In the field of industrial automation, there are many century-old enterprises, such as Siemens, GENERAL Electric, Bosch Group, Schneider Electric and other famous enterprises. From digital factory, industrial Internet to Industry 4.0, these enterprises have long been industry leaders.So who will be the future winners in this new wave of revolutionary development?Fortune magazine has released a new list of the world's top 500 companies. Today we take a look at the top 5 industrial automation companies.

1. General Electric Company

Total revenue: $140,389 million

Founded in 1892, the American General Electric Company, also known as the Strange Company, was formed in 1892 by the merger of Edison General Electric company and Thomson-Hausden International Electric Company.General Electric has gobbled up many domestic and foreign companies in various ways to become the world's largest technology and service provider.Ge has diversified into everything from aircraft engines and power-generation equipment to financial services, medical imaging and television programmes to plastics.

It is optimistically predicted that the industrial Internet will add $15tn to global GDP by 2030.Jeff Immelt believes the global industry is rediscovering growth opportunities through a combination of hardware and software.In April, GE's Current acquired Australian startup Daintree Networks. So far, GE has carried out 12 industrial Internet pilot projects in China and gradually promoted more than 40 big data analysis applications.

2. Siemens

Total revenue: $87,660 million

Siemens AG, founded in 1847, is a global leader in electrical and electronic engineering.In 2014, Siemens sold its stake in BSH home Appliances, leaving the home appliance sector altogether and focusing on electrification, automation and digitization.Siemens digital enterprise solutions cover industrial software, industrial communications, industrial information security and data-based services.

Siemens's main products include programmable logic controller (PLC), industrial computer (IPC) and industrial operation panel (HMI), industrial software, CNC machine tools, low-voltage electrical appliances, touch screens, etc.The nine businesses are power generation and natural gas, wind power and renewable energy, energy management, building technology, transportation, digital factories, process industries and drives, healthcare and financial services.Digitalization is one of the three major development directions of Siemens in the future. Siemens takes digitalization as a major growth area in the future and sets a target profit margin of 14-20% for its digitalized factories.

3. Hitachi

Total revenue: $83,583.50 million

HITACHI, one of the world's largest multinational conglomerates, came to China in the 1960s and was one of the few early foreign companies to enter the Chinese market.Hitachi Group is composed of many business departments and companies, and has a number of technologies, products, solutions and technologies.At present, Hitachi has more than 100 group enterprises in China, members are active in the fields of electric motor, electronic equipment, household appliances and information and communication.

Hitachi dedicates itself to the cause of social innovation, integrating the advantages of "social infrastructure" and "IT infrastructure" related to information and communication system, power system, environment, industry, transportation system, society and city system, and making unremitting efforts to build a low-carbon society and green economy.Hitachi's long-term research on portrait feature extraction algorithm and high-speed retrieval engine, combined with the application of new technologies such as deep learning and automatic correction, enables face retrieval and recognition technology to overcome the limitations of many usage conditions, and the core functions and performance of the system have made a qualitative leap.

Hitachi Insight Group has invested heavily in the industrial Iot with huge potential.Hitachi will invest $2.8 billion over the next three years to provide predictive solutions to its customer base.Factories using big data and predictive analytics increased productivity by 10% in daily operations.In the grand scheme of things, a 10 per cent increase may not seem like much, but it makes a lot of sense that the effect is eventually passed on to the end consumer.

4.Bosch

Total revenue: $78,322.70 million

Bosch is one of the largest industrial companies in Germany, engaged in automotive technology, industrial technology and consumer and construction technology industries.When Robert Bosch founded the company in Stuttgart in 1886, at the age of 25, he defined it as "the factory of precision machinery and electrical engineering".Headquartered in Stuttgart, southern Germany, Bosch employs more than 230,000 people in more than 50 countries.Bosch is known for its innovative and cutting-edge products and system solutions.

As an important initiator of Germany's Industry 4.0 strategy, Bosch Group has a unique position in the field of industry 4.0.The hydraulic valve production line of Bosch Rexroth, located in Humboldt, Germany, has been awarded the "Industry 4.0 Award" by a well-known German trade magazine for the best interconnection between people, machines, objects and IT systems.The production line can zero switch to produce 2000 different products of 6 major product families, and realize small batch customized production or even single product production, increasing production efficiency by 10% while reducing inventory by 30%.

At present, Bosch has promoted Industry 4.0 in more than 100 factories around the world. Suzhou Automotive Electronics Factory is one of the pilot plants.In the production environment, the intelligent machine, storage system and manufacturing facilities that constitute the information physical system play a role together to realize the functions such as information exchange, triggering process and automatic control.Industry 4.0 will connect people, machines and materials in the whole value chain, from suppliers to customers.

5. Panasonic

Total revenue: $62,920.80 million

Matsushita group is a global electronics manufacturer, engaged in the production of various electrical products, sales and other business activities.In 1978, Chinese leaders visited panasonic's Japanese TV factory.During the talks, entrepreneur Konosuke Matsushita expressed his determination to contribute to China.Subsequently, Panasonic group entered the beginning stage of business in China.

Panasonic's products in the field of industrial automation include relays, connectors, sensors for machines, switches, programmable controllers, programmable intelligent operation panels, image processing devices, uv hardening devices, etc.

Panasonic announced on July 19, 2016 that it will enter the robot control device market.Panasonic is vying for billions of yen of what it predicts will be a market of tens of billions of yen by around 2020.Panasonic has developed "motion sensors" that measure the robot's three-dimensional position more accurately than previous devices.Such products can detect and control the movements of robots, and the company believes demand for robots will increase in areas such as factories and care.It is claimed that the ability to control the robot's posture will be improved, which will increase its work efficiency.

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