AbstractInstrumentation products are widely used in various fields such as enterprises, scientific research and production, and are mainly used in school laboratory construction and teaching in the field of education. Driven by strong market demand and guided by national macroeconomic policies, China's instrumentation industry has shown a rapid and healthy development trend.
　　
　　Based on the actions of major instrument companies, it is not difficult to find that digital, intelligent, and networked instrument products will become the mainstream of the market. In addition to further improving products, engineering and project integration technology, software development, application and maintenance services will become new growth points in the industry.
The emergence of digital technology has improved the measurement and control accuracy, sensitivity, speed, and reliability of analog instruments by several orders of magnitude, laying a solid foundation for achieving measurement and control automation. The introduction of computers has brought about a qualitative change in the functionality of instruments, from measuring individual parameters to measuring the characteristic parameters of the entire system, from simply receiving and displaying to controlling, analyzing, processing, calculating, and displaying outputs, and from measuring with a single instrument to measuring with a measurement system. In the 1990s, the breakthrough in measurement control and instrumentation technology was the improvement of the intelligence level of instruments and meters; The widespread emergence of DSP chips has greatly enhanced the digital signal processing capabilities of instruments and meters; The development of microcomputers has endowed instruments with stronger data processing capabilities and image processing functions; Fieldbus technology is a rapidly developing network communication technology used for various field automation equipment and their control systems in the 1990s. Internet and Intranet technologies will also enter the control field. Modern instrumentation products will develop towards digitization, networking, intelligence, and integration. Interdisciplinary comprehensive design and high-precision manufacturing technology enable them to obtain information about the analyzed, detected, and controlled objects at a faster, more sensitive, more reliable, and simpler speed.
With the development of production and the improvement of people's living standards, a large number of portable, handheld, and personalized instruments and meters have been developed. People are increasingly concerned about their quality of life and health. Instruments and meters for detecting various commodities and food quality closely related to people's lives, as well as various medical instruments for preventing and treating diseases, are an important trend for future development. The on-site and real-time online use of scientific instruments, especially for health status and disease warning instruments for home and personal use, will have significant development.
The current status and development speed of domestic instrument technology applications are relatively slow. At present, China's instrumentation industry has a complete range of categories and a certain industry foundation. In developing countries, it belongs to the "upstream" category, but there is a significant gap with developed countries. Due to the constraints of the system, mechanism, comprehensive level of economy and technology, management, talent and other conditions, enterprises are "numerous, scattered and weak", with weak technological development capabilities and differences in product stability and reliability. The market has seen a situation where high-end products are mainly imported from the three capital sources, while mid to low-end products are mainly produced by Chinese funded enterprises. Moreover, due to comparative advantages such as market size, labor costs, and industry foundation, some products with large quantities and wide coverage will become the main force for production and export.