Analysis of the development trend of industrial computer market

With the rapid advancement of Industry 4.0 and "Made in China 2025", the application of industrial computers has become more and more extensive, and the competition in the industrial computer market has become increasingly fierce. What development trends will industrial computers show?

Affordable industrial computer market capacity is huge

Whether in traditional metallurgy, steel, chemical and other industries, or in some emerging markets, the application of industrial computers is very considerable, especially in electronic assembly, quality inspection and other occasions where various boards and visual devices are widely used, control Part of it is almost occupied by industrial computers, and the market capacity is huge.

The broad market also enables a large number of industrial computer manufacturers to enter and participate in the competition, which to a certain extent causes a large number of low-end customers to have an unclear understanding of the market and products. For example, what kind of standards should real industrial computer products meet; confuse industrial-grade products with commercial products. In fact, whether it is the structure of the motherboard, the heat dissipation method of the CPU, the choice of the power supply, the thickness of the steel plate of the chassis shell, and the related measures such as shock and moisture resistance, all of which are completely different between industrial computers and commercial computers. These factors directly affect the industrial computer. Computer life cycle and application effects.

In this way, the advantages of products that take into account both "quality advantage" and "price advantage" in terms of reliability and service guarantee will become more and more obvious.

Focus on customized service

Tailor-made solutions according to different needs of customers, Advantech IPC strives to make products close to the real needs of the industry, and can respond to customer needs in a timely manner while meeting the applicability of industrial computers to many industry needs. More and more industrial computer manufacturers are setting up R&D centers to focus on customized services.

Professional customized services have strong advantages in the face of industries with differentiated needs. For example, petroleum and petrochemical and rail transportation are both important industries for industrial computers, but they have completely different product applications. In the petroleum and petrochemical industry, industrial computer manufacturers supply general-purpose products that focus on high cost performance and safety. The rail transit industry needs to take the safety of passengers as the primary concern, and can successfully handle thousands of instruments, equipment, communications, and information, and needs to propose customized solutions.

Modularization and standardization of development products

Advantech's industrial computer manufacturers compete in a very large market. Each manufacturer has its own issues to consider and its own key development direction. It focuses on the modularization and standardization of development products, and at the same time pays close attention to the specific characteristics of some special industries. Standards are an important factor in establishing an advantage.

Many users of economical industrial computers did not realize that their application needs to use industrial computers to meet the requirements. Forced by the cost of maintenance and replacement, I went back to look for industrial computers with relatively higher prices and reliability.

Despite this, most industrial computer manufacturers can still understand the price sensitivity of low-end and middle-end users, and the stringent price requirements in the downstream market make users unable to spend a lot of money, and they have to try their best to seek products with the highest cost performance. Therefore, how to balance the high requirements of industrial occasions and the low cost expected by users is also the direction that industrial computer manufacturers need to think about.

The current integration of industrial applications and commercial applications is getting faster and faster, and the performance requirements for industrial computers are also getting higher and higher, prompting industrial computer manufacturers to continuously try new industrial architectures in their products, from the existing PCI, CPCI, PC104 architectures, to some new architectures that are more advanced and more suitable for industrial high-performance applications. It can be seen that the industrial computer products of Advantech IPC automation manufacturers will show a more diversified trend in the future.