Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of China's DCS Market

Foreign well-known DCS brands still have obvious advantages in large projects and key projects, occupying most of the high-end markets. At present, domestic brands have also developed rapidly and their market influence has gradually expanded. The pattern of domestically occupied DCS occupying the low-end market is being broken. The DCS market competition is getting more and more intense, and the overall price is declining year by year. However, the functions of the DCS itself are becoming more and more perfect, and the scope of application is gradually expanding, even penetrating some traditional PLC markets. Traditional DCS manufacturers are no longer limited to just selling DCS systems themselves, but increasingly focus on DCS as a platform of "derivative" products and solutions, such as advanced control, energy management, and mobile solutions.

DCS application

With the development of electronic technology, processing technology and computer and network technology, DCS system hardware and software have undergone tremendous changes, DCS system reliability and availability technology has been perfect, DCS system began to consider more controllability and application Sexual issues began to consider more about DCS-based data acquisition platforms. How to mine these process data, device data, and DCS system data to get the smooth operation of production and optimal operation of equipment, using DCS reliable hardware and Based on the data analysis and application of the DCS database to reduce production losses and prevent accidental parking accidents.

Domestic users in China have generally realized the importance of adopting DCS control systems. Both DCS and DCS systems will consider DCS control systems. However, most DCS systems are still at the level of simple production operation and control applications. DCS platform-rich data Resources and control functions have not been fully utilized. Based on the further in-depth application of DCS platform data, there is still much room for excavation. The promotion of optimized production operation and control, increase of equipment utilization, and improvement of production safety will be based on DCS control. The main application topics on the system platform.

DCS System Market Development Challenge

After nearly 30 years of development, China's DCS market has covered the application of automatic control in major industrial fields. Affected by many factors such as the financial crisis and elimination of outdated production capacity, it has also been affected by labor shortages and costs. More SMEs have started to consider using automation. Improve production efficiency and reduce labor costs, which brings opportunities for the development of control systems and application of DCS control systems in the entire industry. However, due to the fierce competition between foreign suppliers, foreign suppliers and domestic DCS suppliers in this industry In the market competition, the price competition of the DCS system has become intense. Especially in recent years, with the reduction of new construction projects, many manufacturers have basically seized the market with negative profits to lay the foundation for the subsequent service market, because the service market has become the main source of profit for DCS systems.

With the adjustment of the country’s overall economic structure and the introduction of energy saving and environmental protection development strategies, new projects in the process industry will gradually decrease, which will make the market competition of the well-known DCS brands more fierce. The DCS market will gradually enter the era of stock market, each DCS As manufacturers face fewer new DCS projects, the challenge of maintaining growth will be even more severe. Of course, this also brings opportunities. Each DCS company has begun to adjust its strategy, develop stock market, establish DCS lifecycle service concept, and intensively improve service quality (such as Sinopec's hidden trouble investigation project in previous years is a typical stock business). The development of the stock market began to become the growth point of many DCS manufacturers' businesses and profits.