Machine tool industry base is blooming all over the country

The controversy over the Chinese real estate bubble has not ended yet. A new topic has emerged this year: A netizen named Le Yangzi posted a post on a forum, saying that today there are many “bubbles” in China – That is the large and small economic development zones and industrial parks everywhere!

Perhaps some people disagree with such remarks, but it is undeniable that in recent years throughout the country, indeed, economic development zones or industrial parks have been in full swing. Correspondingly, in the machine tool industry, the construction of the CNC industrial base is in full swing.

Endless

Searching for the term “machine tool industry base”, there are several pieces of information under construction at a glance. Especially in the past decade, machine tool manufacturing companies have resorted to relocation and relocation to the new factory area in the development zone. The timing of technological transformation and relocation of new plants, such as Shenyang Machine Tool, Dalian Machine Tool, Wuzhong, Beiyi, Jiji, Qizhong, Qi’erji, Ningjiang Machine Tool, and Hangzhou Machine, etc., revolved around national key projects and key projects. The need for heavy-duty, high-end CNC machine tools has been targeted for technological transformation and new plant construction.

The "State Council's Several Opinions on Accelerating the Rejuvenation of the Equipment Manufacturing Industry" explicitly stated that it is necessary to develop a group of large-scale equipment manufacturing enterprise groups that have strong competitiveness, and to increase the manufacturing capacity of major technical equipment with independent intellectual property rights to basically meet energy, transportation, and Raw materials and other fields and the needs of national defense construction. Rely on regional advantages and bring into play the effect of industrial agglomeration to form a number of equipment manufacturing centers with distinctive and well-known brands.

Although listed above are the activities of individual companies, but because these enterprises are the leading companies in the industry, with the support of policies, relying on the needs of the major enterprises to transform, the construction of CNC machine tool industry bases around the world.

For example, Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province relies on Shenyang Machine Tool Group, the largest machine tool company in China, to build a one-hundred-hundred-hundred-tillion industrial cluster and is named “National New Industrialization Industrial Demonstration Base”; Tengzhou City, Shandong Province is committed to building “Shandong Province Small and Medium-sized Machine Tool Manufacturing Base”; Taizhou Hailing District is located in "Jiangsu Province CNC EDM Machine Tool Industry Base"......

These have already formed regional brands, and the characteristics of product clusters are also relatively prominent. However, many of them do not have obvious features. They are only set by the number of companies that have settled down and the goal of comprehensive output value.

The reporter once read an implementation plan for the construction of a numerically-controlled machine tool industry base. The plan calls for the deployment of 20 elite troops from the region, the establishment of a leading group for the construction of a numerically-controlled machine tool industry base, and “distribution” of personnel to industrial planning and policies. Comprehensive, domestic investment promotion, overseas investment promotion and service platform investment group, fully support the base construction. The target is also very clear. By 2016, the annual output value will exceed 10 billion yuan. By the year 2020, 200 industrial clusters and parts and components companies will be formed. The annual production value will exceed 60 billion yuan.

The specific tasks were decomposed into 2013, and more than 50 CNC machine tool companies and parts and components companies were connected, and two to three complete machine companies were set up; by the end of 2014, more than 200 CNC machine tool companies and parts and components enterprises were connected, It has strived to set up 6-8 complete machine companies, more than 10 parts and components companies, and more than 5 start-up and production enterprises.

In fact, in the country's industrial parks that are blooming all over the world, equipment manufacturing companies have always been indispensable. From the point of view of hardware construction, the unified support of the park will certainly facilitate the production of individual companies, but it will be allocated on a large scale even in a strong manner. It is difficult to predict whether it can form a true machine tool industry base.

Supporting perfection is guarantee

In the interview, many people in the industry mentioned the successful experience of the machine tool industry in Taiwan, and believed that the industrial chain cooperation and cooperation are important features of the modern division of fine arts to bring to the modern manufacturing industry. It is also an important feature of the Taiwan machine tool industry.

More than 90% of Taiwan's machine tool manufacturing companies are concentrated in Taichung, where professional matching capabilities are strong and most of the accessories can be purchased in the region. A main engine factory is supported by dozens of or even more supporting plants. The main engine plant closely follows the development trend of modern manufacturing technology, focusing on the research and development of key core technologies of products, assembly debugging and reliability testing of products, etc. The industrial development prospects and the technical requirements of the host plant, specializing in the research and development of functional components and lean production, handed over to the host plant is a group of components of the finished product, the host plant does not require further processing and direct assembly.

The production of some parts is also based on a highly socialized division of labor. The deta company that manufactures the magazines does not produce any magazine parts by itself. All of them are provided by the cooperative units, and key parts (such as knife sets) are imported into the factory. After 100% inspection, the test bench will perform 1 million tool change tests on the magazine to ensure that the produced magazine will run reliably on the user's hand. This industrial structure model abandons the traditional “large and complete” and “small and complete” organizational structure of the machinery industry, transforms the closed industrial organization into an open collaborative relationship, specializes in various specialties, and enhances the technological added value of the respective products. , Formed a small giant company in all aspects of the industry chain. From this perspective, simple policy support is far from enough for the construction of the industrial base of CNC machine tools. In addition to meeting the technological transformation of the enterprise itself, the long-term goal of the industrial base is to form a good effect of industrial clusters.

The reporter believes that the core of industrial clusters is the high degree of concentration of industries within a certain spatial scope, which is conducive to reducing the manufacturing costs of enterprises, increasing economies of scale and the scope of economic benefits, and improving the market competitiveness of industries and enterprises. For example, the forming machine clustering area in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, the electric machining machine clustering area in Suzhou Taixing, and the forging and pressing machine tool around Jinan, Shandong.

However, at present, the supporting facilities for most machine tool industry bases are not perfect, and it is difficult to form the effect of industrial clusters. Some have already formed a modern industrial base for numerical control machine tools and still need a lot of outsourced processing orders every year.

Actually, this is also a frustrating move. Everyone knows that finding a supplier in a local machining enterprise can save on shipping costs. However, the current status of the machine tool is that the development of supporting parts cannot keep up with the needs of the host. Some of them need to be imported. Purchase locally. As a result, the local processing enterprises have lagging behind in their development speed, and more and more processing companies are being eliminated because they cannot meet their needs.

Doing fine and strong

Yang Xuetong, executive vice president of the China Federation of Machinery Industry, once thought that although China’s machine tool production is already the world’s largest producer, consumer, and importer, the reality is “big but not strong”, especially the development of the mainframe. The high-end nature and sustainability of mainframes and equipment are still worrying.

He said that the transition from a machine tool manufacturing country to a machine tool country has become the consensus of the industry, but it has strong standards and characteristics.

He said: "First of all, the proportion of high-end machine tools has only increased to 20% - 30%, and there are strong points. Secondly, innovation capability must be embodied and concrete. In addition, basic research must have a deeper integration with industry development. The basic research on Chinese machine tools is not enough to support and integrate industrial development. In particular, the reliability of machine tools directly reflects the weakness of basic research.”

He believes that for small and medium-sized machine tool manufacturing companies, we must first understand ourselves and evaluate ourselves. Where are the advantages? What is the inadequacy? On the basis of fully understanding oneself, enterprises can only be stronger if they do fine work, do detailed work, do specialized work, and do deep work. The first is to subdivide the market. Areas with comparative advantages must strive to become absolute advantages. When market development is more difficult, reliability must be improved first and great efforts should be made to increase the MTBF (mean time between failures).

There are many hundred-year-old factories in Germany. They have been immersed in an industry for a long time. For example, HEIDENHAIN, familiar with the machine tool industry, is the representative of the industry for the accuracy of scale products. After years of development, small businesses have become large. Enterprises have also made small businesses into big industries. China's Wanxiang Group, starting from a single product of universal joints, has become a leader in a small industry after specializing in finesse. After that, the company’s ability has been enhanced and further development has been pursued.