The development trend of foreign automation equipment technology is systematic, flexible, integrated and intelligent.

Automation equipment and technologies continue to improve the technological level and market competitiveness of optoelectronics, automation and control systems, and traditional manufacturing industries. The integration and innovation of optoelectronics, computers and information technologies continue to create and form new economic growth points in the industry while continuously providing Management philosophy of new industry development.

Such as concurrent engineering (CE), agile manufacturing (AM) and so on. CNC technology in the modular, networked, multimedia and intelligent; CAD / CAM system for the entire life cycle of the product; automatic control of content development to the product quality online monitoring and control, equipment operation status of the dynamic monitoring, diagnosis and accident handling , Production status monitoring and coordination between equipment control and chain protection, as well as plant-level management decision-making and control; system network generally based on general computer networks; automation control products are in the direction of complete sets, series, and more varieties ; The integrated system device integrating automatic control technology, data communication technology and image display technology has become the leading product of industrial process control in foreign countries. The field bus has become the first hot point in the development of automation control technology. The programmable logic controller Industrial Control Systems (DCS) to achieve more and more close to the function, the price is gradually close to the forefront of foreign manufacturers of automatic control and instrumentation has introduced a similar PCS (Process Control System) products.

The world automation equipment industry is developing rapidly. Sensor technology, open industrial process automation systems, field bus technology and other automation technologies have formed a certain scale of the industry, including 90 sensors in the United States, Japan, the total market sales have more than 10 billion US dollars.