Top Five Hot Topics in 2010 Interpretation of Instrumentation Industry Development

As the last year of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, the year of rapid development after the financial crisis, an important year for social transformation, 2010 was filled with the joy and worries of instrumentation people. This year, the instrumentation industry ushered in a 15% high growth, a variety of high-tech breakthroughs in foreign monopoly, the Internet of things, smart grids have driven a new meteorological development instrumentation, Wanxun, Sanchuan, Hanwei and other GEM listing It provides lessons for the capital operation of industry enterprises. However, under the excellent development of this kind of form, the industry has still exposed a lot of problems worth pondering. Domestic-made instruments "are not applauded," and there is a scarcity of talent in the instrument industry, key technologies still need to be broken, and competition in the market is fierce. Here, China Meter Exhibition Network will count the five hot topics in the industry for you to share with us.

Top1: The Internet of Things is ushering in yet another new information revolution, or is it another crazy conception?

2010 is a well-deserved year for the emergence of the Internet of Things, especially as an instrumentation industry that has a close relationship with IoT technology. According to Jiang Shiqiang, executive vice president of the Agricultural Instrument Technology Association of the China Instrument and Control Association and professor of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Internet of Things is a sensor network and it is a multi-layered, diversified and highly promising engineering technology. Instruments and meters are the source of the Internet of Things because It can collect data, process data, and perform preliminary processing on the data.

Yu Haibin's researcher pointed out that instrumentation is an integral part of the Internet of Things, and the Internet of Things cannot be considered only as a network technology. The industry CHAIN of the Internet of Things is a long one, from sensors, to the Internet, to information processing, to applications. There is a lot of innovative work to do.

It can be seen that the instrumentation industry plays a very important role in the development of the Internet of Things. However, the dispute over the Internet of Things has not stopped since the beginning. At a China-ASEAN Summit on the Internet of Things, Dr. Chen Baoguo, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council of China, pointed out that there are many phenomena in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry in China, such as the phenomenon of “deafness and touch” and “referring to deer and horse”. He also pointed out that the speculation on the concept of the Internet of Things in the capital market is even more crazy.

However, whether it is the concept of speculation or the information revolution, the era of the Internet of Things is still coming. All regions have launched the Internet of Things project and provided our industry with all the previous opportunities and challenges.

TOP2: Where is the instrumentation industry in the Twelfth Five Year Plan?

In 2010, as the final year of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", the "12th Five-Year Plan" is the year of preparation. This year, the entire industry gave high attention to the "12th Five-Year Plan". This document, which is intended to determine the economic level of China's economy over the next five years, will play a guiding role for Chinese instrumentation companies that are in transition.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan clearly stated that the development of a new generation of information technology, energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy, biological, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials, new energy vehicles and other industries, accelerate the formation of a leading, pillar industries, and effectively improve the core competitiveness of the industry. Economic benefits.

As an instrument and meter industry that is inextricably linked to seven new strategic industries such as the Internet of Things, smart grids, and high-end equipment manufacturing, how can it be properly grasped in the coming five years in an increasingly complex international and competitive environment under the direction of the country's policies? With its own development direction and finding a suitable development path for itself, the entire industry is setting off a big discussion!

TOP3: Domestic instruments are not applauding, is the domestic quality not to force, or the user does not appreciate the face?

After the pain of the financial crisis in 2009, instrument and meter companies understand that they must survive in the cruelty of market competition and must only take the path of independent innovation, brand management, and customer service. In 2010, domestic instrument research and development showed a booming trend.

However, a series of questions emerged when domestic instrumentation was devoted to the process of product R&D and innovation with great enthusiasm: What are the market conditions of these new R&D products? How is the user's acceptance? How to break through the market monopolized by foreign companies? Once, as the first domestic company engaged in gas ultrasonic flowmeter R & D, manufacturing and sales of professional manufacturers of Shanghai Weiss Instruments company has encountered such problems. The company fills the gap in the first domestic low-pressure gas flowmeter and has obtained the type approval for measuring instruments and the production license of measuring instruments. It also took the lead in the industry to obtain the ISO9001 quality management system certification and product explosion-proof certification, and the sales of the product. Did not appear in the expected hot situation.

Therefore, when these problems are encountered, some business owners of product innovation are inevitably shaking their heads. The road to innovation is definitely not simply to develop products. To be innovative, products have a longevity, they need to get closer to the market and approach customers. .

TOP4: The merger of companies on the market, the capital operation market looks at the end of the first layer?

In 2010, it was a well-deserved year for the industry. With the launch of the GEM, many companies have grown mature and the passion for listing has been raised to a new height. Henan Hanwei Electronics Co., Ltd. appeared in the first batch of GEM companies that published the prospectus, which was highly favored by the majority of industry insiders. The application for the initial public offering of 13 million ordinary shares (A shares) by Jiangxi Sanchuan Water Meter Co., Ltd. ("Sanchuan") has been approved by the Securities Regulatory Commission of China Securities Regulatory Commission, and more instrument companies are now warming up. Enter the preparation phase.

In the same year, the various mergers and acquisitions in the industry are endless and dazzling. Bruck bought 226 million US dollars in the United States Veeco, Japan Electric acquired Emerson Electric's motor control department, ABB acquired global liquid level detection technology leader K-TEK and so on.

Whether it is listed or acquired, it is a good form of development for the company. However, if capital is in operation, there is risk. The existence of equity dilution in the listing, weakened control, risk of being acquired by competitors in the capital market, and the acquisition also bear the risk of many debt and reversing the market situation. In this ever-changing capital market, the industry needs a calm and aggressive mind to face.

TOP5: The high-end talent in the industry is in a hurry. How do we break through?

Like many companies, the rapid development of the instrumentation industry in 2010 was accompanied by a shortage of high-end talent in the industry. The Chinese Society of Test Instruments and the China Association of Analytical Testing were commissioned by the relevant authorities of the country to conduct investigations and research on the test instrument industry in China. In the analysis, it was pointed out that the lack of talent and the large amount of loss have become serious obstacles to the scientific and technological innovation and industrialization of the test instrument industry, especially for state-owned enterprises.

In the Wenzhou Pump & Valve Industry Symposium held in Wenzhou, the hometown of pump and valve instruments, participants were all technical vice presidents of enterprises. One participant said with emotion: “7 years ago, such a meeting would be us, and now we are these people. More than 60 years old, we can play the remaining heat, and now we are all running at eight (80 years old). How long can we persist? We are looking for transformation and upgrading of the Wenzhou valve, which is facing the bottleneck of talent shortage."

It can be seen that the shortage of talent has become a common problem that restricts the development of the entire industry. If we are to cultivate talents, how to tap talents, and how to play the role of talents, it is an important topic for us to face.

At the end of 2010, good news came from the China Instrument and Meter Industry Association. As of November this year, the production and sales of China's instrumentation industry reached 500 billion yuan, a record high. From 100 billion yuan in 2004 to 500 billion yuan in 2010, the instrumentation industry is becoming bigger and bigger, and the industry is still a long way to go.

Floating and bustling, bustling, several happy families, this is destined to be written in an extraordinary year or ended in his unique way, and our industry will still move forward, will encounter various opportunities and challenges. But these are not trials for our industry. Only after various baptisms will China's instrument industry grow stronger!