Introduction: industry 4.0 has exploded in an all-round way, promoting the rapid development of laser related industries. As a core driving force in the field of industrial manufacturing, laser technology will drive the manufacturing industry to develop in the direction of "faster, higher, better and shorter".
Great changes in the industrial age: manufacturing vs intelligent manufacturing
From the mid-1960s to the 1940s and 1950s, China experienced three technological revolutions: mechanization, electrification and automation. These three technological revolutions have promoted the rapid development of China's industry and made major breakthroughs in the fields of atomic energy, electronic computers, microelectronics, aerospace technology, molecular biology and genetic engineering.
Nowadays, with the influx of new words such as intelligent factory, intelligent production, human-computer interaction, cloud computing, big data revolution, mobile Internet and Internet of things, China's manufacturing industry is gradually moving from automation to intelligent production, transforming and upgrading from traditional "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing", establishing the most complete industrial system in the world, greatly improving the production capacity and main product production It has leapt to the forefront of the world in terms of volume, increasing its international competitiveness, making its export trade the largest in the world for many years, gradually optimizing its industrial structure, steadily improving its technological level and innovation capability, and becoming the world's largest industrial country.
At the 2019 central economic work conference, seven key tasks were identified to promote the high-quality development of manufacturing industry. At the same time, the report on the work of the government also pointed out that, in order to promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, we should strengthen the industrial foundation and technological innovation capacity, and accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power. Miao Wei, Minister of industry and information technology, once wrote in seeking truth that manufacturing industry is the main body of the real economy. The high-quality development of manufacturing industry is related to the overall situation of high-quality economic development and must be placed in a more prominent position.
The change of the industrial age marks the great leap forward of science, technology and economy in China. Traditional manufacturing is far away! Intelligent manufacturing is the general trend and will become the mainstream development trend in the future!
Industrial development trend vs laser
[China business information network]: laser is the core component of laser equipment, and the downstream application fields of laser equipment are very wide, involving electronic information, equipment manufacturing, communication, transportation equipment, medical equipment, aerospace, oil pipeline, additive manufacturing and many other important industrial fields. Laser technology is one of the key supporting technologies for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, so our government has always attached great importance to the development of laser industry. At present, China's laser industry has formed four major laser industry clusters in Central China, Bohai rim, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, with Beijing, Jiangsu, Hubei, Shanghai, Guangdong and other economically developed provinces and cities as the main body. Domestic laser products are mainly used in industrial processing and optical communication market, which occupy nearly 70% of the market space. In addition, because laser is closely related to the seven fields of strategic emerging industries, it is also an important part of the high-end equipment manufacturing industry of strategic emerging industries and a policy supporting industry.
[international metal processing network]: with the development of laser technology, the market application field continues to expand, and the global market scale has maintained rapid growth in the past two years. By 2017, the market scale reached 11.33 billion US dollars, up 8.9% year on year. In 2017, the growth of laser market scale is mainly driven by the continuous release of laser demand in the field of material processing and communication.
[research in the world]: as far as the industrial sector is concerned, in 2017, the market of semiconductor lasers used in the industrial sector reached 6.9 billion, accounting for only about 19% of all semiconductor laser markets. Although the proportion is not high, its growth rate contributed to the increase of industrial lasers in 2017.
[China lighting network]: similar to CPU as the core of computer industry, laser is the core of laser industry. In recent years, with the development of advanced laser and the rapid development of its application, the market of laser, especially the industrial fiber laser, has grown rapidly. From the perspective of global market, the global laser market scale in 2011 was US $7.57 billion, an increase of about 7% on a month on month basis; the industrial laser market scale was US $2.5 billion, an increase of about 12% on a month on month basis. The market size of fiber laser is about 600 million US dollars, which is mainly used in the industrial field, with a growth rate of nearly 50% month on month, far higher than that of other lasers. According to the forecast of redians, in the next 10 years, there will be a market of more than 100 billion US dollars for ultra short pulse laser equipment and related services only used for fine micromachining.
[China industrial information]: in 2017, the global industrial laser market size exceeded 4 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 25%. Among them, the market size of fiber laser reached 2 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of more than 20%. High power laser equipment ushered in a high-speed development stage.
LFWC view:
The central economic working conference clearly pointed out that China has entered the new normal of economic development, understanding the new normal, adapting to the new normal and leading the new normal are the major logic of China's economic development at present and in the future. Industry is the main foundation of China's economy and the main battlefield to promote the efficiency and upgrading of China's economic development system.
Laser technology is widely used in high-end manufacturing, information and communication, biology, medical and health industries, military industry, national defense security and other fields. It is one of the important fields of strategic high-tech competition in the world today. The quality, brand and innovation ability of a country's manufacturing industry are often the concentrated embodiment of the core competitiveness of the national manufacturing industry. The progress of manufacturing industry is inseparable from the assistance of laser technology. The development of laser technology makes the overall strength of our country achieve a rapid rise.
Who will become the mainstream in 2020?
Industry 4.0 is in full swing, promoting laser related industries