From the actual situation of our country, in the traditional low-end metal forming machine tool products, the industry concentration is low, the market is scattered, and the entry barriers are low. In the research and development, production and manufacturing of high-end machine tools, China has been in a missing stage. Due to the limitations of technology, capital and brand recognition, it is difficult to occupy a place in the market in a short time. Technical barriers and the difficult road of R & D as well as accepting the market test are the “challenges” for the development of high-end machine tools in China
- Technology
Metal forming machine tool industry is a technology intensive industry, the development of the industry needs a lot of technology investment. From the perspective of enterprises with good performance at present, most of them are large-scale enterprises that have accumulated technology for many years, or state-owned or private enterprises that have entered the industry earlier and have strong technology R & D capability. Due to the advanced technology and equipment of these enterprises, it is difficult for new entrants to compete with them in the field of high-end products.
From the product point of view, mechanical presses, especially high-speed precision mechanical presses, present the development trend of specialization, high-speed, precision and automation, which not only requires enterprises to use computer optimization design to carry out strength design to prevent technical problems, but also puts forward high requirements for the manufacturing technology and process level of enterprises. In view of the current situation of this industry, the company increases investment in R & D, introduces senior technical talents, and pays attention to the cultivation of internal staff, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of staff through incentive mechanism and improve the enterprise’s technological innovation ability.
- Funds
Metal forming machine tool industry is a capital intensive industry, in order to ensure high-precision products, it needs a lot of capital investment. Only from the perspective of fixed assets investment of production machine tools, the production of a machine tool requires a complete set of parent machine tools such as turning, milling, planing and grinding. In addition, a large amount of money should be invested in the production of machine tools to purchase land, build factories and purchase raw materials. On the whole, the industry has high capital barriers for new entrants.
- Brand and reputation
Metal forming machine tool products belong to large fixed asset investment and have a long service life. Their quality and performance are directly related to the quality and cost of terminal products. Therefore, customers often have great trust and dependence on their original high-quality suppliers or well-known manufacturers. Early entrants gradually establish their own brand awareness and reputation in the industry. Therefore, for the new entrants who want to enter the industry, it needs a long-term process to obtain the recognition of customers, which constitutes a certain brand and reputation barrier.
- Service network
Metal forming machine tool manufacturers should have perfect after-sales service system, which can provide fast maintenance service. Especially in the peak production season of customers, it is easy to cause loss to the production equipment. If it can not be repaired in time, it will cause huge loss to customers. Therefore, only suppliers with extensive service network can timely and effectively help customers deal with various emergencies, which forms a barrier to new enterprises entering the industry. In order to remain invincible in the fierce world market competition and truly become a “manufacturing power”, China’s machine tool manufacturing enterprises must establish a “user-centered” business philosophy, meet the needs of users, help users solve problems, and transform to service-oriented manufacturing.
- Independent innovation to achieve independent R & D and production of key technologies and parts
At present, there is a considerable problem in the development of China’s machine tool industry, that is, the medium and high-end equipment and key parts are heavily dependent on imports, and the domestic production is mainly made of medium and low-end equipment, which is not conducive to the healthy development of China’s machine tool industry in the long run. Therefore, China’s machine tool manufacturing enterprises should continue to innovate, independent research and development, and strive for the localization of key parts and key technologies.
- Take the customer as the center, tailor to provide personalized service for customers
One of the core of machine tool industry manufacturing service is to take the customer as the center, customize according to the customer’s needs, and actively provide personalized services for customers.
- Implement the strategy of integration of industrialization and industrialization, speed up the Informatization Transformation of machine tool enterprises
We should adhere to the new road of industrialization and vigorously promote the integration of informatization and industrialization. In order to develop equipment manufacturing industry, it is necessary to make full use of information technology and high and new technology to advance to all-round informatization. Machine tool enterprises should actively carry out information transformation to realize automation, flexibility, ecology, personalization and diversification of manufacturing process.
- Improve the industrial chain, improve the allocation and use efficiency of resources, machine tool enterprises should adapt to changes in market demand,
Improve the supporting development of heavy and large machine tools and other products, form a complete industrial chain, and provide strong support for national energy, shipbuilding, metallurgy, aerospace, military industry, transportation and other pillar industries.
- Large scale development to improve the reliability, stability and precision of products
To be truly competitive in the world, enterprises must have a certain scale. At present, there are a large number of machine tool enterprises in China. Except for a few enterprises such as Shenyang machine tool and Dalian machine tool, the vast majority of machine tool enterprises are generally small in scale, resulting in scattered resources, poor industry concentration and weak overall competitiveness, which makes it difficult to compete with large foreign enterprises. Therefore, it is necessary to speed up the resource integration and enterprise restructuring of the machine tool industry, and establish a machine tool enterprise with a certain scale.
With the rapid development of aerospace, electronics, military and other industries, the requirements for the reliability, precision and stability of machine tools are higher and higher. To enhance the share of domestic machine tools in these industries, we must improve their reliability, stability and precision.
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