Analysis of the Purpose of Transformation and Upgrade of China's Machine Tool Enterprises

After experiencing rapid growth for 10 consecutive years, China's machine tool industry began to show a downward trend in the second half of 2011, and the growth rate slowed down slowly. And 10 years ago, our industry goal was mid-range growth, and now we are targeting high-end. The change of target shows that we have already taken a big step. At the press conference of the 12th China International Machine Tool Exhibition held recently, Yang Xuetong, vice president of China Machinery Industry Federation, said that in 2013, the machine tool industry accounted for machinery. The main business income of the industry is about 2.2%. This proportion has not changed for many years. The output growth of CNC machine tools has shifted from high speed to low speed.

The industry believes that as China is gradually migrating from “world processing factories” to “world manufacturing centers”, the growth factors of high-speed development in the past 10 years have undergone profound changes. The outstanding characteristics of the machine tool industry are manifested in two aspects, namely Significant reduction in total demand and accelerated acceleration of demand structure. “Plus high-end” has become an important way out, and the deep transformation and upgrading of the machine tool industry is even more urgent.

Accelerated structural slowdown From the statistics of the past years, China's machine tool industry has experienced a downward trend in the second half of 2011 after experiencing rapid growth for 10 consecutive years, and the growth rate has slowly declined. In 2005, 2008 and 2013, the output of CNC machine tools in China was 58,500 units, 139,700 units and 200,000 units. In terms of figures, the growth rate of output has slowed down noticeably. “From the perspective of the structure of CNC machine tools, the economy accounted for 85% in 2005 and the economy only accounted for 20% in 2013. Ten years ago, our target was mid-range growth. Now our goal is high-end, and the change of target indicates that we have already A big step." Yang Xuetong said.

Chen Huiren, executive vice president of China Machine Tool Industry Association, summed up the achievements of the machine tool industry in the past ten years: "The first is the rapid growth of the economy, and it has ranked first in the world in 2009, which is from small to large. The second is to basically achieve the upgrade and leap from the inability to do at the high-end product level. This is a progress from nothing; the third is that the comprehensive quality of the industry enterprises has been generally improved, and a number of initial An excellent company with market competitiveness, this is a weak to strong start."

Chen Huiren believes that the current situation faced by China's machine tool industry enterprises is that the total demand has been greatly reduced and the demand structure has been accelerated. Affected by this, the main economic operation indicators of China's machine tool industry have declined in an all-round way. At the same time, the inherent imbalance of the production capacity structure of the industry is more obvious, and the already severe homogenization market competition is further intensified.

Low-end melee high-end failure This year, from February 24th to 28th, more than 900 machine tool and tool manufacturers from home and abroad competed on the same stage at the 8th CNC Machine Tool Exhibition hosted by China Machine Tool Industry Association. A new type of CNC horizontal lathe exhibited by Dalian Machine Tool Group is an intelligent manufacturing island composed of a machining center and a robot. According to the staff, in the past, a worker could only take care of one machine tool, and now a worker can take care of 8 to 10 intelligent manufacturing islands.

Speaking of the feeling of exhibiting, a representative from an exhibiting company from Heilongjiang said, “In the face of the new market situation, the machine tool industry must take the initiative to accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure and actively eliminate low-value-added backward products. Enterprises should also insist on improving medium and high-end products. As one of the core objectives of transformation and upgrading, the market competitiveness has accelerated the breakthrough of core technologies, so that product accuracy is truly recognized by users in terms of maintainability, stability and reliability.

As the "engine" and "heart" of industry and national economy, machine tool manufacturing is a concrete manifestation of a country's comprehensive national strength. At present, China is a global machine tool production and demand country, but most of the domestic machine tools are mainly ordinary machine tools, and the numerical control coverage is low. Among the CNC machine tools, the low-end products occupy the main force, and the high-end CNC machine tools are still short-board.

At the same time, in recent years, the market has gradually increased the demand for medium and high-end products. In 2013, China imported about 11 billion US dollars of machine tools, down 23.62% year-on-year; the import volume was 102,532 units, down 33.34% year-on-year; the average price of imported machine tools was 107,304.22 US dollars, up 14.57% year-on-year. The overall situation is the trend of price reduction, reflecting the Chinese market. The demand structure is constantly optimized, and the demand for medium and high-end machine tool products is increasing. On the other hand, it can be seen that the high-end machine tool products produced in China cannot be effectively satisfied in terms of product quality, technical indicators, technology level, and user services. Customer demand.

"Affected by research and development capabilities, 80% of domestic high-end CNC systems, 90% of high-end CNC systems, and 85% of high-end CNC machine tools are still imported from abroad." Luo Baihui, chief analyst of Jinmo Steel Network, said that with Germany Compared with the advanced enterprises in Japan and the United States, there is still a certain gap in China's machine tool enterprises.

Innovative transformation complements the short-board "The primary task facing industry enterprises is to promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry and expand the application level in the high-end field." Yang Xuetong said.

"The output growth of CNC machine tools in China is not a key factor. Optimizing the output composition of domestic CNC machine tools and vigorously improving the overall development quality of domestic CNC machine tools can promote the quality competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry." Luo Baihui said that China's machine tools when introducing the status quo of the industry There are many kinds of products in the industry, the number of specifications is numerous, the industrial concentration is relatively low, and the homogenization phenomenon is serious.

At present, the downstream industries of China's machine tool industry can be summarized into four major industries: automobile industry, traditional machinery industry, military industry (including aerospace, weapons, ships, nuclear industry, etc.) and high-tech industries represented by electronic information technology. . The demand of these downstream industries is concentrated on large-scale, heavy-duty, high-precision CNC machine tools, which determines that the machine tool industry will continue to be in the direction of “high speed, precision, intelligence, and compounding”. Multi-axis linkage machining centers, high-speed precision CNC machine tools, etc. It will continue to be the key development of the industry in the future.

At present, China's machine tool manufacturers are strengthening their independent research and development capabilities by introducing and learning from international advanced and core machine tool design and manufacturing concepts and technologies, and strive to meet the growing needs of domestic and international customers. Luo Baihui said that the current traditional development model is rapidly losing its foothold. The machine tool industry has to make an "upgrade" choice, and the purpose of transformation and upgrading is to become high-quality, high-efficiency, high-end, and fill the high-end CNC machine tool as soon as possible. The largest short board of the block.