Many years the European camera manufacturers dominated the machine vision camera market worldwide. Time is changing and Chinese camera manufacturers are entering the European market. Only a few Chinese camera manufacturers, like Daheng Imaging, can offer high quality products for a low price. European vision camera manufacturers can’t compete on price because the Chinese camera manufacturer have the following competitive advantages:
Some distributors like #GeT Cameras have combined this with a unique business model to reduce further costs like:
And they also offer transparency. For the first time you can see the pricing of the camera, without making any login account at www.get-cameras.com
The biggest hurdle Chinese camera manufacturers have to overcome is gaining trust. While we automatically trust European camera manufacturers, we tend to be hesitative when it concerns Chinese camera manufacturers. For the Chinese brands to build trust in the vision camera market in Europe it needs time. The first integrators and OEM customers are slowly switching to a Chinese vision camera manufacturers and many will follow.