seele_jin November 18, 2016 09:27
In the field of industrial automation, there are many centuries-old companies, such as Siemens, General Electric, Bosch Group, Schneider Electric and other famous names, from the digital factory, the industrial Internet to Industry 4.0, these early have become industry leaders. So who will be the future winners in the new wave of revolutionary developments? The U.S. "Fortune" magazine published a new issue of the world's top 500 ranking list, I picked from the list of the top 5 industrial automation companies.
1, General Electric Company
Total revenue: $140,389 million
General Electric Company of the United States was founded in 1892, also known as the Kiwi company, funded by the old Morgan in 1892 to Edison General Electric Company, Thomson Housden International Electric Company, and other three companies merged into the composition. General Electric of the United States in various ways annexed many enterprises at home and abroad, and became the world's largest multinational company providing technology and service business. GE insisted on diversification, the company's business from aircraft engines, power generation equipment to financial services, from medical imaging, television programs to plastics.
Optimistically, the Industrial Internet is expected to contribute $15 trillion to global GDP by 2030. Jeff Immelt believes that global industry is rediscovering growth opportunities through the combination of hardware and software. in April, General Electric's Current acquired Australian startup Daintree Networks, and to date, General Electric (GE) companies have conducted 12 industrial Internet pilot projects in China, gradually promoting more than 40 big data analytics applications.
2, Siemens
Total revenue: $87,660 million
Siemens AG was founded in 1847 and is the world's leading company in the field of electrical and electronic engineering. in 2014, Siemens sold its shares in Borsey Home Appliances and completely withdrew from the field of home appliances, focusing on electrification, automation and digitalization. Siemens digital enterprise solutions cover industrial software, industrial communications, industrial information security and data-based services.
Siemens' main products include, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), industrial computers (IPCs) and industrial operating panels (HMIs), industrial software, CNC machine tools, low-voltage electrical appliances, and touch screens. The nine businesses are power generation and natural gas, wind power and renewable energy, energy management, building technology, transportation, digital factory, process industry and drive, healthcare and financial services. Digitalization is one of the three major future development directions of Siemens, Siemens will be digitalization as the main future growth areas, the digital factory set a target profitability of 14% -20%.
3, Hitachi
Total revenue: 83,583.50 million U.S. dollars
Hitachi (HITACHI), Japan's one of the world's largest integrated multinational conglomerate, came to China in the 1960s, and has become one of the few foreign companies that entered the Chinese market in the early days. Hitachi Group consists of numerous business divisions and business companies, and owns a number of technologies, products and solution technologies. At present, Hitachi has more than 100 group companies within China, with members active in the fields of electric motors, electronic equipment, household appliances and information communication.
Hitachi is fully committed to social innovation, integrating the strengths of the two major fields of "Social Infrastructure" and "IT Infrastructure" related to information and communication systems, electric power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation systems, and social and urban systems. Hitachi is working to create a low-carbon society and a green economy through the integration of its strengths in two major fields: social infrastructure and IT infrastructure. Hitachi's long-term research on portrait feature extraction algorithms and high-speed retrieval engines, combined with the application of new technologies such as deep learning and auto-correction, has enabled face retrieval and recognition technology to overcome the limitations of many conditions of use, and the system's core functionality and performance have taken a quantum leap forward.
The potential of IoT in industry is huge, and Hitachi Hitachi Insight Group is throwing even more money at industrial IoT investment. Over the next three years, Hitachi will invest $2.8 billion to provide predictive solutions to its customer base. Factories that adopt big data and predictive analytics see a 10% increase in productivity in their day-to-day operations. In the grand scheme of things, a 10 percent improvement doesn't seem like much, but the effect ends up being significant as it is passed on to the end consumer.
4. Bosch Corporation
Total revenue: $78,322.70 million
Bosch is one of Germany's largest industrial companies, engaged in automotive technology, industrial technology, and consumer goods and building technology industries.When Mr. Robert Bosch founded the company in 1886 at the age of just 25 in Stuttgart, he positioned the company as a "a factory for precision mechanics and electrical engineering". Headquartered in Stuttgart, southern Germany, Bosch employs more than 230,000 people in more than 50 countries. Bosch is known worldwide for its innovative and cutting-edge products and system solutions.
The Bosch Group is a key initiator of Germany's Industry 4.0 strategy and is uniquely positioned for Industry 4.0. Bosch Rexroth's hydraulic valve production line in Humboldt, Germany, was awarded the "Industry 4.0 Award" by a renowned German trade magazine for realizing the optimal interconnection of people, machines, objects and IT systems. The production line is capable of zero-switching production of 2,000 different products in six product families, and realizes small-lot customized production and even single-product production, which improves productivity by 10% and reduces inventory by 30% at the same time.
Currently, Bosch has promoted the practice of Industry 4.0 in more than 100 factories around the world, and one of the pilots is the automotive electronics factory in Suzhou. In the production environment, intelligent machines, warehousing systems, and manufacturing facilities that constitute the information-physical system*** work together to exchange information, trigger processes, and automate controls. Industry 4.0 will connect people, machines, and things along the entire value chain, from suppliers to customers.
5, Panasonic
Total revenue: 62,920.80 million U.S. dollars
Panasonic Group is a global electronics manufacturer, engaged in the production of a variety of electrical appliances, sales, and other business activities. 1978, the Chinese national leaders visited the Panasonic Group's Japanese television factory. During a meeting between the two sides, entrepreneur Konosuke Matsushita expressed his determination to contribute to China. Subsequently, the Panasonic Group entered the beginning stage of its business in China.
Panasonic's products in the field of industrial automation involve relays, connectors, sensors for machines, switches, programmable controllers, programmable intelligent operating panels, image processing devices, and ultraviolet hardening devices.
Panasonic announced on July 19, 2016, that it would venture into the robot control equipment market. Panasonic predicts that the market for such equipment will reach a size of tens of billions of yen by around 2020, and will aim to gain a market share of billions of yen of this. Panasonic has developed "motion sensors" that can measure a robot's three-dimensional position more accurately than conventional devices. These products can detect and control the movements of robots, and the company believes that demand for robots in fields such as factories and nursing care will increase. It is said that the ability to control the robot's posture will be improved, which will enhance work efficiency.