China Industrial Ethernet Switch Market Report

In industry today, dedicated industrial Ethernet switches are usually used to define different priority levels for Ethernet frames so that the information the users want can be delivered at the fastest speed. At present, China's industrial Ethernet switch industry is still in the import stage as a whole, and downstream customers are mainly concentrated in power, rail transit and other industries. It is estimated that during the entire “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the average annual market capacity of industrial Ethernet switches will be around 3 billion yuan, and the compound growth rate for the next three years will reach 25%.

In the domestic industrial Ethernet switch market, electricity and rail transit are the key application areas of industrial switches, accounting for 70% of the market. There are about 50 manufacturers active in China's industrial Ethernet switch market. There are about 15 foreign companies in China's industrial Ethernet switch market, 3-4 Taiwan-funded companies, and about 30 local companies. Local brands are mostly local brands. Companies currently participating in the domestic industrial Ethernet switch market competition can be divided into two categories: The first category is professional industrial Ethernet switch manufacturers. The professional companies represented by Hirthman, Moda, Dongtu, Roger, and ICT are the main enterprises in the domestic industrial Ethernet switch market. Such enterprises have occupied market opportunities, have developed at a faster pace, have involved a wider industry, and have a higher market share. Because Hessman has superior resources in power and other industries, its position in the domestic market will not change for the first time in a short period of time. However, Hurstmann's products have high prices, and they will face challenges from companies such as Mosha, Dongtu Technology and Luo Jiekang in the future.

The second category is large system integrators represented by Siemens and Schneider. Siemens, Schneider and other system integrators are both industrial Ethernet switch manufacturers and industrial Ethernet switch companies. However, at present, such enterprises do not focus on the promotion of switch products, but they still have a major impact on the domestic industrial Ethernet switch market.

At present, the domestic industrial Ethernet switch market is dominated by foreign-invested or Taiwan-funded brands. Among the top ten manufacturers, except the Company, they are all foreign-funded or Taiwan-funded enterprises. The industrial Ethernet switch industry in China is highly concentrated. In 2009 and 2010, the market share of the top ten industrial Ethernet switch vendors in the domestic market exceeded 80%. With the rapid growth of domestic industrial Ethernet switch market, enterprises entering this field will gradually increase in the next few years, and the market competition will become increasingly fierce. For a period of time in the future, new enterprises will continue to be dominated by European, American, and Taiwanese companies. Domestic companies will still face greater difficulties in entering this field due to technical and financial constraints. What are the basic requirements of the market for the performance of industrial Ethernet switches?

Automation is currently the mainstream trend of global industrial manufacturing development, and a series of automation equipment industry market is rapidly expanding. A complete automated production line includes PLCs, system control software, industrial robots, etc. These components all need to be linked together by Industrial Ethernet to form a unified whole. Industrial Ethernet is an efficient local area network. It is an important part of the modern industrial automation production system. Whether it is sensor data transmission or production equipment control, these need Ethernet to form a basic control network. This is one of the important reasons why Industrial Ethernet is increasingly used in automated production.

In recent years, the development of network technology and industrial control require higher and higher network performance. Ethernet is gradually entering the industrial control field and forms a new type of Ethernet control network technology. Therefore, industrial Ethernet communication requires sufficient high real-time performance, high reliability, anti-jamming, anti-network failure, anti-interception, and anti-counterfeiting performance to ensure high-quality control data communications.

Compared with ordinary Ethernet, industrial Ethernet needs to solve many problems in terms of openness, real-time, synchronization, reliability, anti-jamming, and security. This is also the difference between industrial automation vendors and ordinary IT vendors. Users take more value. Traditional Ethernet is not designed for industrial applications and does not take into account the adaptability needs of the industrial field environment. Industrial conditions such as machinery, weather, dust, etc. are very harsh. Therefore, higher requirements are placed on the industrial reliability of equipment, and applications in some high-risk areas are even extremely demanding.

In order to solve the industrial application field, the network can also work stably under extreme conditions. Rail hubs and industrial Ethernet switch products have been introduced. They are mounted on standard DIN rails and have redundant power supplies. Industrial switch products have the following characteristics:

1. Redundant power input, prevention of single power failure, 2 ring topology, redundant path 3, built-in high-quality and high-reliability parts, to ensure a long average failure-free time 4, can be applied to over-standard The temperature state, such as -40 °C ~ 75 °C

5, durable shell and good temperature resistance 6, comply with industry standards (CE \ FCC \ UL, etc.), at the same time through the impact, drop and shock and other rigorous testing