Machine vision generally consists of a light source, image acquisition unit, image processing unit, image processing software and network communication devices. As one of the emerging technologies in the 21st century, machine vision has been widely used in all aspects of manufacturing, such as the size and appearance quality inspection of machine parts, and the inspection of the correctness of automatic assembly. 

The traditional inspection methods used to consume a lot of manpower and are easily affected by the subjective emotions of workers and their own technical level, and cannot guarantee a high inspection pass rate. Many manufacturers began to try to use machine vision inspection to replace the traditional inspection methods, and achieved good results.

The larger part of the machine vision development space lies in the semiconductor and electronic industries. According to relevant data from my country, the global integrated circuit industry has obvious signs of recovery; at the same time, the global economic recession has enabled my country's integrated circuit industry to gain market advantages, cost advantages, and talents. Advantages such as reflow;

The state has intensified its planning in the strategic area of the integrated circuit industry, "informatization drives industrialization", and the "new industrialization road" has brought huge development opportunities for the integrated circuit industry, especially the huge market space for high-end products and innovative products , Design links, national strategic areas, 3C application areas, and traditional industrial applications have become key investment areas for the integrated circuit industry in the next few years.

In addition, China has become an important demand market for global integrated circuits. According to relevant data, China's semiconductor and electronic markets have already taken shape, and such a strong semiconductor industry will require high-quality technology to back up. At the same time, his requirements for high quality and high integration of products will become higher and higher. It just so happens that machine vision will help them solve the above problems, so the industry will be the best place for machine vision. At the same time, the demand for machine vision will flourish.

From the perspective of the product itself, machine vision will increasingly rely on PC technology, and will be more closely integrated with other controls and measurements such as data acquisition. And embedded products will gradually replace board-type products, which is a growing trend. The main reason is that with the rapid development of computer technology and microelectronics technology, the application of embedded systems has become more and more extensive, especially its low power consumption technology has attracted people's attention. 

In addition, most of the embedded operating systems are based on the C language, so the use of C high-level language for embedded system development is a basic work. The advantage of using high-level languages is that it can improve work efficiency and shorten development. Cycle, more importantly, the products developed are of high reliability, good maintainability, and convenient for continuous improvement and upgrading. Therefore, embedded products will replace board-type products.

Since machine vision is a part of automation, there will be no machine vision without automation. Machine vision software and hardware products are gradually becoming the core system at different stages of the collaborative manufacturing process. Both users and hardware suppliers use machine vision products as the production line Information collection tools require a large number of machine vision products to adopt "standardized technology". Intuitively, they should be gradually opened with the opening of automation, and secondary development can be carried out according to user needs. 

Nowadays, automation companies are advocating integrated software and hardware solutions. In the next 5-6 years, machine vision manufacturers should not only be suppliers that only provide products, but gradually move towards system integrators with integrated solutions.