Automation control market will reach 131.1 billion in 2013

Analyst Zhou Wanmu pointed out: In order to promote economic development, the Chinese government has issued 4 trillion economic stimulus plans and ten economic measures. The Central Bank has eased bank credit control. In 2009, bank loans grew rapidly, and a large amount of loans were put into various places. Investment projects. Automation control equipment is widely used in various industries such as metallurgy, oil refining, chemicals, building materials, machinery manufacturing, electric power, automobiles, energy, light industry, pharmaceuticals, and environmental protection. Investment in these projects has led to a large increase in demand for automation equipment. From January 1, 2009 onwards, the value-added tax (VAT) reform has been implemented. The value-added tax has changed from a production type to a consumption type. The input tax that an enterprise uses for fixed asset investment can be deducted from the output tax, thus increasing the company’s accounting profit. , reducing the company's liquidity occupation. This will stimulate companies to purchase updated production equipment, thereby increasing the company's demand for automated equipment. The Chinese government has also issued plans for the adjustment and revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry, including import tariffs on key components imported by domestic companies for the development and manufacture of large-scale, sophisticated, high-speed numerical control equipment, and policies for the implementation of the first-rate repatriation of import value-added tax. . The state also encourages the integration of industrialization and informationization and informatization of existing equipment. In addition, the trend of international manufacturing transfer to China has not stopped. Foreign-funded enterprises have many advantages in investing and building factories in China, such as low cost, cheap labor, preferential policies of local governments, and proximity to the huge Chinese market. The transfer of international manufacturing industries has increased China's demand for automation equipment. Energy conservation and emission reduction is one of the themes of China's industrial transformation in the future. The role of servo drives in energy saving and consumption reduction is extremely obvious. Servo drives have also become the first choice for more and more power industry transformation technologies. In the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" for sulfur dioxide treatment in existing coal-fired power plants jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Environmental Protection Administration, 52 power plants are required to start construction of flue gas desulfurization facilities. In the next 30 years, China will invest 20,000 yuan. Billion U.S. dollars to develop the electricity market. This is both a business opportunity and a social responsibility for automation equipment manufacturers such as servo drives.

Manufacturers of automation equipment are concentrated in developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan. China's automation equipment is heavily imported. The companies in Europe, America and Japan occupy programmable controllers, machine vision, human-machine interfaces (HMI), servo drives, and stepper drives. The high-end market for medium- and low-voltage motor drives, while domestic companies are fighting price wars in the low-end market. Taking PLC as an example, Europe and the United States are known as large and medium-sized PLCs, and Japan is known as a small PLC. Major U.S. PLC manufacturers include A-B, General Electric, Texas Instruments, MODICON, and Westinghouse; European manufacturers include Siemens, AEG, ABB, and TE; Japan's Mitsubishi, Omron, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Toshiba. In the servo-driven market, Japan's Yaskawa, Fanuc, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Sanyo, and Fujitsu account for about half of the Chinese market, while Europe's Rockwell, Danaher, Parker, Siemens, Bosch Rexroth and Schneider occupy the high-end market. The field of machine vision and medium and low voltage motor drives are also occupied by European companies. Chinese manufacturers only occupy a certain market share in the human-machine interface and industrial computer markets. Representative local companies in the automation field are Beijing Ankang, Beijing and Lishi, Central China CNC, Bu Ke Electric, Guangzhou CNC, and EVOC Intelligent.

For semiconductor manufacturers, the high growth of automation equipment will stimulate the demand for semiconductors and components. The special environment of the factory also puts forward more requirements for semiconductor manufacturers, such as high reliability, anti-electromagnetic interference, anti-vibration, dust-proof, low radiation and transient voltage fluctuation. Among the devices used in automation equipment are MCUs, ADCs, DSPs, sensors, relays, and power chips. For example, 32-bit microprocessors are used in very large PLCs with I/O points up to 14336. The 32-bit microprocessors are used not only in a single PLC but also in a bus control system in a factory, such as in a factory. An MCU with a CAN bus interface is used in the bus control system. MCUs and DSPs are also used in servo controllers for precise control, fast response, and programmable functionality. A large number of sensors are used in industrial systems such as motion control, motor drives, machine vision equipment, human-machine interfaces, hydraulic systems, and robots. Semiconductor manufacturers ADI, Dallas, Maxim, and Texas Instruments provide a large number of industrial sensors that measure the position of sensors. , Pressure measurement, temperature measurement and image sensing are indispensable. Analog-to-digital converters from ADI and others play an important role in data processing and field quality control data acquisition systems and industrial computers. Although electromechanical relays still dominate the market, solid-state relays are increasingly being used in the industrial field due to their advantages of small size, low power consumption, and silent operation. In addition, power semiconductor devices and power management chips are also widely used in industrial devices such as servo controllers and motor drivers.