During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the technological development and research of automation disciplines and industries will closely follow the theme of "intelligent manufacturing". Its significance lies in the fact that automation cannot develop aimlessly without being separated from the manufacturing industry. Only by exerting its specialties for intelligent manufacturing of a certain industry or a certain type of industry can it promote its development. This is actually a focus of the international automation industry restructuring in recent years. A few years ago, Siemens radically divided its various departments into three major sectors: industry, energy, and healthcare, that is, along the vertical fields (that is, around the service goals of the industry, integrating related technologies and product systems into upstream To downstream, from raw materials to finished product manufacturing, sales and services to be integrated) thinking.
The development of the automation industry relies on the development and needs of industry, agriculture and society, which leads to a big problem of how to make automation technology serve economic and social development more efficiently, or how the automation industry should be organized to win the economy and society. Recognition and respect for development, and growth in market share.
At the beginning of this century, the German automation world did an excellent job. They completely jumped out of the idea of "close the door and only consider the technical needs and characteristics of the automation industry to organize the production and division of labor in the automation industry", so we saw Siemens' large-scale structural adjustment. We have also seen many SMEs that are very dynamic in driving technological progress, with more emphasis on closer integration with the industry and effective service. That is to say, they jointly follow the concept of providing industry solutions to integrate the original software and hardware product series and development, and develop new technologies and new products, and guide the company's structural adjustment and production organization.
With the development of computer and control technology, traditional industrial control technology has been gradually replaced by intelligent control technology. The development of intelligent industrial control system provides the strongest technical guarantee for the development of the industrial field, and promotes the continuous innovation and development of enterprises. effective way. China is a market with a larger demand for human-machine interfaces in the world, but it is not a market with higher sales of human-machine interface products in the world. In the domestic automation industry, some industries that did not use the human-machine interface have begun to use the human-machine interface, which shows that the human-machine interface has become an indispensable part of the customer experience, and the user interface of the human-machine interface can better reflect the equipment. And the state of the process, and through the visual and touch effects, bring customers a more intuitive feeling.
Some machinery industries, such as machine tools, textile machinery, electronic equipment and other industries, have been developed in China for decades, and are relatively mature industries. In the long run, these industries still have equipment upgrades. need. In the process of upgrading, some small manufacturers that have been using relatively low-end products will be eliminated, but there are also many enterprises that reposition their needs in the process of equipment renewal to find those that can meet their development plans. , equipment suppliers that help them improve their own productivity.
In view of this demand, the changes in the human-machine interface in the future will change in terms of shape, concept, application, etc., which will bring about changes in the core technology of industrial computers. Generally speaking, the future development trend of human-machine interface is six modernizations: platform embedding, brand nationalization, equipment intelligence, interface fashion, communication network and energy saving and environmental protection.
At present, in the field of industrial automation, the human-machine interface (HMI) is rapidly transitioning to the touch screen. However, factories have special requirements for touchscreens that must meet these requirements for an excellent (safely readable) operator experience while increasing productivity and yield. These include requirements for water resistance, noise immunity, and advanced touch capabilities such as glove touch and/or proximity sensing.
The industrial automation market size is expected to expand from $159 billion in 2012 to $200 billion in 2015 as there is an increasing desire to drive economic growth through manufacturing.
Over the past decade, the industrial automation market has undergone a transformation in terms of user interfaces. Instead of switches and levers, the interaction between people and automated devices (now called "Human Machine Interfaces") is done through 3.5-10 inch touchscreens.
