Machine tool upgrade must take the path of differentiation

The demand for machine tools remains weak: According to past experience, August is the lowest period of the year for machine tool sales. Some companies reflected that the decline in orders remained between 10% and 20%. However, most companies have stated that the degree of prosperity has not continued to decline, and will remain stable for a long time to come.

For the current situation, the company has a sufficient forecast, so the inventory level is better controlled, because the machine tool companies observe the downstream business status is not very good, the situation of overcapacity is relatively common, many are not profitable, so one There may be no improvement in demand within two years.

Imported machine tools are also affected by weak demand: demand for high-end machine tools is only relatively good, and machine tool imports are declining in recent months. There is still a big gap between domestic companies' technological level and foreign countries, but they are very close to each other. Excessive competition in the industry has lowered the gross profit of enterprises in high-end products, making it difficult to conduct business. To upgrade Chinese machine tools, we must take the path of differentiation and increase the added value of users through smart innovation. Of the total market consumption of machine tools in China, 60% are imported, joint ventures, and 40% are domestically produced. This 40% of the domestic machine tool competition is mainly low-end products, most of the imports are high-end products. Although China's machine tools have made great progress in these decades, the problem of rampant nature is still constraining the pace of advancement. On the one hand, low-end production capacity is excessive, and on the other hand high-end production capacity is obviously insufficient.

From the supply side, many machine tool manufacturers first think of price cuts and pressure on the supply chain when they encounter market pressure, rather than trying to increase the added value. Excessive pursuit of reducing costs, resulting in declining supporting quality, vicious price competition, poor corporate profits, limited profits, so that companies weaken the ability to re-development.

From the user's end, due to the user's overuse in the pursuit of simple, convenient, and trouble-free, directly leading to over-standardized machine tools, process adaptability is not good. If we cannot use the secondary development and innovation in the machine tool manufacturing process, we cannot integrate the upstream and downstream process routes. The level of Chinese machine tool manufacturing will be difficult to achieve world-class.

In Luo Baihui's view, the machine tool industry must transform and upgrade, must find the right direction and method, that is to build a variety of multi-dimensional management system (law, system, policies and measures) under the premise of strengthening the intelligent manufacturing, and Establish a quality monitoring system that is coordinated with it and has a high level of independence.

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Notice on Organizing and Implementing the Special Project for the Development of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment in 2013", which requires the continued organization and implementation of special projects for the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment. One of the main contents of China's special support in 2013 is the digital workshop, which aims to promote the application and system integration of intelligent manufacturing system innovation products in machinery manufacturing, textiles, printing, biopharmaceuticals, and composite materials, and improve the level of manufacturing intelligence.

To be intelligent in machine tool manufacturing, first of all, the intelligent thinking of the machine tool developer is required, and the intelligentization will inevitably require that the numerical control system supporting the machine tool has a good openness. This is a key prerequisite for intelligent manufacturing.

In China, many OEMs have long used non-open CNC systems. Although it seems to be easy to use and the wiring is simple, in the end, the machine tool has not formed secondary development capability. Over time, people engaged in machine tool R&D will lose their awareness of secondary development.

Needless to say, Chinese machine tool companies all want to make progress. First of all, they must update their concepts. One company's innovation must have advanced innovative ideas and methods. Second, it must have a deep corporate culture, including systems and systems, and must be integrated into technology and management. Go; In addition, an excellent company must also have healthy quality and noble social responsibilities before it can be regarded as excellent to excellent.