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Made in China 2025 clearly puts forward ten key areas for breakthrough, among which high-end CNC machine tools and robots are among them. The era of Industry 4.0 is coming, the machine tool manufacturing industry must seize the opportunity, take the initiative to connect, realize the transformation from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing", and then to "creation". To promote "digital manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing" on the basis of improving product technology and quality, and to provide customers with overall solutions, is an important symbol of the transformation and upgrading of machine tool industry, and is also the common direction of machine tool enterprises.
The year 2017 is undoubtedly a key year for the deepening of China's supply-side structural reform. Against the background of sluggish international economic recovery and shifting domestic economic momentum, China's machine tool industry is facing unprecedented new environment, new challenges and new opportunities.
At present, the demand of China's machine tool market has undergone significant changes, the total demand has decreased significantly, and the new market features of accelerating the upgrade of the demand structure have become more obvious. First of all, the machine tool market structure upgrade, manifested in the rapid growth of automation complete sets of demand, niche, personalized, customized demand growth is obvious, general product performance, reliability of shift upgrade demand increased; Secondly, the technological development trend of CNC machine tools in the "high efficiency, precision, compound" on the basis of intelligence and "green" put forward higher requirements.
In the first half of this year, the overall development of the manufacturing industry picked up, the intelligent upgrading continued to advance, and the robot and automation equipment maintained a high business. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to June, the cumulative production of industrial robots in China reached 59,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 52%. In June, the year-on-year increase was 61%, ranking first among various industrial products. From January to June, the cumulative output of metal cutting machine tools reached 400,000 sets, an increase of 8.7% year-on-year.
In fact, since 2011 until now, the prosperity of the machine tool industry is still not significantly improved. In the past five years, the machine tool market has continued to decline for many years, and the development and differentiation of enterprises in the industry have become more obvious in the past two years. Some enterprises are experiencing operating difficulties, bankruptcy and reorganization.
Subsequently, under the environment of a series of state policies introduced intensive, and driven by the strong domestic market demand, the production capacity of metal cutting machine tool industry in our country has recovered obviously, and the output has realized positive growth in consecutive 6 months. Significant progress has been made in intelligent, high-speed, compound, precision, multi-axis and other aspects of products. In the process of our country moving from manufacturing power to manufacturing power plays an important supporting role.
As the world's largest machine tool producer and consumer, although the Chinese machine tool enterprises under the support of the state, speed up the research and development of key functional components for high-end machine tools, and achieved certain results, such as Ji 'nan second machine tool independently developed the first domestic full servo high-speed automatic stamping line, stamping technology has reached the world's first level. However, Chinese machine tool enterprises are more concentrated in the low-end market, while the high-end machine tool market is still dominated by the traditional machine tool enterprises of Germany, Japan and the United States.
With the rapid growth, structural adjustment and deepening specialization of China's machine tool industry, motorized spindles with various technical and performance advantages will benefit from the upgrading of the downstream machine tool industry. And imported motorized spindle price is high, delivery time is long, maintenance is difficult, domestic products import substitution space is broad. In addition, the motorized spindle often fails due to improper operation, component wear and other reasons, and also needs maintenance and overhaul due to long-term use of reduced accuracy.
"The direction of demand upgrading in the machine tool industry is completely opposite to the long-term inherent advantages of China's machine tool manufacturing industry." Chen Huiren, executive Vice chairman and secretary general of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, previously said, "What China's machine tool industry lacks is not face, but depth."
China is the world's largest manufacturing country. In recent years, influenced by the recovery of machine tool market demand, our machine tool industry has been increasing in capacity scale. And, with the expansion of the production scale of automobile and parts, aerospace, mold, railway transportation equipment, construction machinery and other all kinds of equipment manufacturing industries, as well as the strong demand for multi-level machine tool products from related industries, our country's machine tool manufacturing industry is ushered in the acceleration period of development.
In addition, the Machine Tool association also judged that with the promotion of China's supply-side structural reform, the financial industry continues to increase support for the real economy, the gradual emergence of the effect of "steady growth" measures, as well as the impetus of new market drivers and new investment hot spots and other comprehensive factors, led to the recovery of market demand since last year. And it is expected that this year the machine tool market and industrial operation will be stable to a good situation.
What Chinese companies need is not a "one-size-fits-all" industry 4.0 solution, but a tailor-made roadmap, including digital lean transformation to optimize energy consumption and automate, efficient and high-quality digital business models, innovative product and business model development, and consumer demand-oriented business strategies. It is believed that under a series of government measures, with the unremitting efforts of machine tool enterprises, our machine tool industry will move towards a better future.
