【Photographic Contest】

In the 1980s, the Chinese automation application market entered into a start-up period:
·from 1970 to 1980, several projects of the Baosteel’s first-stage construction brought in tens of models about more than 200 programmable controllers;
·around 1980, Jilin Chemical Industrial Company brought in the DCS system from abroad;
·around 1985, the foreign automation product suppliers began to set up agencies in China, taking charge of the promotion and sales work of automation products;

Over 20 years of development, the key product suppliers in the world have gathered in the Chinese market, with automation products in different times and of different brands pervading every industry, playing an indispensable role in the construction and economic development of China.

The “Automation in China Photographic Contest” hosted by gongkong is aimed at fully demonstrating the development history and application situations of the Chinese automation industry, and at the same time providing a platform for the automation engineers to exchange techniques and show their talent.

No matter the photographs of the controllers such as PLC, DCS, IPC, the control operation meters and HMI, or the network exchange equipments such as switches, gateways, bridges and distributed I/O; no matter the sensors such as field proximity switches, photoelectric switches, safety switches and limit switches, or the process instruments such as pressure transmitters, flowmeters, level instruments and temperature sensors, etc.; no matter the inverters, DC speed control and servo devices, or the control units such as switches, buttons, display alarms, and relays. etc.; no matter the photographs of techniques or of the factory workshops all are the works that the contest follows.

Infinite Innovation  Everywhere and Nowhere — SIMATIC and Me Photographic Contest
After successfully holding the “Witnessing the Half-Century History of SIMATIC Photographic Contest” 2008-2009, Siemens holds the "Infinite Innovation  Everywhere and Nowhere – SIMATIC and Me" Photographic Contest for another time, which not merely represents SIMATIC’s competitiveness of constant innovation, customers first and globalization, but fully displays the innovative values SIMATIC has brought to customers from multi-perspectives. 

Straighten the Backbone of the Chinese Industries — the Photographer Contest in the Industrial Control Industry Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Foundation of the People’s Republic of China
This contest, with the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China as the mainline, expresses blessings to the industrial control industry and shows the development history of it. In the days when the whole country is celebrating, the industrial control industry will also send a gift.     

PILZ "Finding out Industrial Safety" Photographic Contest  
This contest, not merely promotes and popularizes the safety concept of Pilz, but provides a platform for the people paying attention to the industrial safety to exchange and share their thoughts and ideas. Different photographs tell different stories about industrial safety.