The machine tool enters a new stage of power conversion
At present, the development of China's machine tools has entered an importantperiod of transformation and tackling.
As astrategic industry related to national economic development, the machine tool industry has always been regarded as the key to the development of the manufacturing industry. In daily production, whether it is a variety of metals,equipment or related materials, its processing and molding needs to be realizedby machine tools. Therefore, the complexity, precision, efficiency and flexibility of machine tool processing often directly determine the level andstrength of the manufacturing industry, and the development of the machine toolindustry also plays an important role in national industrial competitivenessand overall national strength.
Over the years, in order to promote the rapid development of the machine tool industry, China has also frequently paid attention to and policies, creating a good environment and opportunities for the development of machine tools. Inview of this, over the years, China has become the world's largest consumer of machine tools and the largest importer. Demand for machine tools is increasingand the total output value of the industry is increasing. According to relevantdata, as of 2016, China's consumption still ranked first in the world withUS$27.5 billion, and its development speed and scale are quite amazing.
However,due to the late start of technology, the localization of Chinese machine toolsis not optimistic. The huge gap between domestic enterprises in terms oftechnology and capital talents and the lack of high-end industries and standardization have led to the low quality of domestically produced products.Insufficient technology and insufficient functions. At the same time, on thebasis of the rapid decline in the demographic dividend, the development of thetimes and the changing requirements of customers have also put forward newrequirements for domestic development. In this context, the development ofChinese machine tools needs to change.
At present, it is the most important period for the transformation of China's machine tools.
According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to Julythis year, although the main business income of domestic machine toolenterprises fell by 17.2% year-on-year, total profit fell by 91.3%, and metal processing new orders machine tools fell by 41%. Orders fell by 24.1% and the over all operations of the industry continued to decline. At the same time,exports of metal cutting machine tools increased by 12.8% year-on-year. The export of metal forming machine tools increased by 25%, and the trade surplusin the history of machine tool import and export for the first time.
This shows that China's consumer market has ushered in power conversion. At the same time, in the case of reduced company orders, market demand continues todecline; business pressures increase, industry operation quality declines;market losses increase, corporate differentiation is growing, and thetransformation needs of China's machine tool development have also fullyerupted. In the future, accelerating the transformation of machine tool enterprisesand industries, and accelerating the development of local machine tools isimminent and cannot be delayed! So, what can we do to promote the effective transformation of China's machine tool development? Which direction should China's machine tool industry transform? Combined with the opinions of industryexperts, we believe that there are two main directions for transformation.
Thefirst is non-standardization and personalization. Nowadays, the standardizationof machine tool products in the market has become mainstream, and related products are also more and more, but the demand of downstream enterprises isactually diversified, and standardized machine tool products have been difficult to meet the reality. Customer demand. In view of this, non-standardized,customized CNC machine tools may gradually become the new mainstream of themarket, and is expected to become the key to the future differentiatedcompetition of machine tool manufacturers.
Followed by integration and intelligence. Although modern CNC has achieved a certaindegree of automation, it is still far from intelligence, integration and highprecision. Intelligence can be embodied in many aspects, such as automaticgeneration of automatic control, parameters, processing, intelligent human-machineinterface, intelligent monitoring and diagnosis, all of which need to rely onthe blessing of robots, industrial Internet, artificial intelligence and other technologies.
The ideal result of intelligence is the formation of a dedicated smart factory. AllR&D, production, manufacturing, management and sales of machine tools areautomatically completed without relying on personnel, which will undoubtedlygreatly improve the efficiency and quality of the machine tool industry whilereducing related costs. For example, relying on the Industrial Internet ofThings, we can form a user-centric, machine, and environmental information fusion, so that users can get smart manufacturing resources, products andservices, and manufacturers can also integrate and fund through the industrychain. chain. Further explore innovative models.
However,at present, many experts say that the machine tool industry has not really seensmart factories around the world. The intelligence of China's machine toolfactories is basically still in its infancy, and the fastest-growing Japan hasa certain distance from ideal information. In this context, the futureconstruction of China's machine tool intelligent chemistry needs to be carriedout in two aspects: the first step is to realize the intelligent production offunctional components; the second is to realize the intelligent production offunctional components. The second step is to implement smart assembly.
In the process of these two steps, we cannot ignore the needs and development oftalents, funds, technology, and policies, and we cannot ignore some problems inthe process of machine upgrade. All in all, the intelligent and personalized development of machine tools will be an important trend in the future of theworld. China only needs to seize the opportunity. Hard work, one step at atime, and a steady rise, can realize the mature rise of Chinese machine tools.