The road to the future photoelectric switch

As an important member of the sensor family, photoelectric switches have always been favored for their excellent performance.

With the development of technology, our company has introduced advanced production equipment from Germany. The new generation of photoelectric switch products are equipped with intelligent functions such as delay, widening, external synchronization, anti-interference, high reliability, stable working area and self-diagnosis. Favored by more users, it is widely used in many industries.

At the same time, photoelectric switches are also moving towards smaller size, more functions, higher detection accuracy, and shorter response time. For example, M8 photoelectric, small square type long-distance photoelectric; at the same time, the photoelectric switch is resistant to light, electricity, and magnetism. The interference ability is also stronger.

As a high-precision sensor product, the photoelectric switch itself has also been increasingly developed in the direction of precision, intelligence, and networking, and is widely used for level detection, liquid level control, product counting, width discrimination, speed detection, and Fixed-length cutting, hole recognition, signal delay, automatic door sensing, color code detection, punching and shearing machines, and safety protection and many other fields.

With the trend of industrial automation gradually moving towards solutions, okplazas.com is also making changes, forming a core technical team, with its core products as the core, to provide customers with product-based solutions.

In the market, the application range of photoelectric switches has become wider and wider, especially when Europe and North America have not fully recovered from the economic crisis. The Asian market led by China has become an important market for photoelectric switches to continue to flourish.

According to forecasts, the photoelectric switch market will show a steady growth trend in the next few years.

By 2013, the global photoelectric switch market share will be close to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.

In the Chinese market, with increasing investment in industry and rising labor costs, the demand for industrial automation products has become more and more vigorous, and photoelectric switch products will also be better applied along with this trend.

Of course, we must also see the shortcomings of photoelectric switches. Although the market demand is strong, because this product has a certain degree of substitution (for example, grating products can be used in some applications), the current price still determines the best photoelectric switch. One of the main buying factors in the market.

Currently in the Chinese market, photoelectric switches lack a certain price standard, and competition is fierce. Fortunately, more and more manufacturers have realized this, and more and more photoelectric switch brands have begun to emerge, but this effect is mainly concentrated in the high-end application market.

Of course, with the trend of industrial automation gradually moving towards solutions, some sensor manufacturers are also making changes, taking their core products as the core to provide customers with product-based solutions, which have also been gradually expanded among some high-end sensor suppliers. Photoelectric switches belong to an important branch of sensors, and naturally within this range, more photoelectric switch manufacturers have begun to move towards solutions.

In addition, because network communication technology has had a huge impact on the development of industrial automation, data transmission between sensors and PLCs has become more and more frequent, and io-link has become the most commonly used communication standard among high-end sensors.