Sino-German pact opens way to sensor collaboration

4th July 2017

AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement

Mick Elliott

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The Chinese-German Sensor Innovation Forum has been established by The AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement (AMA) and the Chinese Sensors and IoT Industry Association (SIA) as a platform for the exchange of technology and market-strategy information. Xueshan Yang, the deputy minister for Industry and Information Technology in China, emphasised the special significance of the newly founded Chinese-German Forum in his speech at the opening event in Nuremberg

Peter Krause, the AMA chairman, outlined the current trends in sensor development especially in regard to Industry 4.0 and the digitalisation of vast areas of everyday life to the 60 delegates from Beijing.

Yuancheng Guo, chairman of the SIA and head of development at Electronics Component Industry Development Centre at the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), sees the importance of sensor technology not only in factories and processing plants, but also in the day-to-day life in today’s mega-cities.

The secretary general of the China Smart Home Industry Alliance (CSHIA), Jun Zhou, underlined the relevance of sensor technology with an overview of the required key technologies and their application in the networked and digitised world.

The development of sensors relies on the availability of highly technical research centers and the mass production of sensors depends on the availability of specialized professionals.

In view of this background, Josef Sauerer, chairman of the Abteilung Smart Sensing und Electronics am Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS) in Erlangen, explained the on-site readiness of a high-end research base and their current projects.

Hubert Steigerwald, managing director of Sensorik-Bayern at Regensburg, closed the discussions with a talk on the opportunities of technology transfer in industry.

German sensor suppliers already generate 60% of their revenues abroad. Changes in the traditional markets should let their interest in exporting to the Chinese market surge.

The development of resource-efficient automation, mobility, and supply structures cannot be implemented without adapted sensor technologies.

To better promote innovation, trends in demand must be identified and evaluated as early as possible.

Germany, the high-technology site, and China, the land of digitalisation with a great market potential, will find a multitude of opportunities for collaboration.

As open discussion forums, the Chinese-German Sensor Innovation Forum in Nuremberg, the International Conference on Sensors in the Internet of Things (SIOT) in Hangzhou, as well as further Chinese sensor centres are being planned.