The booming development of my country’s manufacturing industry has led to the widespread application of industrial automation technology.
In addition, the continuous growth of human capital and the increasing market demand for product quality and manufacturing precision have also driven the growing scale of the industrial automation market.
Since 2012, the size of my country’s industrial automation market has shown an overall upward trend. In 2022, the size of my country’s industrial automation market will be approximately 282 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.5%, maintaining a rapid growth trend.
Industrial automation is a general term for machinery, equipment or production processes to achieve measurement, manipulation and other information processing and process control according to expected goals without the need for direct human intervention.
Its system structure mainly includes four types of products, including automation instruments, control systems, industrial software, and enterprise comprehensive management information systems, which are distributed at four levels: field equipment layer, process control layer, manufacturing execution system layer, and enterprise management layer of industrial enterprises.
The field equipment layer refers to the layer at which enterprises use sensors, control valves, etc. to realize and execute the production process, including sensors, field instruments and actuators (such as control valves, motors), etc.; the process control layer refers to the layer used to process information in the factory to monitor and control the production process, including distributed control
system (DCS), safety instrumented system (SIS), etc.; the manufacturing execution system layer is the layer oriented to factory or workshop production management, including advanced process control (APC), manufacturing execution system (MES), etc.; the enterprise management layer is the layer oriented to enterprise operation management, including enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), etc.
Industrial control safety has received great attention from the country, and policies have promoted the development of local industrial control products.
Industrial control safety is related to national industrial safety, and it is necessary and feasible to replace it with domestic products.
Industrial control products are the “nerve center” of industrial production. Once problems occur, they will cause large industrial losses and even endanger national industrial security. In the context of the current cooling of trade globalization, domestic substitution of industrial control products is highly necessary.
In recent years, relevant units in our country have actively introduced policies to support the development of industrial automation, promote breakthroughs in the localization of core industrial products, and provide policy escort for the long-term development of local industrial control products.
The upstream of the industrial automation industry is manufacturers of automation hardware and software. At present, the upstream of domestic industrial control is still dominated by foreign capital. However, as the technical strength of domestic enterprises increases, the market share continues to increase, and domestic substitution is in an accelerated stage; the midstream of the industry can be divided into channel-oriented product distributors and system integrators that focus on technology applications; the downstream of the industry
Customers are divided into OEM type and project type. Among them, the OEM type market is mainly for customers with mass production automation and intelligent manufacturing equipment. The project type market refers to the design and implementation of the overall engineering automation system; the OEM type market includes machine tools, wind power, electronic manufacturing equipment, textile machinery, etc.; the project type market includes electric power, chemical industry, municipal administration, metallurgy and other fields.
According to statistics, the domestic industrial control OEM market demand accounts for 51.1%, and the project-based market accounts for 48.9%.
Driven by exports, sudden cost increases, shortage panic, project pre-production, energy strategies, “dual control” and other multi-dimensional factors, the overall domestic OEM industry automation market has a year-on-year growth rate of more than 25% in 2021, and the overall project-based automation market has a year-on-year growth rate of more than 15%. In the project-based market, mining, metallurgy, and chemicals have a year-on-year growth of more than 20%.
From the perspective of product segmentation, automation control systems include control systems, drive systems, motion systems, feedback systems, execution systems and other six major categories of subsystems.
Among them, feedback systems, control systems and drive systems have the largest market shares, accounting for 23.6%, 21.6% and 20% respectively.
my country’s industrial automation industry mainly adopts technology introduction, and independent development started late, so many technologies lag behind developed countries.
Foreign manufacturers still occupy a major share of the domestic high-end market represented by large-scale projects and complex projects, and provide comprehensive intelligent manufacturing solutions with higher added value. Globally leading companies such as Siemens, ABB, and Honeywell have greater competitive advantages in the domestic market.
In recent years, with the support of major national science and technology projects and related industrial policies, domestic enterprises such as Inovance Technology, VEICHI Electric, and Xinjie Electric have certain advantages. At the same time, a large number of system integration and service providers with excellent technology and strong service capabilities have emerged in China. Top domestic suppliers have made breakthroughs in intelligent manufacturing solutions and have gradually established a foothold in the high-end market.
The industrial automation industry is trending towards product integration, networking, assembly and intelligent control.
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are developing towards integration and networking. The development and application of new OCS (integrated controllers) have the advantages of simple and compact structure and more convenient installation. It effectively combines the advantages of multiple controller devices, realizes human-computer interaction, and makes technicians’ operations simpler and more convenient.
New fieldbus control systems are constantly developing. The current control system is developing in the direction of bus control, referred to as FCS. In the future, it will continue to develop and grow in conjunction with Internet technology.
Intelligent control uses artificial intelligence theory to enable equipment to simulate certain characteristics and functions of human intelligence. Industrial intelligent control is mainly reflected in the multi-functional aspects of automatic control of mechanical equipment.
