market size of China's machine vision industry was about 1.08 billion yuan in 2011. In 2013, it reached 3.54 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 55.94%. By 2016, the market size was close to 7 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 13.40%, accounting for about 15% of the global market share.



China machine vision market size statistics

China's machine vision market is expanding to nearly 7 billion applications

Development trend of machine vision industry

Technology updates are being accelerated

At present, machine vision technology USES some functions of computers to simulate biological vision, which is far from the real biological vision. To achieve the complete functional effect of biological vision, engineers and technicians still need to make continuous efforts and study seriously.


Application areas are expanding

In foreign countries, machine vision technology has been widely used, machine vision products are diversified, machine vision technology is also improving. However, in China, the popularization of machine vision products and technology has just started in recent years, so it has not been used much, and the comprehensive development needs to be further improved.



New ideas emerge in product promotion

The machine vision product market has experienced a transformation from pc-based products to embedded system products. With the rapid development of computer technology and microelectronic technology, embedded system application domain is more and more widely, the development of embedded operating systems products, high reliability and good maintainability, easy to constantly improve and upgrade, therefore, based on embedded products will gradually replace the board card products, this is the development trend of the industry.

However, this is not to say that the board card products are meaningless, compared to embedded system development products, board card products need a higher level of technology. The introduction of higher technical level of board - card visual products for the promotion of domestic machine vision product research and development strength has a great help.