Prices for "Imaging Inspection

The other day, I had a talk with a dealer of a certain manufacturer's image processing equipment.
In the course of the conversation, I was told that in some cases, the company sells its products for about 500,000 yen.

I am exclaiming.
I understand that one user told me that "building a system with FI is expensive". (Generally, if you build a system with FI, the image part of the system costs about 1~1.5 million yen.)

Certainly, there is no choice but to compete on price if there is not much difference in functionality, but considering the man-hours required to sell the product, it may not be profitable. Without profit, it would be difficult to improve products.

Also, if what is purchased for 500,000 really works as expected, the sales should be more explosive. This means that the current capacity of the imaging equipment is not even up to 500,000.

THEN WHAT ABOUT IMAGE PROCESSING EQUIPMENT COSTING SEVERAL MILLION YEN? THE PROCESSING METHOD ITSELF IS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF LOW-PRICED EQUIPMENT, AND THE PRICE IS MERELY INFLATED BY THE MAN-HOURS REQUIRED TO MAKE MOST OF THEM ONE-OF-A-KIND. I KNOW MANY OF YOU MAY DISAGREE, BUT IN A COMPARISON TEST CONDUCTED BY ONE OF OUR USERS, NO IMAGE PROCESSING EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER WAS ABLE TO OUTPERFORM COMPANY K'S THING IN TERMS OF PERFORMANCE.

Certainly, from the end user's point of view, the cheaper the better. However, if visual inspection man-hours can really be reduced, I think a price of 2 million yen for image processing equipment would be an acceptable figure.

I believe that the current excessive price competition has reduced manufacturers' capacity to improve performance, and the industry is in danger of declining. We are in a negative spiral.
What we manufacturers should do is first develop products that satisfy end-users and then sell them at a reasonable price (based on the end-users' sense of value).