| The automation instrument is composed of several | | | | estate industry. Civil electric meters, water meters, |
| automation components, which is an automation | | | | gas meters and heating meters will develop |
| technology tool with relatively complete function. | | | | intelligently and diligently. The great market demand |
| Generally, it has several functions like measuring, | | | | will provides intelligent instruments with a broad |
| display, record/ measuring, control and alarm. The | | | | development space. |
| automation instrument itself is a system as well as a | | | | In recent years, Chinese industrial automation |
| subsystem in the whole automatic system. An | | | | instrumentation industry has kept a relatively high |
| automation instrument is an information machine | | | | growth rate. In 2008, the market scale was nearly |
| whose main function is the transformation in the | | | | 12.6 billion USD. |
| form of information. It changes input signals into | | | | Judging from the whole, Chinese industrial automation |
| output signals. Signals can be conveyed according to | | | | instrumentation industry seems to have a great |
| time domain or frequency domain. And the signal | | | | development space, but most products belong to |
| transmission can be modulated in the form of | | | | mid-end and low-end products. The technology |
| continuous analog quantity or intermittent digital | | | | standard equals to the world standard in early and |
| quantity. | | | | middle 1990s. Those high-end and large-scale |
| The level of the overall development of Chinese | | | | instruments all depend on import. |
| industrial automation instrumentation industry is 10 to | | | | The demand for large-scale, complex industrial |
| 15 years behind developed countries. With the | | | | instruments, new application fields and the related |
| implementation of a series of the national key | | | | new instruments will cause the domestic enterprises |
| projects, the industrial automation instrumentation | | | | a lot of problems, such as the product technology |
| industry has been increasingly supported and paid | | | | standard, application adaption and market access. On |
| attention to by Chinese government, which gives | | | | the contrary, overseas - funded enterprises have |
| prominence to the investment value of this market, | | | | comparative advantages and will affect the market |
| such as the upgrade of the consumption of the real | | | | pattern. |