How is LED industrial lighting developing in the era of Industry 4.0?

In the workshop of an automated factory there are no workers and the machines are running automatically ...... It looks like all this is no longer just a dream. Back in 2015 the Chinese government announced the Chinese version of "Made in China 2025" "Industry 4.0", the whole system consists of three major parts: intelligent products, intelligent production and intelligent factories. Lighting is an integral part of the realisation of smart factories. So, we can't help but ask, how is industrial lighting developing today? Will it change in response to the changing trends of the times?

LED industrial lighting, the big appeal of a niche market

In fact, compared to home and commercial lighting, industrial lighting seems to be a relatively niche and low-key member of the entire lighting family; compared to plant factories, automotive lighting, infrared ultraviolet LEDs, optical communications and other high-frequency words in these media reports, industrial lighting is a relatively cold word, but this does not affect its charm in any way - In the LED replacement demand continues to heat up as well as the relevant government subsidies support, industrial lighting market growth rate is fast.
According to the findings of relevant market research institutions, the global LED industrial lighting market reached US$2.932 billion in 2016, and will grow at an annual rate of more than 16%, is expected to reach US$3.935 billion in 2018, the market size will reach US$5.204 billion in 2020. And China's industrial electricity consumption has been accounting for more than 70% of the whole society, industrial energy-saving demand is strong, the huge market space also makes China's LED industrial lighting penetration rate is expected to further accelerate. According to forecasts, in 2015, LED products accounted for only 6% of the overall industrial lighting products, it is estimated that in 2035, the LED market penetration rate will reach 86%.
At present, LED industrial lighting users are mainly foreign enterprises, state-owned central enterprises and some excellent private enterprises. Among them, foreign enterprises have advanced management and environmental protection concept, accept LED earlier, the LED lighting products related knowledge and technical parameters requirements are clearer, is the early start of the use of enterprises; and state-owned enterprises in order to correspond to the national policy of energy saving and emission reduction, also began to use LED replacement light source; some excellent private enterprises in order to control production costs, improve the overall competitiveness of enterprises, but also gradually accept LED industrial lighting.

Has the product performance gradually approached that of metal halide lamps?
Despite good market development prospects, the industrial lighting sector is still considered to be the last lighting application area to be tackled by LED. At present, the application of LED in industrial lighting is mainly for small and medium power lighting fixtures, and in the field of high-power lighting applications, metal halide lamps are relatively high compared to high-power LED light source cost performance, LED lighting is temporarily unable to overwhelming advantage to replace.

The product trend will gradually become modular and intelligent?
After all, industrial lighting products, because of their relatively simple needs, more to meet the illumination and uniformity of the effect, so these products are relatively less innovative. However, recently, industrial products in the function and application of a breakthrough, the use of installation module (with electrical) + lighting module design, lighting module, there are narrow light, medium light, wide light and two-way polarized light design, and can be equipped with human body sensing, DALI, daylight sensor adjustment and other functions.
Further, some industry analysis points out that intelligent lighting will become the lighting field practitioners to enter the industrial lighting field "ETC". Because the energy-saving effect of intelligent LED lighting systems can make industrial lighting in a long time under the use of more competitive cost recovery than domestic lighting, there are enough incentives for owners to replace the original lighting products.