With the advent of industry 4.0 era, machine vision is playing an increasingly important role in the field of intelligent manufacturing, widely used in production, manufacturing, testing and other industrial production and manufacturing fields, to ensure product quality, control the production process, perception environment, is also the core component of integrated automation solutions.

2023 Machine vision industry development prospects and machine vision market scale analysis

Machine vision is a system application that uses machines instead of human eyes to do measurement and judgment. It has become the main trend to solve the large-scale high-speed and high-precision product detection of manufacturers in various industries. Compared with human vision, machine vision has significant advantages in quantization degree, gray resolution, spatial resolution and observation speed.

Machine vision uses camera, lens, light source and light source control system to collect target object data, with the help of visual control system, intelligent vision software and data algorithm library for graphic analysis and processing, soft and hard systems complement each other, for the downstream automation, intelligent manufacturing industry to give visual ability. With the development of deep learning, 3D vision technology, high-precision imaging technology and machine vision interconnection technology, the performance advantages of machine vision are further improved, and the application field is extended to multiple dimensions.

Artificial intelligence brings explosive opportunities

Artificial intelligence is not only the 'main battlefield' for many science and technology enterprises, but also the emerging core industry that major economies in the world focus on developing. It can be said that the rise of artificial intelligence has brought unexpected benefits to many traditional and non-traditional industries, and machine vision is also one of them. With the 'east wind' of artificial intelligence, machine vision technology has become a key driving force for many manufacturing enterprises to upgrade to intelligence and information.

Whether industrial robots or service robots, robot products on the market now for autonomous obstacle avoidance, intelligent decision-making and other capabilities of the requirements are increasingly high, but also more and more extensive. And machine vision technology is the basis of robot autonomous obstacle avoidance, intelligent decision-making and other functions.

Driven by the increasingly hot artificial intelligence, the huge demand for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and the growth of the robot market, the machine vision industry ushered in an explosive opportunity. For China, a major country in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics, the growth prospects of machine vision industry are of great significance.

China's machine vision market is growing rapidly

In recent years, with the gathering of the global manufacturing industry to China, especially the further development of the robot industry, the Chinese machine vision market has ushered in a 'golden period'. According to relevant statistics, at present, China, Japan as the main representative of the Asia-Pacific machine vision market share has broken through 20% of the global proportion, surpassing Europe to become the world's second largest regional market. Among them, China is the largest market.

Of course, the positive performance of the market cannot cover up some problems existing in the development of the industry. For a long time, China's machine vision industry has also been faced with some common drawbacks, such as core technologies and components are subject to others, and the import scale of intellectual property rights and key components has been high. Happily, the situation is improving.

The global machine vision market has a promising prospect

Under the positive influence of the Chinese market, the prospect of the global machine vision market is also worth expecting. According to a report released by research institutions, the global machine vision market scale is expected to break through 10 billion dollars in 2020, and by 2025, the market scale is expected to exceed 12.5 billion dollars.

Industry insiders analysis, the growth of the global machine vision market scale in addition to the impact of the major markets, there are four aspects from the strong push:

First, the demand for quality upgrading, automation and intelligent transformation in the industrial manufacturing sector continues to expand; Second, the development of smart cities, smart security and other scenarios; Third, the market application of intelligent robots is increasingly popular; Fourth, the market potential of new energy vehicles and autonomous vehicles will be further released.

With the acceleration of the strategy of 'Made in China 2025', the degree of automation and intelligence of industrial manufacturing is expected to continue to deepen, and the technology of machine vision will be more widely used.