Photoelectric switch market demand but lack of price standards

As an important member of the sensor family, photoelectric switches have always been favored for their superior performance. With the development of technology, a new generation of photoelectric switch products have more intelligent functions such as time delay, widening, external synchronization, anti-interference, high reliability, stable work area, self-diagnosis, etc., and are favored by more users. Applied to multiple industries. At the same time, the photoelectric switch is also moving towards the direction of smaller volume, more functions, higher detection accuracy, and shorter response time; at the same time, the opto-electronic switch has stronger resistance to light, electricity, and magnetic interference.

As a high-precision sensor product, the photoelectric switch itself has been increasingly developed in the direction of precision, intelligence, and networking, and is widely used as level detection, level control, product count, width discrimination, speed detection, fixed length Shear, hole identification, signal delay, automatic door sensing, color standard detection, punching and shearing machines, and security protection.

In the market, the application of photoelectric switches has become more and more extensive. Especially in Europe and North America, they have not completely escaped the impact of the economic crisis. The Asian market led by China has become an important market where photoelectric switches continue to flourish. According to predictions, the photoelectric switch market will show steady growth in the next few years. By 2013, the global photoelectric switch market share will be close to 1.2 billion US dollars. In the Chinese market, with the increase in investment in industry and rising labor costs, the demand for industrial automation products has become more and more prosperous, and photoelectric switch products will also be better applied along with this trend.

Of course, we must also look at the shortcomings of the photoelectric switch. Although the market is in great demand, because the product has a certain degree of substitution (such as the use of grating products in some applications), the current price still determines the most One of the major market buying factors. Currently in the Chinese market, photoelectric switches lack a certain price standard and the competition is fierce.

Fortunately, more and more manufacturers are aware of this, and more and more optoelectronic switch brands are beginning to emerge, but this effect is mainly concentrated in the high-end application market.

Of course, under the trend of industrial automation gradually moving towards solutions, some sensor manufacturers are also making changes to their core products as the core, to provide customers with product-based solutions, but also gradually in some high-end sensor suppliers. Photovoltaic switches belong to an important branch of the sensor, naturally within this range, and more photoelectric switch manufacturers are beginning to move toward solutions.

In addition, because the network communication technology has tremendous influence on the development of industrial automation, the data transmission between the sensor and the PLC is also more and more frequent, and IO-link has become the most commonly used communication standard in high-end sensors.