With the gradual advance of "Made in China 2025", the attention of industrial computer is getting higher and higher, and the competition of industrial computer market is becoming more and more fierce. Will the pattern of industrial computer market change? What trends will the development of IPC appear?
Taking into account "quality advantage" and "price advantage"
At present, industrial control computers are widely used in both traditional metallurgy, steel, chemical industry and some new industries. Especially in electronic assembly, quality inspection and other occasions where a large number of boards and visual devices are used, the control part is almost occupied by industrial control computers, and the market of economical industrial control computers is vast. . And the vast market also makes many industrial computer manufacturers enter and participate in the competition, resulting in a large number of low-end customers on the industrial computer market and product awareness is not clear enough, and even industrial computer and commercial computer confusion. In fact, whether it is the structure of the motherboard, the way CPU heat dissipation, or the choice of power supply, the thickness of the steel plate enclosure, as well as shock and moisture-proof measures, industrial computer and commercial machines are completely different. Industrial computer manufacturers are required to take into account the "quality advantage" and "price advantage" of the product to meet the user's demand for industrial computer, in order to enter the economic industrial computer market.
Customization service must be necessary
Customized service is to tailor-made industrial computer solutions according to the different needs of customers, and strive to product close to the real needs of the industry. In order to meet the applicability of products to many industries, and to respond to customer needs in a timely manner, more and more industrial computer manufacturers set up R&D centers to strengthen customized service capabilities.
In the face of differentiated demand industries, customized services have strong advantages. For example, petroleum and petrochemical industry and rail transit are both important industries of industrial computer, but they have completely different product applications. In petroleum and petrochemical industry, what is needed is a general-purpose product with high cost performance and safety. For rail transit industry, the safety of passengers is the primary concern and can be successfully handled. Thousands of instruments, equipment, communications and information need to be customized. Therefore, all kinds of solutions close to the needs of the industry have become the necessary magic weapon for industrial computer manufacturers to win in the competition. The customized service of industrial computer has become a must for development.
Base on new demand
Industrial computer market is very large, each manufacturer has its own focus on the issues, but also has its own focus on the direction of development, focusing on the development of modularization and standardization of products, while paying close attention to the specific standards of some special industries, is an important factor to build advantages.
Many economical industrial computer users do not realize at first that they need to use industrial computer to meet the requirements of their applications. Some users even choose commercial machines first, and then are constrained by the reliability of the products, or forced by high maintenance and replacement costs, to re-seek the relative price and reliability. All higher industrial computers force users to try to find products with the highest cost performance. How to balance the high demand in industrial environment and the low cost expected by users is the direction that industrial computer manufacturers need to consider.
Some manufacturers put forward the concept of "industrial cloud". In the face of some real-time applications that are not demanding, industrial servers can be placed on the back-end, and some of the processing can be moved back through cloud software, so that the reliability of the front-end equipment can be strengthened, while the reliability of the back-end equipment can be avoided and the total cost can be reduced. Effectively solve the dual needs of reliability and economy.
At present, the convergence of industrial applications and commercial applications is faster and faster, and the performance requirements of industrial computer are higher. For such a trend, industrial computer manufacturers continue to try new industrial architecture in products, from the existing CPCI, PC104 architecture, to some more advanced, more suitable for industrial high-performance applications of new architecture. Visible, the future IPC products will show a more diversified trend.