Instrumentation companies should strengthen industry self-regulation

As we all know, the rise of China's modern instrumentation industry began with the introduction of foreign technology to imitate innovation, and imitation has indeed greatly promoted the development of China's instrumentation manufacturing industry. At the same time, many famous foreign instrument brands have been troubled by illegal copying. For example, the well-known instrument giant Yokogawa discovered on the Chinese market a counterfeit/pressure transmitter imitation without the company's permission to use the company's registered trademark. The imitation product does not meet the requirements in terms of performance, specifications and quality. In particular, various specifications such as the required explosion-proof specifications cannot meet the standards. Therefore, if the user installs and continues to use imitation products at the factory, there will be hidden dangers in the operation and safety of the production equipment, and the quality of the user's products will also be reduced.

In recent years, China's industrial safety accidents have occurred frequently, and the instrumentation industry, which plays an important role in these fields, has received unprecedented attention. The confidence of users in domestic instrumentation products is still in the training period. Illegal and poor imitation products flood the market. The user’s scene is like burying a time bomb in these areas. It is very likely that ethnic enterprises will suffer a loss. Instruments and meters companies should strengthen self-discipline in the industry. Relevant units and industry associations should pay more attention and improve their alertness.

Automation instrumentation is an important auxiliary equipment widely used in various industries of the national economy, and it is also one of the important equipments for enterprises to realize production informatization and automation. The rapid development of China’s economic construction has brought strong demand to the instrument industry. Relevant data show that the growth of automation instrument demand is generally 2 to 2.5 times higher than the GDP of the year. In the past ten years, China's GDP has increased by nearly three times. It is estimated that the automation instrument industry has increased nearly 10 times. At the same time, most of the instrumentation companies are still at the stage of reference and imitation of foreign products, or between domestic counterparts.

The instrumentation industry should be innovated from the imitation and thus developed.