AI empowerment and in-depth application in various scenarios are driving a 7% annual growth in the visual industrial PC market, accelerating applications across multiple fields.

The global market for vision-based industrial PCs is continuing to heat up in 2025. According to the latest report from QYResearch, the market reached $986 million in sales in 2024 and is projected to grow to $1.518 billion by 2031, maintaining a compound annual growth rate of 7.0% from 2025 to 2031. With the deep integration of AI and 3D vision technology into industrial scenarios, vision-based industrial PCs are upgrading from traditional inspection tools to the "core nerve center" of intelligent manufacturing, demonstrating strong application vitality in multiple fields.

In the new energy industry, vision-based industrial PCs have become the "all-seeing eye" for quality control. In the hundreds of processes involved in lithium battery production, they can capture thousands of high-definition images per second with high-speed cameras, accurately identifying minute scratches or bubbles as small as 0.05mm using AI algorithms, reducing the manual inspection error rate of 5% to an extremely low level and mitigating safety risks from the source. On photovoltaic module production lines, they can detect battery cell cracks and packaging defects in real time, ensuring the reliability of new energy products.

In the high-end manufacturing sector, vision guidance technology enables more precise operations. In chip production, vision-based industrial PCs use 3D vision sensors to build spatial models, guiding robotic arms to perform wire routing and plugging at the level of a single hair's width. Even in the face of assembly line vibrations or lighting changes, they maintain millisecond-level response and ultra-high stability. In automotive manufacturing workshops, they simultaneously connect multiple cameras and robotic arms to achieve welding point positioning and component assembly deviation detection, increasing production efficiency by more than 30%.

The continuous breakthroughs in scene adaptability are a highlight of the industry. Industrial-grade products, with their fully enclosed metal casings and fanless cooling designs, can operate stably 24 hours a day in harsh environments such as dust and vibration; for special scenarios, they can withstand the 70℃ high temperatures of desert photovoltaic power plants or the stringent electromagnetic requirements of medical applications. The rise of domestic hardware further fuels this growth, with processors such as the Loongson 3A6000 paired with self-developed AI acceleration cards, driving technological independence and performance upgrades.

Currently, the market is showing a trend of accelerated technological integration and expanding application scenarios. The integration of AI deep learning and Internet of Things technologies has enabled industrial vision computers to possess more powerful capabilities for complex image processing, and widespread adoption by small and medium-sized enterprises is further driving market expansion. In the future, with the deep application of 3D vision in robotic collaboration and the advancement of companies' overseas expansion strategies, the industrial vision computer industry will usher in even broader development opportunities.