According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the added value of China's equipment manufacturing industry increased by 10.2% year-on-year in the first half of this year, driving the growth of all large-scale industries by 3.4 percentage points and fully playing the role of a "stabilizer" for industrial development. Among them, intelligent manufacturing equipment has performed outstandingly. Intelligent manufacturing equipment mainly includes key technological equipment such as high-end CNC machine tools and industrial robots, additive manufacturing, intelligent sensing and control, intelligent detection and assembly, intelligent logistics and warehousing. According to data from the China Machinery Industry Federation, the production of industrial robots increased by 35.6% year-on-year in the first half of this year, the market size of intelligent sensors exceeded 160 billion yuan, and the sales of intelligent handling robots increased by 11.2% year-on-year. The intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry continues to deepen, driving the vigorous development of the intelligent manufacturing equipment industry. ”Liu Qianjun, Secretary General of the Intelligent Manufacturing Branch of the China Machinery Industry Federation, introduced that the scale of China's intelligent manufacturing equipment industry is expected to exceed 5 trillion yuan this year. Let's first look at industrial robots. The robot market maintains a rapid growth momentum, and China has been the world's largest industrial robot market for 12 consecutive years. In the past three years, China has accounted for more than half of the world's newly installed industrial robots. While the market size continues to grow, the industry's innovation capability is steadily improving. China's robotics industry has formed a relatively complete full industry chain system, with significant technological progress in key technologies and components such as precision reducers, high-performance servo drive systems, intelligent controllers, and intelligent integrated joints. In the first half of this year, China's industrial robot exports increased by 61.5% year-on-year. Currently, China has over 190000 valid patents related to robots, accounting for about 2/3 of the global total. As the world's largest manufacturing country, China has a complete range of industrial categories and multi-level development levels of enterprises, providing huge market opportunities for domestic robot enterprises. ”Liu Qianjun introduced that the market size of industrial robots in China is expected to exceed 90 billion yuan this year, accounting for more than 43% of the global market. Take another look at the sensor. As the "sensory nerves" of modern manufacturing, sensors play a crucial role in the mechanical industry. In the first half of this year, the size of China's sensor market exceeded 200 billion yuan, with industrial automation accounting for the largest share, reaching over 35%. In the field of industrial sensors, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, and flow sensors have become the main drivers of market growth. In the first half of this year, the market size of robot vision sensors reached 4.756 billion yuan. As the industrial robot market gradually matures, the new driving force for the growth of the visual sensor market mainly comes from the field of humanoid robots. At the same time, the rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry has injected strong momentum into the sensor market. ”Liu Qianjun said that in the first half of this year, the production and sales of new energy vehicles increased by 41.4% and 40.3% year-on-year, respectively, driving the growth of demand for products such as current sensors, angle sensors, and pressure sensors. According to the "14th Five Year Plan for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing", by the end of this year, 70% of manufacturing enterprises above designated size will have basically achieved digital networking, and more than 500 intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories leading the industry development will have been built. Intelligent manufacturing equipment still has vast space. (New Society)